The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-21

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orange oil in the Payne tariff measure.
Brigadier-General E. B. Atwood, 9. S.
A. (retired), died suddenly in Chicago
on August s.
Miss Virgilia Bogue, the Portola
Queen, has written a novel, which will
soon be issued.
The strike situation in Sweden Is
presenting an aspect Of graveness and
100000 are now idle.
The wife of Foxau Keene, the mil
ionaire turfman, obtained divorce
on the ground of desertion.
Progress in the Calhoun case is in
terminably slow, two Jurors having
been passed temporarily to date.
The condition of DR.. Robert j. Bur-
dette is such as to cause anxiety as to
the outcome of his serious illness.
John G. Diehl, son of the retired man
ager of the Hamburg American steam
ship line, committed suicide in Chicago.
a buttermaker in the employ Of the
Modesto creamery was blinded by the
explosion of a bottle of formaldehyde.
The plans for the new twelye-story
home of the Aero Club Of America call
for landing for airships on the roof.
Southern California experts have pre-
dicted short crop of oranges, and say
that the seasons yield will be below
normal.
| Norman Buck, the only son of Judge
George H. Buck, of Redwood City, Cal,
was killed by a train near his home on
August 9. y
Germany has made representations
to both Constantinople and Athens,
urging a peaceable solution of the Gre
tan question.
The wife of Robert Chambers, the
novelist, was injured by being thrown
from her horse at her summer home near
! New York.
! Archbishop John Joseph Keane of the
buque will retire from active duty on
August IS.
! George Van Dyke, prominent lum-
Der man of Lancaster, n. H., was fatally
injured in an automobile accident in
Massachusetts.
Two Hindus confined in the Sacra-
mento Jail refused to eat because it is
against their religion to eat food pre-
pared by whites.
~ The eastern and southern portions of
the United States suffered from an I'M
precedented hot wave during the first
week in August.
Government officials who are watch
ing developments in Cuba are of the
opinion that Cuban annexation is mere
" q matter of time.
j President Taft is giving serious at
tention to the strained situation be-
tween Japan and China over the Muk-
-Antung railroad.
i Ex-Judge William 7. Wallace, a vet
eran jurist of California, is seriously i'll
and fear is entertained that his illness
may terminate fatally.
Three workmen were killed and four
injured at Telluride, Colorado, as a re-
suit of lightning striking the power
house of the Bell mine.
The influence in Turkish financial af-
fairs, which Great Britain lost during
Abdul Hamid s reign, is being recover
ed under the new regime.
! Ella Gingles, the Irish lacemaker, re-
Gently acquitted of a charge of lar
ceny after sensational trial, left Chi
cago for her home in ireland.
Luther Burbank continues to be sub
jected to criticism by California hor-
ticulturists, who claim that his socalled
creations are merely discoveries.
One of the worst storms in the his
tory of the desert swept over Death
i Valley on August 8, and miners say
that much loss Of life has probably re-
suited.
San Francisco is likely to get the
next Irrigation Congress, as she is lead
ing In the race for the next convention
at the session now being held at Spo-
kane.
A branch of the National Peace AS
ISOLATION has been organized in San
Francisco. The purposes of the society
are to settle all differences between cap
ltal and labor by arbitration.
A geological specimen of rock from
Mt. Erebus, the great Antarctic vol
! cano, has been received at the Univer
slty of California from Prof Edworth
Davis of the University of Sydney.
Arthur E. Welby, who helped build
the Denver and Rio Grande and who
for ten years was general superintend-
ent of the road, died in Denver on Au-
| gust s.
Cancer research will be greatly facil-
| itated by the founding of a hospital
from the fund of $1,250,000 left by
Henry BarnatO to erect memorial for
his brother Barney Barnato.
fPlans are being made for the inaugu-
ration of a steamship service between
San francisco and Alaskan ports. The
California Promotion Committee is back
! OF the new commercial enterprise.
Miss Sadie, American Secretary of
the National Council of Jewish Women,
was the guest of honor at breakfast
given by the San Francisco Council of
Jewish Women during her visit to San
Francisco.
Peter Jackson, a prominent citizen
OF Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, swal
lowed his false teeth, and to save his
life surgeon forced the teeth into his
stomach and then removed them by an
operation. He will get well.
Mrs. Leilo Wells, daughter of Major
General Burton, I. s A. (retired), OBJ
tanned a divorce from her husband,
Captain Rush S. Wells, Z. s. A. in San
Bernardino, on the ground of desertion.
At the convention of the American
Federation of Catholic Societies at
Pittsburg, Bishop Regis Canevin de-
neunced the white slave traffic and
urged the people to unite in an effort
to suppress it.