The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-06
TELEGRAPH BREVITIES.

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campbeIl-Bannerman is in poor
health.
Newark, N. j., has barred indecorous
posters.
Incoming liners at New York report
giant waves.
1t is reported that the Car will dis
member Finland.
| Nordica denies that she is to marry
New York banker.
| Nevada has passed a bill for estab-
| fishing a state police.
Hearst is forming organizations in
| Indiana to beat Bryan.
Ruefs chauffeur, necessary wit
ness, chas disappeared.
Goldfeld mine-owners have decided
for the open shop plan.
An extinct volcano has been found
in northwestern Nevada.
Spain is going to prohibit the ex-
portation of works of art.
New York's traffic was tied up by
the snowstorm of. Jan. "a.
The President may set aside a great
game preserve in Wyoming.
Chinese pirates, near Kiah Hsing Flu,
fired on a Japanese launch.
A son has been born TO Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM Randolph Hearst.
A cholera epidemic has followed the
feast of sacrifices at Mecca.
Ladies of the British aristocracy are
smoking cigarettes in public.
French Canadians are planning a
colony in the Canadian Northwest.
Eleven army officers have been ar
rested in Ecuador for conspiracy.
Bryan is believed to have control of
a majority of Democratic delegates.
The Cullinan diamond, given to King
Edward, will be cut in Amsterdam.
An American expedition in the Congo
has been beaten back by the natives.
The fertilization bill carries mil
lion for the defense of Puget Sound.
Ambassador Bryce's period of retire
ment has been extended three years.
Mayor Taylor, of San Francisco, is
to wed Miss Eunice Jeffers in Febru-
airy.
Col. L. L. Brownel, prominent Oak
land insurance man, has committed
suicide.
Toro valiente, Moorish chief of
bandits, has been killed and robbed by
villagers.
Warner Miller, formerly senator from
New York, has been bankrupted in a
mining deal.
The Earl Of Yarmouth may not con-
sent to divorce until he has been
paid a million.
Brutality and murder are charged
against the Illinois Institute for Feeble
Minded Children.
Many small telegraph offices in Wis
consin have been closed because OF the
new eight-hour law.
Caruso, the singer. lost $4,000 in the
failure of the New Amsterdam Nation
al bank in New York.
The unemployed are rushing into the
army Former records at, New York
are increased 300 per cent
The Pope refused to receive EXPIRES
| ident Alves of Brazil in audience, be-
cause he visited the King first.
A deranged daughter of General Tor
| rance of Chicago has left her wealthy
husband with a penniless Briton.
| Frank A. Vanderlip has succeeded
James Stillman as president OF the
National City Bank of New York.
Mrs Eddy has been quietly removed
to her new home in Brookline, sub
urb of Boston. She is very feeble.
The net earnings of the steel trust
| for the last three months of 1907 We're
/ $50, $50, 995; for the year $160,9S4,477
Employees of the United States Steel
corporation who took stock have re-
ceived an extra dividend of So per cent.
| An armed bandit held up the Ma
tional Hotel, at San Rafael, Cal, and
took money and jewelry. He shot one
guest.
Mrs. Mary Frances Reilly, who re-
1ected proposal of MARI age from
Abraham Lincoln in 1889, is dead,
aged s..
| At Atlanta, Madame Calve went IN
to a hotel barber shop to have her
| hair trimmed. She was watched by
a curious crowd.
| Former Bank Clerk Nordstrom, OF
Astoria, Or, bought a yacht with
stolen funds and was arrested while
cruising in Florida waters.