The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-20

WORLDS NEWS
CONDENSED

- Congress IL lihtly ~ w CO
, Point on modern lines.
: RevoIutionists are exploding bombs
, in the streets of Caracas,
California is making strenuous
fight against the Cuban tariff.
? Concessions have been made to Chils
+ In the Pan-American conference.
. Lieut. d. II. Jarvis has been appoint
= ed collector Of customs at Sitka.
The Kansas City, Mexican & Orient
, Railroad is making rapid progress.
Dr. Poole, who was attached to the
American legation at Picking, Is dead.
| An American syndicate is planning to
build a railroad from Canton to Han
kow.
I Lord Francis Hope had foot arnpu-
tated as a result of shooting acct
dent.
Washington does not believe the Cas-
tro regime will long hold out in Vene-
Zuela.
The House of Representatives favors
| the plan for the permanent census ou-
reau.
John E. Redmond has been reelected
/ chairman Of the Irish parliamentary
T., Illinois veterans Of the Spanish war
! have formed a company to help the
Beers.
The next worlds Sunday school con-
vention will probably be held in Jeru-
salem.
Mexican officers claim to have 10
Gated F'leishman, the Los Angeles alb
sconder.
The pension bill reported in the
House is 100000 less than last years
estimate.
A Montana convict attempted to Sc
cure a pardon by forging the name of
Roosevelt
/. A Seattle man committed suicide by
putting a lighted stick of dynamite in
his mouth.
Cob n Ha Of ms
nate, is said to have won $4,000 at
Monte Carlo.
Admiral Schley and Mrs. Schley were !
given a warm welcome at Savannah,
en- route South
Mrs. Mckinley has been given the
Representatives.
BoatSwain Deignan, one Of Hobson'S (
crew, has returned to duty on the u. /
S. steamer Independence.
contract for sewering and paving
Havana for 5000 coo has been award
ed to a Jersey City firm.
The biennial convention of the Unit
ed Brotherhood of Railway Employees Is
In session in San Francisco.
General Bells vigorous Philippine
Is bearing fruit, and many OF
the insurgents are SurrenderinE.
The extradition treaty between Chile
and the United States has been ap-
proved by the Chilean congress.
r. S. Anthony, a California man, was
acquitted of high treason in aiding the +
Beers. by a British courtmartial. T.
The London Times endorses the fiscal +
proposals of the Telegraph touching in
creased taxes upon tea and sugar.
Yuma Indians offered their medicine
man as a sacrifice to the Great Spirit,
n accordance with tribal customs.
A bill has been introduced in the
House providing for an annual life sal
lry of SIS. 900 for all ex-Presidents.
The collier Bristol went on the rocks {
near Vancouver. and 1t is feared that
Ter crew may have been drowned.
Friends of Judge NoyeS are in Wash
ngton fighting the Ninth Circuit Court ]
II Appeals, which found him guilty. /
Padre" big medicine man of the /
Yuma Indians, has been tortured to
ieath to expiate the sins of the tribe. I
The New York Central intends to t
ubStitute electricity for steam as the l
motive power in the New York tunnels.
The Peoples Bank of gainesville, o., !
las suspended owing to the suspension
{ the Euclid Avenue Trust Company.
Frank Newman, seventeen years old, r
vas sent to prison for twelve years at
an Jose for the murder of a steamship
nan.
Ten resolutions referring to the {
chley case have been referred to the I
subcommittee on organization of rank c
nd pay. a
<aOSle IIeNedu, OuCt SOoillCoo
De Dorea, prominent in the diplomatic {
ct at Washington, died in poverty In t
few York. a
1t is reported that the Santa Fe Rail- c
DAD Company will issue s3o,O00.oO0 in e
onds to pay for contemplated i'm y
Professor Lombard, of Ann Arbor, is
rying to demonstrate by experiments
n a frog. that the seat of the soul is
n the spine.
The British bark Caithnesshire. y
'aptain Furneaux, had narrow es- /
ape from being piled up on the rocky il
Tancouver shore. Il
Land Commissioner Hermann has \
sked an additional appropriation of o
100000 for forestry work. Part of 1t ! h
nay go to Hawaii. C
The Euclid Avenue Trust and Saw II
ngs Bank, of Cleveland. Ohio. has as q
igned, but announced that depositors h
will be paid IN full. h
The Dowager Empress of China Is
sserting her supremacy by granting
n audience In the sacred hall always
orbidden to women.
The Cheyennes at the Lame Deer ,
gency are on a war dance over the
filing of a brave, and the suicide Of 1
he latter's wife and daughter. !.
James j. Hill was given an ovatioh 9
t a North Dakota grain growers con-
ention. He addressed the meeting In I
efense OF his railroad combination.
Charles Warren Stoddard, author OF
South Sea Idylls." will resign his pro-
in the Catholic University at d
and return to literature.
A bloody political fight in the senate t
Paraguay killed one man and
founded several, and ended by the for
ial deposition Of President Anceval.
The explanation of the killing of the Z
in Bismarck archipelago is
nat they ruthlessly destroyed some of
he few palm trees left to the natives.
Eleven indictments against promi-
ent Modoc county, Cal, citizens, were
eturned for lynching. An effort to I
ave the grand jury declared Illegal !
allied.
Beet sugar men at Washington are
ervous over the persistent rumor that
sobert T. Oxnard is In league with
ne trust In trying to get reduction 7
the tariff.