The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-13
Telegraph Brevities

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not only pronounced the death ser
tence, but provided that out of tn
| general s estate must be paid $50
/, month for twenty years to each o
the two children of the man he NUT
dered and the funeral expenses of hi
victim.
A serious fire in Santiago resulte.
in big property loss.
The graduates of Dartmouth Colleg
held reunion in San Francisco.
Peter Robert Burrell, the oldes
member Of the British peerage, il
dead.
James Bryce says he regards Bret
Harte and Joaquin Miller as Califor
MAS foremost authors.
Nine. Anita Rio, California sing
er, made her debut in London and
scored a marked success.
William Shakespeare, the famous
London singing master, delivered Sc
ries of lectures in San Francisco.
Harold Moon, Michigan boy, sup
posed to have been kidnapped, was
drowned while skating on Tread Lake
Giuseppe Pia, convicted of criminal
assault on a young girl in San Rafael,
was sentenced to San Quentin for life.
San Francisco is giving strong sup
port to the taxicab enterprise, and
more machines have been ordered from
East.
Ray Lamphere, the Guinness muir
derer, is dying Of tuberculosis, and eff
forts are being made to have him
paroled.
A Riverside man who suffered from
total lapse of memory has recovered
it after complete lapse lasting since
December.
Rear Admiral Robiey Evans was the
guest of honor at luncheon at Salt
Lake given by the governors of the
Commercial Club.
Students of the University of Cali
fornia successfully presented Henry
Van Dyke s play, "The House Of Rim
mon,o at the Greek Theater.
John Sedden of Chicago was electro
euted while attempting to stop the
ringing of his telephone bell by cut
ting the wire with shears.
The aeroplane exhibition in London
shows progress in methods for f1ying,
and the schedule of prices of the ma
chimes ranges from $4,000 to $4,000.
The Santa Clara County. Cal.
prune growers have organized along
the lines of the orange association for
the protection of the prune industry.
The steamer fremont arrived in New
York from Seattle two days ahead of
her sister ship the shawmut. The
14,0O0-mile voyage was made in sixty
two days.
Many cases of food adulteration for
the month of March are shown from
the report from the chemical labora-
tory of the Board of Health in San
Francisco.
Washington clubwomen have desig.
mated April Is as cleaning day. at
the national capital and have started
crusade against the Uttered condi-
ton of the streets.
California s woman suffragists have
placed themselves on record in protest
against the proposed tariff on stock.
lngs and gloves Their petition will
be sent TO Congress.
Charles Wallace Mosher of Chicago.
a prominent broker and ehurchman. has
disappeared from his home on learning
that his life seeret--that he was an ex-
about to be revealed.
Forty students of the Placer County.
Cal, High School took half holiday
as a lark on April Fool s Day and
were suspended as a result of the prin-
cipai's lack of sense of humor.
There Is persistent rnmor in Paris
that Mary Garden will marry Prince
Mavrocordato on her arrival the last
of April. She has Cancelled her en-
oagement to sing at the Paris Opera
this spring.
Representative John J. Fitzgerald
of New York takes exception to the
statements of Bryan in criticizing his
vote on the amendment to the House
rules, and intimates that the Nehras
kan knows nothing about the matter.
t. G. Diefenbaeher. one of the
cleverest wire tappers in America, and
the leader of the gang that fieeced
William Walker, the New Britain
Conn, banker, out of $4,000. was
in Los Angeles for vagrancv.
The depositors and shareholders of
the defunet California Safe Deposit
and Trust Company have proposed
method of closing up the affairs of
the company with less expense. so that
the creditors will receive a larger pro
rata.
Twelve men are under serious sus
picion in Palermo in connection with
the murder of Petrosini. the chief of
the Italian bureau of the New York
detective force; and it is believed
That the murderers are known to +he
Munster of the Interior at Rome.
The new charter of the citv of
berkeley, CAL. provides for novel
election wherein the candidates must
be nominated by petition and which
mas for its principal features the abo-
iltion of conventions and the elimina-
ton OF parties. It is modelled after
the charter of Des Moines.
DIR. Bruel, well-known Vienna ply
steIan, blames directoire gowns for the
present epidemic of rheumatism and
grippe among society women in vi
emma. As it would interfere with
their fit, . an insufficient quantity of
warm Undertaking is worn. and wo-
men are dying with pneumonia and
other chest complaints