The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-19

erty loss of $75, 1000.
Mrs. Sarah Dorr has been reelected
president of the Women s Temperance
Union in California.
The steamer Breakwater eollided
with and sunk the river steamer Alert
in Coos Bay, October 9.
The Chinese naval commission head
ed by Prince Tsai Chun has gone to
Europe to investigate matters of naval
construction.
Sam Phillips, bell boy at the Hotel
Del Monte, has been arrested on sus-
picion of being the murderer of girl
in Kentucky.
Seventeen persons were killed as a
result of collision on the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, near
Topeka, Kansas.
The Cornerstone of the new Frank
McCoppin Primary School in San
Francisco was laid with imposing cere-
monies on October 10.
William J. Bryan has declared that
he will not again be candidate for
office, but expects to take an active
interest in politics as long as he lives.
The doctors attached to the hospitals
in Vienna have decided to go on a
strike December Is unless the city
agrees to their demand for an increase
in salary.
The veterans at the Soldiers Home
at Los Angeles are much incensed over
the fact that an iron fence is to be
yaIaaa1 oh he
of $4,000.
The report that Emil Bruguire and
his wife, who was Vesta Shortridge,
will be reconciled, is denied by Mrs.
Bruguire on her return to San Fran
cisco from Tahiti
The radium dealers in Great Britain
have formed combine, and doctors
have begun to complain of the price
of the commodity, which has been
placed at $500 a grain
According to the opinion of the
Twelfth International Congress on AL
coholism, held in London recently, al
cohol in any form is seldom of distinct
value in the treatment of disease.
Emperor Nicholas of Russia will
visit King Victor Emanuel of Italy
within the month, but the place of
meeting is not known and the great
est secrecy is being maintained con-
corning it.
At a socialist mass meeting in Los
Angeles, where speeches were made de-
nouneing Taft and Diaz, three of the
radical leaders were arrested, and a
mob started to storm the jail. This
was dispersed by the police.
The San Francisco branch of the Ma
tional Peace Association has been or
| ganized for the purpose of securing in
dustrial peace and acting as arbiter be-
tween employees and employer in case
| of differences.
| Appalling conditions in Chicago have
been brought to light by investigations
which show that in the heart of the
| city two politicians have been collect
ing over 100000 a year for the pro
| lection of vice.
| Samuel Gompers, president of the
| American Federation of Labor, has re-
| turned from Europe. In a report that
he will prepare for the federation
| Gompers will favor an international
trades union league.
: Tt has been rumored that Miss
| Gladys Kerens of ST. Louis is engaged
| to be married to Prince Schoenberg of
Saxony The rumor is not denied by
| Colonel Kerens, who it is said is slated
as the Ambassador to Austria.
Special dispatches from London re.
| ceived at Toxic insist that the United
| States is preparing TO make a vigor-
| Gus protest against the recent agree
ments between China and Japan in re-
| lation to Manchurian affairs.
A box of poisoned candy was sent
| through the mails to Mrs. c. c.
of a realty operator, who has been ar
rested on suspicion of having attempt
ed to take the life of his ex-wife.
A Chicago course is being introduced
into the Chicago schools that the pu-
pills may be made familiar with the
government of the city and learn the
exact scope of the business transacted
and other facts that viii aid them in
future civic duties.
General A. F. L. D'Amade having
acknowledged the interview published
oClUueI =, III WHlSn lie OeGldItQ thC
| time had arrived for France to call a
halt on Spain s penetration of Mo
| rocco, War Minister Brun has placed
him on the retired list
General Ballinger said on his ar
| rival in San Francisco that the proper
| course to pursue in the matter of the
Hetch-Hetchy and Lake Eleanor prop
| ositions would be to allow the govern
nent to examine the proposition care
fully and temperately, with due re-
gard for everyone concerned, and then
| TO render a decision.
| Isaac Hamilton of Chicago was
| elected president of the American Life
Insurance Convention. The convention
will test the constitutionality of the
| corporation tax in the courts; that a
tax over l per cent. is eonfseation for
insurance companies. and that all
| States should have the same tax on
| insurance business.
| J. Wess Moore. an aged paroled pris-
| oner. has been returned to San QUEEN
| tin to serve his life sentence for muir
der after a period of liberty of less
! than years duration. According to
| the State Board of Prison Directors.