The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-26
Condensed News of
World, From Files

III.
Governor Wilson of Kentucky is in
| iured in a runaway accident.
| Richard Kerens of st. Louis will be
the new ambassador to Austria.
| Congress convenes in extra session
for consideration of tariff question.
st. Patrick Day is observed as a
holiday in Ireland by Act of Parha-
| ment.
A saloonkeeper of San Francisco has
a desperate encounter with gaspipe
thug.
/ Speaker Cannon has named the Ways
and Means Committee and the Commit
tee on Rules.
! Women in Oklahoma balk at regis
tration law which requires that they
tell their age.
A morning fire in the Hotel Bristol
| in San Francisco alarms the guests and
does much damage.
A dividend Of $50 a share has been
| declared by the Consolidated Coal Com
panv of Baltimore.
The Pope has recovered sufficiently
| from his recent illness to receive an
| American pilgrimage.
| The trial of Captain Peter Hams
/
been set for April 10.
Jacob Riis delivers his famous ad
dress, "The Battle With the Slums, -
| at Stanford University.
The suspected slayer of Petrosino,
the New York detective, has been ar
rested in Palermo, Italy.
| The Assembly of the California Leg
islature passes a bill against slot ma
chimes, by heavy majority.
Roosevelt tests the guns which he
will use in killing big African game
and finds them satisfactory.
| A Mexican plantation overseer was
crushed to death in the tolls of giant
snake, sixteen feet in length.
| A find of rich ore in Yreka (Cal.)
leads to great mining excitement and
to the fling of many claims.
The State Court OF Appeals in Geor
| gia has decided that to call a man a
liar is breach of the peace.
Paul Stanley, comedian ard composer
and author of the song 'sTa Ra Ra
Boom de Ay'' dies in Denver
A Cheyenne, Wyo., rancher shoots
his wife and daughter in local restau-
rant following family quarrel.
| Servia IS actions have become so war
/ like as to warrant Austria s keeping
/ her men ready in case of trouble.
The ruins of an ancient city are dis
| covered in the San Jacinto mountains
J some distance from Los Angeles.
Autos for moving one thousand
troops were tried as an experiment in
| military transportation in London.
There will be no duty on oil in the
new tariff and the differential on sug
ar will be reduced from 195 to 100
President Taft appoints a white mar
to succeed the negro incumbent as Col
: leetor of Customs at Charlestown, S. G.
The Pacific Union club will builo
shortly on the site of the old Flood
mansion opposite the Fairmont Hotel il
San Francisco.
Harry D. Brown. San Francisco
broker, disappears with 100000 debts
and is accused of having defraudet
many investors.
/ The Civic Federation of Los Ange
les provides warm penny luncheon
for school children in the poorer quar-
ter of the city.
i Eight million dollars are carried safe
ly through the streets of San Francisco
from the vaults in the City Hall to The
treasurer new quarters.
/ Steel workers protest against thu
heavy reductions in duty outlined by
the Payne tariff bill declaring that they
will bring about disaster.
Mrs. Morse, wife of Charles w
Morse, the convicted New York banker
sells her jewels and other personal pos
sessions to pay the costs of his trial
A record journey IS made by Cal
ifornia orange train by conveying frui
from San Bernardino to Kansas City
distance of 1900 miles, in six days
A successful demonstration of tn
! Wright aerop1ane at Pau was witnesse,
by King Edward who showed much en-
thusiasm at the remarkable accomplish
ment.
!, John Challoner, the former HUSBAND
of Amelie Rives, kills an English la
, borer whose wife had sought his pro
lection, at his country home in Viz
ginia.
Austria will give Servia but one NOR
week to give an explanation of her in
, tentions and In the meantime the bat
, tallons in Bosnia will be raised to
war basis.
: st. Patrick s day was celebrate,
with unusual demonstration in Sa
+ Francisco. Social and fraternal organi
, cations observed the day with numel
Gus celebrations
,, jefferson City prisoner who weigh
32o pounds is too large to be squeeze
into cell, and in consequence tn
: authorities are forced to eonfne hir
n the prison hospital
f. H. Hartman, j. T. Harahan an
other railroad leaders meet in confer
ence in Pasadena and many changes i
the administration of the Harrima
: lines is expected as a result.
CONSERVATION was caused in an Obi
village church when one of the col
gregation dropped dead following til
: words of the preacher warning thel
> of the uncertainty of the duration G
9 life.
William Jennings Bryan is. quoted a
saying that he hopes circumstance
will never again make it necessary fc
him to become a candidate for til
:. presidency, but if the eontingenc
- should arise he would not fail in h
duty to the Democratic party.
:. James Bryce the British Ambassad,
= to the United States, and Mrs. Brvc
" have arrived in California and while
~ San Francisco will be freoueutJv ep+a