The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-20

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General Castro, President of Vene-
zueIa. says that his vacation will be
Tor three months.
a stampede to Churchill county
New, has begun in consequence 81
gold discoveries there.
The Moroccan convention has been
signed and the Algeciras delegates
have adjourned sine die.
The gold output of the Transvaal for
March was $9,s34o75, constituting a
new record for the district.
a salmon canning factory at Rivers
Inlet, 3. c.. has been destroyed by a
tornado. No lives were lost.
An attempt has been made to burn
the Broadway Central hotel in New
York. fires being set at three points
Among the charges against Dowie
is that he has dissipated over two
millions and a half of the funds of
Zion
Pillsbury, the great chess player, is
pronounced violently insane, the result
of the strain from playing blindfold
chess
The American soldiers in the Philip
pines complain that they are being
kept too constantly at drill and ma
neuvers.
Federal Judge Maxey, of Texas, has
decided that Cinnamon in the United
States illegally cannot be deportad
without trial.
Elmer and Willie Helms, aged and
81 years, are held at Fresno for the
murder of William c. Hayes and wife
committed last October.
The tugmen of Chicago have gone
out on strike for an Increase in wages.
the strike may have a serious effect
on the grain shipments.
Congress has been asked to appro-
pirate 100000 for the preliminary work
towards the reclamation and irrigation
of the Sacramento valley.
Suit has been brought against An
drew c. Field for an accounting of all
moneys handled by him as legislative
agent of the Mutual Life.
The government is taking steps to
deal with the large number of Italian
anarchists said to have entered the
country by way of Baltimore.
Jacob A. Riis. the close friend of
President Roosevelt, is slowly recov-
ering from an operation performed for
the removal of deep seated abscess.
Boys from rival schools in Chicago
engaged in fierce fight, using sling
shots, air guns and baseball bats, many
being injured. The police stopped the
battle.
Jack Allen, drink crazed, ran amuck
in Grass valley with a butcher knife.
Among his victims, two of whom will
probably die, were his wife and father
in-law.
Elections will be held in Hungary on
the 2Sth. The credit for settling the
political crisis in that country is said
to be due to the Emperor Francis
Joseph
Maxim Gorky says that he has come
to America to collect money to aid
the revolution in Russia. He believes
the time is ripe for the struggle for
freedom
The Big Knife Society. a relic of
Boxerism, has been raiding and pillag-
ing small towns in the south of Honan
province. Troops have been sent
against them.
Many of the returning Russian SOL
diers have found that their wives mar
ried again during their absence at the
front, news of their supposed death
having been received
From 10, 200 to 0,000 negroes are ex-
Convention at Los Angeles in Septem-
be- aid great temple may be built
IL accommodate them.
Mass meeting of strikers in Havana
have been broken up by the police.
The workingmen in other Cuban cities
will be asked to go out in sympathy
with the men in Havana.
over SIS, coo 900 will be spent in de-
veIoping power from the upper waters
of Kings river in the San Joaquin.
valley. New York and Boston capital
lists are behind the scheme
The Republican State Convention
of Indiana has endorsed the platform
and policy of the administration and
commended President Roosevelt's
stand on the antitrust laws
OF the 1900 emergency troops station
ed at Stotsenburg, in the Philippines,
260 are down with malaria and other
diseases. The heat is excessive and
there are insufficient barracks.
Secretary Taft's denial of the report
that the Philippines are to be sold .
Japan has not quoted the apprehen-
sion among the Filipinos, who are pro- ,
testing against any such move.
painting by an old master, pro-
nounced as worth $50, 000 has been dis |
covered hanging in kitchen in Bronx. |
1t is supposed TO be by Levers, the |
French artist of the seventeenth CEN /,
fury.
The coal operators have admitted at |
a hearing of the Interstate Com |
merce Commission that the freight |
rates and proportion of tonnage for /
the different railways are fixed by |
the coal trust.
There is movement on foot in Swift |
zerland to prohibit the manufacture of |
absinthe. AS Switzerland is where prac- |
ticalIy all the absinthe is made this |
viii wipe out the absinthe drinking |
the world
Owing to the strenuous work he has |
been doing. President Castro. of Vene- |
zuela, has retired temporarily for three |
The vice president has taken /
his place and all questions at issue |
will be amicabiy settled
Apostles Cowley and Taylor. of the |
Utah Mormon church, have been drop |
ped from the quorum and D. O. Nc |
Kay. G. F. Richards and O 2 Whit