The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-17

Lord Abinger is dead.
Cardinal Espinosa of Spain is dead.
Receivers have been appointed a2d
dismissed for Dowie's Zion City.
The Spanish cabinet has resigned be-
cause of Republican obstruction.
Secretary of War Root recommends
reduction of Philippine duties.
Owing to a short crop there has been
marked advance in the price of cot
ton.
Ex-President Cleveland declines to
consider his nomination for third
term.
A gang of smugglers of contraband
Chinese has been discovered at Buffalo,
N. Y.
On Dec. s, the Russian Government
expressed it's confidence of peace with
Japan.
The British War Office will establish
naval balloon stations on the Mediter-
ranean.
The Supreme Court has affirmed the
constitutionality of the Kansas Eight
hour law.
Gov. Peabody has declared the Grip
pie Creek mining district in state of
instruction.
The Minnesota Supreme Court de-
elares the State Sugar Bounty law
unconstitutional
Admiral Evans has been ordered to
return with his fleet to Yokohama after
the Honolulu visit.
H. M. S. Flora went on the rocks at
Denman island, near Victoria, on Dec.
3, but was floated.
The University at Kieff has been
closed because of the disorderly con-
duct of the students.
The House of Lords has decided that
women cannot be admitted to the prac-
tice of law in England.
A Japanese student was arrested on
Dec. / at Yokohama for being. in a plot
to kill the Marquis Ito.
General Bates reports that Federal
troops are not needed to deal with the
labor troubles in Colorado.
Reinsurance on the French bark
Paris. out 211 days from Hamburg to
Honolulu, is quoted at IS.
Heavy storms occurred in Europe
about Nov. 80, causing loss of fishing
boats on the English coast.
The wedding of Prince Alexander of
Teck and the Princess Alice of Albany
will take place in February. 81
Negotiations have begun for. an in
ternational administration of Mace
donia similar to that of Crete.
Women's organizations in the United
States are petitioning Congress to ex-
pei Reed Smoot from the Senate
The Libertad, the new battleship
purchased by England of Chile, is the
fastest one afloat. She is good for
20.3 knots.
Great Britain threatens to send a
squadron to La Guayra to protest
against the closing of the Orinoco to
foreign trade.
Major General Brooke testifies before
the Senate Military Committee that
General Leonard Wood was insubordi-
nate in Cuba.
Two hundred San Francisco restau-
rants closed Dec. z, because of strike
Frederick Grant Gleason, the COM
poser, is dead
Edward L. Wentz, the missing young
Philadelphia millionaire, has been
found in the captivity of Tennessee
mountain outlaws.
The Pacific Mail S. S. Co. has been
carrying Chinese passengers to the
Orient from San Francisco for 81 each,
the result of a rate war.
| Advices from Manchuria state that
Russian troops have had an encounter
with Chinese robbers who were defeat
1 ed with loss of 200 killed.
President Roosevelt declines to with
draw the nomination for Major General
of Brigadier General Leonard Wood.
who is being sharply opposed in the
Senate
There are grave rumors about a
| probable recurrence, in cancerous
form, of Kaiser Williams throat trou-
bic. The Kaiser will go to Italy for
the winter
/ The Peking government has appoint
ed special commission to reorganize
the Chinese army. The Governor of
Chill has been promoted to the COM
mand of the army and navy.
The trial of the Supao editors has
concluded. One was released and
Judgment in regard to the others has
been reserved. Owing to the pressure
of foreign opinion the Empress Dow
ager has ordered light punishment for
the editors.
andretta has been subjected to an as
sault by the police resulting from
trouble arising from the arrest of an
Armenian who is a naturalized Ameri-
can. Consul Davis hauled down his
flag and went Immediately to the
| American legation at Beirut.
Great Britain has purchased from
Chile the two new battleships "Liber-
tad and Constitution" for the sum
of nine million dollars Both are
htwelve thousand ton vessels and are
thoroughly modern in every respect.
Russia. Japan and Germany have re-
Gently made efforts to get them.
On Dec. 2. Russia and Japan We're
reported to be on the verge of a set
Element by the terms of which Japan
secures various rights in Korea includ-
ing that of keeping garrison at Seoul
She accepts the Russian treaty with
China regarding an open door TO Man
churia. The integrity of Korea is
guaranteed.
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