The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-24
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charge.
Prlnee Suleman Efendi. a brother Of
the Sultan of Turkey, died at Constan-
tinople of heart failure.
The opening of the new chutes in
San Francisco was marked by the gain
ering of vast concourse of people.
Seven soldiers were injured, three OF
them fatally, by a powder explosion
at the barracks at Fort Russell in Chey-
enne, Wyo.
Colonel Alexander Pope, manufactnr
err of bicycles and autos, was reported
dying on July II at his summer home
near Boston.
Adolphus Busch of st. Louis celebraf-
ed his SEVENTEEN birthday at Carlsbad,
and the Grand Duke of Hesse conferred
on him the title of Commercial Coun.
cillor.
Martial law has been declared all
along the coast of Spanish-Honduras,
and the revolutionists are said to have
been dispersed by the government
forces.
Wyatt Ingram Jr., trust officer Of the
Hibernia Bank and Trust Company OF
New Orleans, has been charged with
being defaulter to the amount OF
nearly 100000.
The Retail Lumber Dealers Associa-
ton Of Mississippi and Louisiana, has
been sued in the Chancery Court in
Mississippi under the antitrust statute
for the recovery of penalties amounting
to $14,000,0O0.
The town of San Jose Del Sitio was
raided by Mexican bandits and among
those who were victims of the outrage
were two Americans, w. w. futile,
civil engineer, and Mike Farrell, both
of whom were wounded.
Elizabeth Donagan, New York SER
want, was found starving in the street
and on being taken to Kings Hospital
was found to have thousands of dollars
in cash, bank books and jewelry con-
cealed in her clothing.
James A. Patten is said to be behind
new wheat deal as he now holds all
the cash cereal available in the Chicago
market and July wheat has jumped to
a price which indicates a repetition of
the Patten corner in May.
The hearing Of the Court of Inquiry
which will investigate the death OF
Lieutenant James Sutton, will be open
to the public in accordance with the
suggestion of Assistant Secretary Win
throp of the Navy Department.
A political reform association reports
that most of the 476 automobiles owned
by the city of New York are used by
the city officials for personal pleasure
purposes, and that these machines cost
the city 100000 for maintenance.
President William Skinner of New
York, president of the American Silk
Association, said on his return from
visit to Japan that ''Japan did not
feel the hard times in the United
States because Europe was willing to
take All her stock.
William A. King, who escaped from
the Oregon Penitentiary ten years ago
and under an alias has lived an exem-
plary life since, was arrested in Mon
tana and brought back to Oregon to
serve out his unexpired sentence of
three years and half.
The Picking government is said 60
indorse the concealment of Leon Ling
and that Elsie Sigel took poison with
suicidal intent in Ling's room, is the
statement made in the official court
has been received in Denver.
Reduced passenger fares to Chicago.
St. Louis, Kansas City and Omaha, will
NC DIV 6iidpiCs iiiiS SuufulST IIOIu dill Stdb6Y
west of the Missouri River as the re-
suit of a decision by number of West
ern railroads which competitive condi-
tons will make applicable to all roads.
A strike between the United Mine
Workers of America and the Pittsburg
Coal Company which was threatened,
which would have involved thirty eight
mines employing $4,000 men, has been
forbidden by Thomas Lewis, National
president of the Mine Workers Asso-
citation.
Mrs. Ashcroft, the former secretary
of Mark Twain, has cut short her
honeymoon trip in Europe, and has re-
turned to New York to settle the at.
tachment which the humorist had plac-
ed upon the cottage which he had pre-
viously given her in recognition of her
seven years service with him.
military camp of instruction for
the medical officers of the militia has
been established at the Preside at San
Francisco under the command of Major
Albert TRULY. and for a month he will
maintain an organization such as would
be fully equipped for war, for the prac-
teal training of the militiamen.
William NJ. Bunker of San Francisco
has recommended that the Outdoor Art
League encourage the use of red paint
upon the somber roofs of some Of the
city s houses and, to assist in populariz-
ing window gardens, which would make
for much in the way of civic beauty
He refers to the bright looking towns
of the Mediterranean and of the cherry
window gardens of Paris and urges that |
something in this line be done before |
the Portola festival in October
Mrs. James n. Sutton, of Portland, |
Or, has succeeded in her efforts to have I
the Government authorities reopen the |
investigation into the mysterious death |
OF her son, Lieutenant James Sutton of /
the Marine Corps which occurred in |
October, 1907. The verdict of the
board of investigation at the time of !
his death was suicide. but his mother
has persistently claimed that he was
murdered.
The sister Of James NJ. Dunphy whose
cratic matrimonial career has engaged
much attention, has filed petition in
the courts asking that he be declared
incompetent and that a
guardian be appointed to look out for
his property interests. He has al
ready asked the court to free him from
his latest EEnoJSo+s