The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-02-18
TELEGRAPH NOTES.

Miss Stone is still a captive.
Admiral Sampson is still very Ill, but
not worse.
Japan's trade with China is greatly
increasing.
Secretary Root may soon go to the
philippines
Naval officers favor the Puget Sound
naval yard.
Bull fights will not be allowed at
Los Angeles.
Schley continues to receive ovations
Wherever he goes
England, america aud Japan oppose
the Mnnchurian treaty.
Lord Salisbury will retire at the con-
clusior of the Boer war.
The Philippines plead for a lower tar
ln on sugar and tobacco.
Frank Newlands expects to be the
next Senator from Nevada.
a boiler on a Pittsburg tug exploded
and six of her crew are missing.
Wireless teleEraphy viii be tried be-
tween Vancouver and Dawson.
Five millions is the price fixed for
The purchase Of the Danish group.
The irrigation canal near Modesto,
California, viii be completed at once.
Ten military prisoners at the Preside
guardhouse tunneled their way out and
escaped.
Sampson wants a court of inquiry to
Santiago.
Boer delegations in Europe will ask
permission to go to South Africa to
urge peace
A dozen firamcn were killed by the
collarse of Il st. Louis building which
was on fire.
Another new Alaskan railway COM
pany has been chartered, with a capt.
tai of 81 100000.
The town of Wadsworth. New, will
be wiped out by changes made by the
Southern Pacific.
A gigantic consolidation of street car
lines in Chicago, New York and other
cities is rumored.
Lord Kitchener reports the capture
of De Vets last gun, and "a large
number of prisoners.
A red cedar canoe, centuries old, has
been dug from clay bank in Skagit
county, Washington.
1t is reported that Roosevelt will rule
against Schley. 1t is likewise said that
he will favor the Admiral.
Dishonesty in purchasing supplies for
the army in South Africa is making a
great sensation in London.
A Kansas City woman confessed to
the murder of Noah Long, an old vet
eran, for his pension money.
Admiral Walker is still arguing for
the Panama route before the Senate
committee on interoCeanic canals.
The steamer Queen City sighted a
studding sail boom thought to be from
the Condor, when off Cape Beale.
"A Dublin dispatch to the PAN Mall
Gazette voices the belief that the Unit
ed Irish League is planning a reyolu-
ton
Miss Roosevelt will go to London as
a guest of Whitelaw Reid during the
coronation. She will not represent her
father.
! Adjutant General Corbin denies any
offer of the United States army chief
horse expert to secure horses for the
British.
There will be a wireless telegraph
! system between Tatoosh Island and the
entrance to the Straits of Fuca and
Port Crescent.
BY the burning of their lodging house
the Americans who We're negotiating
for Miss stones release hal a narrow
escape from death
I outlaws are again active in New
Mexico. They robbed a bank and pay
car in Lincoln county, and are now
lleeing from a posse
4 The Bellingham Bay and British Col
umbia Railroad is planning the devel
opWent of the water power at Nook
sack Falls, and the further extension
OF the road.
Pope Leo Is said to be convinced that
he will die very soon, and has his tomb
prepared and is much concerned about
his successor. He favors Rampolla and
works against Oreglia.
Dowager queen Margherita of Italy
will visit America, her interest in this
country having been excited by Ris-
tori, the tragedienne. She Will travel
as the Countess Stupeinigi.
Helen Hay, daughter of Secretary
Hay and Payne Whitney, son of VIII
liam g. Whitney, We're married at
Washington, February 8. The presents
included houses and lands, a yacht,
Jewels, articles of Virtu and art with
out number
The President has approved, with one
notable exception, all the recommen-
dations made by the army brevet
board, of which General Macarthur
WAS president, Tor the bestowal of bre-
Vet rank on all the officers of the
army who rendered especially merito-
rious services during the war with
spain and i'm the subsequent campaigns
In the Philippines and China. The ex-
ception noted is the case of Theodore
Roosevelt, who was awarded the bre-
vets of colonel and brigadier general
for distinguished services at San Juan,
Santiago,