The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-19
LATE NEWS CONDENSED
FROM THE COAST FILES

Secretary Root will visit Mexico dur
ing the summer.
A carpenters strike for $3.50 a day
is on in Stockton.
An eighteen-pound baby was born In
Chicago on June TO-
The laundry strike in San Francisco
has been declared off by the union.
| Senator Foraker's name was Kissed
at commercial travellers convention
in Ohio.
Germany is planning an independent
cable service to Africa and South
America.
A wholesale jail break occurred at
Santa Rosa on June Z. Three escaped
recapture.
The reported assassination of Presi-
dent Cabrera of Guatemala has been
| found untrue.
| Government crop reports show that
America will have no wheat for ex
port this year.
Mrs. w. K. Vanderbilt left New York
rather than prosecute a thieving wait
err in the police court.
The sale of firecrackers and pistols
on the Fourth has been prohibited in
Chicago by Mayor Busse.
The gross earnings of the Burlington
railroad during the past year amount
to $50, 600, 900, breaking all records.
Joaquin Miller is to leave California
for Oregon, where he will work for
election as United States Senator.
BY importing strikebreakers the
Seattle machine shop-owners expect to
break the moulders' strike within tEir-
ty days.
Local responsible government has
Colony on lines similar to that granted
the Transvaal.
An automobile race from Picking to
Paris started on June 10. One of the
machines is being driven by Prince
Scapio Borghese.
Fire doing s350,0O0 damage destroyed
the Yosemite flour mill, Custom Feed
mill and Franklin school in San Fran
cisco on the 8th.
Alexandria and Paramount, two Indi-
ana municipalities, have found munich |
pal ownership of electric light and |
power plants a failure.
John Quadt & Co., Studebaker Bros. |
Co. and Samuels & Letter were the
principal sufferers in a $4,000 fire in
San Francisco on June 10.
The defense in the Haywood murder
trial at Boise will claim that Orchard, I
the murderer giving states evidence, t
is a paid tool of the mine owners.
The city of San Bernardino has been
declared bankrupt by its /
a yrnr Of "a I'M
ing disappeared during the fiscal year. +
A leased elephant killed boy in +
Buffalo during the parade of Cole /
Brothers circus. The animal, valued /
1T $1,000, was chloroformed and killed. Il
An examination into the mental COM
potency of Mrs. Mary Baker P. Eddy,
the leader of the Christian Scientists,
has been ordered by the New Hamp-
shire courts.
San Diego laborers threaten a race
var with local Japanese, whom they
accuse of undertaking them for work.
Indians, Mexicans and Americans have
combined against the Japanese. .,s.
Judgment for $4,135.00o in a mining
dispute suit has been rendered by an
English court in favor of Sonora de Il
Beistegui against F. L. Gardner. The
mine in dispute is situated in Aus
salia.
The United States Steel Corporation
has given a contract for 5000 steel cars,
md the Chicago, Lake Shore and East
srn have ordered 3000 The combined
orders amount to approximately $10,-
100, 00O
Apostle B. H. Roberts of the Mormon
church announced in the Salt Lake
that the church still re-
aimed it's belief in polygamy although
lot practising it. President Smith and
lis counselors were present.
Mrs. Ayers, wife of Lieutenant Colo
lei Ayers, Z. S. A, has been refused
to visit her son at West
Point. The letter from the Secretary
# War is pronounced by her as too
insulting and despicable to be shown
,r quoted.
The revolt of the wine growers is
considerable apprehension in
he government circles in France. In
Tarbonne the mayor publicly hauled
Town the French flag as a sign that
| civil strike had begun. The condi-
ion of the wine growers is such that
government aid may be extended to
hem.
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