The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-11
NEWS COMBINATIONS
FROM COAST FILES

| viscount Some is to relieve Prince
Ito in Korea.
The Southern Pacific has closed its
shops in Los Angeles without notice.
Mary Mannering, the actress, is su-
! ing her husband, James Haekett, for
divorce.
A million dollars in Nome gold has
been brought down by the S. s. North,
western.
The late Grover Cleveland has left
large estate, the bulk of which will
go to his widow.
"Bogie'' 0 'Donnell, one the bad
men of old San Francisco, is dead of
| excessive alcoholism.
Over 100000 has so far been paid
as the American royalties on 1.-The
Merry Widow" opera.
The gunboat Buffalo has arrived at
San Francisco with seven hundred re
cruits for the battleship fleet.
Fire control systems are to be in,
stalled at Mare Island on the cruiser
South Dakota and California.
The Russian Car is taking steps to
rid the government payrolls of the
names of eight Grand Dukes.
Blueiackets from the battleships
turned out to help the San Francisco
fire men fight blaze on July 4.
The Venezuelan courts have ordered
the American asphalt company there to
pay fine of FIVE million dollars.
Sunnyside. New Mexico. was destroy
ed by a cyclone on July 8. Five per
sons were killed and forty injured.
Joel Chandler Harris, the author of
the "Uncle Remus' stories, died at
his home al Atlanta, Georgia, on July 3.
Altenheim, German institution for
old people, at Oakland, was burned
down. The eighty-fve inmates escaped.
An inch of rain fell in twenty min
utes in FL PasO. Texas, on July 3. This
was the heaviest rainfall in twenty
years.
Five hundred and ffty-six Chinese of
all classes were admitted to the United
States in April last and fifty three were
deported.
An earthquake shock, extending
through Southern California and into
Mexico, was felt on July 2. No dam
age was done.
Robbers in Portland, Oregon, muir
dered H. G. Richards and threw his
body, weighted with rocks, into the
Columbia river.
A lone robber help up the stage at
Tillamook, Oregon. He forced one of
the passengers to search the others and
took the registered mail
The Federal Grand Jury in Chicago
has returned indictments against
score of wildcat mining promoters for
fraudulent use of the mails.
A nephew of Federal Judge Lands,
who fined the Standard Oil Company
500, 100000 has been arrested in Los
Angeles, charged with swindling.
The river steamer Suisun was burned
in the Oakland harbor, the fire origi
mating from broken lamp in the cabin,
which ignited the gasolene cargo.
The presentation of folding organ
to each of the vessels of the Atlantic
battleship fleet has been made by Peter
F. Bilhorn, gospel singer and hymn
writer of Chicago.
In carnival at Reno, Nevada, on
June 3, a celebrater objected to being
struck in fun by masked woman. The
woman 5 escort struck him with his
fist on the jaw, killing him.
According to adviees from Mexico
there is trouble brewing among the
Central American republics. Salvador
and Guatemala. it is reported, are to
align themselves against Nicaragua and
Honduras. Zelaya, of Nicaragua, and
Cabrera, of Guatemala, are each ambi-
tious to become dictator of united
Central America.