The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-13
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Chicago had the worst thunderstorm
in it's history the night of September
Ist
! The plague has reached Zanzibar.
Seattle is battling with an epidemic
of typhoid.
Hezekiah Butterworth, the author,
died September 5th at his home at
Warren, r. L
A crank in San Diego drank carbolic
acid, saying his faith would save him.
The doctors failed.
1t is announced that by June 1st, 1906.
there will be a continuous trolley SER
vice from Chicago to New York
New York's University Settlement,
one of it's greatest charities, is con-
vulsed by scandalous disclosures.
Marshall Field. the multi-miliionaire
merchant of Chicago, has been married
at 20 to Mrs. Delea Spencer Cation, aged
10.
Cupid has wrought havoc in the
ranks of the public school teachers in
Chicago; at least forty have married
this summer.
A bomb exploded with terrific force
on the Marine Parade, Barcelona, Sep
TENDER 3rd, killing six holiday makers
and wounding many.
The merchants of Barcelona have
united in a manifesto demanding the
abolition of the present police as being
incompetent to prevent an anarchist
outbreak.
Sam S. and Lee Shubert, Incorporate
ed, is the title of the new 81 400, GOO
corporation organized to fight the the
atrical trust. David Belasco and other
independents are lending financial and
moral support.
Tt is reported here, through the in
f1uence of German Prince, the Ham
burg American Steamship Company
has secured large contracts for the
taking home of the Russian prisoners
in Japan at $3.50 per head.
General Chaffee has issued a general
order putting into immediate effect a
new and thorough system of education
for army officers. The post command
ers will be in charge of the schools
and the courses will be both theoretical
and practical.
A fire at Adrianop1e caused enormous |
damage. Seven thousand houses were |
destroyed in the Greek, Armenian, Bull |
garian and Jewish quarters. There /
were many victims. With the excep-
ton of the Catholic church, the /
mosques, the schools, a convent and the |
telegraph offices, few buildings were
insured.
DIR. Louis L. Seaman, the great ex-
pert on army sanitation who is just |
back from two years with the Russian
and Japanese armies calls the peace of |
Portsmouth lone of the greatest mis-
takes of the century" He says Rus /
siq will lnnO IN ha hot
up and eventually the two nations |
must fight their battles all over to |
finish.
Ensign Charles r. Wade of the Il
cruiser Bennington, who has been sum-
noned to appear before a court-martial /
n connection with the recent explo-
sion on the Bennington, was operated |
IN September at the Vallejo naval
hospital for appendicitis. The opera /
ion was successful and Ensign Wade
s reported to be on the road to re-
;overy.
New York interests have secured II
contracts for the construction of an Il
extensive municipal electric traction
system in London and are also engag-
ID in the erection of up-to-d date Amer
can lines OF huge hotels. apartment
louses and office buildings in the II
British metropolis and other parts of
he United Kingdom. These contracts
INVOLVE the expenditure of close to
] 5,0eo,GGo and the placing of big or II
lers for various construction materials
n the United States
Jiu jitsu, the japanese art of self
License, it to be taught at Stanford
University. Two japanese students
Who have recently entered the univer-
ity, Katakura and Zuzuki have been |
ppointed regular instructors in the
and will conduct classes
n the various forms of athletics that
ind favor among the youth of Japan
n addition to jfu jitsu, the japanese
will teach the fine points of tumbling. |:
7restling and physical development. II
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