The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-08

Mrs. John Jacob Astor is suing for
| divorce.
The French parliament convened
| October IS.
The Western Pacific railroad is near
ly complete.
SQUAD raisers in California have
| formed trust.
The Peruvian-B Bolivian boundary dis
pute has ended.
The Duma is again at work on the
land proposition.
Gen. Charles Morton says the army is
| in fine condition.
A Haytian gunboat has been launch
ed in New York.
| Princeton will build a monument to
| Grover Cleveland.
Socialistic doctrines are spreading in
the German army.
Californians had big Portola ban
quet in New York.
Thomas Conan, an oldtime mayor Of
| New York, is dead.
A new tariff rate viii be in effect
| the end of October.
| A japanese store at Eureka has been
blown up by a bomb.
Austria consumed eighty-one million
| pounds of tobacco last year.
Cincinnati shippers viii fight the
raise in railroad freight rates.
The widow of John Jay recently died
in New York at the age of 81.
Wilbur Wright is instrueting army
officers in the use of the aeroplane.
The Butterick Publishing Company
has acquired Everybody's Magazine
Elaborate plans were made to pro-
tect the Gar on his recent visit to
Italy.
New York doctors plan to produce
radium by the wholesale and lower the
price.
The Metropolitan Opera Company of
New York will appear in PARIS in the
spring.
The American Federation of Labor
has fiercely scored the execution of
Ferrer.
Gompers urges the organization of
an insurance system among labor
unions.
Herbert J. Gladstone may be the
first governor general of United South
Africa
The captain and crew of a trading
ketch were murdered by natives of New
Britain.
The bank clearings of San Francisco
grew nearly nine millions during Por-
tola week.
The government officials say that
there are billions of tons of good coal
in Alaska.
President Taft had three days of do
ing as he pleased at his brother s
Texas ranch.
France has imposed the maximum
rate of duty against all imports from
the United States
The Irish Land Bill has passed the
third reading in the house of lords in |
greatly amended form.
An attempt to restore man s mem
Dry by a surgical operation will be
made in Elgin, Illinois.
Sweden is trying to block immigra
ton by opening public lands to her
young men at a low price.
Patriotic Americans assembled at |
Yorktown October IS to celebrate the !
surrender of Lord Corvallis
An Illinois man convicted of mis-
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lands
Department stores of Sacramento
will be compelled under the law to pro-
vide seats for their women clerks.
copy Of the diary of Don Gaspar
de Portola has been issued by the
Academy of Pacific Coast History.
Rasmussen. the explorer, has return
ed to Copenhagen from Greenland. He
reiterates his belief in Doctor Cook. /
Redlight district crusades by Chi
eago evangeGsts please the divekeep- Il
ers because of the crowds they bring.
All the American mail on the sunk
en- steamer Ohio has been recovered.
Letters and parcels are in good condi
ton
Rev. John Partridge, an Episcopal
minister of Petaluma. was stricken
blind while conducting Sunday ser
vices.
Joseph Goldstein of New York stole
500 to buy his wife a gravestone, con
fessed his guilt voluntarily and is held
for trial.
The Steel Trust plans to buy all the
breweries in one county in PennsyI-
vania so as to check drinking among
its employees.
\ joint army and navy. board will
prepare plans during the coming win
ter 10 fortify both entrances Of the
Panama Canal.
The Southern Pacific is believed TO
he the real owner Of property bought
III San Francisco which may be used
for depot purposes.
Army gunners at Fort Hancock fred |
four shots minute and hit the NOV
ing target each time. The guns were
ten-inch disappearing rifles.
A San Diego forest incendiary start
ed fires in the thickets by placing a
burning glass where the rays Of the
sun would strike it AT noon.
NJ. Christensen. Danish minister Of
war and marine. has been forced out /
Of Office because of alleged responsible
itv in connection with the Alberti
frauds.
The Vatican is preparing for the
removal of Pope Leo's remains from
s.. Peters TO the Lateran basIllca.
The anarchists threaten a demonstra-
ton when it IS done.
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