The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-30

divorce, denies all charges brought
against him. He admits his associa
| ton with the woman, and that he paiC
| her large sums of money to recover
| his letters, but denies that he ever
=, married her,
/ William Buwalda, private in the
| L, S. Army, has been sentenced tC
| five years Imprisonment for attending
| an anarchist meeting in San francisco
| and shaking hands with the notoriou.
Emma Goldman. He will serve his
| term at Alcatraz.
| Fifty per cent. of the students 81
| Stanford University We're absent from
| the graduating exercises which oc-
Cured on May 20, as a result of tbs
| differences which have recently DC.
| CURED between the president and the
| undergraduates
"Rapid-fire eating has been pro hi
bited at the Soldiers Home in San
Monica. forty bite order" in the
| interests of thorough mastication, has
| been issued, and there has been al
ready marked Improvement in the
health of the inmates.
A plan to aid aged priests has been
discountenanced by the Pope. The
decision grew out of an effort of
French Catholics to take over pension
funds equivalent to 100000, which il
was made known would be accepted
as pious foundations for masses.
Half a business block in San Fran
cisco was burned, involving a loss of
$4,000 The blaze is supposed to have
been started by James Byrnes, a
steamboat hand, who boarded at the
Harbor Hotel and who dropped a
lighted cigarette amongst his bed
clothes.
The United States court in San
Francisco is trying to decide whether
the cargo of the steamer Empire,
which sailed from that port to South
American ports and had no manifest,
was cheese or guns. Both were found
in the cargo, the latter in suspicious
numbers.
Edward Newell. "a prominent travel
ing salesman for the Cudahy Packing
Co. of San Francisco disappeared af-
ter a recent visit to that place. 1t is
thought that he met with foul play
shortly after his arrival, or fell over
board from the steamer by which he
was returning to the city.
William Ellis Corey of the Steel
Trust, who was divorced by his wife
and married New York actress, has
been received by the best people in
Paris. Amongst those recently pre-
scented to Mrs. Corey, at one of the
most exclusive clubs, was the Grand
Duke Cyril, a cousin of the Car.
Lieutenant Fonzeca, an officer of the
Brazilian Army. while making an ex-
perimenta1 ascension in a balloon at
Rio Janeiro, in the presence of the
Minister of War and the officers of
the military school, was instantly kill
ed. The balloon, after ascending to q
height of 5000 feet, suddenly collapsed.
Governor Hughes of New York was
forced to decline an invitation to at
tend a Baptist Convention in Okla
homa presided over by President Har-
ry Pratt Jordan, of Chicago Univer-
sity, on the ground. of pressure of
executive work. Nearly 800 delegates
and 1000 visitors were present at the
Joseph A. Sullivan, a stockholder in
the san Francisco United Railways
Co, is trying to recover $1,000 paid
to Abe Ruef in brides. He does not
seek to recover his portion of the fund,
personally, but asks that the entire
sum, with the costs of the suit, be
paid into the treasury of the United
Railroads.
Robert w. Fullerton. son of st.
Louis millionaire, who was indicted in
New York for the abduction of Gladys
Hobart and was TO be sent east from
Seattle on requisition, was temporarily
released owing to a flaw in the war
rant upon which he was arrested. AS
he left the court he was rearrested as
a fugitive from justice and a fresh
requisition will be issued.
Miss Alice Berham, of the Cornell
College of Arts and Sciences. has
been awarded the Guidford prize for
the best essay submitted in COMPETE
ton. Her subject was Men and the
Muses. She won the Barnes Shakes
peare prize last year for the best
poem, and has made the four years
course in three years. Her record has
been exceptionally brilliant.
William II. Marsh of Brooklyn. who
was bitten by a rabid dog, applied
at the Pasteur Institute in New York
was too late. He was a wealthy man
ufacturer, and when the ultfmatum
was given he returned to his home,
placed his affairs in order and met
death bravely He lived but three
days after the verdict of the special
lists was rendered.