The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-13

The Deutschland, for Plymouth, Cher
bourg and Hamburg, cleared Sandy
Hook bar at II a. NJ Thursday, June
2Sth, and La Provence, for Havre, fol
i, lowed an hour and fourteen minutes
later. Allowing for this difference in
time, the Deutschland beats La Prov
ence nearly eleven hours, against four
hours claimed by the French steamer
on the previous race.
! GROWERS FOURTH.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 4-Grover
Cleveland, former President OF the
United States, experienced exciting
Fourths of July during his boyhood.
Fireworks engaged his attention as
much as they do the youth of today.
| AT least such is the conclusion one
would draw from his brief description
of his celebrations Of Independence Day
when he was a boy.
| The editor of an afternoon paper
wrote to him, asking him to tell about
| the most exciting Fourth he had ever
/
is characteristic. He replied:
"They were all odd and exciting and
interesting. I cannot very well dis
| criminate.''
NEW MEXICAN EARTHQUAKES
ALBUQUERQUE On. NJ, July A.
Beginning at 3:15 o'clock Monday
morning, Socorro, seventy-five miles
south of this city, experienced a sue
cession Of the severest earthquake
shocks within the memory of the peo-
pie of the city.
There We're two or three premonitory
quivers. Then came loud subterra-
mean rumbling, followed Immediately
by a rocking and swaying that awak-
ened every inhabitant of the CITY and
caused them to fee to the yards and
streets for safety. Many of the native
people fell upon their knees and pray
ed aloud for protection. Buildings
swayed and creaked.
Walls were cracked, plastering was
shaken from ceilings, while doors. win
dows, dishes and other movable things
ratified as though shaken by unseen
hands.
The disturbance continued severe at
intervals of a few minutes, for half an
hour, then gradually died away, the
last of no less than twenty distinct
shocks being felt about eight hours lat
er. No serious damage was done.
MRS. MINER ILL.
vTI1
Telegraph says: Mrs. Charles T.
Yerkes Miner is believed to be dying
in her home in Chicago, and her hus-
band, Wilson Miner, is hurrying to
carry him from San Francisco Mrs
Miners condition is the result of an
operation for appendicitis, performed a
few days ago. She has grown steadily
worse since the operation. and the ply
s1cians We're compelled to tell her that
it would be well to Telegram h for her
husband to come at once TO Chicago
Mrs. Miner has suffered frequently
from slight attacks of appendicitis. and
while these always have been treated
successfully heretofore without re-
had been warned that eventually it
would be necessary to resort to the
knife. Her age told severely against
her from the first. She is now well
past 80, and the surgeons in charge of
her case We're aware that she would
rally from the operation with difficulty.
BRYAN AND REID.
LONDON, July 4.-William j. Bryan
was the central figure at the annual
can Society at the Hotel Cecil tonight.
Nearly 500 members and guests sur
rounded the society board and cheered
the patriotic sentiments with the pe-
cuiiar zest born in exile. ambassador
Whitelaw Reid and Mr.. Bryan engaged
in some sharp but good-humored rail-
lery and banter over political differ
ences, the crowd evincing it's enjoy
ment OF the sport with cheers and
shouts of laughter. Mr. Reid, in re-
spending to Sir w. B. Richmonds
proposal of his health, said
with reference to Mr.. Bryan:
AT home. as a citizen, L have openly
and squarely opposed him at every
stage of his conspicuous career. 1 am
reasonably sure that when l return
nome | shall continue to do the same
believe he is tonight as we'll salts
hed as [ am, though by different rea-
sonlng, that the country we both love
ana try to serve has not been ruined
py its gold abroad. AS the official rep
fesentattve of the American, without {
o1stlnct1on as to party, l am glad to {
welcome him here as typical Ameri-
can, whose whole life has been lived
IN the daylight. and one whom such a
great most OF my countrymen have long
trusted and honored."
Mr. Bryan rising, amid laughter and ,
cheers, said:
The temptation to make political
speech is strong within me. have '
7nt had chance to do so for ten J
months. However, I will restrain my s