The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-12
LATE NEWS NOTES
From COAST FILES

The eruption OF Mount HecIa was not
serious
The drydock Dewey has safely passed
the Suez Canal.
Santa Rosa had anothe- earthquake
shock on April %.
Congress viii give San Francisco a
postal tube system.
\ corner has been worked up in the
I6Oregon hop market.
Mrs. TingIey is establishing theosoph-
ica1 schools in Cuba.
The Senate win vote on The Reed
Smoot case on May IS.
Secretary Of the Navy Bona pacte is
suffering from Dtomaine poisoning.
American flour mills have formed
combination to control trade in China
a cobbler at Tangier has been cruel
fed for the murder OF twenty-six wcln-
The United Fruit Company of New
York has begun war on the Sugar
Trust.
Because Of Illness, Maxim Gorky has
cancelled all engagements to lecture in
the west
The whole region about the base of
Vesuvius is said to be practically buried
in black mud.
Kang Yu Wal, President Of the Chi
nese Reform Association, says that
China is awake at last.
Dillon Wallace has come back to civ
ilization from an eight months trip of
exploration in Labrador
May Sutton of Los Angeles, woman
tennis champion of the world, will go
abroad to defend her title.
jeremiah Lagomarsino, aged seventy
years, was gored to death by an in
furiated bull in Los Angeles.
A negro has been arrested at Cotton
with two trunks and a suit case filled
with loot from San Francisco.
Charles Wyman Morse, head Of the
ice trust, has secured control eff the
coast steamship trade.
1t is said positively in Washington
that Secretary Taft is to accept ap-
pointment to the Supreme Court.
The Chicago City Hall has been con-
demned az dangerous to the health of
its occupants, and viii be vacated.
The United States cruisers Chat
and Galveston have arrived in
Manila and are to be thoroughly over
hauled.
Sarah Bernhard will keep her San
Francisco engagement in spite Of the
earthquake. However, she viii play in
Oakland.
Property losses in San Francisco are
estimated by the New York Board of
at two hundred millions
If dollars.
a Chinese cook in Berkeley lidnap
"a the baby daughter of the fatally he
worked for during the excitement of
he earthquake.
Mrs. Mary McKittrick, one hundred
md eight years old, committed suicide
1t Uniontown, Pennsylvania, by cut
ing her throat. /,
The International Postal Convention ;
las decided against the two cent rate
n the Union. The convention is in
session at Rome.
An Italian girl in New York, shot
through the spine, has been cured by /,
surgical operation, and walks with !
My a slight limp.
The Russian expedition into Mongo7F' {
ia. announced as purely scientific in It's {
asiness in London. Il
Hundreds of Doukhobars are march
ng out of their settlements in the /
boxing for Messiah. lr
The steamer Anglo Peruvian, from I
hields. April II. for Philadelphia, f
truck an iceberg in the middle of the,
.tlantic and foundered. -
Mrs. Grannis, President of the Ma
onal Christian League for the Promo
on of Purity, has been read out of :
er church because she adopted ne r
no child.
Virtually, q compromise has been S
greed upon on the rate bill allowing a
ppeaIs to the United States Circuit o
curt from decisions of the Interstate t
commerce Commission.
The Chinese government opposes the o
pening of the Manchurian ports of tt
ntung and Tatungkau, on the ground t.
lat the war has left matters in that e.
.gion decidedly unsettled. G
Mary Park, daughter OF a Pittsburg n
illionaire, received wedding presents
aIued at a quarter of a million when o.
lie became the bride of Raymond a
erry Rodgers Nelson of New York. te