The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-28


| Cal, on Dee. II.
Shipbuilding is having great I'M
petus in Japan.
In making an effort to escape negro
convicts at jackson, Miss, wounded
two officers.
! Senator Bailey of Texas admits Dor
rowing big sums of money from Pierce,
the oil magnate of Texas.
| Prick has purchased for $3,OOO,ooo
| the Lenox library site on which he
| will erect a palatial mansion.
| Deep water Is found in Lake George,
| New York, where before only danger
GUS shadows were encountered.
Water from the Pacific was forced
into the Atlantic at Panama through
the Union Oil Co.'s pipe line.
By striking an obstruction during
her trial trip several plates in the
Dreadnought IS hull were damaged.
The Police Gazette building in New
York, at Pearl and Frankfort streets,
was Quilted by fire on December II.
The governor of Santa Clara prov
ince, Cuba, is said to be preparing
to make war upon the United States.
A large number of time-expired
marines in the Turkish naval service
mutinied because of arrears in their
pay.
American Consul General Steinhart
of Havana has withdrawn his resigna-
ton at the request of Governor Ma
COON.
General Harrison Gray Otis arrived
at San Francisco from Yokohama and
Manila in a very bad condition of
health.
Colonel Pletta's leg was torn off by
a bomb explosion at Radon, Russia. A
student, who threw the bomb, was ar
rested.
Nine sailors of the British battle
ship Hindustan were drowned owing to
the upsetting of cutter, off Ports
mouth.
A committee of representative bust
ness men of Los Angeles reports adj
versely on the plan to hold world 8
fair there in 1915.
The Church troubles in France are
reported to be opening the way for
the enemies of the Republic to league
for its overthrow.
The Seattle Workingmen League
adopted resolutions whereby they ask
ed that all Asiatics be excluded from
the United States.
Chas. Marburg has offered $4,000 to-
ward a monument to Francis Scott Key,
composer of "The Star Spangled Ban
ner," to be erected at Baltimore.
Nearly 10000 operatives employed
in the cotton mills at Lowell and
Chicopee, Mass, have been granted a
five per cent. advance in wages.
A burglar blew open the bank vault
at Valdes, Alaska, resulting in the
building being set on fire and de-
stroyed, entailing a loss of 100000.
The Associated OIL Company of
Southern California has decided upon
another bond issue from the treasury
reserve to the par amount of 1,500,-
600.
A powerful gang of smugglers has
, been unearthed in San Francisco, its
plan being to smuggle Chinese into the
United States across the Mexican bor-
der.
The Lebaudy dirigible war balloon
La Patrie, with War Minister Picquart
on board, was tested at Paris. 1t was
Unanswered for more than an hour over
the city.
A band of Seakha Khel Afridis ap-
peared at station in India and cap
tured seven persons, including two
Sepoys, and ran off with camels and
cattle.
The closing of the Farmers and
Drovers' National Bank at Waynes-
burg, Pa, discloses shortage of $780,
600. Business in the town came almost
to standsti1l
to accept railway transportation was
the subject of hearing before the
House committee on Interstate and
Foreign Commerce.
William F. Bywaters, a prominent
citizen of Culpepper, Va, after marry
ing Miss Viola Strothers, was shot to
pieces by the brides brothers as he
attempted to leave the house after the
ceremony.
A Chinese banner woman, married to
an Englishman and living at Van
couver claims the throne of China by
virtue of prior descent from the third
Duke of Chou, to that of the Empress
Dowager.
E.. Benjamin Andrews, Chancellor of
the University of Nebraska, condemns
the Salvation Army, claims its relief
work in Lincoln, Nebraska, is vicious
and pauperizing and calculated to
make relief work plague.
The Swedish Storthing did not wish
to confer the Nobel prize upon Roose-
welt if a Swede could he found upon
whom to bestow it. Elizabeth Schoyen,
a Norwegian authoress, led the Nor
wegian wing against the Roosevelt
idea.
Herman Billik, a fortune teller, has
been arrested in Chicago charged with
poisoning six members of the Vzral
family. Billik is said to have received
$4,000 from the wife of Standish York,
sister of Cassie Chadwick, few