The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-11

A great aerial race meeting was mel
September 5 at Brescia, Italy.
It is asserted that many swedisI
strikers are actually starving in Stock
holm.
Rome experienced a severe earth
quake on August 81 which caused 1
panic.
Associate Justice William Ell. Mood,
IS seriously i'll at his home at Haver
hill, Mass.
The Lusitania has again clipped three
hours and eighteen minutes from it:
own fastest time.
A. 2. Sawyer, of Seattle, Wash, has
been appointed by President Taft to
be auditor of Porto Rico.
The famous Negras gold mine in
Mexico has been rediscovered after be.
ing lost for two centuries.
Glenn H. Curtiss, the American
aviator, was given dinner by Am
bassador and Mrs. White in Paris.
Emperor Francis Joseph greeted a
delegation from the Swiss Council at
Borsch, Switzerland, on August 81.
The steamer Bandon was wrecked on
the bar of the Coquille River, Or. The
boat and cargo of lumber are a total
loss.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and Miss
Roosevelt were the guests of President
and Nine. Fallieres at their chalet in
Paris.
Mrs. NJ. c. Allen, of Pomona, Cal,
tasted 81 days to cure skin disease
and reports that abstinence has the
desired effect.
Rawhide, Nevada, suffered from a
cloudburst on August 81 which dam
aged the town and resulted in the
death of six persons.
Open air schools for the accommoda
ton of tubercular patients have receiv-
ed the approval Of the Commissioners
of the District of Columbia.
Charles Rowen, a one-time famous
runner who created many world IS rec
ords in his time in America, died at
Cambridge, Mass, August 81.
Evelyn Nesbitt Thaw has stated that
she does not wish divorce from Har-
ry Thaw but is DESTROYS of obtaining a
money settlement from the Thaw
family.
Mayor Mcclellan of New York, has
been severely scored by Borough Pres
ident of Brooklyn, Bird Coler, and
charged with having abused the powers
of his Office.
Brewers and wholesale liquor dealers
have been asked by Liquor and Beer
naoIorct ;o4t Vo~Iy 10
assist in fight against dives and dis
orderly places
An active movement is in progress
in Osaka, Japan, to prevent the re-
building of burned licensed resorts in
their former location near the principal
railway station.
Miss F. L. Todd, a young woman
living on Staten Island, has construct
ed an aeroplane which she thinks will
be superior to any which won prizes
last week in France.
Frederick Cavassa, a young Spaniard,
who, it is claimed, will prove rival
of Caruso as an operate tenor, made
his first appearance at the Manhattan
Opera House in Aida.
William B. Bradbury, the Corto Ma
dera millionaire, was sent to San
Quentin for twelve months for per-
jury after having exhausted all legal
means to escape the punishment.
Seth Smith, Ira Christman and John
F. Jordan, all of Tisalia, have been
appointed by Judge Coffey to appraise
the property of the late Claus Spree
kels situated in Tulare and Kings coun
ties, Cal.
Bishop Grant, the foremost man of
the African Church in America and
second to Booker Washington as a
leader of his race, delivered several
powerful sermons during his visit to
San Francisco.
Walter Glenn Volviva, successor to
John Alexander Dowie, as general over
seer at Zion City, will have to serve
six months in Jail or pay a judgment
of $4,000 obtained against him for
SANDER and libel.
w. H. Mitchell, q prominent citizen
of Townsville, Ca, who, disguised as
a negro, attempted to assault Miss
Lucille Linton, a wealthy resident of
the place, will be sent to the Convict
Farm for twelve months.
Colonel w. s. Slosson, supervisor of
the Santa Barbara forest reserve, has
refused to resign at the suggestion of
District Forester F. E. Olmstead, and
has appealed to Clifford Pinchot, chief
forester, following his arrival in Cali
fornia.
Senator E. B. Martinelli, of San
Rafael, is to represent Lieutenant Gov
ernor Porter at the Alaska-Pacife
Yukon Exposition, September 4. The
Lieutenant Governor is i'll at his home
in Santa Cruz and will be unable to
accompany the State officers to Seattle.
Captain F. E. Burns of the Alaska
Steamship company, whose steamer, the
Ohio, was lost recently, says that so
long as bigger ships are put on the
Alaska run there will be constant dan
Ger unless the inside passage is thor
oughly surveyed and every menace to
navigation at reasonable depth
ckarted.
General Thomas H. Cavanaugh, aged
sc wears. died at Tacoma, Wash, Au
oust 81. He was a native Of Indiana,
served in the 9th Illinois Cavalry dur
ING the Civil War and was Secretary
of State for four years in the State
of Kansas He had been department