The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-15
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| Alfred g. Vanderbilt won the first
prize in the French horse show at
Paris.
Richard Croker called on President
Taft at the White House. The call was
purely social.
The son of Crazy Snake has promised
| to lead the State militia to the hiding
place of his father.
A mob in Florida lynched the negro
murdered of Policeman Carter and rid
died the body with bullets.
w A. Poynter, former Governor of
Nebraska, while making a speech at
Lincoln, dropped dead of apoplexy.
The Cabinet in Madrid has decided
to introduce into the Cortes bill grant
ing general amnesty to political of
tenders.
]. c. Bates. Jr., former State Senator
from Alameda, has been appointed
cashier of the United States mint at
San Francisco.
4 A woman convict in Georgia who was
sehaekled and forced to work in the
chain gang made successful escape
from her jailers.
A balloon, flying a French flag and
with no one aboard, descended at San
Dial Mazzo, Italy. 1t is feared that two
aeronauts persisted.
An attempt was made to assassinate
the vicar general of the diocese of
Arizona and New Mexico. No reason
fer the act is known.
NJ. Nagai, the japanese Consul-Gen-
eral to San Francisco, arrived at his
post on the Chiyo Maru on April 5, ae-
companied by his bride.
Il Over one hundred thousand dollars
l. Il
at Nome, which has been characterized
as the Derby of the North.
A decision rendered by President Taft
when he was on the bench in Cincin-
natl is quoted as legal authority in the
Standard Oil fight in St. Louis.
The cruiser California brought the
passengers of the wrecked Indiana from
Magdalena Bay to San Francisco. An
effort will be made to save the cargo.
The motor boat race for boats of
the cruiser type at Monte Carlo was
won by the French entry. No Ameri-
cans competed. and the German boat
sank
The council of education of the Amer
lean Medical Association, in session at
Chicago. has recommended the shorten
ing of the medical course by at least
one-third.
Richard Croker the former chief of
Tammany Hall, will be chairman of
! the reception committee at the Jeffer-
| son day dinner for the National Demo
cratic Club.
II The United Railroads attorney OBJ
tanned temporary delay in the plot
ter's cases by preventing the introduce
ton of documents stolen from Detective
Burn s office.
Il Kermit Roosevelt was victor in
fight on board ship crossing the Allan
tic, his antagonist being a German, who
insulted him during the progress of a
game of poker.
The supervisors of San Francisco
have passed an ordinance abolishing
slot machines, and the cigar store gam
bling device will be barred from the
city after July /.
A balloon which started at st. Cloud
(Francel came down in the breakers
and the woman occupant was drowned.
! The two men with her were rescued by
boats from the shore.
Walter S. Hobart, prominent So
ciety and club man of San Francisco,
has been sued for injuring the driver
of a. buggy, while running his automo
, bile at high rate of speed
Students from the California Insti-
\ | tute for the Blind and from the Lowell
High School of San Francisco viii meet
in debate at Stanford University for
their annual forensic contest.
A demented mother in JohnstOwn
>t pa hurled her four small children
from window and then jumped out
herself None of the children were in
i jured but the mother was fatally hurt.
III Calhoun wishes to regain the papers
which were taken from his private safe
under orders of the prosecution, and
has filed petition asking a mandate to
compel Judge Deasy to give up the
documents.
II Mrs. Sampson has been charged with
the killing of her husband Harry Samp-
son, who was nephew of Admiral
Sampson. The case will be tried at
Lyons, New York, where the shooting
took place.
II In a speech to the students of Column
bia University Samuel Gompers, presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Labor, said that strikes are evil and
that workers must try to check the
greed of employers.
The French press was not especially
respectful in its attitude toward Roose-
welt on his arrival in Europe. They
say his speeches are bombastic and ego
tistical, and that he talks freely but
entirely about himself
A family in New Jersey has cele-
brated the fftieth anniversary of the
employment of its first and only cook.
1t was considered such a marvel and
record of fidelity that the day was
made one of grateful celebration.
The San Francisco supervisors have
passed an ordinance enforcing a pre-
caution against fire hazards in nickelo-
deon shows and rejected proposal TO
make an advance of Is per cent. IN the
} schedule of water rates for the city.
An armed Russian band failed IN
J plot to steal treasure on board steamer
in the Caspian Sea Twenty armed
men had planned to overpower the crew
at sea and land with the gold in the
: treasure rooms on the Caucasian coast
Half a million ladybugs were discov-
cred alternating near Dutch Flat (Cal.)
under the snow, and the State HortI-
eulturist has ordered them removed TO