The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-01

FL. E. Huntington WAS thrown from
his automobile in Los angeles but was
uninjured.
The long trial of Calhoun delayed the
marriage of one of the jurors nearly
five months.
A sharp earthquake shock occurred at
Teneriffe, Canary Islands, on June 20,
but no casualties are reported.
Lillian Russell has gone to France for
the purpose of purchasing race horses,
which she will bring to America.
Heavy rains have caused great floods
all over the Isthmus of Panama and in
many places the crops have been ruined.
Statistics regarding the trade of the
Philippines show the total value of inn
ports into the islands in 1908 as $780,
1s6.120.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, has gone
to Paris to attend the International
Union Congress.
The paymaster of the twenty-sixth
East Siberian rifles has fed from Omsk,
after drawing $4,000 of the regimental
funds on forged orders.
Over 500 people in widely scattered
sections of the town of Monrovia, Cali
fornia, were poisoned by eating lettuce
No deaths were reported.
Ten persons were killed and forty in,
jured IN wreck on the Chicago Lake
Shore Railway at South Bend, Indiana.
when two electric cars collided head on.
Il. f. Dickerson, stone and grading
contractor, shot and killed Harry
Garrett, one of his employees Dicker-
son alleged that Garrett was responsible
for the separation of himself and wife.
Mrs. Beilany Storer, wife of the for
mer American Ambassador to Austria.
Hungary, has established new society,
the aim OF which is to obtain from
steamship and railroad officials permits
sion te allow pet dogs to travel first
class with their wealthy mistresses.
The Cunard steamer Mauretania has
clipped another fifty minutes from the
best previous Eastern record, which it
also holds. 1t accomplished the Journey
from New York in 4 days, II hours
and q minutes, the best previous rec
ord being days, IS hours ami II min
utes.
Miss May de Sousa, daughter of a
Chicago police detective, is to be the
star next season in a new musical com
edy with Kaw and Erlanger who have
engaged Victor Hebert and Harry B..
Smith to write for her. She recently
returned after several successful sea
sons abroad.
A bulletin made public in Chicago by
the Bureau of Railway News and Sta
tisties shows that the operation of the
two-cent fare law in Illinois cost the
railroads of the State $15, 500, 900 during
the last fiscal year.
Miss Mary Astor Paul, of Philadel-
phia and Charles A. Mann, of Wash
ington. D. c., both well known in East.
ern society circles, were married today
at Randor The brides father was a
brother of the late Mrs. William Wal
dorf Astor.
Miss Ada Blue, Portland nurse, who
was injured in car accident, has re-
NAMED unconscious for three weeks
without any change for better or worse
in her condition As there is no ap-
parent fracture of the skull, her case is
puzzling the physicians of the city.
Mrs. Henry Buffers, widow of the
wealthy South African mining man,
died IN Yosemite Valley of pneumonia
contracted during her visit there.
George Washington Yocum and Mary
Adefa Pobings of Willows. California.
and aged respectively II and SO, eloped
to an adjoining town and were married
secretly because of the opposition Of
their grown children.
Or Justin Steer, professor of clinical
medicine at Washington University. at
81 Louis, killed himself while suffering
from the unbearable pain of supposed
aheaFlsm which other physicians say
that he did not have.
Inc Red Star steamer iceland was
badly damaged in a collision with an
unknown vessel east of Dover. In a
dense fog the iceland struck the other
vessel amidships but when boats were