The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-02
Condensed News of
World, From Files

the service of papers for seven years.
A serious accident to the train upon
which the President journeyed from
New Haven to New York was averted
by the discovery of defective wheel.
The University of California gets the
Kearney estate in Fresno, valued at
over 100000, when the heirs of Kear-
ney, who attempted to contest his will,
default
The German liner Ella was seized by
Salvador but was released when the
ships papers were examined and the
intentions of the ship shown to be hon
orable.
Tehuantepec officials say that the
new Mexican Oriental Steamship Com
pany between Salina Cruz and the ORR
ent will not affect the business of San
Francisco.
Ballington Booth was enthusiastieal-
" received in San Francisco. He de-
livered several addresses and made an
appeal for the work of the Volunteers
of America,
Balfour, leader of the opposition in
the House of Commons claims that the
provision fer ships of the newest type
is not sufficient to secure the safety of
the Empire.
While handcuffed prisoner was be-
ing taken through crowded corridor
in the San Francisco Hall of Justice he
accidentally brushed watch from one
of the crowd.
A team, driven over a steep embank-
| ment in San Rernardino county, to
avoid a collision with an automobile,
| resulted in the killing of one man and
| the six horses.
Colonel William f. Tucker, u. S. A.,
retired, files an answer to his wife s
divorce suit, asserting that she deserted
him and has done every thing possible
| to disgrace him.
/. Investigations in the San Francisco
Treasury steal are being pressed and
| others beside Bookkeeper Tomalty are
| believed to be guilty. The defalcation
| exceeds 100000
| 1t is intimated that at the next meet
| ing Of the California legislature state
aid will be given toward controlling the
flood waters of the Sacramento river
and its tributaries.
The people of Acapulco will build a
wall around the site Of the burned thea
ter where 200 lives were lost, that the
scene of the tragedy may be hidden
and the sooner forgotten.
John Campbell, the fugitive cashier
if the First National Bank in Conan
che, Okla, has returned the $4,000
which he stole from the bank and he
will not be prosecuted.
The new legislation proposed in the
! tariff revision bill has had the effect of
| causing confusion in Wall Street and
| has seriously influenced the financial
and commercial markets.
| Roosevelt has been invited to meet
| the Duchess of Aosta while in Naples.
The meeting is desired by the Duchess
who has Travelled in Africa and wishes
to tell the ex-President about it.
The lobby of the Hotel Plaza in
New York was converted into a hos
pital during the burning of an apart
ment house in the same block, in which
many persons were seriously injured.
The San Francisco School Board ques-
tions the bills of the Spring Valley Wa
ter Company for alleged overcharges
| for the month of February and claim
that the meters have never been read.
An electric storm in San Francisco
| wrecked the flag pole on the Telephone
building, causing panic among the en-
/ ployes. During the same storm several
| ferry boats on the bay were damaged.
The Democrats on the Ways and
i Means Committee declare that the
i Payne tariff bill will increase the cost
of living and that it is an open chal-
lenge to a trade war with every other
! nation.
/ John Davis Murray, known as the
King of Christmas Island, has married
IN Indiana and announces that he will
abdicate because his wife refuses to
go to the island in the midpacific and
be queen.
A man named Harvey, arrested ia
Connecticut for sending abusive letters
| to the secretary of the President,
proves to be a Californian who was ar
| rested in San Francisco in 1904 on a
similar charge.
Father Payson Young, who won noto.
riety few months ago, when Edna
Clark. the San Francisco art student
| disappeared from the city, has been
unfrocked, and is forever barred from
the Episcopal priesthood.
Hotel and restaurant men in Los An
geles report that their guests eat less
heartily and that there is marked
falling off in the amount of food con-
sumed by the same number of patrons
as compared with other years.
The Gamma Eta Kappa, the strong
est of the high school fraternities, Will
render the antifraternity law IN Cali
fornia inactive by making it society
of graduates. the Students in the high
schools being simply pledged members:
The people of England are aroused
| over the Premier S admission that Brit
ish supremacy on the sea is threatened
by Germany and influential men demand
more Dreadnoughts, coupled with
promise to supply funds.
The secretary of the transmississippI
Commercial Congress has issued the of
fetal call for the twentieth annual SEES
sion of the association to be held IN
Denver in August. President Taft Will
| be present and will take part in the
proceedings.
The House of Commons passed the
second reading of the bill giving vote
to every man and woman provided they
are twenty-one years old and have re-
| sided three months in their constituent
cy There is no chance, however, of its
becoming law at this session of Par
! Lament.