The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-14
NEWS NOTES FROM
The COAST FILES

j. Pierpont Morgan is in Rome.
Russians made Vladivostok a port
of entry.
The Philippine tariff bill is practical
| ~ dead.
The staid state of Maine has been
shaken by an earthquake.
Cooking as a fine art is to be taught
| in the United States army.
DR.. Alfonso Moreira Penna has been
J elected President of Brazil
The last trouble of the Car is a
threatened revolt of peasants.
The athletes of Columbia University
are to have a million dollar field.
The creditors of Boni de Castellane
will levy on his household goods.
ii 1t is said that the New York sub
way is a breeder of consumption
Governor A B. Cummins of Iowa
wants to be elected for a third term.
The apple and peach orchards of
New Jersey have been ruined by scale.
The state of Kansas is to drop the
fight against the Standard Oil Trust.
II President Roosevelt may be asked 20
mediate between France and Germany.
Speaker Joe Cannon of the House of
Finland is in state of unrest
threatening to break away from Rus
STA.
Millionaire Charles NJ. Schwab is
buying many mining claims at Tono-
pah.
The missionaries at Nanchang escap-
ed from the Chinese rioters in a
launch.
The ffteen-year-old daughter of
George Gould, Marjorie, is down with
measles.
Enormous crowds of cheering people
welcomed King Edward on his arrival
in Paris.
The District Attorney of San Fran
cisco has sworn to rid the city of
gamblers.
The Zionist movement seems to have
Francisco.
Burglars in Los Angeles are develop
ing into firebugs, starting five fires in
one night.
In New York recently, men fought
for a chance to hear Mark Twain deliv-
er a lecture.
. A line of railway across the Sahara,
from Oran to Timbuctoo, is now under
construction.
The Western Pacific is to put a COM
peting line of steamers on the Sacra-
mento river.
Chinese reform societies are working
to bring about the abdication of the
Empress Dowager.
A company has been organized in
Washington to supply lumber to all the
large cities in China.
The doctors of Oakland, California,
have shaved off their whiskers in the
interest of sanitation
Mrs. Yerkes Miner has gone to Chi
cago to watch the interests of her late
husband s estate there.
France will force a test vote in the
Algeciras conference to show that
Germany is in the minority.
A Chicago oculist says that the hui
man race will lose the sense of sight
the use of electric lights.
Thousands of policy holders have
dropped out of the big New York COM
panies as result of the exposures. i
Eight Chinese have been caught in ,
a launch in San Diego bay trying to
slip into this country from Mexico. /
The new chairman of the Democratic /
National Congressional Committee, /
Griggs of Georgia. is a Hearst man.
Young Elliot F. Shepard will serve a
term in a French prison for running
down and killing a child with an auto. .
The decent people in the desert coun- /
try of Southern California will or j
ganize to clear the region of outlaws.
The Car says that hereafter no law
Fan be effective without the approval /
Of the national assembly and council. /
The first election held in the Philip
pines has passed off successfully. The
elections were for provincial officers.
Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs has traded
he new Paramount Hotel in San Fran
,isco for down town business property.