The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-17
Bad floods have tied up traffic in III

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Canadian Northwest.
Annie Mathewson, a San Francisco
glrl, attempted suicide by swallowing
chloroform.
L. Lindenburg, wealthy retired
wool merchant, committed suicide in
San Francisco
| trlct in California are flooded from the
breaking of levees.
| Howard Could has been ordered into
court to tell his income and from what
sources he obtains it.
| Miss Alma Bell, Of Auburn, shot and
killed her lover, Joseph Armes, when
; he refused to marry her
| 1t is estimated that a complete sys-
TEN of subways for Chicago viii cost
over one hundred million dollars
Five hundred persons were injured
by the explosion of an army powder
, magazine IN Craeow, Austrian Poland.
Walter Wellman viii undertake an
| other expedition in search Of the North
Pole and will leave Paris about Au-
gust l.
Miss Adeline Knapp, the California
| newspaper woman and magazine writer,
died at her home in Mill Valley on
June g.
General Frederick Funston engaged
in a pistol duel with burglar at close
range at his quarters at Fort Leaven-
worth.
~ Rosehevensky. first secretary of
the Russian Legation at Bucharest, has
been appointed Russian Consul at San
| Francisco.
| Of daafh Far
| the murder of sheriff, was taken from
Jail and lynched by mob in Tallahas-
see, Fla.
The French Aerial League has per-
fected plans for lines of dirigible bal
looms from Paris to a number of in
terror towns.
The country in the vicinity of Salt
Lake has been flooded and great dam
age done to property in many of the
| nearby towns.
General Chaffee is advocating the
making of military training part of
the course of study in the high schools
of Los Angeles.
Colonel NJ. H. Hecht, prominent San
Francisco business man, has been
| stricken with paralysis and is not ex-
pected to recover.
| President Taft has announced his
intention of being present at the open
ing of the Portola Festival IN San
Francisco in October.
| The Mundy Lumber Company's mills
at Three Valleys, British Columbia
have been destroyed by fire. The esti-
mated loss is $3.50, 900.
| The passengers on the steamer China
/ L. Ivr% tina n q
of an ammonia tank on the last trip OF
| the liner to San Francisco.
The New York Customs authorities
| have on their hands a diamond collar
and bracelet appraised at $4,000 which
the owner has failed to claim.
A consignment of WHISTLES shipped
from Kansas City in boxes bearing false
labels was seized in Oklahoma by order
of the United States District Attor
ney.
The Postofice Department is now
shipping by freight large portion OF
its supplies which was previously sent
by mail and paid for at the regular
| rate.
The National Tube Company's works
at Wheeling, W. Va, which have been
idle since November, 1907, have gone
into operation again, giving employ
ment to 1900 men
Mrs. Electra II. Beard, convicted OF
disappointing about $4,000 of the
funds of the Children s Hospital Asso.
citation in Denver, has been sentenced
to three years imprisonment.
NJ. G. Amaral was arrested IN san
| Luis Obispe for the murder of man
in the Azores Islands three years ago
He is reputed to be of good family and
will be taken to Lisbon for trial.
A movement which aims 80 secure
Sunday as day Of rest for postmen
in the United States was inauguraTed
at meeting Of New York clergyman
and Congress viii be asked to act.
Meat traders in New South Wales and
New Zealand appear not to fear the
capture of the Australian trade by the
socalled American beef trust, and clam
that such project is impracticabie-
According to reports just made pub
lie the deposits in the National Banks
of the United States for the fiscal yeaI
exceed the outstanding money supply
of the country by billion and hali
dollars.
The resignation of Professor George
Burnam Foster of the University OF
Chicago from the Baptist ministry IA;
| been demanded as a result Of the pub
LEGATION of his book 1.-THE Functions Of
Religion.
Vice Admiral Uriu of the japanese
navy and Captain Henry B. Peliy OF
| the British navy were the guests OF
honor at a dinner given in New fors
by Colonel Robert NJ. Thompson, pres
| ident of the Annapolis alumni
In order to establish colony OF
poets about him, Joaquin Miller las de
cided to give an acre Of land apiece
| to a number of literary men. on which
| they viii build homes and II the future
| he viii conduct a school of poetry.
The national endurance balloon Tac'
was won by the indianapolis which wa
! in the air twenty-five hours. The rec
ord is forty-four hours, held by ALFRED
lie Blanc of France. The Chicago wa
second and the Ohio third in the race