The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-23

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big dinner at Mombasa.
Sir Donald Currie, the well known
shipowner, died in London.
| An Italian lawyer in Chicago de-
clared that the Black Hand Society is
myth.
! Thirty Mexicans were killed in riot
in the coal mining camps at Velar-
/. dino, Mexico.
| A fire in a warehouse in Dunkirk,
/ France, destroyed 1000 bales of New
. Orleans cotton.
! Mrs. Katherine Tingley, head of the
Theosophist cult in America, is spend
ing the summer at Newburyport.
! Nordica is to wed New York bank
er, George N. Young, who is also
member of the most exclusive clubs.
The Spanish Cabinet has decided that
the Spanish feet shall be reconstructed.
The work will be done by British
! firms.
| Governor Gifiett of California will
not sign the Change of Venue bill
which was passed by the recent legis-
| lature.
| The young American who threw him
/ self from a cliff at Naples has been
identified as Ludwig Steetheimer of
| New York.
| Agriculturists in the Philippines
have petitioned Congress to establish
! free trade between the United States
and the Islands.
| 1t has been announced that President
Taft will occupy house ON Woodbury.
Point, Beverly, owned by Robert D.
Evans of Boston.
ha af
trail Railway Company has been trans
ferred to the 500 line and made part
of the Canadian Pacific System.
/, A negro believed to be Alfred Hunter,
wanted for the murder of his wife and
for the killing of Sheriff Geo. w. Gar
! isson of Oklahoma county, Okla, was
| arrested.
An investigation conducted by the
New Orleans tuberculosis Society has
| resulted in the discovery that six out
i of every ten children examined were
! infected.
| The quarter-in-the-slot gas meter
! claimed another victim in Seattle,
| Madge England, twenty three years
old, having been found asphyxiated in
! her room.
/ J. Fades Haws. the st. Louis mil
/ lionaire, has withdrawn his support
from the Chicago Brotherhood of IN
employed, whom he has been supply
ing with funds.
Mrs. Harriet Stewart Brown was
married in Baltimore to T. Suffern
Taller of New York. Both are mem
bers of the most exclusive sets in their
respective homes.
Harry Gillig, the weIl-known San
Francisco and New York clubman,
died at Los Angeles. His marriage to
Amy Croker was a brilliant society
/ event of years ago.
/ Mrs Claudia c. Hams is said to have
declined positively to go to New York
| to take the witness stand in the trial
! of her husband Peter C. Hams, charged
| with the murder of William E. Annis.
| Fire broke. out in a church at Hua
| cho, Peru, during services. threw the
! congregation into a panic and resulted
in stampede for the doors, during
which several women and children were
suffocaSed
Four young Italians are under ar
rest in connection with the attempt to
blackmail c. Fl. Strong, president of the
Erie and Pittsburg RAILROAD. Mr.. Strong
received two letters demanding $500
on penalty of death.
The Countess Tolstoi has published an
open letter protesting against the ex-
pulsfon from Russia of Vladimir Tchert
koff, the Counts literary representa-
tive, whose only offense, she says, is
his friendship for her husband.
Southern Pacific engineers are MAX
ing soundings in the American river
at Elvas station, near Sacramento, with
the end in view of beginning on a new
100000 bridge, which is to replace
the one washed away by the last flood
waters.
The comptroller of the currency has
approved the application of G. w. Fish
burn of Los Angeles, Lyman j. Gage,
Carl i. Ferris, F. A. Garretson and G.
E. Sterne, to organize the Marine Ma
tional bank of San Diego; capital,
| 100000.
The California State Engineer has
said that the numerous gold dredgers
in the Feather River are responsible for
/ the damage done this winter from the
! overflow, and has asked for a complete
| investigation of the work of the dredger
! companies.
| On the question of attorneys fees
! in connection with pronissory note for
! $4,000 the district court of appeals sus-
| tanned the decision of the Napa county
! superior court in a decision handed
| down iii the case of w. J. Bell V. F.
| M. Camm and H. H. Brown
! The committee of Chicago women
who went to Washington to present the
protest against the tariff on gloves and
! hosiery have returned to their homes
very much dissatisfied with the chill
reception which they received from the
/ Congressman at the capital
The suitcase which was stolen from
| Attorney F. r. Freshney in the Michi-
gan Central depot April 3, was found,
slashed open and with all the depo-
sitions and evidence which Freshney
had gathered for use in the Haskell
Hearst libel suit in Oklahoma missing,
San Francisco is to receive a gold
medal commemorative of reconstruction.
from the French government. The en-
| craving shows the city rising from
the ruin of the flames and is to be pre-
scented to the city authorities by Am
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