The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-13
Telegraph Briefs
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The excessively wet weather ruined
large part of the Kentish hop crop.
Millionaire Sheriff Chanler has cut
of all the special privileges of Harry
Thaw.
Harry Thaw denies that he intends
TO apply for a divorce from Evelyn
Nesbitt Thaw.
Seattle thugs after robbing a man
stripped him of his clothes and tied a
sack over his head.
The town of Rawhide was swept by
a disastrous fire on September 8, the
loss reaching s75O,O00.
Five masked men dynamited the safe
Of the Provisional Bank of Ste. Eus-
taehe, Canada, and secured $4,000.
The Grand Army of the Republic has
decided not to make further demands
ON Congress for at least three years.
Alexander Troup, Democratic nation
al committeeman from Connecticut, and
editor of the New Haven Union, is
dead.
General Otis, editor of the Los An
geles Times, underwent an operation at
the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore,
for bladder trouble.
Pedro Alvarado, the multimillionaire
mine owner of Mexico, who once offer
ed to pay off Mexieo's national debt,
Is said to be in financial straits.
A shortage of more than 100000
has been disclosed in the Havana post
Office, and Ricardo Rodriguez, chief of
the bureau of supply, has disappeared
After falling a distance of 500 feet
from a balloon, .Aeronaut Charles Oil
yer Jones lived an hour and half.
He made his fatal ascension at Water
vile, Me.
When Taft caught big bass in
Lake Erie recently, the act was re-
corded by a dozen cameras and the
event was marked by the discharge of
a cannon.
Samuel Newsom, well-known arehi-
teet of San Francisco, who planned
many world fair buildings, died of
apoplexy aboard a San Francisco bay
ferryboat.
T.. A. s. Blake was indicted at San
Francisco for endeavoring to bribg
talesman Kelley in the Ruef case.
Blake was fleeing the city when caught
by the police.
The Danish Wagnerian tenor Herr
Cornelius has been engaged for the
next three seasons at the Metropolitan
Opera House, New York, at a salary
of 81 800 yearly.
A Carnegie medal has been awarded
Marjorie Post, an eleven-year-old girl,
of Iowa City, Iowa, who leaped into
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Hayes last summer.
r. Mandel, the millionaire merchant
of Chicago, partner in Mandel Brothers
store, died at Basic, Switzerland, as
result of injuries received by falling
while alighting from a train.
Gossan, a Calcutta native, who was
arrested with thirty others for COM
plicity in the recent Bombay outrages,
and then turned states evidence, was
killed by his fellow prisoners in his
cell.
The Mayor of Olympia, Washington,
who conducts two cigar stores, was
arrested and fined for selling cigarettes
in eontravention to the Bylerly anti
cigarette law passed by the last Leg
islature.
new. L. harteT, pastor OF the Onlteu
Brethren church of Sacramento, re-
fused at the last minute to wed a
couple in the Hons den of the State
fair, owing TO storm of protests from
other pastors.
Col. F. A. Wall of Salt Lake City
rewarded Robert Baird, hotel clerk at
the Virginia, for rescuing his daughter,
and Mrs. Lindsay Rogers and daughter,
at Long Beach, by giving him a check
for $1,000. They were caught in the
surf at the beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. William A. Jordan
were arrested at Albuquerque while
riding in a box car, Mrs. Jordan wear
ing male apparel. They are magazine
winters who have been South, and be-
ing without funds adopted this means
OF returning to their home in Cali
Hetty Green, Americas richest wo-
nan, says that women have helped
ake hard times, because they think
nothing but clothes and the very
t<s< shnpes in skirts. She says they
AN none too particular how they get
+AsT SAINT Hpr who pays for il.