The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-17
NEWS NOTES
FROM FILES

The English fleet will hold great
naval maneuvers in June.
Thomas B. Bishop, a pioneer lawyer
of San Francisco, is dead.
The Western Pacific is keeping up it's
fight for entry iffto Oakland
France has ordered a new war bal
loon for the eastern frontier.
Pneumatic postal tubes will probably
be installed in San Francisco.
California producers have formed a
combination to fight Standard Oil.
The Southern Pacific has finished
building its track around the Salton
Lake.
Dr.. Ollie, pastor of the First Meth
odist Church in Oakland, California
has resigned.
The railways running into New York
will all combine in building a great
union terminal.
The new two million dollar Criminal
Courts building in New York City is
crumbling away
Jack London is having a yacht built
in Oakland in which he will make a
tou: OF the world
jiu-jitsu, and will try to abolish it at
the Naval Academy.
The Standard Oil Company is pre-
pairing TO increase it's capital stock to
six hundred millions
President Castro is said to be about
to give the American Minister to Vene-
zuela his passports.
France is determined to retain her
commanding position in Morocco, and
will not yield to Germany.
The Overland railroads have agreed
not to enter into any more speed con-
tests to get mail contracts
The report of the engineers for the
sanitation of Colon has been placed in
the hands of Secretary Taft.
Four persons have been killed in II
train Week on the Oregon Railway
and Navigation Company's line.
Governor Folk of Missouri is oppos-
ed to personal tax, holding it respon-
sible for the spread of perjury
Los Angeles has d scheme of expan-
sion which will give the city a popu-
lation OF four hundred thousand.
Chief Engineer Wallace claims that
II years work on the Panama Canal
has been lost because of official red
tape.
Prince Paul Metternich, second son
Of that diplomat who took a leading
part in the downfall of Napoleon l., is
dead
President Roosevelt thinks dismissal
is too severe punishment for hazing in
Naval Academy, and wants the law
Richard Outcault, creator of Buster
Brown" has brought suit for 100000
against the New York Herald, alleg-
ing libel.
The false Emperor of Russia and his
suite, who have been stirring up trou-
BILE in the Volga region, have been
captured.
The curtain of the New York Casino
took fire during a performance, bu-
the discipline of the stage crew avert
cd a panic.
The acquisition of the Illinois Cen
trad will give Hartman line of his
own for the Union Pacific from Chi
cago to Omaha.
The superintendent of the San Mateo
county poor farm. in California, has
1een indicted for grating in the pur-
:hase of supplies.
1t is said that Mrs Miner. who was
the widow of Yerkes, will try to break
he will OF the late millionaire in the !
interest OF her young husband
Midshipman Minor Meriweather, !
convicted of hazing and sentenced to
dismissal from Annapolis. will be par
1oned and restored to his rank.
A charge of manslaughter has been |
fled against C. Johnson, a pugilist who !
'ecently killed another with a blow
over the heart at Colma, California.
The Manhattan Theater in New |
York for many years the playhouse |
# Minnie Maddern Fiske, has been |
sold to make room for a tunnel ter |
ninal
The rich men who have homes on |
he shores of Lake Tahoe have pro-
ested against the diversion of the |
waters of the lake for purposes of irri- |
cation.
Evidence taken in the Valencia in
Iuiry at Victoria show that at least |
4 part of the loss of life on the steam
er was due to the generalization of |
he crew.
Russia has appointed commissioners |
o investigate two American railway |
projects, one for a line from Taskend /
o Tomsk, and the other to run from |
Chita to Behring Sea.
Count Bcni de Castellane is hard up
already, and will consent to let his |
wife have a divorce for consideration !
The Castellane family is making des- |
3erate efforts to secure an amicable |
A Sacramento man, by name J. Addi- |
;on Marshall, claims that he has dis |
covered a method of making gold |
grow" from the base metals by the |
DUPLICATION of heat, electricity and GER
ain chemicals.
Rev. George H. Simmons. pastor and !
1ank president of Peoria, Illinois. COM |
nitted suicide by swallowing cyanide |
If potassium, after having been accus- |
ID of, and confessing to, the commits |
;ion of a grave crime.