The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-30
LATE NEWS NOTES
FROM COAST FILES


Georgia evangelist, died of heart fail
ure on a train near Perry, Ark.
Senator Elkins says that Roosevelt
should yield to the demand of the
country and run for third term.
The National Assembly of Panama is
considering proposals to construct rail-
roads to connect the different ports.
Lieutenant Calvert, Twenty-fourth
Infantry. was killed by Sergeant Tay-
lor at Albuera, Province of Leyte.
Nine earthquake shocks were felt in
Wyoming on October IS. Several
buildings at Jackson were damaged
Mrs. Antonio Yznaga, mother of Con-
sueIo, Duchess of Manchester, is Sc
riously i'll of pneumonia in New York.
Midshipman Cutler, OF Ohio, was Civ
en- 200 dement's for hazing Fourth
Classman Chevalier at the Naval Acad-
envy.
The postoffice estimates for the next
period will incorporate recommends
ton for increased salaries to postal
employees.
A $150,000 conflagration in the freight
sheds OF the Southern Pacific at San
Francisco destroyed twenty loaded
freight cars.
About a score of women have applied
to the Alameda chief of police to car
ry revolvers to protect themselves
from footpads.
Alice Hogan Rice, author of Mrs.
Wigs of the Cabbage Patch, has
amassed a fortune in lead mines in
Hardin County, III.
The London City Council has decid-
ed to petition Parliament to take steps
to make women eligible to election to
the County Council.
Miss Jenny Phipps. &c years of age
of Troy, n. Y, has fallen heir to ST.,
600 600 by the death of her sister, Mrs.
Anna Morgan-Baker.
Mrs. Lena Potter Cowdin. daughter
of Bishop Potter, hanged herself in a
private residence. She had been under
the care of specialists.
Albert Fischer, a workman of ex-
traordinary strength fell into stone
| crusher at Quebec. One supreme effort
as the steel jaws were coming together
wrenched them apart and he was
saved.
United states District Attorney Law
Ter has started the machinery of the
government at Los Angeles to investi-
gate Santa Fe rebates. The big fur
| niture men of that section have been
subpoenaed.
General Funston is to have command
OF the Southwestern Division of the
Army, with headquarters at St. Louis.
| This is the highest command which
| could be given him, as he is only a
! brigadier general.
| The Rathbone Sisters at New Orleans
! elected the following grand officers:
| Past supreme chief, Lydia A. Monroe,
Riverside, Cal; supreme senior, Nellie
a. Merriam, Indian Territory; supreme
| protector, Mrs Ira Johnson, Central
City, Col.
Judge Holt of the L. S Circuit Court
| at New York imposed a fine of $10S,00C
against the New York Central & Hud-
son River Ry for granting rebates to
| Lowell NJ. Palmer, who has charge OF
! transportation for the American Sugar
/ & Refining Co.
| Weather Observer Council. of San
| Jose. has received an order from the
| Weather Bureau at Washington direct
| ing that after November / the 30C
words designated in the Presidents
| spelling reform order of August 2
| shall be followed
Bishop John ]. O'Connor. of Newark
| has warned all the Catholic priests in
| his diocese not to permit Nearer. Ny
| God, to Thee" to be sung in any Cath
/ Ollie church. He will permit Lead
! Kindly Light to be sung only after
! services are over.