The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-22
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Roosevelt has added two giraffes and
rhinoeeros to his bag of big game.
Forest fires have done great damage
| to the plantations at Cordoba, Vera
| Cruz.
A gas explosion in building in Sac
ramento results in the death of three
persons.
4 wireless telephone between Chicago
and Milwaukee has been successfully
operated.
The cable connecting Venezuela with
the outside world has been opened to
the public.
An Allan line steamship has been
reported caught in the ice sixty miles
from ST. Johns.
Charles P Rawley, Yale "a, a postal
| clerk in San Francisco, is jailed for
robbing the mails.
An ordinance is to be passed in Oak
land, California, prohibiting slot ma
chimes in that city.
President William j. Tucker of Dart
mouth College viii retire at the close
of the academic year.
The Wright Flying Machine Com
pany has been incorporated in Berlin
with capital of $125,0
Spain is preparing for an anarehistic
outbreak and number of political ar
rests have already been made.
a professor and pupil have a fist
| fight in an exclusive school for boys in
| San Francisco and both were arrested.
The French chamber of deputies has
condemned the strike after a stormy de
bate and amidst scenes approaching a
riot.
The model irrigation farm now at
1 the University of California is to be
| exhibited at the Alaska Yukon exposi-
| ton.
W J. Cornell, secretary of the Pho
neer Automobile Company in San Fran
| cisco, has been accused of embezzle
ment.
Earthquake shocks in Ecuador have
been felt continuously since May l, and
are increasing in frequence and Sc
verify.
1t was reported in the House of Com
mons on the morning of May Is that
Joseph Chamberlain had had a serious
relapse.
The public funeral Of Heinrich Con-
ried at the Metropolitan Opera House
in New York was marked by great i'm
| pressiveness.
Charles E. Nord, real estate broker
of Kansas City, has been arrested for
swindling many victims who were most
~ women.
Lady Beresford, who was the daugh-
ter of the late Commodore Price, Uni
ted States Navy, left an estate valued
at 100000.
The taking of testimony in San Fran
cisco in the Hartman merger suit has
| been completed and important evidence
| was submitted
The Turkish troops in Asia Minor
have mutinied and it is reported that
the local officers are powerless to con
troll the soldiers
| Black ants are to be employed to
remove scale from fruit trees in ac-
cordance with the suggestion of Pro-
fessor Harlan.
A large "rat in her hair saved the
life Of Mrs. Richard Frost when she
was thrown from an automobile at
jackson, Mich.
A servant girl in Fresno has sued
her employer for $4,000 damages for
injuries she sustained from being bit
ten by vicious dog.
A new balloon costing $4,000 has been
purchased by the Signal Corps of the
Army to replace the one recently de
stroyed at Fort Omaha.
Riffs in the south polar cap of Mars
have been noted by Professor Percival
Lowell from his observatory at Flag
staff, Arizona Territory.
a bill has been introduced in the
House to amend the Porto Rico act
which will prevent a recurrence of the
present acute condition.
DR. Isaac Taylor Headland, president
of the Methodist Episcopal University
at Picking, had a conference with Presi-
dent Taft about matters in the Orient.
The House Committee on Naval At
fairs will visit the Coast as soon as
Congress adjourns and viii go as far
as Hawaii for the inspection of Pearl
Harbor.
Maldwin Drummond. whose marriage
with Mrs. Marshall Field was the sen
| safl0n of the London season, has been
| stricken with smallpox at his villa al
Cannes
News has been received from Ceylon
Of the death of William Kurtz johnson
manager of the Yale crew of '06. He
died of heart failure while on his
| honeymoon.
Thornwell Mullaly, assistant to the
president of the United Railroads. ties
titled in the Calhoun trial and denied
the assumption that the trolley permit
was bought.
The graduating class at the Uni
versity of California donated $500 a.
loan scholarship fund to help needy
students who were working their way
through college.
Russia has sent commissioners TO the
Copper Island to collect data concern
ing the sealing industry in North Pa
eifc waters. and To investigate the m
cursion Of japanese raiders.
Mrs James Harris, the pretty young
wife of a chauffeur, has sued her nus,
band : employer, Mrs. Grace Harper a
wealthy Los Angeles widow, for SI39,-
coo for alternating the affections Of her
husband