The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-17

| bezZlement.
President Taft viii probably aban-
don his trip to Alaska, as Mrs. Taft s
health will probably prevent her from
accompanying him.
It has been officially announced in
Paris that President Fallieres will meet
Emperor Nicholas of Russia at Cher
bourg on July 31st.
/, Miss Billie Burke, the actress, has
adopted the little girl of her dearest
friend, Mrs. Thomas Watson, who died
recently in New York.
Il Charles H. Turner, the defaulting
grand secretary of the Native Sons of
the Golden West, has been sentenced to
\ San Quentin for three years.
i Premier Deakin, of Australia. has
formally offered the government of
/ Great Britain a Dreadnought or a cor
responding addition to the navy.
i A number of women and children
were drowned when wharf upon which
/ the passengers of a New Orleans ex-
cursion steamer had been landed, gave
way
| The Roosevelt expedition has started
| for the Solik district before reaching
| which there is waterless tract that
/ it will take two days and a half to
traverse.
l. The Venezuelan Congress having ap-
! proved the Netherlands Venezuelan pro-
| toeol, the Venezuelan Consul in Cura-
/ Gao has issued papers to a Dutch steam
| err to enter port.
The conditions in Asia Minor are far
| from settled and it. is thought that 1t
/ will take a long time and a government
| much stronger than the present one TO
assure perfect safety.
/ The Peruvian government has can
| celed the exequatur of the Swedish
/ Consul General at Lima in whose house
| several men implicatd in the uprising
| against the government took refuge.
4 A petition to Governor Gillett for
| pardon is the latest move by George
D. Collins, the convicted perjurer, who
appeared before Judge Lawlor with the
petition attached TO a lengthy affidavit.
Eight eonyicts and two wardens were
killed during desperate fight in the
Il prison in Tif1is when the convicts, who
We're condemned to death, overpowered
the wardens, wounding and disarming
them.
| Thirteen German balloons started
from Essen, Prussia, on long dis
lance trial race The three making the
best record will take part. in the race
for the international cup in Switzer-
land in the fall.
The council of the Russian Empire
has adopted the marine budget restor-
ing the appropriation of 00,000
elected by the Duma. The amount is
to go toward the construction of four
new battleships.
The State of Kansas is planning to
make commencement exercises less
costly and the State Superintendent
Of Schools will urge the abandonment
of costly graduation accessories that
are a needless expense to the parents.
Aaron Cohen. of Buffalo, made des-
perate effort to save his wife from
drowning in the Niagara River, but
fought a losing battle as she died IN
his arms before they could be rescued
and it was with difficulty that his life
was saved by the rescuers.
| Claus Spreckes Jr. arrived in New
York on the same steamer with his
fianeee. Miss Mary Case, of Portland.
He was met by his father in New York
and it is rumored the young man has
been persuaded TO postpone his mar
rage for at least two years.
The presence of the United States
gunboat Nashville in the Lakes, making
the eighth American cruiser there,
is causing adverse criticism in the press
of the Dominion and it is not improb-
able that a formal protest will be made
to the United States in the matter
The arrest of Paul c. Gaul, an In
dianapolis merchant and candidate for
Alderman, and Harry C. Prinzler, a
member of a prominent family of that
city. for conspiring with bank clerk
to defraud the Capital National Bank
of s31, 900. has caused profound SEN
sation.
Gaspar Zittinick of New York, think
!, ing his wife the most beautiful woman
lin the world. poured sulphuric acid over
: her face intending TO mar her beauty
land make her unattraetive to other men.
The acid got into her eyes. penetrated
her brain and killed her, and her hus-
band was sentenced to twenty years for
manslaughter.
The ambassadors of Great Britain,
IItaIv. Germany and Japan and the Min
lister from Spain have promised to
drink President Taft s toast TO San
Francisco Portola Day October 19 next,
They have also promised to ask their
| governments 10 participate II 1"O
tival and they NAV go in person TO
ioin in the celebration.
President ). G. Sehurman, OF Cor
, nell. in an address TO the senior class
on the eve of his departure for Europe
, took exception to the statement OF
President Woodrow Wilson that the
intellectual life in the American
Universities was decaying and warmly
defended the conditions In Cornell, WIS
consin. Nebraska and others whleh ne
characterized as the people uni
versities and which he declared as IN
situations for stronger minds and in
which less attention was pald 10 the
social side Of college life than IN tne
older universities where age ana Iradi-
ton furnished social attraetlvenes7
rather than intellectual advantages.