The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-15
CONDENSED NEWS
FROM COAST FILES

+ Prof. Charles Gross of Harvard is
dead.
Canada is to build another welland
canal.
The Yerkes estate totals nearly seven
millions,
There has been heavy storm in the
Dakotas.
Thousands of people are starving in
Armenia.
There has been heavy fall of snow
in Colorado.
Niearaguan lobbyists are busy at
Washington.
The Princeton left for Nicaragua on
December 5.
Baron Sidney sotnino is the new pre-
mier of Italy.
There is much sickness among the
garrison of Paris.
Russia is to adopt the calendar Of
Western nations.
Great Britain has barred Red Cross
stamps on all mail.
The New York district attorney has
woman law assistant.
The New York police have a new
| three-million-dollar home.
Over twenty thousand criminals are
| enrolled in the French army.
Sacramento pioneers have become too
few to keep up their society.
The temporary American houses built
in Messina are falling to pieces.
An Irish landlord has put up the
town of Dungannon for auction
Snow has aided the Northwestern
railway strikers by stopping trains.
Congressman Needham of California
is preparing tariff commission BILL
Storage eggs are being investigated
by the California state board of health.
Mrs. Tom Thumb although nearly
seventy years old is the pet of Paris.
The British fourmasted ship Matter
horn has sunk off the Washington coast.
Many vessels were lost December 2
in great storm on the English coast.
China denies the Cars right to adj
minister the Manchurian railway zone.
Two more have been killed in the
San Francisco tong war; one on each
side
Joseph Norwell of MERGED, who aid
ed in planning Golden Gate Park, is
dead.
It is believed that Arizona and New
Mexico will be admitted as separate
states.
A thief has been arrested for steal
ing brass screws from marble tombs at
New Orleans.
Liberia asks for American assistance
in policing the back country against
savage tribes.
George Croker died in New York.
He was the son of the millionaire
Charles Croker.
A New York City employee petition
| ed to have his salary reduced but the
| favor was denied.
| The Illinois Manufacturers Assoeia
ton is preparing to attack the corpora
ton tax in the courts.
A sleep walking youth in Massachu
setts shot at his parents while they
were asleep, wounding one.
Congress expects long session. TIL,
Insurgents are expected to give supper
to the President S policies.
| Everybody at the Nicaraguan Lega
ton at Washington got drunk when tn
minister received his passport.
The income to Colorado farmers from
sugar beets this year has been seve1
million five hundred thousand dollar,
Andrew Carnegie tried to bail HI
chauffeur but having no money wit
him, he gave his mansion as security
Bishop Stringer and his wife, Car
adian arctic missionaries, have perish
ed somewhere between Edmonton an
| Dawson.
Mrs. Joseph Drexel has given
Stradivarius to a young Italian @
Philadelphia whose career may riva
/ Kubelik's.
The civil service may be applied t
the diplomatic corps with a view G
encouraging minor officials to work fc
1 promotion.
| Miss Bogue will become the bride c
d member of the Italian nobility. Sh
/ was queen of the Portola festival
San Francisco.
The government will send the scot
/ cruiser Salem through thousands {
miles of arctic and tropical seas |
[ fully test the wireless.
/ William Watson, the English poe
has confessed that his verses on I'll
Woman With the Serpent's Tongue
referred to the daughter of Premi'
Asquith.
I The wife of Carlyle Norwood, Il
young spendthrift of Philadelphia, h;
asked for divorce. Norwood squan
cred sixty thousand dollars in two yea
after leaving Princeton.
VI The Edison Company at Pasadena
| competition with the city's electr
! plant is charging two and half cen
| per kllowatt for consumers using tV
thousand kilowatts or more per mont
III Sacramento Valley was visited D
eember by the heaviest windstorm {
record. Snow fell in many towns ar
there was freezing weather in Il
mountains. No covered freight ca
! reached Sacramento.
u Disguised as a stevedore. King Gu
tave of Sweden, spent most of ds
carrying sacks Of coal from a ligkte
1 The king intends to mix with all class