The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-21
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Worlds News
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! The Washington monument has begun
to show sign, IF decay.
The first rain of the season fell in
Yosemite valley on September 6.
California on September 6 was of I'M
usual interest throughout the State.
The Pope has shown keen interest in
the story of DR.. Cook s achievement.
Walter S. Bond of New York has
climbed Mt Blanc from Chamanix in
eight hours.
The heirs of the late Claus Spree
kels have fled new demurrer in the
will contest case.
F. Levy, liquor man of San Fran
cisco, shot his wife and child while in
a drunken frenzy.
Miss Maud Younger, society girl
of San Francisco, viii devote her life
to settlement work.
A work horse parade was a unique
feature of the Admission Day eelebra-
tion in San Francisco.
Mayor Cullen Bryant, nephew of the
poet, is at the point of death at his
home at Alameda, California.
The Mexican northwestern railway
contemplatas extending its lines to the
west coast touching at Guaymas.
The Hercules mine near Burke,
Idaho, was destroyed by fire and dam
age to the extent of 100000 DONE
Consul General Philip Hanna has
urged that immediate assistance be
sent the suffering people in Mexico.
Abraham Schwabacher, a pioneer
merchant of Oregon and Washington,
died at his home at San Francisco.
Miss June McGlashin, prominent
woman attorney of California, was
married to DIR. George Kelly of True
kee.
Nearly 100000 children will take
part in the children s festival of the
Hudson Fulton celebration on October
End.
The American National Red Cross
has started fund in San Francisco
for the benefit of the Mexican flood
sufferers.
The captain and crew of the French
schooner Qualitte were murdered by the
natives of Mallicollo Islands in the
New Hebrides.
During the fortnight ending Sep
TENDER 6, there were ninety-four bu-
bonnie plague and thirty-ive cholera
deaths at Annoy.
A new meteor has been discovered
by Mrs. W. Patton Fleming, head of
the Photographic department of Har-
ward observatory.
Mrs. M. Colbert Harris, wife of
Bishop Harris of the Methodist Epis-
copal church at Toxic, died in that
city on September s.
A model poultry farm is to be es-
tabl1shed under the auspices of the
University of California, at the Farm
er's School at Davis, Cal.
Alfred Won Schmidt, son of a Cali
fornla pioneer, and nephew of Major
Charles Tilden, has been charged with
insanity in San Francisco.
Miss Zula Law tried to commit sui,
eide III San Francisco because of her
| love for married man prominent in
business circles in New York.
The international Air Navigation
Exposition has decided upon the week
beginning October for aviation week.
and $4,000 will be offered in prizes.
William Goddard Iselin, the seven.
year-old heir to the Iselin estate.
| died in Europe. He was the son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Iselin of New
| York.
Four hundred dollars a month ali
| mony has been allowed Mrs. Homer
Davenport, the wife of the cartoonist,
who has obtained divorce in New
York.
The single weavers of Chehalis.
| Wash, have inaugurated strike and
the belief prevails that most of the
| Single mills on the coast will eventu-
| ally be involved.
United States Judge Overfeld, at
Valdez, Alaska, has signed decree of
foreclosure of the Alaska Central rail-
road, and the date of the sale has been
set for October 8.
According to dispatch from Soto
La Marina, Mexico, many American oil
| men, overwhelmed by the tidal wave,
| have taken refuge in the hills and help
is urgently needed.
The United States government has
become owner OF the ground on the
corner of Pine and Sansome streets in
San Francisco, where new subtreasury
building will be erected.
Ada de Pratt, of Nevada, Mo-, the
girl who was unsuccessful in her at
tempt to aid two men to escape from
jail, shot herself rather than fall into
the hands of the authorities.
The chief of police in San Francisco
was called upon by the ministers and
club women of the city to suppress
The Girl From Rector's," a play
running at the Garrick theater.
The steamer Laurentin was lost in
the fog near Cape Race, st. Johns.
Newfoundland, bound for Glasgow
from Boston. The vessel was total
wreck, but all on board were saved.
The military court at the Preside
| at San Francisco will sit at the court
martial of Private William Mcdonald
OF Battery B. for the murder of his
eomrade, Fred Ostrander, on Septem-
Der q.
Eugene Velasco, son of a Manila
| millionaire, is being held for the muir
der of a Chinese merchant at Annoy.
and the American Consul at that place
| insists that his trial must be by Amer
lean authorities.