The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-09
EASTERN AND MIDDLE WEST.

It lis rumored that the Standard Oil
Company will increase its capital to
$500. 0C0, 600.
By actual count 5000 persons entered
the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New
York in one day.
The sundry civil appropriation bill
reported to the House carries an esti-
mate of sos, 715, 1863.
The Oklahoma House has pass
ed a bill providing for a State Indus
trial School for women.
May Day in New England, usually a
day Of Industrial disturbance, was the
quietest on record this year.
Secretary of State Root has been re-
elected president of the American So
ciety of International Peace.
The Pension Bill, carrying an ap-
preparation of 1858. 053, 900 was passed
by the Senate in four minutes.
The body of Mrs. Hungerford, mother
of Mrs. John w. Mackay, arrived in
New York from Europe May 8.
A blizzard in Wisconsin and the
Northwest has caused some damage
and considerable inconvenience
Charles NJ. Schwab admitted in New
York lately that he is very much dis
gusted with his mining ventures in
Nevada.
High meat prices in the East have
caused the consumption Of meat to
drop off at least so per cent. in some
of the cities.
The Appropriation Committee Of the
House has cut the nations bills down
s11O.oOO.000. and will practice still fur
Their economy.
Brigadier General Alfred Hough. re-
tired. who served with distinction dur
ing the Civil War, died in Princeton,
N j., recently.
Taft has won another victory In Ken
lucky. and the Republican delegates
to the National Convention viii be
pledged for him.
The Fireman's Fund Insurance Com
pany of California will have to pay
$4,000 insurance as result OF the
Chelsea, Mass, fire.
Secretary Taft's coming trip to the
Panama canal zone is said to be un-
dertaken to quell some signs of trouble
between the officials.
A great storm, which devastated the
gulf States. caused 367 deaths, over
1000 injuries and the complete demoli-
ton of several towns.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
issued a call on the national banks for
approximately $4,000. 900 to be paid be-
fore the end of May.
The elimination of the scalper has led
the railroads of the country to ex-
tend stopover privileges to travellers.
especially in the West
President Roosevelt has approved the
itinerary of the fleets return journey.
as far as Hawaii. Australia, Japan,
China and the Philippines.
Congress is making slow progress
with bills. and the attempt to strike
out secret service items in the appro-
priation bill was unsuccessful.
over one thousand stranded players
are now in Chicago. Most of them are
from the East where the greater num-
Der of companies have failed.
The William A. Stetson Leather
Company of Boston has been forced
into bankruptcy. with liabilities at
So, 900, 900 and assets at $500, 600.
The Board of Food and Drug inspec-
ton will only permit the name
Mocha to be used on coffee coming
from certain districts in Arabia.
Train robbers who robbed the New
York and st. Louis Express of the
Pennsylvania railroad of about 1000.
have not as yet been discovered
Congressman Kahn and Hayes are
paving the way for a further consid-
GRAFTON of the Japanese exclusion bill
at the next session of Congress.
A blind woman in Denver was swim
died out of $4,000 by two young women
mediums. who made her believe that
she was going to regain her eyesight.
Diplomatic relations will probably be
suspended between the United States
and Venezuela, and this it is thought
viii bring President Castro to terms.
The Rev. Carter A. Jenkins, a Baptist
clergyman of Woodbury., New Jersey.
has received seven "calls" within six
weeks. This is said to break the record.
Two leopards broke loose from their
cage in the zoo at Baltimore and
severely clawed several spectators be-
fore they We're captured by the train
$ ers.
g. Michael Logue. archbishop of
Armagh. although sixty-eight years old
crossed the Atlantic to New York to aid
In the celebration of the Catholic CEN
tenary.
1t is reported that washington Off
Gals are beginning to distrust the at
tempts of the Lincoln Roosevelt League
of the western States to bring about
reforms.
A tornado in Mississippi and Ala
bama killed three hundred and fifty
and injured at least a thousand people,
and caused untold damage to towns
and crops.
A painter, who has a genius for imi-
Eating great masters, has for years sold
bogus pictures through New York art
firms and cleaned up fully $150.000 by
his work
James Worthy. of Lowell, Mass,
twenty-one year old boy, has passed
through Schenectady, New York, on a
walking trip to Austin, Texas, to win
q $1,000 wager.
Bishop Henry c. Potter. of New
York, is so seriously I'll from a physical
breakdown that he has been forced to
abandon all participation in the affairs
of the church.
The state Republican Convention of !
Maryland has Endorsed Taft for the
presidency. Maine also favors Taft.
but viii send an uninstructed delega-
ton to Chicago.
President Roosevelt has sent another
message to Congress urging new legfs- |
lation especially in connection with in