The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-03-21
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BREVIT|ES

| Senator Vest. in the Senate, scored
the shipping bill.
| \ sensational silver strike has been
made near Reno, New.
The bark Coronado, Potter, sailed for
| San Francisco yesterday.
! Won Buelow, the Imperial Chancellor,
! is suffering from the grip.
| Senator Depew made a strong speech
| favoring the shipping bill.
| Tie Spanish CorteS has suspended to
! prevent a ministerial crisis.
Jose Limantour may succeed Porfirio
| Diaz as President of Mexico.
Susan b. Anthony is i'll at the home
| of her niece. in Rochester, n. Y.
Omaha was swept by severe storm
| and several buildings were demolish-
Two hundred insurgents are said to
| have fallen in recent battle in Colon
| bia.
worse in the condition of Count Toll
stoi
The, Countess of Warwick was
thrown from her horse and badly in
| jured.
The new Allan liner Huronian, from
out Of Glasgow, is supposed to have
been lost.
w S. Mccormick is mentioned for
Secretary of the Interior, TO succeed
| Hitchcock.
| Disturbances are reported among the
peasants at Verselli, in Piedmont, and
| in Modena.
| Kyrankia. in Asia Minor, a place of
| %, 900 people. has been destroyed by an
I earthquake.
Santos Dumont may attempt the trip
of 100 miles in his airship from London
| to birmingham.
Miss Clara Huntington and Gilbert
Perkins. the latter of Kentucky. will
wed on April 80.
Rear Admiral Remey will succeed
Admiral Farquhar as chairman of the
| lighthouse board.
King Edward. on his way to Nice.
will stay two days in Paris and meet
President Loubet.
The steamer Providence capsiZed at
Vicksburg, on the Mississippi, with a
loss of twenty lives.
The railroad military pool will be
dissolved to avoid prosecution by the
Federal government
The Pope has urged Mgr. Sbarretti.
delegate To the Philippines, to work
with the Americans.
Picolinini, the composer of popular
songs in London, died a pauper in
London lunatic asylum.
Natives at the confluence of the Fra
ser and Nechaco rivers, Northeast Can
ada, are on the warpath.
In a fight with the slave traders near
Pemba Bay, East Africa, Portuguese
troops liberated 200 slaves.
Col. r. c. Lowery. of Chicago. has
been elected manager of the Western
Union Telegraph Company.
Ministers of the British Cabinet have
bitter differences of opinion as to the
trea tment of the Irish League.
The Republican party of Brazil elect |
ed DR.. Alves president of Brazil, scor- /,
ing a signal victory over DIR. De Anna |
rel.
The bill to provide for the election of
Senators by popular vote. will probably
be reported in the Senate at this ses- ,
sion.
a discharged employee accuses Baron
Won Holleben, the German Embassa- ]
dor. of aiding the Bryan campaign
fund.
Secretary Long has resigned from the
Navy Department. and has been sue
ceeded by Congressman Moody, of
Massachusetts.
General Funston. at a banquet in /
New York. scored the anti-Imperialists ;
as responsible for much of the trouble /
in the Philippines.
Single windows that command fine
views of the streets over which King
Edwards coronation parade Will pass, !
are renting for 1865 each.
Yale defeated Columbia in the inter |
swimming race at the Sports |
mans show. thereby taking the cham
pionship. The time was 2:39 10.
The railroad companies have agreed ,
to provide telephone service for over /
land trains while they are in waiting |
at San Francisco, Chicago and Oma- |
ha.
James Wilson. Secretary of Agricul- |
ture. of Iowa. is to retire from the J
Presidents Cabinet Immediately after
the final solution of the Cuban tariff |
question.
The latest proposal of Russia, that !
she will wahitwrddi. Eintaoinrdlnpupn |
she will withdraw from Manchuria in /
eighteen months, is still unsatisfactory |
to China.
Roosevelt sent his first veto to Con-
gress. refusing to sign d bill clearing |
the record of John Glass, charged with |
descrtion from the navy during the ,
civil War.
The Folkething of Denmark. in exec
utive session. voted in favor OF the !
ratification of the treaty providing for
the sale of the Danish West Indies to !
the United States.
John a. Kasson. former reciprocity !
commissioner of the United States gov
eminent. stated at Los Angeles that |
the proposed French and jamaican
treaties are practically dead.
Phiiander Chase Knox of Pittsburg,
Attorney General. is to retire from the
Presidents Cabinet as soon as the le-
gal complications concerning the Nor
The Senate committee has finally
completed the Chinese exclusion bill. !