The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-17

British troops are being poured int
Lahore in anticipation of grave troubl
i Public meetings of all kinds have bee
forbidden.
: Settlers near Billings, Montana. wi
!, be allowed to draw lots for 10000 acre
of government land to be opened up fc
settlement
John Mitchell, president of the Uni
ted mine workers of America. is dan
gerously i'll at the house of a frien
in Chicago.
Anti European riots are spreading i
India A church was recently burne
and pillaged near. Allahabad by
Hindu mob.
Lincoln ]. steffens, the graft-fghter
spoke before a mass meeting of Berk
eley students and advised them Il
study politics.
Mrs. Robert Burdette. of Los An
geles, had a fall in the street breaking
her arm She had just recovered from
| a serious illness
| Five japanese sailors were rescued
| from a wreck near Kodiak and taker
/ 10 lIGS were III d 1tHllSnGG
| condition when found.
| The Los Angeles flower festival this
year surpassed all former exhibitions
Thousands of visiting Shriners took
part in the procession.
Secretary Taft will speak definitely
on his political aspirations at the first
Republican convention to be held in
Oklahoma next month
Los Angeles may lose the National
Teachers Association because eastern
roads refuse to cooperate with the
western lines on rates.
The total losses paid by insurance
companies after the San Francisco
earthquake was $3.50, 100000 and wiped
out the profits of years.
The Russian woman who called her
self Princess Konva1insky, detained in
San Francisco on the Sierra, was al
lowed to sail f. Vancouver.
A worldwide Methodist brotherhood
is being planned for the promotion of
employment, saving-banks and old-age
pensions amongst Methodists.
Former Chief of Police John NJ. Col
Inns of Chicago and five other police
and city officials have been indicted by
the grand jury for corruption.
Former State Senator F. p Mays of
Oregon, implicated in the land frauds.
has been sentenced to pay $4,000 fine,
with four months imprisonment.
A wireless apparatus has been in
plete connection along the Pacific |
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Charles E. Halliwell, vice president |
If the American Tobacco Company, |
lied suddenly in New York of Apo
olexy. He left an estate of $40, 900, 900. |
The elimination of Senator Foraker
rom the Ohio presidential fight has
Unified factions and put new life into
he presidential contest with Taft
eading.
Motormen and conductors who oper-
ted cars during the first day of the
AN Francisco strike were showered II
With bouquets thrown by women by
tanders. Al
Gross frauds have been exposed in
onnection with the recent election of
directors in the New York Life IN
urance Company. Bogus ballots were
RELY used.
The American proposition to build a
abroad from Teheran to the Caspian
as been opposed by Russia, which has
iready spent $3,500,000 on a road bed
ween these points. ~ ,,zrd
Russian Social Democrats forbidden
D do so in Russia, Finland, Norway,
weden and Denmark, are holding a
difference in London at the Socialist
Tub in Whitechapel.
Captain J. Steedman, son of the late
tear Admiral Steedman, committed
uicide in Paris. He had been making
n automobile tour with Senator Aid.
ieh of Rhode Island. III
Hundreds of persons were injured
nd twenty-one killed by the explosion
gunpowder magazine in Canton.
he famous nine-story pagoda narrow
escaped destruction.
Fifteen sacks of high grade ore We're
ound in the cellar Of a man named
Wise in Tonapah, New, who said he
ad bought it. The case is being in
estigated by the police.
Harry Gray q thief, recently arrest
I in Seattle, has been coaching boys
| the art of stealing. He confessed
lat he had always been a thief him.
Elf and could not reform.
The Pacific Mail will sell the island
.aos, in the bay of Panama, to the Q
nited States. After the completion of
he canal it will be used as a quaran-
ne and immigrant station.
Signor FREDERICK Mariani of New
ork, who married a daughter of
ayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland, I
as been deserted by his bride. They
ad been married but six weeks. q
Ernest Filler, of Chicago, who wished I
} write story on prison life, broke
window, expecting to be sent to Jail
II few hours. He was sentenced
II four months with hard labor
The Santa Cruz Promotion Company
e making two weeks tour Of Cali \
rnia. Forty prominent business men
e in the party and they have with
em the Third Artillery band, u. S. A.
Edward NJ. Edison, a negro, who at
-cked Miss Dorothy Paris of Wood
lry, New York, was arrested within
genty-four hours and sentenced to
Velve years imprisonment with a fine
$1,000.