The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-18

uguese territory in South Africa.
/ The British have taken captive the
Enair of Hadeija one of the most pow
erfuI rulers of Northern Nigeria.
The government will establish sup
ply depot and build great transport
docks al Fort Mason, San Francisco.
An unknown man kicked an Amer
| lean flag along the street in Hoboken
and was sent to Jail for six months
! Dexter ]. Perkins, the heaviest tax
payer in Danbury, New Hampshire,
was once a pauper lad in the town.
! Statistics show that American ex-
ports to China have increased very
| largely, Notwithstanding the boycott.
Charles Broth, Los Angeles tailor,
was run down and killed by a large
auto loaded with sightseeing tourists.
The Oakland city council has given
| the Western Pacific Goulds railroad,
franchise to run through that city.
/ The British House of Commons has
pa ssed a resolution in favor of the re-
duction of the armament of the powers.
The American Civic Association has
taken up the fight for the preservation
of Niagara Falls from the utilitarians.
Three thousand wild horses have been
rounded up in Eastern Washington.
i This is the last herd in the northwest.
Because of losses in the San Francis
co fire, the Traders Insurance Com
pany has gone into the hands of a re-
ceiver.
Bishop Joseph G. HartzelI, who lives
there, says that in fifty years from now
Africa will be the center of white civil
lization.
Mrs. Julius Goldzier of Bayonne, New
Jersey, is heading a movement to Sc
cure the appointment of women as
policemen.
The Russian transport Salize struck
floating mine while cruising off Ask
old Island, near Vladivostok, a few
weeks ago.
A woman jumped from a ferry boat
into the East River and was rescued
by a deck hand who knew how to
throw a lasso.
The Mexican government has COM
missioned Lorenza Boida, called an
American soldier of fortune, to rid So
nora of Yaqui Indians
John G. Woolley says that the drink
habit is decreasing among the middle
class. and increasing fast among the
very rich and the very poor.
Julian Pavlincia, an Australian ship
carpenter working in New York killed
his wife at her request rather than
send her to an insane asylum.
A wealthy New York bachelor named
Weber has demanded the hand of the
Pope's sister in marriage, and the hon
or of his alliance has been declined
Miss Mildred Mckay, a student at
Berkeley, was drowned in the surf at
Santa Cruz, and student companion.
I. Edgar Elliot Chapman of Australia,
is missing.
The town council of Nordhausen
Prussian Saxony, he S passed an order
corbidding women to drag the trains of
their dresses in the street. It is called
a sanitary ordinance.
A ST. Petersburg magazine, Past
Events, has created a sensation by pub
fishing illustrated accounts of the kill
ing of Alexander H., with clarifying
histories of the assassins.
A man named Scherres, with his son,
has peen sentenced to life imprisonment
in Switzerland for murder, and the
mans dog, which assisted in the crime,
has been sentenced to death.
The new constitution and bylaws of
the congregational Home Missionary
Society provide for the election of n
president and other officers by each
state society in the organization.
Relic hunters have broken off and
carried away two fingers and thumb
from the statute, The Angel of Grief
which stands near the Stanford mauso-
leum, in the University grounds.
The New York World charges that
the express companies got 100000 OF
the money appropriated by Congress
for the relief of San Francisco. The
money was paid for carrying supplies.
An Imperial edict of the Peking gov
eminent has appointed Chinese super
intendent of customs. If this is to re-
lieve Sir Robert Hart, it is believed the
foreign governments will resist the
change
The agreement of the President and
the Senate on the rate bill. and the
Presidents scoring of Standard Oil have
spiked the guns of Democracy, and that
party must now make it's fight on the
tariff alone
The College of France will probably
allow Nine. Curie to occupy the chair
of physics, created for her husband two
years ago. NJ. Curie died recently The
Curies. man and wife. first gave radi-
uIn TO the world
The Prince Won Wrede of Berlin has
accounted for the presence of a lot of
hotel silverware found in his castle by
the statement that q servant stole it
and put it where it was found as a
Matchmaking device.
Admiral Togo is to be made Count
for his service in the war Viscount
kOdama will be made a count. Count
Nodzu win become a marquis. and
General kuroili, Oku. Nogi and Kawa-
nura will be made Viscounts
The Portuguese warship Baptista
Andrado. carrying a new Governor to
Mozambique, was driven ashore on an
uninhabited island near the African