The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-26
THE NEWS Of THE WORLD
BOILED DOWN To BARE FACTS

Ice Is clearing from the Yukon river
Admiral Evans is again in Washing
ton.
An opal deposit has been found il
Nevada.
The Chilean Bishop of Santiago il
very i'll.
The revolt in Southern China is be
coming serious.
Mrs Miner has resumed her forme
name of Yerkes.
Typhoid fever has killed 200 Russian
prisoners at Kiev.
E. H. Hartman believes that a return
of prosperity is near.
Elfie Fay, the actress, is to marry &
Cuban named Piettri.
Frank a. Munsey is to start a new
paper in Philadelphia
PoIard's Lilliputians are scoring q
success in San Francisco.
California prisons are overcrowded
and a third one is needed.
Thousands of people greeted the tor
pedo fotilla at Sacramento.
The Chinese rebels are commanded
by officers trained in Japan.
The Santa Fee system will grow euca-
lyptus near San Diego for ties.
John w. Gates $500, 900 mansion in
Chicago is to be sold at auction.
Five sailors of the fleet had a SO a
plate banquet at the ST. Francis.
Several Guatemalan officers have
been executed by order of Cabrera.
Five hundred swarms of bees have
been shipped from California to Utah
Water-cure treatment is to be tried
in California asylums for the insane
Irish and Scotch recruitage in the
British Army is now at it's lowest
point.
The adjournment of Congress is like
ly to take place about the end of this
month
THE" Allen, known a generation ago
as the wickedest man in New York,
is dead.
The Ameer of Afghanistan has
promised England to prevent invasion
of India.
On May u, wind at Point Reyes, Cal,
attained velocity of ninety-two miles
an hour.
In a pistol duel near Freeport, Cal,
an orchardist and an employee killed
each other.
The first steamer leaving the Ia
mana district of Alaska carried $780,
600 in gold.
tracted his structures on the Russian
finance minister.
The Taft victory in Kentucky is
likely to drive Fairbanks out of the
presidential race.
The Wright airship, on the coast of
North Carolina, made a successful
flight. of three miles.
The thefts and frauds of the cashier
Of the Allegheny National bank amount
to s1.250,000 or more.
Vancouver officials have seized an
boat caught fishing within
the three-mile limit.
Prince Philip zu Gutenberg is in the
prison charity hospital at Berlin, a
sick and broken man.
Since the passage of the Hepburn
bill the railroads are making efforts to
settle claims promptly.
Richard Cookers daughter refuses to
wed a foreigner and has rejected the
offer of an Italian prince.
French condemn the arrogance of
President Castro and want the United
States to invade Venezuela.
The armored cruiser South Dakota
IS the fastest of her class. On trial
trip her speed was 22.36 knots.
The Russian volunteer fleet service
between Libau and New York may be
for lack of funds.
A call of the House of Representa-
-ives took forty members away from
4 reception by Mrs. Roosevelt.
The powers are going to recall their
forces from Crete, where peace has
oeen preserved for eleven years.
The estate of Mrs. Howard Gould's
insane father, goes to the widow. He
caves his daughters dollar each.
There is not member of the Loyal
Legion now connected with the Allan.
lie fleet, Evans having been the last.
A daughter of Tom L. Johnson, who
married an italian, year or more
ago, is seeking a divorce, alleging
cruelty.
The life of the City Attorney of
Wash, has been threat
4ned because of his activity against
gambling.
A saloonkeeper at Virden, ILL.,, struck
A Prohibition preacher in the street
and was knocked down twice by the
y. bdIZSll bIONAIs 1oA AAAoAiAS -
If the California Safe Deposit & Trust
Co., is in San Quentin. the cellmate Of
murderer.
Overcome by loneliness at Dandy,
Cal. a desert telegraph station, Caro-
line Tibbetts, woman operator, took
her own life.
Fort Crook, Omaha, in the path OF a
ornado, was severely damaged by the
Wind The army post was harmed
100, 900 worth.
Martin Gilbert of Nevada, coxswain
# the gunboat Yorktown, when Evans
it in Chilean waters, greet
d his old commander at Reno.
Republican leaders at Washington
ire making extraordinary efforts to
remove opposition to Taft SO that he
nay be nominated on the first ballot.
At the request of the President, Alice
-.ongworth has reconsidered her pur-
pose to go on the Ohio stump to debate
With the socialist Countess of War
wick.
Charles E. Bamford, a graduate of
West Point, who resigned from the
army in 1906, shot and killed himself
n Washington. Melancholia is the