The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-28
Condensed News OF
World, From Files

Five children crossed the Atlantic
alone to meet their father in New York
Chicago has reached the bonding limit
now, having loan of over $25 000,0 900
The railroad connecting Chicago with
Seattle and Tacoma has been COM
pleted.
Maude Adams, the actress, will Join
John Drew in revival of Shakespeare
next season
gadier-General Albert Mills has
been assigned to the command of the
Department of the Gulf.
Chauncey r. Winslow, a wealthy
business man of Portland, died at his
home in that city on May II.
E. W. Moore, a prominent San Diego
attorney, has been accused of fraud in
| the management of an estate.
The annual report of the Anaconda
| Copper Mining Company shows deficit
| for the year ending December 81.
Leo Steak, the noted tenor of the
Vienna opera, will appear at the Metro
politan Opera House next season.
| President Taft delivered an impress
sive address at the unwilling of
statue on the Petersburg battlefield.
| Texas horned toads are being put
through a metalizing process in Chicago
and are to be used for ladies' hat pins
Cecil II. Sargent, an Englishman, and
his wife, an American, must stand trial
before the correctional court in Paris
for illtreating four adopted children.
James T. Williams, Jr., has resigned
as Civil Service Commissioner. He
is leaving the service because of i'll
health.
The superintendent of public instruc-
ton at San Francisco has entered a
protest against the proposed cut in
salaries.
Algernon Charles Swinburne, the poet,
left an estate valued at 100000, which
was left to his friend, Theodore Watts
Dunton.
Raymond Giesler, young man of
Chehalis, Washington, shot his fancee
and himself. He left no explanation of
his act.
The Paris strikers have received lit
tie unified support from affiliated labor
unions and the affair is likely to prove
a fasco.
The American Consul at Messina has
reported that everything is quiet in
!, Adana and that the military are con.
, trolling the city.
Bankers, merchants and citizens OF
every vocation turned out in overalls
in Elgin, Oregon, and laid out hand
some public park.
George d. Collins has made one more
effort to escape the penitentiary by de
) handing trial on bigamy charge il
, hope of an acquittal
One man was killed and several in
, jured in the Roosevelt tunnel at Cripple
| Creek as a result of the workmen drill
| ing into a missed shot,
| Immigrants coming into the United
e States from Canada exceed those leav
. ing by the same route by nearly 200t
/ for the last fiscal year.
e California has sent two special rep
a resentatives, C. C. Moore and Bruc,
t Bonney, to Europe to interest thos,
: abroad in the Portola feast in October
Miss Geraldine Farrar denied on he
0 arrival in Paris that she is engaged t.
J, Antonio Scott, and that she intends t,
= return to the United States in the fall
r The story of Johann Salvatore O
: Chicago that is of royal blood and tina
s he is the long-lost Austrian Archduk
is discredited by the Austrian Consul
s Anna Held, the actress, will retir
s from the stage next season with a for
e tune of a million dollars, which she ha
s accumulated during her career as al
: actress.
e Mrs. John Alexander Sterling, for
y mer American actress, from whom he
husband recently received a divorce il
f Edinburgh, has returned to the stag
S in London.
/ The French and United States gov
II ernments have demanded an investiga
d ton of the murder of three Frencl
d sheepmen by masked men at Cheyenne
o Wyoming.
Whitelaw Reid, the American Ambas
y sador to the Court of st. James, wa
t host at a dinner at his London house il
n honor of a number of foreign diplomats
a on May Il.
S Portugal is on the verge of cabine
: crisis, and the Council of State has de
n eided to prorogue Parliament as tn
only means to avoid the dissolution o
a the cabinet,
l. Virginia Harmed Sothern has rees
: tablished her residence in Nevada TO
Il the purpose of obtaining the divorce de
f cree sdenied her few weeks ago b,
f Judge Pike.
II -Four hundred officers of the Saliva
h ton Army met at the National Con
gress of the Western American district
s. held at Chicago. Commander Eva Boot
o addressed the Congress.
s The pay of $4,000 steel workers nea
o Pittsburg will be raised on June l, &C
/ cording to a recent announcement 0
s the steel companies outside the Unite
s. States Steel Corporation.
n a severe earthquake shock Of ninet,
/ seconds duration was recorded in Tao
II ma, Chile, on May 10, which threw tn
o inhabitants into a state of panic. n
e fatalities have been reported.
o The Third Avenue Railroad Compan
V in New York, which has been in tn
l. hands of a receiver, has been ordere
d sold at auction to satisfy a mortgag
o held by the Central Trust Company.
Patrolman William f. Kruger of Sa
IS Francisco has been presented with
r medal for heroism displayed on tn
r night of the fire at the St. George Hote
g when he saved the lives of six men.
# A scheme to lengthen the day by be
/ ginning it two hours earlier durin
n summer has been presented to the Pres
e ident. AS railway mail schedules an
n national banking hours would be in
V mediately affected by the change, tn
i, President suggested that the matte
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