The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-01
Condensed News OF
World, From Files


The income tax amendment to the
tariff bill, introduced by Senator c.
Cummins, will be graduated measure.
The clothing of Hart Mckee has
been seized in Paris for his failure to
pay an automobile insurance pre-
MUM.
A seven-year-old boy in Tacoma has
become insane as the result of prank
when companion put snake around
his neck.
The steamer Seward of the Alaska
Commercial Company left for Alaska
under protest because of its over
loaded condition.
Archbishop Riordan of San Fran
, cisco went to Washington to attend
the annual meeting of the trustees of
the Catholic University.
DR.. John Burnt, professor of Greek
| at st. Andrews University since 1892,
has been offered the professorship of
Greek at Harvard University.
The Moltke- Harden SANDER case,
sequel of the Zuelenburg affair and
the Ground Table" scandals of 1907,
again came up for trial in Berlin this
week.
| Anna Trafford, who was arrested in
| New York for stealing two loaves of
| bread, has dissfpated a fortune of
$4,000 at the race tracks in three
years.
| Eugene Moore, son of a prominent
family in Plainfield, N. j., shot him
stls in Golden Gate Park because of
financial difficulties. He will probably
recover.
An appropriation of $4,000 for the
| Presidents travelling expenses during
the fiscal year 1910 has been intro
duced in Congress.
Colonel Isaac Taylor, aged IA, died at
Peoria, H., April Goth. Colonel Taylor
evolved the idea of the lakes to the
gulf deep waterway and did much to
advance the scheme.
Harvey w. Scott of The Oregonian
has declined the embassadorship to
Mexico. Henry Wilson, now Minister
to Belgium, will probably be promoted
to the Mexican port.
Harvey Graeme Furbay, who was dis
missed from the Presbyterian church
ten years ago for drunkenness, is again
minister, having been reordained by
the New York presbytery.
John Fox, president of the democratic
club, has confirmed the report that the
club has abandoned the idea to give
Richard Croker farewell "harmony"
dinner before his departure for Ireland.
Captain S. III. Ollie of Grass Valley
is to receive 100000 for $500 which he
loaned a needy friend sixty years ago.
| The man he befriended died recently
1 in, ~ mil
| lions.
The conduct of Lieutenant Osborn
| with Mrs. Evans, wife of the naval
constructor, will be investigated by
the Navy Department and a board of
| inquiry will convene at the Mare Is
| land yard.
A newspaper special has been put
on by the Southern Pacific, whereby
the interior towns in the northern part
of California receive the San Fran
|, cisco morning papers before s
O'Clock.
-Four miles of Pullman cars will con-
stitute a hotel on wheels which will
stand on the beach during the Elks'
convention at Los Angeles in July.
There will be accommodations for H.
900 people.
David H. Moffat, president of the
Denver, Northwestern and Pacific rail-
way, known as the Moffat road has
announced that the financing of the
railway through to Salt Lake City has
been completed.
William B. Haywood. president OF
the Western Federation of Miners,
made insulting remarks about the
American flag in the lobby of Sac
ramento hotel and was forced to apol-
ogize by Captain E. J. Coke, U. S. A.
J. Wilson Perry, of st. Louis, has
purchased the entire interests, amount
ing to $1,40o,000, of DR.. Woods of Kan
sas City, in the National Bank of Com
merce. Later Perry was elected presi-