The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-16
Worlds News
Condensed


France since April
France has passed a law maxim;
Ieight hours the maximum period 70
a days work for miners.
y. H. WilIigas, an aged Adventist o
Berkeley, is predicting that the world
will come 70 an end in 1917.
The steamship Sonoma, on a recen
trip from san Francisco to Puge
sound ports, carried 400 passengers.
The Postoffice has found that adver-
tisements Of loaded" dice are legitt-
fraud order.
Frank A. Leach. superintendent OF
the Mint at san Francisco, has been
selected as Director of the Mint al
Washington.
! san Diego County, California. is to
be divided and a new county created
out Of the part of the county east of
the mountains.
A south American rhea laid an egg
! in the Bronx Zoo. New York, lately,
and an attempt will be made to hatch
! it in an incubator.
! Chief Antoine, a Southern California
Indian said TO be 103 years old, has
been committed to the State insane
asylum at Patton.
| The illness of D. O. Mills has caused
the return of Mrs Reid. wife of Am
bassador Reid, TO this country. Mr.
Mills is her father.
The exodus from the relief camps in
San Francisco goes on rapidly 1t is
expected that the camps will be va
Gated by August II.
Joseph Chamberlain, the Birming-
ham statesman, celebrated his 18th
birthday July s. His health is said to
be slowly improving.
During the year ending June 80 $41,
100000 worth of precious stones were
imported at New York. Seven-eighths
of this were diamonds.
The price of silver has gone up. The
treasury department has purchased
100 GOO ounces to be delivered at Den
yer at 6S.043 cents per fine ounce.
Notifications of the Dominican treaty
have been exchanged. Santo Domingo
may now negotiate a loan to refund
and consolidate the cOuntry's national
debt
Edward w. Bailey, who went broke
in the famous pork corner in Chicago
fourteen years ago, owing $4,000, 600,
has just paid off the last cent of his
Indebtedness.
Under the new law limiting the hours
of labor of railway telegraph oper-
ator to eight, the railroads of America
viii need 5000 additional telegraph OPP
orators within few months.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has decided that railroads must
provide as good accommodations for
negroes as they do for whites where
the same rate of fare is paid.
The Pullman Company viii probably
use some Of it's $4,000, 600 of net earn
ings to increase its plant for the man
ufacture of freight and passenger cars
to meet the great demand for increased
equipment.
The Pennsylvania Railroad after
many experiments has abandoned all
attempts to utilize steel ties instead of
wooden ones. The steel tie lacks the
resiliency TO stand heavy travel and is
too rigid, especially at curves.
George f. Roberts, formerly Direc-
tor of the Mint, has been elected pres
ident of the Commercial National Bank
of Chicago. of which the late James
Eckles, Comptroller of the Currency
under Cleveland, was president.
Proceedings have been begun in New
York against the Western Union and
the Postal Telegraph companies charg-
ing them with having formed a combi-
nation to increase the telegraph rates
in New York and other States.
A brother of James Hammond, the
Of itgJ oh
his name, and of c. Y. Hammond. a
millionaire furrier of New York, has
lust died at Mare Island, where he
was employed as a day laborer.
Lieutenant Colonel William S.
Tucker who was charged by his wife,
daughter of Mrs. John A. Logan,
with undue familiarity with another
woman in the Philippines. has been
cleared by a military investigation.
Barney Oldfeld, the motor fiend,"
was arrested in Portland, Oregon, on
a charge of obtaining money by false
pretenses. He afterwards got drunk,
quarreled with his wife, and then at
tempted to commit suicide by trying
to throw himself from the third story
window of his hotel.
Divine Healer August Schrader was
mObbed in Cincinnati because he failed
to cure an aged cripple, who had put
himself under Schrader's treatment.
Eggs, dirt, sticks and stones were
thrown at Schrader who was finally
rescued by the police.
Judge Dunno has refused to set aside
eleven indictments against I. V. Hal
sey, the outside man" of the Home
Telephone Company, as asked for by
Halsey's attorney, Bert Schlessinger.
Motions to strike from the files We're
also denied, and demuTrers to the in
dictments were argued.
On the night of July g. Mars was
nearer to the earth than it has been
for many years. In fact. it was only
3S, coo, 600 miles from the earth. Be
cause of this proximity hopes of MAX
ing valuable discoveries in regard to
it were entertained. Practically every
large telescope and every telescope
Photographic apparatus in the world
was turned on it.
The City Jail of Los Angeles is so
badly ventilated that during the hot
weather the city council win confine
the prisoners in tent within a
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