The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-12


to the hardships of bitterly cold spell
in Canada.
DR.. Manuel Amador, the first presi
dent of Panama, is dead.
A resolution to disfranchise negroes
in Florida was adopted by the State
Senate.
Northeastern France experienced an
cold wave during the
last week of April.
The japanese sailors were royalty en-.
tertained at Golden Gate Park during
their stay in San Francisco.
The furniture factory of the Simmons
Manufacturing Company in San Fran
cisco has been destroyed by fire.
A Holbein masterpiece, portrait of
Christina of Denmark, was sold to an
American in London for $4,000.
General Hams, U. s. A. (retired) !,
tells of the weakness of his son IS mind
at the time he shot William Annis.
Sacramento celebrated its sixtieth
birthday, as city, with a carnival,
which $4,000 people from interior towns
attended.
On April 80 the Ohio valley was
threatened with food, and cloudburst
submerged the town Of Bradford, near
Pittsbnrg.
The fruit crop in Colorado and Idaho
has been seriously damaged by frost
despite the efforts of the ranchers to
protect the trees.
Robert Mccormick, former Ambassa-
dor to Russia and France, is seriously
broken in health, and is said to be in
sanitarium in Massachusetts.
Fines aggregating more than $4,000
have been paid in Southern California
for prosecutions under the State pure
food law since it became effective.
Charles Warren Stoddard was buried
at the historic San Carlos mission near
Monterey. Bohemian Club men and
noted authors acted as pallbearers.
A memorial has been planned for
Jefferson Davis in the form of park,
to occupy the site of the farm where
he was born at Fairview, Kentucky.
The girls of Mills College gave a sue
cessful production of "Alice in Won
derland'' in the natural amphitheater
in the college grounds near Oakland.
President Taft attended the celebra-
ton of the one hundred and twentieth
anniversary of the first Inauguration of
George Washington, held at Alexandria,
Virginia.
The trouble between the American
conductors employed by the National
lines of Mexico and the company, over
! he 11x.-
satisfactorily adjusted.
Unusual storms in the Middle West
on April 80 and several days thereafter
devastated wide area and IT'S lives
were lost as a result of the tornado,
which swept over several States.
The international relief committee of
Tabriz has issued an urgent appeal for
subscriptions ON behalf of the starving
population. During the siege of ten
months the people have suffered indie
scribably.
The concerts of the Russian Sym
phony Orchestra furnished the musical
treat of the winter TO San Francisco
lovers of music. The final concert of
Miseha Eiman, the Russian violinist
was given in conjunction with the or
chestra.
The Wright railroad bill which has
become a law in California, would bar
employees from enjoying free transpor'
tation and puts the ban on special
rates to clergymen. The Attorney Gen
eral will be asked TO render a decision
as to the exact scope of the bill.
The famous cathedral in New Or
leans. one of the most noted Catholic
churches in the United States, and
built during the Spanish regime in
Louisiana. was damaged by an explosion
of dynamite. placed under the building
by disgruntled employees who were re
pairing a wing.
Californians are alarmed at the
strength shown by the opposition il
the fierce fight being waged against
the increase of the lemon tariff, anG
four representatives of the lemon in
terests of the state have gone to Wash
ington TO watch the progress of th'
measure.
President Fallieres and the Duke o
Genoa reviewed the combined fleets o.
France and Italy at Villefranehe OF
April 25. the fftieth anniversary of tn
French advance into Piedmont. The ltal
ian squadron was sent to greet tn
French president. because of France
assistance in the Italian struggle flo
independence.
Palo Alto poses as the champion bah,
town, as the stork visited one block fv
times In a fortnight. and three younl
married couples of the place becom
the possessors of twins in other POI