The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-18
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Lord Clancarty IS reported engaged
to Mrs. Marcus, a wealthy American
widow.
The English House of Commons has
passed the old age pension bill at third
reading.
Hearst has opened a broadside ON
Bryan and the Democratic platform in
his papers.
Rebels in Honduras have captured
the town of Choluteca,- after a three
days fight.
The American Consul at Smyrna is
investigating reported unlawful arrests
of Americans
Elizabeth, wife of Duke Johann AL
| breeht, regent of the duchy of Bruins
wick, is dead.
The United Fruit Company, known as
the Fruit Trust, has increased it's capt.
tai by $5,O00,o00
On account of the low water in the
San Joaquin River, fish are perishing
| by the thousand.
Antonio Felix, detective, is under
sentence of death in the City of Mex
leo for kidnapping.
London editors see little difference
between the Republican and Democra-
tic platforms in principle.
President Joseph Smith of the Nor
mon Church and John A. Smith are
making a tour of California.
A Taft and Sherman club with a
membership of over a thousand has
been formed at Stockton, Cal
The financial stringency has caused
many of Chicago's rich people to re-
main at home during this season.
Cleveland s estate goes to his widow
after the establishment of a fund of
$4,000 for each of his four children.
The business portions of Grand
Forks, B. c., and of Springdale, Wash
ington, have been wiped out by fire.
An uprising of Navajos in Arizona
has been the cause of sending troops
from Bisbee and Flagstaff to the scene.
Successful tests of a new flying ma.
chine invented by G. H. Curtiss, at
Hammondsport, New York, have been
made.
Captain Robertson of the U. s.
cruiser Tennessee was married to Mrs.
Juliette Graham Bixbee in Los Angeles
on July 9.
David Mcgowan, noted pioneer of
California and a native of Kentucky |
died in Sacramento at the age of |
eighty-nine.
President Ripley of the Atchison, To
peka and Santa Fe railroads thinks that |
freight rates must be raised or the en-
ployes salaries cut.
The catch Of Quinault salmon this |
season was the greatest ever known. |
The catch was made by the Indians |
and they received $3.50
Full publicity as to the source of |
Republican National campaign funds |
has been decidad>upon. by the managers
of the Republican campaign.
Detectives frustrated an attempt to
hold up and rob a Burlington passen-
ger train near Alliance, Nebraska. The |
train carried 100000 in gold bullion.
Cheers for Roosevelt and Kisses for
Bryan followed a speech by Thomas
Populist candidate for Presi-
dent, in Atlanta, Georgia, recently.
Twenty-Five bookmakers at the race
tracks of New York are under indiet-
ment under the new anti gambling
law.
An attempt to rob the store of A,
Anixter, jeweler in San Francisco, was
made in broad daylight at the point
IF pistol. Anixter IS yells brought
help.
Secretary of the Interior Garfield
was in Oregon lately, inspecting the
irrigation project. He will
insist on actual residence of home
steaders.
Thirty students of the class in engi-
leering of the University of California
had to return from the field to their
homes. They were affected with oak
poisoning.
President Roosevelt has been invited
o be the guest of the Arctic Brother
rood at the Alaska Yukon Exposition.
The invitation is engrossed on a white
'aribou skin.
A petition asking for the disbarment
If Judge Frank II. Dunno of the San
Francisco Superior Court has been
lied. The action against the jurist
,rew out of the Schmitz prosecution.
The "Tiger Mahatma,' who with
lis lectures on his creed created
urore in New York last year, is in jail
n London for being too friendly with
women who replied to his advertise
nents.
Six young ladies from Montana are
n San Francisco on their way to Japan
Is the guests of Montana newspapers,
nd won their trip on a popularity
Contest.
san FRANCISCO is trying TO secure the
rade in supplies for the Panama
ANAL The Pacific Mail steamship
company has promised its support to
he proposition.
Americans at Mukden claim that they
re Disseminated against by the jap
nese authorities on the railroad. Jap
nese merchants get rebates on freight
hat the foreigners can not figure on.
Robert Munger, who swallowed his
alse teeth in Los Angeles recently,
Yearly strangled while a crowd looked
n thinking his contortions were the
ctions of a patent medicine man to
ttract attention.
Eugene w. Leake, Democratic con-
ressman for the Ninth District of New
ersey, has bolted the Democratic par
Y for Taft Leake says he can neither
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