The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-23
CONDENSED NEWS. Or
WORLD, FROM FILES
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dent OF FeneZuela, arrived at La Guayra
and was not permitted to land.
The sixtieth Easter anniversary al
Trinity church. San Francisco, was
celebrated with appropriate ceremony
Swinburne, the poet, had lived q
most secluded life for thirty years, and
for the last four years had seen no
visitors.
Six persons lost their lives and three
others were badly burned in fire which
destroyed four business blocks in Len
nox, Mass.
The Greek colony in San francisco
celebrated the eighty-eighth anniver.
sary of the Greek day of independence
on April II.
Miss Mary E. Phillips, a teacher in
the San Francisco school department
died from injuries received in falling
from car.
Professor Anton Hess, the sculptor
died in Munich, where he held the pro-
fessorship of plastic art at the Tech
meal University.
A constitutional amendment proyid.
ing statewide prohibition has been
passed in the lower house of the Mis-
oUuI1 Legislature.
A disastrous fire, and the death of
two and the injury of seven men, re-
suited from an explosion of an oil still
at Point Richmond, Cal
Fifty English mechanics, who could
find no work in England, arrived in New
York with their families and will make
their home in the West.
One fireman was killed and two were
fatally injured by eollapsing walls at
fire in the pottery plant of SpearWoul
Brothers near Pittsburg.
The British play, An Engishman s
Home, received hostile reception
IN Berlin and was Kissed off the stage
amidst scenes of great confusion.
On April II violent earthquake
shocks were felt in Copenhagen, and
on the same day three separate shocks
were registered at Laibach, Austria.
Walter 0. Griggs, a Socialistic can
didate for the California Legislature
from the district of Los Angeles, died
OF heart disease in Cambridge, Mass.
A carelessly thrown cigarette ON
Los Angeles street ignited woman s
dress, and intense excitement resulted
when a crowd tried to extinguish the
flames.
The brokerage firm of Ennis and
Stoppane, members of the Consolidated
Stock Exchange and the Chicago Board
of Trade, has failed for over a million
dollars.
The Cunard Steamship Company, like
the German steamship lines, has suffered
from the depression in the shipping
trade and has been unable to paw
dividend.
James A. Patten of Chicago predicts
that there will be no cheap wheat for
several years or until there is more
extensive production to meet the grow
ing consumption.
The arrival of twins in a Pittsburg
family resulted in two tragedies-the
death of the father by suicide, and his
mother-in-law from heart disease, in
duced by excitement.
Marian Gray. the matrimonial agent
whose manner of conducting the
"Searchlfght Club" in Elgin, Ill, led
to sentence of one year in prison,
must serve her time.
An empty balloon descended near
Cont, italy, and it is feared that the
three aeronauts, Captain Meyer, Lieu
tenant Gardiot AMI A. A Patterson,
from Paris, are dead
Receivers appointed by the London
Underground Railway, Limited, took
possession of the Yerkes mansion in
New York to satisfy a claim of 5000
600 against the estate.
A laborer in a rock quarry near Los
Angeles carried a stick of dynamite
in one hand and a lighted torch in
the other, with the result that he was
literally blown to pieces
Governor Curry has announced that
he will remain as Governor of New
Mexico till statehood is achieved. He
has been assured of President Taft's
confidence and cooperation.
Police court methods in San Fran
cisco are under Investigation bv the
grand jury, many complaints having
been made against attorneys, politi-
clans and professional bondsmen.
Mrs. Robert Rice, in trying to pre-
vent her husband from committing sui
eide, was killed by the bullet which
also ended the life of Rice, who was a
wealthy planter of Santa Ana, Texas.
Former United States Senator Charles
w. Fulton, who arrived in Portland
from Washington this week, declined to
commit himself as to whether he will
accept the appointment of Minister to
China.
John Scott, a former Portland. Ore
gon, man who has been missing for
seven years, will probably be declared
dead that an estate of twenty thousand
dollars left by his wife may be dis
tributed
The senior class at Willamette Uni
versity, at Salem, have voted to per-
nit no kissing at their graduation ex-
ercfses in conjunction with congratu-
lations, on the ground that the Gus
tom is not sanitary.
Ferdinand Pinnev Earl, the New
York artist, whose affinity wife" re
Gently sued him for divorce, has
dropped out of sight, and it is report
ed that he has gone to Europe To
evade the service of legal papers.
The publishers of Collier S Magazine
have brought suit for $50, 900 against
A. E. Fowler of Seattle, secretary of
the Asiatic Exclusion League. for mali
cious libel. Fowler issued a circular
charging that Golfers stopped at Moth
inU TO pniSan tbe ,hIia mind paro~a;oo