The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-31

| at Bath, Maine. on August II.
| Andrew Mack, the Irish actor. has
been sued for divorce by his wife.
A cloudburst near Denver on Aug
| 10, has renewed the flood in Colorado
| John R. Jackson, American Minister
to Persia, has returned to Washington.
D. c.
,, Samuel J. Seligman, New York
banker, died on August 10 of heart
disease.
A fire in tunnel near Great Falls,
Mont, delayed traffic on the railroads
for some time.
Edwin Markham, the poet, has ex-
| pressed his intention of returning to
California to reside.
Marion De Vries has been appointed
| president of the Board of General APP
| praisers in New York.
Mrs. Eveyla Hall, aged 80, of Pitts
burg, secured license to marry Rob-
ert Wright, aged 81.
A phenomenally high tide flooded
the lower part of the city of BARGE
| Iona, Spain, on August %.
! The Glouscester fishing schooner
Orinoco capsized off the coast of Nova
| Scotia and eleven men persisted
: Glasgow has suffered from a great
| fire in the business section. The
| estimated damage was $1.250.00O.
A heavy snowfall occurred in Johan-
nesburg on August IS, which was the
severest experienced in many years.
Edward Hill, a Santa Te railroad
| brakeman, was killed by falling be-
| tween the cars at Colorado Springs.
| The losses resulting from the fire
at Osaka, Japan, have bankrupted be-
| tween 1000 and 5000 merchants of that
| city.
Mining men in Weaverwille, Cal, kilt
/ ed 1O00-pound grizzly bear that has
been terrorizing Trinity County for
| years.
Mrs. Ada Otis, divorced wife of
Thomas Otis, and daughter Of Joseph
Tilt of Chicago, committed suicide in
Los Angeles.
Eight sufragettes were arrested in
London on August 10, in connection
with the picketing of the Premier s
residence
A fire at Lake Alta, Cal, destroyed
much valuable timber but by heroic
efforts all buildings with occupants
were saved.
AS result of the excessive heat ex-
/ perieneed in the middle West num-
| Der of deaths from prostration were
reported in Kansas.
The crew of six men of the cod
fishing schooner "Harriet CO. of Ana
coites, Wash, were drowned in Uni
max pass, Alaska.
! According to statistics of the Geo.
| logical Survey there has been a mark
! ed decline in the production of coal
! during the past year.
! Ex-Presidert Roosevelt and his par
| ty made long march recently on in
! sufficient supplies ana all hands had
to go on half rations.
The Indians near Puebla, Mexico,
burned an aged woman to death be-
lieving that she had brought on an
epidemic of smallpox.
Harry K. Thaw has been returned
to the Matteawan Asylum. An effort
will be made to have him committed
to the care of his relatives.
! Anti-Administration riots are being
INDUCED in in Mexico City. Ten thou
sand people took part in the demon
stration in favor of Reyes.
Mrs. Louis Francis, of Petaluma,
was badly burned while attempting to
rescue her three children from the fire
that destroyed her residence.
The steamer Seattle, carrying TWEEN
ty-ive passengers, turned turtle at the
dock at Spokane as a result of shift
ing cargo. No lives were lost.
1t has been rumored that the Van
derbilts intend to get out of railroad
ing entirely and will part with their
New York Central stock to E. II. Har-
riman.
American participation in the Hang
/ kow-Szechuen railroad loan has been
1 definitely settled and American fnan-
ciers have gained the privileges they
sought
William Winter, dean of American
dramatic critics, who recently resign
ed from the New York Tribune
will make his home in Southern Cali.
fornia.
President William Mahon, of the In
ternational Street Car Union, express
ed his disapproval of the attitude of
the striking carmen on his arrival in
Chicago.
At Colon, the first public play,
grounds ever established on the 18th.
mus are about to be opened. They are
patterned after the Fairgrounds OF
New York.
John 0tey, of Oakland, was arrested
at Hoboken, \. j., on a charge of
abandoning his wife and five children
He was captured as he was leaving
for England.
James NJ. Smith, a millionaire planter
of Atlanta, Ca, has been accused of
employing agents to kidnap negroes
! who were sent to his plantation and
held in peonage.
The japanese liner Tacoma Maru
was obliged to put back TO port with
disabled rudder on her first trip out
Of Seattle, with cargo from the new
transcontinental railroad.
Charleston, S. c., was the center of
terrific storm thst ragged through the
South and East on August IS, which
did much damage to property-but no
loss of life has been reported.
The debt incurred by Lieut.. E. Fl.
Schackleton and the members of the
South Pole expedition is to be