The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-22
CONVERSATIONS.

There is deep snow in the high
Southern California fears an egg
famine.
China is seeking a long loan Of $780,
100000
Sacramento will regulate telephone
| charges
The tramp army in the western states
! is increasing.
/ The Gould roads are fighting the
! Hartman lines.
| Conan Doyle has had a serious oper-
alton performed.
King Manuel of Portugal is said to
have lung trouble.
Three earthquake shocks occurred in
Maryland January II.
A Lincoln stamp will be issued on
/ the Lincoln centenary.
D. o. Mills gave his daughter we'd
ding present of 100000.
There are charges of bribery in the
Oregon senatorial contest.
Three San Francisco benefits netted
the Italian sufferers $4,000.
/ Nat Goodwin has settled property
| worth 100000 on his bride.
A Venezuelan envoy has arrived in
| France to open negotiations.
! Fields of ice still impede the navi-
/ cation of the Columbia river.
n A church at Berne, Switzerland, fell
ION worshipers and killed scores.
4 D. o. Mills has decided his three Mills
j hotels in New York to trustees.
Rev. DR.. Guth has become president
Iof the University of the Pacific.
Il Great progress is being made by
| Turkey under the new constitution.
San Francisco Chinese tongs have
made peace pact until February TO.
Over 100 deaths were the result of
the Bluefeld CIV. W mine disaster.
! David Jacks, the millionaire land
owner of Monterey county, Cal, is dead.
Mrs. Leslie Carter, actress, had a mar
row escape from death by falling seen
cry.
| Taft IS independence in picking his
cabinet is said to have irritated Roose-
welt.
: 1t is denied that Hartman is now in
control of the New York Central rail
road
: Many persons were found alive in
: the ruins of Messina ten days after the
| quake.
. The bride of J. Francis Leo, mer.
,, chant of Santa Barbara, has disap-
: peared.
All Austrian reserves, living in Swift
zerland, have been called home from
service.
Panama merchants protest at the sale
of food and other supplies by the com
mission.
- Geo. W Wickersham of New York is
! slated for Attorney General in Taft s
cabinet.
Eastern doctors have perfected a de-
vice to measure the strength of human
emotions
The Anglo Californian bank and the
London-Paris National have been con-
soidated.
. James McNab has been elected presi-
dent'of the San Francisco Chamber of
Commerce
, San Francisco customs officials are
unable to appraise Jack London s South
Sea curios.
Senators find that the President has
spent $40, 100000 on the secret service
in one year.
, A violent break in traction stock has
, caused depression .on the New York
stockmarket.
Senator Tillman franked typewriter
, through the mail and received bill OF
$40 postage.
! C. S. Cameron, president of the Pitts
burg Railway Co.. has been found gull
ty of bribery.
> Frank A. Vanderbilt has become presi
. dent of the great National City bank
. in New York
. ?. H. Mccarthy has been slated fol-
reelection for president Of the California
building trades.
! Archbishop Ireland has returned from
/ Rome with an Apostolic blessing for the
+ American people.
Tang Shaggy, has left for Europe
/ where he is credited to most Of tn,
governments there
e The International harvester company
has been fined for violating the anti
trust law in Kansas.
San Francisco theaters demand The
. enforcement of the building law,
e against nickelodeums.
% California, s contribution to date t.
: the earthquake sufferers in Italy AM
o Sicily totals $161, 437.05.
There were strange rises and fall O.
u water in Lake Geneva two days befor
" the earthquake in Italy.
u Thomas A. Day, San Francisco pionee
and contractor, was stricken by deaf
u after dressing in bedroom
!. Margaret Ellington, wife of Frohmar
/ announces her retirement from the stag
IL and denies divorce rumors.
Lady William Beresford. forme
N Duchess of Marlborough, formerly Lii
n Price of New York, is dead.
u The Merchants Association of Sa
&c Francisco has begun a fight on tn
!. transcontinental freight rates.
IL Former Supervisor Coffey of Sa
Francisco has been put on trial for az
e. cepting trolley franchise bride.
II, Senator Tillman has lost document
u, from his desk and insists that the secre
sd service men have taken them.
ne The revival of capital punishment
Oh France has been signalized by four b
9. headings, which crowds cheered.
IN The scheme nf President Cabrara ,