The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-31
From the lies

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The British old-age pension bill
| seems likely to become a law.
John Considine, former leader OF
Nevada Democrats, died at Reno.
/ The University of Utah has made a
rule barring teachers or students at
ficted with tuberculosis.
The Republican National Committee
has decided TO establish its campaign
headquarters IN Chicago.
Mrs. Teagle, wife of a Standard Oil
magnate, who shot herself at Pasa.
dena, died of her wounds
Mrs. o. G. Dustin of Lodi, Cal, pour
ed oil on her head and set fire to it.
Inc flames were extinguished.
The arrival of the first Western Pa
eific train at Haywards, Cal, was the
signal for a big demonstration.
The health of Merry del Val, the
PapaI Secretary of State, has become
somewhat impaired by hard work.
| Bandits held up stage near Al
! turas, California, and secured the Wells
Fargo strong box containing $28, 900.
The Great Lakes are higher by sew
eral inches than the average level for
this time of year for the last decade
The Illinois Central Railroad has an
nouneed that it viii not serve liquor
on its dining ears south of the Ohio
River
All former records were broken
when sixty-one carloads Of fresh fruit
were shipped east from Sacramento,
July p.
1t is announced that the King of
Sweden will make an official visit TO
England and France in October and
November.
Citizens of Selma, Cal, are making
things hot for the Chinese and are
endeavoring to GUST them from the
neighborhood.
Chicago boosters are disappointed
because the school census fails to show
that the city has the hoped for 2,00o,-
600 population.
Lee Chit, Chinese who was as
sassinated in Philadelphia, left sum
of money by his win for the erection
of a Chinese Baptist church.
The story has been brought to Eng
land that the passengers and crew of
the wrecked steamer Vile de Bruges,
were eaten by natives of the Congo.
General 0sman Pasha. commander Of
the Turkish forces at Monastir, was
assassinated in the barracks. He was
not the Osman Pasha of Plevna fame.
The records Of the immigration de-
partment show that as compared with
a year ago the arrivals of japanese
in American ports during June have
greatly fallen off.
The scandal at the Whittier Zeal.
Reform School becomes more nasty as
detailed evidence is brought out. Many
of the employees are said to be guilty
of gross misconduct.
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Steel Company was shut down, prob.
steel circles. Over 1000 men are
thrown out of work.
At meeting of the Atlanta Baptist
Ministers Association held in Atlanta,
Ga, recently, the name of Rockefeller
and what he had done for the denomi.
nation, were vigorously applauded.
Albert Spencer, an American, who |
had lived MANY years in Paris. directed
in his will that his body should be
cremated and that the ashes should /
by no means be taken to America.
Workmen have discovered a weak |
ened pier in the basement Of the PhiIa- |
delphia city hall, directly under the /
seven-story wall, which threatens to
collapse. Every pier in the sS0,0oG,oo0 /
building will be overhauled.
Cardinal Rampolla, former Papal I
Secretary of State, has gone TO Swift
erland for his health. This is the first i
time during a residence of twenty I
years in Rome that he has left the |
confines Of the Holy City.
Rev. DIR. Artemus Haines, pastor of
the Congregationalist United church,
was drowned while fishing. Two years
ago Dr. Haines took strong ground
ba of O 1
100000 gift, giving rise to the
:" tainted money; phrase.
A New York syndicate has under
taken to dispose of $18,G00,000 of Cen
trail Pacific bonds, the unsold portion
of an issue of S100,0o0,000. The pro-
ceeds will be used to pay off the float
ing indebtedness of the company and
to supply the >road with working eapi-
tai.
John Center died in San Francisco
recently. He was known as the
:. Father of the Mission He came
TO San Francisco in 1S49 and cultivat.
ed garden truck in the part of San
Francisco known as the mission, and
acquired large holdings of land in that
district.
Cashier Walker of the New Britain
Savings bank, who defaulted more
than a year ago, was brought out of
Mexico to San Diego and then rushed
across the continent to his former
home. He says he has none of the
money which he stole from the bank,
having lost it in speculation.
Supreme Court Justice Morschauser
IF Poughkeepsie has made permanent
an injunction : astraining the Improv-
I'd Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks of the World from using its pres
ent name and title. The order is com
posed of colored men, having lodges in
and other cities.
Vespasian Warner. United States
Pensioa Commissioner, has paid $780,,
200 on a Judgment Of $250,000 against
aim as executor of his fathers will,
% his father s widow, and $4,000 to
his step-sister. He refused to pay
hese requests on the ground that
he window had used undue infiu
ence on his father to persuade him to