The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-12
Condensed News Of
World, From Files

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outing and clothes will cost shina
$4,000.
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller has been
seriously i'll but is now convalescent.
Joseph Klein, the radio active healer,
will be deported by the authorities of
Tacoma.
Beach Hargis who killed his father
IN Kentucky has been sentenced to
prison for life.
There is movement on foot to con-
meet Palo Alto and San Jose by an
interurban electric road.
Captain Robinson, master of the
wrecked steamer Indiana, shot himself
aboard the sunken ship.
The Thompson Estate of So 1000, 900
has been ordered distributed to the
eight San Francisco heirs.
The Pope held an audience at the
Vatican on April 20 and received a
number of American church dignitaries.
Representative Joseph r. Knowland
was elected Grand President of the Or
der of the Native Sons of the Golden
West.
The first mail service for the year
for Alaska will be furnished by the
sailing of the Corwin on May 10, from
Seattle.
Ex-Vice President Fairbanks has pur-
chased handsome home in Pasadena
which he will make his future winter
residence.
The middle west was visited by a
fierce storm on April 80 and gale
reaching hurricane proportions did
much damage.
Stephen Tsudzinski, Russian night
Waterman at San Francisco tannery,
was shot while on duty, and his un-
known slayer has escaped.
There has been a serious split in the
suffragettes ranks in London, which
took place at the session of the Inter
national Suffrage Alliance.
Albert Koeiich, a one time diplomat,
capitalist and close friend of the Kaiser
and later a soldier of fortune, ended
his life by gas in Chicago.
Count Bellestrem of Prussit was kill
| ed at Kattowitz, when his automobile
crashed into tree. His wife and chill
dren escaped without injury.
A twenty year-old girl in Kenton, o.,
after sleeping one hundred hours as the
result of neuro-hysterical collapse,
awoke in apparently good health.
John F. Benson, of San Francisco,
charged with bribery of government
/ officials, was acquitted by jury i9 the
criminal court in Washington, d. @.
The District Attorney of Alameda
] County, Cal, has decided that the
school board cannot disband fraternities
] and the position of the pupils is up
held.
i G. II. Steihl, son of millionaire hat
ter of New York, was arrested in Grass
Valley for passing worthless check on
/ the firm of Roos Brothers in San Fran.
i cisco.
/ An explosion on the submarine boat
Foca, at Naples, killed seven men and
injured several others. The boat was
sunk at her dock to prevent further
explosions.
Hartman IS Twins,' the two largest
locomotives in the world, which have
| just been completed at the Brooklyn
Locomotive Works, will haul freight
trains over the Sierras.
l. Secretary of the Navy Meyer says
that the American feet arrived from
| its long cruise in excellent condition
! and that the cost of the voyage was
only million and half.
Seattle will put the ban on japanese
chauffeurs, by amending the automobile
law to prohibit them from being Ii
censed. There are now a number OF
japanese ehauffurs in the city.
Five thousand dollars have beer
offered by Arthur E. Boas, wealthy
j thread manufacturer of New York, fol-
information of his thirteen year-old
daughter, who disappeared mysteriously
last week.
Porter Smith of Chicago, the reject
ed lover of Miss Helen Aver Marden
a senior student at Smith College, shot
her on the campus and then killed him
self. Miss Marden died two hours at
ter the shooting.
i In a fire in elevator OBJ of the
4 Illinois Central, large amount OF
4 wheat was destroyed which was owned
i by Patten, leader of the wheat bull
campaign. One fireman was killed ano
several were seriously injured in the
fire.
John Fl. Tunyan, member OF tint
iunior class at Stanford University wa:
arrested for insanity at San Jose, aftel
he had smashed several costly churei
/ windows while suffering from dementia
Overstudy is supposed to be the cause
of his mental condition.
At the Grant birthday dinner II
Philadelphia. President Taft express
ed his admiration for General Gran
as a man, as a soldier and as Presi
dent. and took occasion to correct thu
statement concerning Grant for which
he was so sharply criticized las
year.
The Spring Valley Water Compan.
y has made an official denial that tn
reading of its meters was incorrect il
the case of the school water supply
claiming that the meters are read b.
experienced men whose word is emit
i, tied to more consideration in mat
ter of this kind than the opinions o
noyices who have complained that tn
results of the meter registering wer
| guessed at
The State officials of Nevada VIII
| visited California to gain knowledg
: of modern construction and manage
; nent of prisons, to be applied to tn
|. Improvement of the penitentiary a
) Carson, have returned disappointed
and say they will have to go Eas
, for new ideas for the scientific treat
ment of prisoners while they are i