The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-03
NEWS NOTES FROM FILES.

Severe storms have tied up the rail
roads around Reno, Nevada.
Fifty million in bonds of the Yerkes
estate are said TO be missing.
Mrs. Paul Lohse, philanthropist. OF
Oakland, died after an operation.
Electric power for Los Angeles is to
be obtained from the Colorado river.
The British government has decided
to admit no more coolies into South
Africa
| o. McHenry, president of First Ma
tional bank, Modesto, died February u
from cancer.
| Western railway lines have cut their
round-trip fares to divert the Cuban
travel to California.
The cornerstone of the new city hall
| of Sonoma was laid on ed ult with
Masonic ceremonies
The highest building in the world is
planned for New York. The tower will
| be 593 feet in the air.
A St. Louis syndicate has bought $780,
600 worth of Sacramento Valley lano
for vineyard purposes.
Russia has decided on canal to con-
meet the Baltic and Black seas. The
scheme is that of an American.
California s State Harbor Commits
sion will build thousand foot extension
to the sea wall at San Francisco.
Reign of crime reported in Chicago
Fifteen murders and los holdups and
robberies in six weeks the record
Statistics show a falling off of for
eign trade, both import and export for
the first seven months of the fiscal year.
The fleet towing the drydock Dewey
is $50 miles west of the Canaries. The
drydock had broken adrift three times.
Jas. Bryce, secretary for Ireland,
stated in the House of Commons that
he stood on the Home Rule principles of
Gladstone.
s. P Morrison, of Mendoza. was shot
and killed, being fred at from saloon
window. John Casey is under arrest
for the crime
Congress has passed a resolution
recommending general divorce law for
all states on the line of the Massa-
chusetts law.
Andrew D. White, former ambassa
dor to Germany, has declared himself |
strongly in favor of lynching for GER
tain offences.
Russia is establishing military out |
posts along the whole Siberian and |
Central Asian frontier and on the bor- !
der of Thibet.
Miss Susan B. Anthony was stricken
by paralytic stroke while preparing |
to attend a banquet in honor of her /
eighty-sixth birthday.
Isaac II. Cohen, out of work and de-
spondent, made an unsuccessful attempt
to kill his wife and child in San Fran
cisco and then suicided.
A big tent has been purchased for the
performances of Nine. Sarah Bernhardt
in Texas and California cities where
suitable opera houses can not be had.
AS a result of the Valencia wreck, all
the vessels in Seattle harbor are being
in accordance with instruc-
tions from the Secl etary of the Navy.
Western Federation of Miners officials
say that the arrest of three of their
leaders for the Steunenberg murder is
an attempt to break up their organiza-
ton.
S. w. Gunter, the Clayton farmer
who brutally murdered his aged father
and mother, has been adjudged insane.
He has religious mania and has been
twice in the State Insane Asylum.
A new political party has been
in California under the ma
tional public ownership banner Ar
engagements for calling state and ma
tional conventions are being made
In the House, Prince of Illinois at
tackled the Army Bill, denouncing the
practice of promoting officers and retir-
ing them. Sixty-two Brigadier Gen
erals had only served one day in that
position