The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-12
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and is being severely condemned in con
| sequence.
Four persons persisted in hotel fire
in Topeka, Kansas. The fire was caused
| by crossed electric wires.
The dry farming congress will be held
In Billings, Mont, October 26, 81 and
%, according to a recent announce
| ment.
William Hunter has been sent back
to Spokane, Wash, from Los Angeles
to answer to charge of felony EN-.
| bezzlement.
Nearly half a ton Of dynamite ex.
| ploded IN three separate charges were
| necessary to widen the channel at the
mouth of the Niagara river.
The hide and leather manufacturers
of the middle west have sent represen-
tatives to Congress to present their pro,
test against the placing of duty on
hides.
The Board of Engineers of the War
Department will take final action on
the report of the survey of the Missis-
sippi from the gulf of ST. Louis, with
In month.
Cornelius Pritchard is dead and three
other persons are wounded, as a result
of six-handed shooting ARRAY at
Meadville, Miss, the outgrowth of a
political feud
Mrs. F. c. Smith, the young wife of
the manager of the Rock Island hotel
at Limon, Colo, threw himself under
the wheels of a passenger train and
was instantly killed.
Two small boys, aged five and four
respectively, were burned to death at
Vancouver, B. c., while hundreds of
people walked within fifty feet of them
unaware of the tragedy.
James A. Patten, the bull leader in
the Chicago wheat pit, had trouble
with the territorial officials in New
Mexico for not providing himself with
a license to fish and hunt.
Signalling its completion of forty
years as successful advertising
agency, the firm of N. w. Aver & Son
celebrated the anniversary with bril-
liant banquet at Philadelphia.
Mrs. Ashbel Newell obtained a de-
cree of divorce from her husband who
is the son of John Newell, the late
president of the Lake Shore Road. Both
parties are prominent in Chicago.
The flag hung at half mast over the
Bohemian Club. in San Francisco, to
commemorate the death of Charles War.
rem Stoddard, who was one of the old
est and best loved of its members.
The exclusion of British journalists
/ from Roosevelt s special train at Kapiti
Plains, caused storm of protest and
1T is said that the Imperial government
asked an explanation for this exclusion
of English newspaper men.
1t is rumored that John Marshall
! Harlan, associate justice of the United
States Supreme Court, will be a can
| didate for moderator of the Presbv-
terrain general assembly which meets
in Denver, Colo, next month.
| The sFchildren Is charter which has
! just become effective in England is pro-
nouneed one of the most important
pieces of legislation in recent years
Many reforms are inaugurated and the
statute bars children from saloons and
protects them from the evils of the use
| of tobacco.
| Colonel John P. Irwin, who was an
/ pointed naval officer of the port OF
/ San Francisco under the Cleveland ad.
ministration, and has held office ever
since, in spite of strenuous efforts tc
remove him. will probably be succeed
ed by General George Stone, who will
be appointed by President Taft mex,
January.
| William E. Corey is trying to form
a big combination of the copper inter
ests of the United States Corey is
president of the United States SteeI
| Corporation and has the backing OF
| large interests in this consolidation
which will regulate production. elm
mate disastrous competition and make
possible economies in operation
/ Two spectators at motorcycle race
| in Los Angeles were seriously injured
when the machine of one of the con.
testants ran over the side lines on tor
of them, causing. them to bump each
others head with such force as to
fracture the skulls of both. The rider
was uninjured, but it is reported thai
the two victims of the accident will
die.
The owners of English galleries are
! following the lead of the Duke of Nor.
folk and will sell their pictures To
avoid the tax and as a precautiou
] against the enormous cash demand the
state Will make upon their heirs when
they die This is one of the first eff
feets OF the sociaiistie regime, and
great art dealers declare that the
finest of English art treasures will ga
| abroad in consequence
Brandenburg, the ineareerated ;onr.
nalist, who is awaiting extradition in
the San Francisco iail snands r,o.4 =
his time in writing The bow John Ca.
hanne was taken from him bv the
child s father, who left with him 70,
81 LOUIS, where he viii institute pro-
eeedlngs for divorce from his wife, who
IS the mother of the boy, and has been
posing as Mrs. Brandenburg. She will
night for the custody of the child.