The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-12

six volume edition of Moliere 3
plays has been sold for $35, 900 in Paris.
The Inauguration or R. E. Sloan as
Governor of Arizona took place May 1.
A. G.. Brown, a San Francisco book
keeper, shot himself because of ILL
health.
Charles Clements, reporter, was shot
by a thug in the early morning hours,
in San Francisco.
Captain Frank Boyd, the veteran
San Francisco pilot, died May 2 at his
home in San Mateo.
Alfred B. Mendelson, Western Dis.
tributer of the Monarch Suspender Com.
pany, has disappeared.
The Caikins Newspaper Syndicate
has been declared bankrupt by Dis
trict Judge Van Fleet.
Nordiea will leave the stage next
season to become the bride of George
Young, the New York banker.
Sam I'll. Nichols, Secretary of State
of Washington, has resigned, but de-
elares that his record is clean.
A fire in the heart of the business
district of Kansas City destroyed prop
erty to the extent of 100000.
Five jurors have been sworn to try
Luther Brown for kidnapping Fremont
Older of the San Francisco Bulletin.
James II. Boyle, charged with kid
mapping Willie Whitla. has suffered a
nervous collapse and is in pitiable
condition.
Plans are being made to boost Gov.
ernor John A. johnson of Minnesota for
the Democratic nomination for Presi.
dent in 1912.
In desperate battle with craeksmen
in San Francisco. thirty shots were
fired by detectives. Two burglars
were captured
The Army and Navy Club gave
brilliant reception to Admiral Ijichi
and his officers at their new clubhouse
in San Francisco.
Captain Nelson of the Golden Gate
Life Saving Station rescued the crew s
wardrobe and food from the wreck of
the Roderick Dhu.
Mrs. William Rudes of Chicago.
bride of one day, committed suicide by
hanging herself with strip torn from
her wedding gown.
One of the large mills of the Hidalgo
Mining Company at Presend, Mexico,
has been destroyed by fire at an esti-
mated loss of $250,000.
A burglar who was shot in San
Francisco while attempting to enter a.
store has been put under the x-ray
and had the bullet removed.
John Watkins a mining engineer,
was buried by an avalanche and COW
cred with snow for twenty-six hours
He revived after being rescued.
Charles NJ. Shortridge has been dis
,1io or 1a 20
Jose Morning Times, by Clifford
Owen, an experienced newspaper man.
Romances in the student body at the
University of California raise the ques-
ton as to the ACCESSIBILITY of eo-educa-
| ton. Five goods have just announced
their engagements.
| Mrs. A. w. Scott. a prominent San
! Francisco club woman. saved her
| handsome home from being destroyed
/ by fire by rare presence of mind in
1 fighting the flames.
/ Lola Kirk, the consort of Tom Crow
of the counterfeiting gang captured in
Marysville, will receive lenient treat
ment from the Federal Government on
| account of her youth and misfortune.
4 A national subscription headed by
King Manuel, was opened for. the relief
of the sufferers from the earthquake at
Lisbon Many bodies have been recov-
lered from the ruins at Buenaventa.
A verdict of guilty of criminal libel
has been found against the publishers
| of the New York American, by the
! jury, in the trial charging the publi-
cation of an article libeling John D.
Rockefeller.
/ 1t is persistently reported in Caracas
that former President Castro left a
fortune in gold buried there. which
would tend to explain his alleged lack
of funds and his anxiety to get back
to Venezuela.
San Franciseans contemplating trips
, abroad this summer are having their
| jewelry, sealskins, ETC., put under seal
at the custom house before their de-
parture to avoid unpleasant suspicion
on their return.
The steamer Peru has arrived at San
Francisco with the body of Captain
Robinson of the steamer Indiana, and
also brought news that the crew was
in mutiny with six men in irons before
the suicide of the captain.
Negotiations have been begun be-
tween the Venezuelan government and
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the disputes over the match and salt
monopelies in Venezuela, held until re-
Gently by English companies.
A large number of colonists from the
Middle and Eastern states are expect
ed in California this summer, and the
firs. consignment. numbering one
thousand. passed through Ogden the
first of May. en- route West.
Geraldine Farrar. star of the Metro
politan Opera Company, ehoked the
property baby because it cried and
spoiled her singing at Pittsburg. An
uproar was caused in the audience
which brought the play TO an end.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt will not re-
main in Europe during next winter and
travel up the Nile in the spring to meet
the ex-President as she at first planned
but will return to the United States
about November l, after visit with
her sister in Rome.
Elizabeth Weber, a miss of foui
. years, was hostess at whooping cough
party recently in Wilmette, I'll. The
eligibility of the 200 guests rested II
the fact that, they had been victims te
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