The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-11-23
WORLDS NEWS IN BRIEF

Tor president.
| A campaign Of education in German,
| to educate Berlin up TO accepting tn
i sky-scraper, is in progress.
| The American Federation of Labo
/ asks for a parcels post system as
relief from express monopoly
The latest story concerning President
Roosevelt's leaning as to a successor
is that he leans toward Cortelyou.
The Rock Island road announces
that it will accept the two-cent rate
prescribed by the Oklahoma constitu-
ton.
Mrs. Dominic Barratto and five chill
dren all under five years of age travel
cd from Tacoma to New York on one
fare.
The picturesque twenty-mule team OF
Death-Valley Borax mines will shortly
be supplanted by a unique cable loco
motive.
James D. Phelan of San Francisco
has borrowed 100000 with which to
rebuild buildings destroyed by earth
quake and fire.
A woman about ten miles from Col
umbia, Louisiana, was killed and de-
voured by panther while on her way
TO visit a neighbor.
The plans for the merger of the two
biggest rubber goods manufacturing
concerns in the country, are said to
have fallen through.
The Board of Missions of the Meth
odist church in session at Seattle ap-
propriated S1,032, 600 for the support of
foreign missions for the year.
~,
board of Telluride, Colorado, has been
sentenced to thirty-three years i'm
prisonment for embezzling school
funds
The Standard Oil Company has de-
clared its regular quarterly dividend
of SO a share payable two days be-
fore Thanksgiving. The total dividend
is $2.476,9 20.
The Salvation Army will soon own
several steamships which it will use
in transatlantic traffic in connection
with the arny's scheme for promoting
Canadian immigration.
Charles Barney, President of the
Knickerbocker Trust Company, who
committed suicide, calmly arranged his
business affairs and made his will aft
er firing the shot that gave him his
mortal wound.
The third Russian Duna was OPEN
ed in st. Petersburg, November IA.
There was little interest in it, The
Social Democrats remained in the COM
n1ittee room during the reading of the
Emperor's greetings.
James w. Ellsworth, a millionaire.
has offered the town of Hudson, Ohio,
sewer system if it will bar from its
limits for fifty years all Intoxicating
liquors except beer.
The Union Pacific has declared a
quarterly dividend of two and a half
per cent on the common stock. The
Southern Pacific has declared a semi
annual dividend of three and a half
per cent on the preferred.
The American Mining Congress, in
session at Joplin, Missouri, adopted
favoring national legisla-
ton governing mining lands, and to
prevent the speculative requirement
of large areas of the national domain.
San Francisco is the only large city
in the Union which has no National
Guard organization. Adjutant General
Lauck of the State is seeking to
remedy the lack. He says he believes
union labor men will enlist
Ensign Charles Ullmo of the French
Navy has confessed that he attempted
to sell naval secrets to a foreign pow
ar. ut is believed he did it because he
had ruined himself through his infat-
uation for a woman locally known as
La Belle Lison."
Nora May. French poetess and au-
thor, the writer of 1.-THE Confessions
of a Telephone Girl" now being feat
ured in the Saturday Evening Post,
committed suicide by taking cyanide
of potassium at the bungalow of the
poet, George F. Sterling, at Carmel
by-the-sea, on November IA.
Senator Beveridge will Introduce a
resolution in the Senate providing for
the appointment of commission to
the tariff. as a means of
the tariff issue until after
he Presidential election. President
Roosevelt may recommend such a
commission in his message to Con- |
gress.
Chairman Tom Taggart. of the Ma |
tional Democratic Committee, has call !
ed a meeting of the committee at |
French Lick Springs, Indiana, to con-
slider the time and place for holding |
the next National Democratic Con- |
yention, Chicago, Louisville. Cincin- |
natl, St. Louis, Milwaukee and Attain |
tic City are all applicants for the con-
vention
Judge Van Fleet in San Francisco |
las decided that the Williamsburg |
City Insurance Company which had /
he earthquake clause in its policies. |
must pay the policies, nevertheless.
lnless the earthquake caused the fire |
IN the insured premises. If the fire |
spread to the insured premises. though |
,aused by earthquake elsewhere, the |
company must pay.
1t was reported that the marriage
# Ensign Victor Fl. Metcalf Jr., of the |
Navy, son of Secretary Metcalf of the |
NavA Department, and Miss Marie |
Buffers of Alta Vista, Piedmont, would |
lot take place because ensigns were
lot allowed to marry. This, however,
S Indignantly denied both by Miss |
Buffers and her mother, who allege /
hat ensigns are being married every /
lay, and that a brother of Victor, who |
5 also an ensign, was only recently |