The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-13
WORLDS CHRONOLOGY FOR
THE YEAR 1901, UP TO DATE

Jan. 1-Countess Ella Festetics
granted a divorce.
Jan. ALFRED Harmsworth edits the
New York World for a day.
Jan. 3-Lord Roberts welcomed home
Jan. S--Bishop U. K Ninde of De
| troit, dies.
Jan 3-Admiral Casey assumes com
mand of the Pacific station.
Jan. 6-Philip ID. Armour, meat pack
er, dies.
Jan. S-Rochester, ". Y, orphan asy-
lum burned; twenty killed.
Jan. S-Steamship Russia ashore near
Marseilles; no lives lost.
Jan. S-Two hundred and fifty thou
sand cases of grip reported in New
York
Jan. 9-Ffve thousand Beers under
De Wet invade Cape Colony.
Jan. 9-United States army canteen
abolished.
Jan. 9-Chinese plenipotentiaries sign
the powers joint note, concluding pre-
liminary stage of peace negotiations.
Jan. 10-The municipal council of
Osaka vote 100000 yen to fight the
Jan. 14-Alfred G. Vanderbilt marries
Miss Ellen French, at Newport.
Jan. 14-Vice President Roosevelt has
a narrow escape from being killed by
a grizzly bear.
from Pennsylvania, after memorable
fight.
Jan. 14-Mariposa makes a record
trip from Sydney to San Francisco.
Record, 16 days, II hours and min
utes.
Jan. 15-Prof. w. H. Hudson and Dr.
c. n. Little resign from Stanford Uni
versity due to part taken in the Ross
case.
Jan. 15-Amerfcan syndicate purchas-
es street railways in London.
Jan. 16-Enormous strike of oil in
Beaumont, Texas.
Jan. 17-H. NJ. S. Sybille runs ashore
in Lambert Bay, South Africa.
Jan. 1S-Bi-centenary of the first cor
onation in Germany, celebrated in Ber-
lin.
Jan. 1S-W. c. McAIIister. A. Camp
bell and w. Death, convicted of the
Bosschieter murder, Paterson, New
Jersey.
Jan. 19-Duke of Broglie dies in
Paris.
Jan. 21-Carrie Nation, saloon wreck
er and temperance refOrmer, on deck.
Jan. 22-Creek Indians go on the war
path.
Jan. 2S-Five men scalded to death
on the Ventura by the bursting of Il
steam pipe.
Jan. 2S-w. ]. Bryan brings out the
first issue of the Commoner.
Jan. 2S-Queen Victoria dies on the
Ise of Wight.
Edward VII of Great Britain.
Jan. 24-Four million dollar fire in
Montreal. Canada.
Feb. 2-The University Hospital in
Toxic burned; twenty-one killed.
Feb. 4-Queen Victoria buried at
Windsor.
Feb. 3-Shan ST and shen 81 prov
inces, China, are suffering from fam
inc. The provinces have Il population
of 81 600 people.
Feb. 11-Ex-King Milan of Servia
dies.
Feb. liking Edward VII opens Par
Feb. 14-secretary of Treasury puts
a countervailing duty on Russian su-
gar.
Feb. 15-sixty-five men entombed in
a burning coal mine in ComOX, B. c.
Feb. 1S-Sir +. s. Symes, chief sec
rotary to the government of Burmah,
suicides.
Feb. 21-Oceanic Steamship stock
drops 500 a share.
Feb. 22-Ex-Senator S. NJ. White, Of
dies.
Feb 22-City of Rio de Janeiro
wrecked at the entrance Of San Fran
cisco harbor. One hundred and TWEEN
ty-eight lives lost. including ten from
Hawaii.
Feb 90 Pennsylvania Democrats take
steps to re-organize Democratic party.
Feb. 23-ThousandS reported starving
in Southern Russia.
Feb. 24-Thirty-one people frozen
during q blizzard in Odessa. Russia.
Feb. 25-In Diamondville Wyo., thir
tysiX miners were entombed in a
burning mine and killed.
Feb. 26--The $1,000, 100000 steel trust
Charles Schwab. manager.
IN-i III ~ l. In h,a
House.
Feb. 27-Boxer leaders beheaded in
Feb. 27-Bubonic plague in Cape
Town, Africa.
Feb. 2S-The Mad Mullah on the war
path.
Feb. 2s-w. NJ. Evarts. lawyer and
dies in New York.
March 4-President Mckinley and
Vice President Roosevelt inaugurated
March 5-Senator Morgan introduces
resolution declaring the Clayton-Bul- !
ger treaty abrogated.
March 5-John z. Searles, sugar
nagnate, fails.
March "a workingman assaults
md slightly wounds the German hats- |
IT.
March "A great cave discovered in
Lewis county. Oregon.
March Peace negotiations between
General Botha and General Kitchener ,
exported.
March 7-Alfred Parsons, swindler,
arrested; poses as Lord Rose.
March Revolution to overthrow |
Dictator Castro, of Venezuela.
March 7-Canadian Parliament TO |
rame measures against American cap |
tai.
March 7-Secretary of Navy signs
contracts for thirteen new warships
March s-Pacific cable bills pass can
adam House OF Commons.
March 11-Government commission |
reports no plague epidemic in San
Francisco.
March 13-Ex-President Benjamin
Harrison dies in indianapolis.
March 13-Street fight between Rus- |
;ian and British troops in Picking.
March 13-Seven hundred students
arrested for rioting in St. Petersburg.
March 14-Count Boni de Castleiiane |
lights a duel with NJ. de Rodays
March 15-Carnegie gives S75,0OO,0oO
or the endowment Of a technical school