The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-15

q puma man Oh 90.
The. Pope is eonvaleseent, but is still
TOO i'll to receive audiences.
Emmanuel Poirre (Caran d'Aehe),
the French eartoonist, is dead.
An Eseondido farmer, attacked by
an angry bull, was saved from death
by his dog.
Roosevelt ADDED 100000 acres to
the national forests as one of his last
acts as President.
A ffteen-year-o school boy in Los
Angeles shot himself after rebuke
from his teacher.
Mrs. Despard, sister of Sir John
French, has been sent to Jail with
other suffragettes.
William Cotter Ricord, formerly ed
itor of the San Diego Union, died Feb
ruary 26 in Denver.
Chicago club women express their
indignation at municipal neglect of
women in that city.
The police have captured a Grip
per- who has been slashing women in
the streets of Berlin.
The Gutenberg museum has accept
ed the work of Chicago janitor who
has won fame as an artist.
A mother and four children were
scremated in their home in Bakersfield,
after having been murdered.
fire at San Quentin destroyed the
-jute warehouse, but the convicts saved
other buildings from destruction.
A heavy earthquake shock, 5000
miles distant, has been recorded at the
observatory on the Isle of Wight.
The Foreign Office at Toxic has
given out figures to prove that Japan
.ese laborers are returning home.
Zion City is again on money max
ing basis, and the factories founded
by Dowie are operating at profit.
On February % France was in the
grip of terrible storm, as the result
of which many deaths were reported.
Lloyd Griscom, American Embassa-
dor at Rome, was the first of the Diplo-
matte Corps to send in his resignation.
The California legislature has APP
propriated 100000 for an industrial
school to be erected in San Francisco.
The report of Ethel Roosevelt's en-
gagement to William Phillips, Assist
ant Secretary of State, is officially de-
MED.
An Oklahoma farmer, single handed,
captured FIVE robbers and recovered
part of the $4,000 they had stolen from
him.
Captain Edwin Goodall, pioneer,
identified with commercial develop
ment of the Pacific Coast, died in Oak
land.
The British steamer Surugu ground
ed on the Manila breakwater, result
ing in serious damage to vessel and
cargo.
A bomb was found in the courtyard
of the Kings palace in Madrid, Great
ing a disquieting sensation throughout
Spain.
Congress has awarded gold medals
to the Wright brothers in appreciation
of their achievements in aerial navi-
cation.
Phi Beta Kappa fraternity, at Cor
nell. has elected a Chinese student to
membership, for the first time in its
history.
The Bohemian Club gave its first ex-
hibit of the work of local artists that
has been given in San Francisco since
the fire.
their smoker on the eve of his inaugu-
ration, and promised TO live up to Yale
expectations.
Thieves committed a daring day
light robbery in Oakland. They lock
ed the Chinese servant in a closet and
looted the house.
Precoeious Portland infants aged
four and three ran away to get mar
ried but the romance was spoiled by
-, ,,nraman ftc poiicemau.
The Wagnerian tenor Burgsatalier
viii marry Mrs. Hexamer, with whom
he eloped to Munich from New York,
as soon as she is divorced.
The State Department has asked
that a naval vessel be sent to ANA
pala to watch the development OF mil
itary activity in Nicaragua.
Twelve members of gang OF inter
national burglars who have been oper-
ating on the continent have been cap
tured by the police at Zurich.
Senator Tillman's suggestion that
the presidential message should be ex-
cluded from the mails. because of the
slain language used in transmitting
fhe report of the Home Commission TO
Congress, was referred to the Commit
tee on Postoffices and Postroads. Inc
report dealt with homes in the Sums
The wife of theatrical manager IN
New York has been sentenced to one
year in prison for attempting to pro-
cure false testimony in divorce case
Joseph Torneau, a cousin of Sir VIII
fred Laurier, Premier of Canada, and
discoverer of sixty-seven tin mines in
Mexico, died February &c at Los An
geles.
At the Inauguration, President Taft
wore trousers presented to him by the
Republican State Committee of Texas,
and made of wool raised in the Lone
Star State.
The French parliamentary group
wish to prevent war in the Balkans
by compelling the powers to offer me-
diation. in the event of a conflict be-
coming inevitable.
DR.. s. T. Kong, Chinese graduate
of the University of California and of
Columbia University, has arrived from
China to purchase mining machinery
for his government.
A Russian wedding in Spokane was
marked by tragedy, when one of the
guests was accidentally shot during the