The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-24
WORLDS NEWS FROM
LATEST COAST FILES
Nevada fears fuel famine.

nicipal buildings TO cost $1,000, 600.
The Equitable Life Insurance Co. viii
sell its block on Broadway for &c.
$1,000.
While in Washington, General Kuroki
visited Mt. Vernon on the naval yacht
Mayf1ower
The National Congress of Mothers
has just held its tenth annual session
in Los Angeles.
Tea shipments to the United states
from japan this year, will exceed those
of any preceding year.
Two men were drowned at Venice
near Los Angeles in the presence of a
crowd of 10000 people.
The big debt or Venezuela to Ger
many, Great Britain. and Italy will be
wiped out by July 1st.
Edward K. Emery, distinguished as
sculptor of animals, died at his home
in Washington, aged "a.
Brig.-General O. B. Wilcox. formerly
governor of the Soldiers Home at
Washington, is dead, aged SO.
The powers do not view with appro-
val the establishment of diplomatic re-
lations between Japan and Turkey.
Corey, the millionaire who recently
married an actress, has forbidden men,
ton of his first wife in his hearing.
Maxim Gorky has arrived in London
to confer with Russian Social demo-
Gratis in conference at whitechapel.
In April, 1894 immigrants arrived
from Europe at Castle Garden, which
will be beaten by the record for May.
One hundred thousand masons and
bricklayers in Berlin who demanded an
eight hour day have been locked out.
Harriet Eastman, a college student.
was the first person to ride on san
Francisco car operated by strikA-break-
erS.
Ninety men are supposed to have per-
ished in a Mexican copper mine from
which thirty-five bodies have been re-
covered.
Mrs. Fanny White of San Francisco
has asked for a divorce because her
husband is "grouchy, sullen and I'M
affectionate."
The wreck of the Adelaide. which has
lain at the bottom of the harbor at
San Pedro for twenty-five years, has
been removed.
The body of Arthur McEwen, chief
editorial writer for the New York
America, was cremated at Fresh
Pond, Long Island.
Foraker announces that he will not
be bound by the action of the Ohio
State Central Committee in it's prob
able Endorsement of Taft for President
Schwab, the steel magnate, is tired
of living in his big New York house
and has offered it for sale. 1t cost, with
its furnishings. $350o,OOO.
The Western Pacific Railroad expects
to have trains running this year. A
trestle 1900 feet long over the American
river has been completed.
William A. Newcome of San Fran
cisco has been appointed attache to
the American Delegation to the Peace
at The Hague.
Walter Macarthur, a San Francisco
labor leader, has forbidden the use of
his name on strikers circulars which,
he said, were anarchistic.
Frauds by which valuable coal and
timber lands in Colorado have passed
INTO the hands of capitalists and syn
1icates will be investigated.
1t is said that King Edwards offer to
stand godfather for the heir to the
Spanish throne was declined. Pope Plus
having already been named.
Colonel Goethals has cabled Secretary
Taft that railroad and steam shovel
I'd the wage-scale proposed by him.
Fl. Clay Pierce of ST. Louis, the oil
magnate. has been taken to Texas to
answer to charges ofsperjury and false
swearing in connection with an oil
trust.
A letter to his mother. found in his
room at the hotel, in which he con-
fessed that he was living on bogus
checks, led to the arrest of A. NJ. Brun-
ner in Denver.
Marquis Ito has rebuked Japan for
It's selfish policy toward Korea and has
Urged the government to further the
interests of other countries, beside
Japan, in that land.
Mrs. Houser. wife of Daniel Houser,
publisher of the st. Louis Globe DEM
1crat, committed suicide by shooting
lerself in the temple. She was i'll with
nervous prostration.
The parole of ]. ]. Murphy, serving
sentence at San Quentin for the murder
If Patrick Ryan eighteen years ago,
s being opposed by friends and rela-
ives of the murdered man.
The New York Court of Appeals sus-
aims an attack upon the title of G. d. |
Mcclellan as Mayor of New York in |
,ehalf of William r. Hearst. The |
Hearst cause has now won in all /
ourts.
Max Coster, who claims to be
lieutenant in the German army, and
avs that he came to the United States
o marry an heiress, has been arrested
n New York for defrauding hotel
eepers. He was arrested at the Hol-