The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-16

vival.
Northern California has had heavy
rains
The Treadwell strike in Alaska has
been broken.
There are signs of another revolu-
| ton in Cuba.
Portugal may lease Delagoa bay to
| the Transvaal
Hartman plans a Union Pacific bond
issue of s10o,O0 900.
Missionary Bishop Thoburn has ask
| ed retirement for age.
A new 1900 ton vessel is being built
| for the Red Star line
The restoration of Stanford Memorial
church is soon to begin.
The father of Mrs. Howard Gould has
| died in an insane asylum.
Thaw may be set at liberty owing to
flaw in his commitment.
Calcutta police are investigating a
plot for a great uprising.
The Democratic delegates from
| Minnesota are for Johnson.
Fields in Carson river valley, Utah,
are being laid waste by mice.
The selling price of shingles is now
below the cost of manufacture.
The Kentucky Republican State con-
yention favored a great navy.
The San Francisco jury found TREY
L. Ford not guilty of bribery.
Gompers blames Speaker Cannon
for the failure of the labor bills.
The death of the Duke de Chaulnes
followed his visit to an opium club
The higher pay for the army in
creases the public outlay by $1,000 900,
Owing to the Patten-Bartlett corner
the price of corn is going up steadily.
Benjamin Ide Wheeler viii lecture
before the University of Berlin in
1909-10
Sailors of the fleet protest against
prices charged by the San Francisco
BARRIERS.
The winter in the Arctic has been
unusually stormy and there are heavy
ice drifts.
Railroads plan to advance freight
rates so as to enable them 10 escape
bankruptcy.
In the Senate Depew defended the
Forestry policy of Roosevelt and his
predecessors.
Secretary Metcalf plans position for
Evans in the Navy with the grade of
vice admiral.
Berlin was caused by further charges
of immortality.
On the day of the fleets arrival the
San Francisco trolley cars carried a
million people.
Veterinary surgeons are trying to
restore the sight of a rhinoceros at
the Bronx Zoo.
Evelyn Thaw has sued the Hotel
Knickerbocker for $4,000 damages
for ejecting her.
At the Methodist Conference at Bal
timore the Bishops decided to keep
the ban on theaters.
The closing of Mrs. Stanford's
estate releases $1,000, 900 to benefieiar-
les and the university.
The Republican State convention of
Utah declared for Roosevelt as first
and Taft as second choice.
Hetty Green has exchanged her SIS
per month fiat in Hoboken for SIS
day apartments at the Plaza hotel.
The San Francisco supervisors are
tired of paying rat catchers and want
the government to pay for the work.
The recent large fire in San Francis
co destroyed the buildings of the Blythe
estate near Market and Kearney SITS.
Hundreds of liquor saloons in Illi-
nois have been forced to suspend.
Stocks are being disposed of at bar
gain sales.
The President has recalled the order
transferring Col. VIM. F. Stewart, T.
s. A, to Florida. He will remain at
Fort Grant, Fla.
Commissioner Kilbey, western head
of the Salvation Army, has retired
from the command. fearing the col
lapse of his health.
The French and italian round-the-
world motor cars arrived at Toxic,
May l. They will leave within q few
days for Vladivostok Via Tsuruga.
Winston Churchilrs speeches at Dun
dee were stopped by an angry suffra-
gette who followed his automobile
about ringing a dinner bell whenever it
stopped for him to speak.
The London Times has been mulcted
in s37 900 damages for libel, by John
Murray, the publisher. whom the Times
had accused of extortion in selling the
letters of Queen Victoria at high
price.
A loaded five-inch shell, a relic OF
the Civil War, used as a fireplace orna-
ment at Armory hall, Riverside, the
other night exploded and severely in
jured three persons. one man and two
women. The walls and ceilings of the
hall were damaged.
A WiIkesbarre (Pa). despatch says:
Blackie. the only cat in the world
with a private fortune of $4,000. died
today, being chloroformed to end pain
when il was seen that its illness was
hopeless. Blackie and sister Pinkie,
were left $40. 900 by the late Benjamin
F. Dilley, the income to be used in
providing for them as long as they
lived.
President Roosevelt. in formal let
ter, notified Secretary Straus of the
Of Commerce and Labor
that he had reappointed him for an
other term of six wears as one Of the