The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-15
Condensed News OF
World, From Files.

IS part of the national festivity.
Beekman Winthrop will be Assistant
Secretary of the Navy.
The japanese press has felicitatet
Taft upon his Inauguration.
A son has been born to the. eldesi
daughter Of the Emperor of Japan.
Z. FL. Hartman has returned to New
York after camping trip in Texas.
-Four letters written by Washington
were sold at auction in London fol
500.
Homer Davenport, the eartoonist, was
injured in taxicab accident in New
York.
The seventeenth venire in the Cal
houn trial is exhausted without any
result.
The Wright aeroplane is wrecked al
Pau, France, but the occupants are
unhurt.
Miss Viola squires, of Chicago, has
refused to pay taxes because she is de
MED the ballot.
Bill granting statehood to Arizona
and New Mexico failed to pass at the
last session of Congress.
An Oregon school teacher rode fifty
miles through a wilderness to take an
examination for diploma.
The brick in the city hall, which is
being wrecked in San Francisco. is es
timated to be worth $575,0o0.s
Six persons are reported dead from
cold and exposure during the storm at
the inaugural in Washington
The new immigration laws of Mex.
leo, which are similar to those of the
United States, are now in force
A veteran of the Mexican war, nine
ty-three years old, still signs his pen
sion check without any difficulty.
Otto Krautz, a sixteen year-old boy
committed suicide in San Francisco
during a fit of temporary insanity.
Blanche Walsh, the actress, is daq
gerously i'll from lead poisoning con
tracted through her stage makeup.
An international smuggling scheme
was discovered in Chicago when secret
service men arrest two counterfeiters
Miss Alice Blech, an attache of the
Bureau of American Republics, has
been selected by Mrs. Taft as her social
secretary.
A miner in Bakersfield, California
has discovered deposit of yellow
ochre and tungsten which is valued at
| 20,000,00O.
John S. Merrill of San Francisco, a
member of the firm of Holbrook, Mer-
rill & Stetson, was fatally shot while
cleaning his gum
The Red Cross italian relief fund has
reached over million, and New York
and California head the list in the
sums contributed.
A prominent business man Of Pitts
burg is arrested for arson, charged
with an attempt to burn the establish
ment of competitor.
The establishment of an Army and
Navy Club in San Francisco is assured
as the charter list of one hundred
names has been closed.
Giuseppe Garlbaldi, a grandson OF
General Garibaldi, is in San Francisco
on his way to the Orient to take a
position as a railroad engineer.
An inmate of the Stockton insane
asylum was killed in jump from a
window, which makes the third tragedy
within month at the institution.
Ex-President Roosevelt asserts, in a
telegram addressed to the president of
the Navy League in New York, that a
division of the feet would be folly.
Royalist students in Paris have mu-
tilated statues in the gardens at Lux
embourg and attempted to ltIll down
the statue of Emil lola at Versailles.
A former San Francisco woman, Mrs.
Edward Baker, has disappeared in
New Orleans, with some grounds for
the assumption that she has been kid
naped.
On March 4 fierce storm ragged
through the Atlantic States, the sea
board from New York TO Norfolk be-
ing buried in snow and swept by hur-
ricanes.
The Union League Club has opened
its new home at Powell and O'Farrel
streets in San Francisco with cele-
bration for the Inauguration of Presi-
dent Taft.
A government grain buyer has re
ceiyed a check from the government
for a shipment which was purchased
for the Northern armies during the
Civil War.
The $4,000 pearl necklace lost by
Jennie Croker at the Mardi Gras ball
at the Hotel st. Francis, is still miss
ing and detectives have no clew as TO
its whereabouts.
William Parker, son of a millionaire,
who married cafe singer In San Fran
cisco, less than year ago, has gone
home to his mother and his wife has
returned to the cafes.
The marriage of California girl,
Miss Emma Burnham, and Lieutenant
S. NJ. Robinson, OF the battleship Yer
mont, takes place in Virginia, as
Arthur n. Curzon, cousin of Lord
Curzon, has married Mrs. Evelyn Pitt
man, in San Francisco, in spite of the
violent opposition of his family, who
deplore his infatuation for the beau
tiful widow.
The United States government IS to
pay old claims for the sinking of ships
engaged in the West India trade by a
French man-of-war in 1900. One of
the heirs to this claim is Mrs. z. j.
Babbitt of San Francisco.
Percy L. Bromwell, son of the late
Colonel Louis L. Bromwell, has COM
mitted suicide while respondent. Colo
mel Bromwell killed himself about
year ago at his home in Oakland, fact
which is said to have affected his son.
The report that Castro, the former
president of Venezuela, is to return to
Caracas is creating much interest, as
warrant for his arrest for completely