The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-28
LATE NEWS NOTES
From Coast Files.

days prior to the sudden death of
| York. An effort is being made to find
Mrs. York.
| Congress has appropriated $4,000 900
] for the Alaska Yukon-Pacifc exposition.
| Three japanese motorists touring
| Cuba are being closely watched by the
| authorities.
| The Southern Pacific railroad will re-
| pair the break in the dam shutting out
the Colorado river from the Salton sea.
A street car at Pensacola was fred
on by soldiers because of dispute over
! fare. About twenty shots were fred.
| A large section of prairie land at
| the foot of the Sierra Madre mountains
in Texas is sinking and a lake is form
ing.
F. E. Allen, a freshman at Berkeley,
jumped out of fraternity house win
| dow to escape hazers and was seriously
injured.
| Seattle has new freak sect calling
| themselves s'The Children Of God -
Their belief resembles that of the Holy
Rollers.
Venezuelan advicos state that the
death of President Castro, who is very
i'll, will strengthen the revolution in
that republic.
Robert Gordon. a fifteen year old
murderer, was sentenced to life i'm
prisonment. He killed a companion in
Chicago some months ago.
Charges have been made in a Chi
cago court of the existence of pick
pocket trust in that city, which has
lawyer retained to defend all their
cases.
The decisions regarding the wills of
Charles T. Yerkes and Daniel B. Ship
| man places ten millions at the disposal
of various Chicago charitable institu-
tions.
The Vatican has issued a note of
protest to the world against the action
| of the French government in expelling
| from France.
Several women have been arrested in
| France for striking and biting the sol
| diers during the rioting attending the
| evacuation of the Episcopal palace and
seminary at Nantes.
| In the Scotch Highlands the fact
| that Andrew Carnegie is presenting
various churches with organs is regard
ed as proof that the philanthropist is
| in league with Satan.
| The Californian members of the
| House have held caucus to form
plans to oppose Roosevelt's intended
| pressing for modification of the Chi
nese immigration inspection.
| Chief Bradley, of the Marysville fire
department, and two other iremen, to-
| gether with fifty spectators, were se-'
riously hurt by the explosion of fifteen
pounds of dynamite in burning
house.
| Roosevelt IS ideas as to the program
1 Of ha
| Hague are opposed by the representa-
tives of the other powers. Great
Britain especially is distinctly opposed
T. to the Drago doctrine.
As result of printers strike no
( papers were issued in Belgrade on Dec.
| IL. Newspaper owners declare the
government organized the strike in
order to prevent criticism on the bill
/ authorizing foreign loan.
| President Altman, of the San Fran
cisco Board of Education, denies that
the exclusion of Japanese from the
| schools is the result of agitation by
| the Chinese, Japanese and Korean Ex-
| clusion League, as reported by Secre-
tary Metcalf.
A bll has been deposited with the
/ British Parliament, empowering the
Anglo-French company to construct
tunnel under the British channel, in
volving an expenditure of $SO000,000.
There are to be two parallel tunnels,
each "a miles long.
| The Pennsylvania Railroad company
issued an order a week before Christ
mas forbidding any of the employees
receiving holiday presents from any
person doing business with the road.
| Previously presents were received from
| box of cigars to checks as large as
| $1,000.
Charges have arrived at Washington
from Manila against General J. J.
Pershing for conduct unbecoming an
officer and gentleman. The specific
| charge is that Pershing is the father
of two half Filipino children. The
statute of limitations viii prevent any
investigation.
Alex. Gregar, formerly secretary of
the Russian embassy at Washington and
| Rio Janeiro, horsewhipped Count Rodel-
| lac du Poiseics in Paris. Gregar while
the guest of the Poiseics in Brittany,
| was accused of having stolen a dia-
mond. The charge against him was
| withdrawn.
The London Leader regrets the depar-
4 eHAS u AsCNs Ii. Shdo. f1heu w no. goes
| to accept an American pastorate. The
paper declares that in New York the
| Doctor will be merely a domestic chap
| lain to the Standard Oil Trust and
| Mr.. Roekefeller's pastor and no man
IN New York can live down that
In special message to Congress
regarding the dismissal of the colored
soldiers, President Roosevelt says that
| they disgraced their uniform He
| quoted precedents for their dismissal
from the actions of General Grant and
| said that the men had been Judged
| from their conduct and not from their
| color.
| The Chinese government has sent 20n0