The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-08
LATE NEWS NOTES
From COAST FILES

a statue of Benjamin Franklin ha
been unveiled in Paris
; Mexican gunboats have seized tire
! American fishing smacks.
The chief Of police at Odessa ha
been assassinated by revoIutionists.
An auto record of SO fat for tn,
mile has been made at Atlantic City
n. j.
Dowie must face bankruptcy pro
ceedings Instituted against him indi
| vidually.
For the first time in years May l
found Chicago free of any important
labor trouble.
Rev. Lehman, of Los Angeles, was
| run down by an auto and probably
fatally injured.
Muenter, an instructor of Harvard
| University, is accused of wife murder.
He has disappeared.
A bomb with a burning fuse was dis
covered on the window sill of ex-Presi-
dent Loubet of France.
Three political convicts were rescued
from the Warsaw prison by confeder-
! ates disguised as army officers.
Scotty,' under trial for various Of
| fences at San Bernardino. has been dis
charged for lack of jurisdiction.
Automobiles in Germany who kill
anyone must pay annuities to the de
pendent relatives of the deceased.
In the final agreement between the
miners and operators at Pittsburg the
miners received several concessions.
Il oe.oroJ f,o,,, VUaoJI,,,,,
Ore, shot and killed two of his pur-
suers, a sheriff and captain of militia.
2 Cossacks fred on peasants attempt
ing to take grain from municipal
warehouse, killing 10 and wounding
fifty.
Storekeepers at Montigny, France,
the scene of the miners strike, have re-
fused to supply the soldiers with sup
plies.
The Belgian training ship Count de
S,net de Macy has foundered and
her captain and thirty-three others
drowned.
President Gompers has supplied the
President with a list of government
workshops where the S-hour law is be-
ing violated.
The Mystic Shriners are to meet in
Chicago, the Los Angeles convention
having been called off by Imperial Po
tentate Collins. !
Two thirds of the Russian city of
I enisdisk has been flooded out and !
many buildings destroyed. The people
took refuge on roofs.
A Chinese protectorate over Thibet
has been recognized by Great Britain ,
in treaty The Thibetan markets are
TO he opened for foreign trade.
The French liner La Province in mid
Atlantic was in communication by wire
less with both continents and received
news of the San Francisco earthquake. /
The British have sent the second !
class cruiser Minerva to Ell Arish with !
instructions to insist on the Turkish
withdrawal from the Tarbah boundary
in Egypt.
The Paris police are raiding the
headquarters of the labor socialists in
search of discriminating papers. Dis
order and riots occasioned the police
activity.
The Senate Committee on Privileges
and Elections has authorized the re-
porting of the TilIman bill, to prohibit
contributing to cam
paign funds
In event of his salary of $4,000 per
annum being cut down, as is being
talked of in the Senate, Shonts, the
chairman of the Panama canal commits
will resign.
Constitutional democrats have swept
the field in the Russian election and
are awaiting the convoGation OF the
parliament to express their disapproval
o. the government.
Bellevue, Texas, has been destroyed
by a tornado, only four houses escap-
ing Farm houses and crops over an
area eight miles wide Were demolished
and fifteen people killed
A battle between Indians assisted by
q. S. troops and trespassing cowboys ;
III the Umatilla reserve, Oregon, IS re-
ported. Three soldiers and three In
liana are reported killed.
A railroad company to build 1000
niles of line in Alaska has fled articles
n Arizona. The capital is stated to
,e 100000 900. The line is planned to
connect Nome with Vancouver, b. c.
Prosecution of the suit against the
Armour and Swift packing houses IN !
Texas for violation of the antitrust
aw may induce the removal of the
branch packing houses out of that !
tate. :
A band of Greeks, some dressed in s
Ulcers uniforms, were attacked by | :
turkish troops near Salonica. The /
ireeks retreated with a loss of thirteen !
ut of 80, after killing three of their
ssailants. G
Another disaster has occurred in the V
Fesuvius district, rain causing many t
aud and land slides, destroying ]
ridges. blocking roads and bringing 5
much distress. People fed into the
pen country in the storm. |
A Mexican claimant has appeared for I
Z 900 acres of land in the vicinity OF
'asadena, including a fashionable sub y
RIB and Lucky Baldwin s ranch. i
he claimed land is valued at over p