The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-10

New press laws have caused serious
riot III Cairo.
Federal regulation of ballooning
has been urged.
TIE cholera epidemic in St. Peters
burg is nearing an end.
An Ohio man stabbed his father aud
then resumed his dinner.
/ West Virginia felt severe earth
quake shock late in March.
The Hartman lines have made an
agreement with the st. Paul interests.
Mvra d. McCrum, a Civil War novel
ist and story writer, died at Fort
Scott.
The Baldwin heirs have compromised
with the widow and there will be no
contest.
It has been officially announced that
Eliot viii not be Ambassador to Great
Britain.
The earnings of steamship companies
show great falling off in German I'M
migration.
Two Cuban soldiers have been SEN
fenced to death on charge of mill
tary rebellion.
t The opera Salome is placed under the
ban in Boston, being forbidden on
moral grounds.
King Emanuel of Italy received
Wright, the American aeroplanist, in
private audience.
The British Governor of Gibraltar
formally welcomed Mr. Roosevelt on
his arrival there.
Prince Albert, heir presumptive to
the Belgian throne, has gone to the
Congo for five months.
A Spanish girl inl Santa Barbara
fred shot at former lover, whom
she claimed struck her.
French protests to the Payne tariff
bill may be transmitted to Washington
by the Paris government.
President Taft expects to get away
from Washington for the summer
about the middle of June.
A farmer in Grand Rapids (Mich.)
killed his wife and baby with an axe
as The result of domestic trouble.
An epidemic Of scarlet fever has
broken out on the battleship MISSOURI,
now at the Charleston navy yard.
Dynamiters destroyed costly
Louisiana dam as result of a bitter
controversy between rice growers.
John Collins, father-in-lsw of former
Governor Mcdonald of Colorado, shot
woman and himself while insane.
The leader of the Chicago Black
Hand Society (Vincenzo Geraei) was
arrested while robbing an Italian ply
stefan.
A building for the Mount Zion Hos
pital has been assured by the donation
a. 7 oil
banker
The New York Central paid fine
of $4,000 for Relating in connection
with the transportation Of cooperage
supplies.
Portland milliners are jailed for
trimming hats with bird plumes in vio-
lation of the State law for the protec-
ton of wild birds.
1t has been suggested by the Police
Commission of New York that moving
pictures of immigrants be taken as a
means of Identifying aliens.
A quarantine against ports in Mex
leo threatened with yellow fever in
lection has been made effective at the
ports along the Rio Grande
Disorders have resulted in Rome fol-
lowing an attempt of laborites to place
wreaths upon the spot where the vic
TINS of recent demonstration fell
Bishop O'Connell, auxiliary to the
Archbishop, arrived in San Francisco
and has entered upon his duties as the
successor to Archbishop Montgomery.
The two convicts who escaped from
the Folsom (Cal.) prison have been
captured and the attempt of one of
them to commit suicide was frustrated.
a train robber in Nebraska com
PEELED the conductor of the train which
ne held up to carry a sack through the
train and collect booty from the pas
sengers.
An Indian girl Travelled across the
continent from the Indian School at
Carlisle (Pa.) to her home in Eureka
(Cal.) under the protection of the Fed
eral authorities.
George Pape, Californian National
Guardsman, and a veteran of the Span
lsh-American war, has been arrested
Tor forging his name to a check in Ber-
kelley, California.
campaign. viii be launched for
raising $5,000,000 for founding "sUni-
versity of Humanity" on the eiohtieth
birthday of General William Booth of
the Salvation Army.
The orange growers of California
presented thirty Senators in Washing
ton with box of oranges apiece
through Senator Flint. The recipients
are enthusiastic over the quality of the
fruit.
The widow of Lord Broome an
eccentric English woman of Santa Bar
bara, has been removed as executrix of
her husband s estate, after having
made no account of it for eighteen
years.
Avalon is again declared closed with
the transportation business a Banning
monopoly. The action was taken bv
the Supervisors on the petition of nine
. per cent: of the property owners of
Catalina Island.
" Lucky Baldwin's physician pre-,
scented bill for $4,000 covering his
last illness of less than month. If
the fee IS allowed it viii be the largest
ever paid physician in California for
that much service rendered
Miss Eleanor Coghlan. a New York
teacher, has been honored by Pope
Plus X. by enrolment as a member of
the Order of Knighthood of the