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

The Cretan situation is again causing
much anxiety in Europe
The city of Sacramento has acquired
municipal street-oiling plant.
President Taft is finding difficulty in
filing the place of ambassador to China.
An insane Oregon man dynamited his
home, killing himself, his wife and
child.
Storms in the Middle West paralyzed
railroad traffic during the first week
of june
DR.. Ernest Fox Nichols of Columbia
University is to be the new president
of Dartmouth College.
A case of leprosy has been discover
ed in Los Angeles which was at first
supposed to have been measles.
Senator George Oliver of Pennsyl-
vania has been indicted by the grand
jury for evading the bullion tax of
Nevada.
The cornerstone of the Peninsula Hos
pital at Palo Alto has been laid and
handsome edifce is assured to the col
lege town.
The wife of Professor James W.
Thompson of the University of Chiea-
go obtained a divorce from him on the
ground of cruelty.
Brigadier General Richard T. Yeat-
man, L. S. A., has been placed on the
retired list owing to disability incurred
in the line of duty.
Lieutenant Commander H. NJ Cald-
well, who was aid to Admiral Dewey
during the Battle of Manila bay, has
resigned from the navy.
/ r.-o-o ~
contest for the trophy of the Aero
Club Of America at indianapolis in the
national long-distanee race.
| The trial of Broughton Brandenburg.
the magazine writer, in prison in New
York under Indictment for grand lar
ceny has been set for June Is.
John D. Archbold gave $500, 900 to
| cancel the mortgage on the Syracuse
University and during the year has
given $750.000 to the institution.
DR.. Richard Coekburn MeLauren has
been chosen president of the Boston
School of Technology. He was former
| " connected with Columbia University.
| H. a. Chauchard, a French merchant
| prince. died at his home in Paris. He
/ was the owner Of a valuable collection
| of paintings. among them being Mil
| let S sAngelus,' for which ne paid
| 100000, and Meissonier' "1815.'
| William E. Corey, president of the
| United States Steel Corporation, has au-
thorized a denial Of the report that he
is negotiating an alliance with the Ger
J man Steel Federation in connection with
the steel imports and exports of the
United States and Germany.
| a home for ex-convicts has been
| equipped in San Francisco through the
/ efforts of the Woman s Auxiliary to the
California Prison Commission. It is de-
signed as a place where the discharged
convict may have every chance TO NOR
ally and mentally rehabilitate himself.
| A novel receipt for longevity was
given by Miss Mary Cummins prior to
her death at Bellevue Hospital at the
age of 100 That she had never mar
ried and that she never for a moment
relinauished her independence were the
two reasons to which she ascribed her
long life.
!. - The Intervention Of the Italian Con
sui General and the offer of the Nc
Cloud lumber company to pay off the
men. TO give them their deposits in
the bank and to purchase their cabins
at a price agreed upon by an arbitra-
/ ton committee, has practically ended
| the strike at the lumber mills.
The report of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics in Sacramento shows among
other things that the japanese could
not live upon the Oriental trade alone
and that they draw largely on the
/ Caueasians for their support. I'm
like most foreigners the japanese are
not sending their money TO their ma
tive land but are investing it in Cali
f0rnia.
Four members Of prominent Wood
| land. Cal, families were drowned By
the plunging of an automobile into The
Sacramento river. Those drowned were
Mrs. J. H DUNCAN, wife Of the Post
master at Woodland, and her fifteen
wear old daughter: Mrs W. F. Nixon
| wife Of the proprietor of the Woodland
Mail. and Miss Julia DUNCAN of San
Francisco.
{ J. Henniker Heaton in an article pub
lished in London advocates the state
purchase the cable lines. With regard
to American cables he proposes that the
British and American governments
Jointly acquire the rights of the exist
ing cable companies and establish a
common state monopoly. According Il
MS plan then messages would cost only
a penny a word