The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-09

/ Major Francis Fremont, son OF the
! Pathfinder, is bankrupt.
Bandits are operating within ten
| miles of the gates of Manila.
King Haakon will not receive a visit
| from the Kaiser in his capital.
! John Dunn. at one time state con-
| troller of California, is dead.
Coney Island is to have an amuse-
| ment tower seven hundred feet high.
A seam of virgin gold, an inch thick
| has been struck in claim near Nome,
Plans are on foot to organize the
| Chicago Fire Department men as la
| Dor union
Heavy rains are reported all along
| the California coast during the latter
| part of May.
The rumor that Emperor Francis
| Joseph of Austria is to abdicate is Off
| cially denied.
The beef scandal has caused falling
off in the sale of American canned
meats abroad
Pittsburg iron manufacturers are
| hurrying shipments of structural steel
| to San Francisco
T. p. Shonts denies that he has re-
signed the Craftsmanship of the Panama
Canal Commission.
Gold ore that assays fifteen thousand
dollars to the ton has been found at
Goldfelds, Nevada.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has again upheld the validity OF
the Philippine tariffs.
The London Daily Telegraph wants
King Edward to visit Canada, as he
has been invited to do.
A serious blight, taking the form of
black rot. has struck the tobacco beds
in the Connecticut valley.
Mr. and Mrs. John ID. Rockefeller
had the finest suite on the Deutschland
on their voyage to Hamburg.
Mr. Bryan was last heard from
watching the proceedings of the Hun
garian Parliament at Budapest.
The Japanese Parliamentary commits
sion reports that the years cotton crop
in Korea will be worth $6,000,000.
j. Austin Chamberlain, former Chan
cellor of the Exchequer in England, is
soon to marry Ivy Muriel Dundas.
Many Yale graduates who lost their
diplomas in the San Francisco fire have
asked for the issuance of duplicates.
Congress has taken up the subject OF
child labor III Eastern factories anu
will make a thorough investigations
Hartman is once more making des-
perate effort to wrest control of the IL
linois Central from Stuyvesant Fish
A COshOcton, Ohio. preacher is going
to establish grocery store in an old
church and run it 9 as Christ would. y
Yamada Naokuma. noted japanese
philosopher, committed suicide by
jumping into the crater of the Aso
volcano.
The customary spring audiences at
+l,> ind oil
postponed because of the illness of the
Emperor.
Private letters from Rome indicate
that the state of the Pope's health is
very much worse than is admitted at
the Vatican.
The Catholics and Socialists in the
Reichstag have joined forces to block
the Kaiser's plan to create a ministry
for the colonies.
The Postoffice Department has ruled
that publications issued by college
alumni associations will go as second
class mail matter.
A special session of the Delaware
Legislature has been called to attempt
to break the deadlock and elect
United States Senator
The new Canadian Sunday law not
only prohibits the publication of Sun
day newspapers. but stops their i'm
portation from the United States.
The steel frame of the Mills building
in San Francisco has been found to be
absolutely unhurt, and the new struc
ture is to be erected around and upon it.
One result of the San Francisco fire,
it is said, will be the wiping out of the
labor union party. most of the refugees
who left the place having been of the
laboring class.
white murderer was discharged in
Louisiana the other day because he
had been tried once before. the jury
failing to agree, and then the people |
arose and Iynched him.
Southern Congressman are complain |
ing that their constituents do not get
their fair share of diplomatic posts. |
Might try changing their politics, it is |
suggested in Washington
United States Senator Newlands of |
Nevada has gone to California to see |
about rebuilding the Palace Hotel |
The wife of Newlands is one of tht
heirs of the Sharon estate.
President Roosevelt has invited the |
governors of the states and territories
to take part, at their own expense. in
the Jamestown celebration of the first
SSIJiSuient pI tile ElitSilSH III AiAtSi iSct'
1t is believed in st. Petersburg that
Great Britain will permit the opening
of the Dardanelles in return for the
of Russia at this time. This
is part of the movement to isolate
Germany.
DR.. Parkhurst has made the charge
that Police Commissioners Bingham of
New York is only Mayor Mcclellan
dog. If he were to become virtuous,
the minister says the Mayor would
throw him ont.
Jacob Schfff was given a dinner by
he Korean court without the presence
If the japanese Resident General,
vhereupon that functionary demanded
m explanation. He was told that the
Inner was a private affair.
A prize fighter and the son of Chi
ago attorney. having a grudge, fought
o a finish on an island in the Missis-
;ippf. six miles above Alton. H.. in the
presence of only twenty-five spectators.
The pugilist was beaten and all but
killed