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

committed suicide By turning on the
gas.
A fire in the heart of San Francisco
eansed panic in downtown hotels.
James ]. Hill will control the ice car
line between Colorado and points south.
The Alaska Central Railroad from
Seward to Placer Valley will soon be
in operation.
The Japanese naval officers were cor
daily. entertained at the Preside of
San Francisco.
Lieutenant T. A. Jones has been dis
missed from the Army on the findings Of
court martial.
The Wright brothers have been given
gold medal by the Aeronautical So
ciety of London.
Count Szchenyi, who married Miss
Gladys Vanderbilt last year, will enter
the Hungarian cabinet.
The San Francisco supervisors have
granted the franchise for the building
of railway on Stockton street.
Count de Vaux, the French aeronaut.
broke his arm while effecting landing
from his balloon at Aries, France.
Eugene M. Moore, who attempted
suicide by shooting in Golden Gate
Park, viii recover, but viii be blind
for life.
President Gomez of Venezuela has
turned over the government to the Vice
President and has gone to Miracay for
brief sojourn.
Nan Patterson's name has again APP
peared III connection with mysterious
shooting, that of 4. B. Stevens. bank
teller of Washington.
j. Ogden Armonr is said to have
given million dollars to aid the prof.
eet OF building permanent home for
grand opera in Chicago
It has been reported that several
Portuguese villages were destroyed as
the result of the earthquake which
shook Lisbon on April q.
A resolution, which nav be enacted
into law, has been introduced by SEN
ator Dick of Ohio, making Lincoln s
birthday legal holiday.
James Wilson, the convicted muir.
derer of John Boas, has developed an
attack of pIeuro pneumonia, from
which he is not expected to recover.
David T. Stohl Of Stockton, Cal, a
victim of suicidal mania, inherited from
his forefathers, killed himself, as many
OF his relatives for generations have
done.
John Adams Thayer of New York
SAID In an interview in San Francisco
| that he intended starting new maya
zine entirely different from any being
published now.
investigation of the alleged libelous
publications by the New York World
IN connection with the Panama canal
purchase has been resumed by the Fed
eral grand jury in New York.
The captain of the Kaiser wilhelm
Ii. sent wireless message from $50
miles off Sandy Hook. asking for a
police detail to arrest couple of pre-
fessional gamblers who were on board.
Hetty Green left the Hotel st. Regis.
where she had been staying. and at
her departure, in lieu of expected tins.
she gave the servants who had lined nm
for gratnities, some good advice about
walking and exercise.
Russell g. Holt, the millionaire hus-
band of Ethel Barrymore the acsress.
has refused to pay gambling debt of
thousand dollars. contracted while he
was sophomore at Yale. He is being
| sued for the amount in the New York
courts.
An automobile killed child In the
/ arms of its mother in San Francisco
and the driver of the machine was
booked for manslaughtey, though it is
claimed that the accident was due to
the woman becoming confused and
stepping in front of the automobile.
For the third time in two wears a
Los Angeles woman has passed into a
state of coma, and her strange case is
again puzzling the medical fraternity.
She remained in trance for eighty
i've days last year and on waking re-
sumed her usual health.
M. Bertillon, director of the anthro-
pometric department of the police in
Paris, has identified a man in the Gus
tody of the San Francisco police as a
dangerous criminal who served time in
French prisons Identification was made
through photographs and measurements
sent TO Bertillon.
A sensational attempt 10 obtain the
release of "Lord'' Darlington from
prison in Des Moines. where he is serv-
ing sentence for the murder of James
p. Mccain of st. Louis. was made nv
a woman, who claimed to identify
James Mabray, a raeehorse promoter,
as Mccain. No credence has been given
y to her story.