The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-26

canvas canoe.
Moscow is going to have bullfgh
spectacles.
The Portuguese budget shows a re
duced deficit.
Live TEDDY bears" are the lates
London craze
The highest court Of Prussia declares
cremation illegal
/ The battleship feet Will spend six
weeks in Australia.
There is a large consumption OF
/ horsemeat in Paris.
! Natural gas has been discovered in
/ Churchill county. New.
/ French artillery is playing havoc
/ with tTibesmen in Algeria.
/ There We're very few desertions from
! the fleet at San Francisco.
/ The hop industry of England is clam
oring for a heavy duty on hops
The general elections in Japan gave
the government a large majority
King Edward may honor the future
husband of Jean Reid with title
Six women in chains are said TO be
Iamong the political prisoners of Russia.
The Alabama primaries declared for
Bryan over Johnson by a great ma
jority
THE" Allen, the notorious New York
dance hall keeper, left an estate of
$500 600.
Prof. Wyckoff of Princeton, is dead
He began his active life as a day
laborer
Hugo Toland, actor. clubman, and
onetime society favorite of San Fran
cisco, is dead.
An outbreak of cholera is interfer-
Al.
Indian frotier.
Three-quarters of million names are
on the petition to Parliament against
the licensing bill.
Chicago labor men are taking part
friendly caPdidates.
The British Admiralty has stopped
night maneuvers of the fleet, owing
to the many accidents.
London society is preparing to enter
tain the Countess Szechenyi formerly
Gladys Vanderbilt) on a great scale.
Ex-Gov. Jennings of Florida at
tackled Congressman Frank Clark with
a cane, Clark having called him
CRATER. Friends separated them.
Madam Gould and the Prince de
Sagan are engaged, but fear to wed.
A clause in Jay Gould's will reduces
the share of each child one-half if he
or she marries without the assent of
the executors. Another danger is that
Boni will make a new fight to get the
children.
The French force under General Vigy
lost thirteen men killed and sixty-fve
wounded during a fierce engagement
with the fanatical Arabs. The en-
gagement lasted the greater part of a
day and Boudenib. the stronghold Of
Mulai Haszen, was bombarded. Three
officers are among the French killed.
The Arab losses are described as
heavy.
Vital statistics for the year 1907 show
a further marked decrease in the birth
has fallen from 100, 900 to 774,000 a
year. The reduction in the number of
births last year was $4,000 as against
an average decrease of 1900 for the
last seven years. The deaths in France
in 1907 totaled 793, 000-19, GOO more than
the total of births.
Whittier orange growers are harvest
ing the largest '.off- bloom crop ever
grown, and will realize very high
prices and a fine profit. This crop,
will make this year about twenty-five
carloads and is two months later than
the regular picking, development hav-
ing been exceedingly slow.
Convinced that he was not welcome
at the home of either of his two sons
in Santa Clara, aged Julius Marquardt
arranged for the burial of his body
and then went to San ~ose and re-
tired to the basement of the German
Lutheran church, locked the doors and
shot himself three times with re-
volver. None of the wounds produced
instant death.
The Republican tariff program is for
maximum and a minimum tariff,
putting us on an equality with France,
Germany and Russia, and We will go
out with that tariff as we did with the
Dingley tariff, in the firm belief that
we will bring renewed prosperity to
the people of the United States, that
will broaden our markets with the ma
tons of the world and that will bring
blessings to all the people"
John w. Gates has sued John h.
Madden in the United States Circuit
Court for $7,472, 500 alleged to be due
for stocks which Gates says he bought
for Madden. The two, who were good
friends until lately, now speak of each
other with anger. The horseman. who
was served with the papers at the race
track today, said that if Gates could
secure this sum from him by process of
law bunco-steering ought to be legal
lied here.
NJ. Armengaud, clever French
engineer and scientist, who for years
has been experimenting with an inven-
ton known as the ''telespectorscope
or "telephote,' intended TO extend the
range of human vision to extraordfn-
airy distances, says that he has so far
perfected his apparatus that he can
now foretell that the time is not far
distant when a man sitting in Paris or
London will be able to see what is go
ing on in New York
President Roosevelt has approved
new general order which will be issued
to the army in few weeks describing
a new riding test for officers. when
will be held in accordance with the
Presidents former orders for thirty |
miles ride for three consecutive days |
The new order recites that the purpose |
Of the test is to render it necessary for