The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-28

a. million dollars.
Contagious diseases especially mea-
sizes, are epidemic in Chicago, 200 cases
daily being reported.
A fierce fire in the business section
of Akron, Ohio, did damage to the ex-
tent of million dollars.
Jean Coquelin, son of the late Benoit
Coquelin, was seriously injured in an
automobile accident in Paris.
Joseph Patton, San Francisco at
torney, has mysteriously dropped from
sight and the authorities and friends
are carrying on systematic search for
him.
Calvin Harris, a Chicago mining man,
while temporarily insane, wandered
into the desert in Nevada, and rescue
parties have been searching for him for
several days.
DIR. Creighton Wellman of Washing
ton, D. c., delivered an address in San
Francisco on the tsetse fly and the
sleeping sickness, which is such a men
ace in Africa.
Permission has been granted to Ennis
F.. Kneller, wealthy Los Angeles man,
to build a tomb where he and his wife
may be buried under the lawn of their
luxurious home.
The Wright brothers will probably
make a public flight in Washington on
June 10, on the occasion of the pre-
sentation of the gold medals of the
Aero Club of America.
A young inventor at Long Beach, in
order to test the incubator forcing
process, tried it on his two-months 'oid
baby. A cork blew out of a hotwater
bottle and the child was fatally scalded.
Mrs. Ella Gertrude Thompson has
been granted a divorce from her hus-
band, Frank Thompson, of San Fran
cisco, and received lump sum from
him by settlement of property out of
court
Miss May Cummings has been arrest
ed in San Francisco for obtaining money
by trick and device. Many women
have been defrauded by her through
having been induced to purchase goods
on promise of work.
The Central Trust Company of New
York has paid a special dividend of
5000 a share. This dividend, amounting
to 100000, is the largest single dis
u bursement ever made by trust com
p pany to it's stockholders.
Mayor Harper of Los Angeles has
been financially ruined by the lawsuits
which he started against newspaper
in the recent recall campaign and has
been obliged to forfeit his home to
partially satisfy attorneys fees.
Rudolph Spreckels testified in the
Calhoun case that Ruef had suggested
the creation of labor troubles and
planned a strike that would have tied
up the town and eventually further the
ends of the grating municipal officers
n Taff hos ho
key which will be connected with the
l White House telegraph wires, and on
4 being touched by the President will set
I in motion the machinery of the Yukon
4 Alaska Exposition at Seattle on June l
II The Press Club in San Francisco
| gave farewell banquet to Paul Cowles
Z Pacific Coast manager of the Asso
4 ciated Press, prior to his departure fol
Athe East, where he is to assume an i'm
Rportant post with the Associated Press
i'm New York.
Forrest C. Smithson, the world ,:
champion hurdler, has announced his
marriage in Seattle to Miss Katherine
3Tracy, a New York heiress. The new
Avas received with incredulity in Port
Aand, where he was supposed to have
been engaged to prominent society
&irl.
7 President Taft received the envoy o.
president Zelaya of Nicaragua who wa
Sent to Washington as a special com
missioner, and said it was plain to hin
that mutual trust, sincerity and regarC
for justice formed the only sure GROUND
of continued relations between the TIVE
countries.
The steamer Korea was twice sys
tematically searched on her arrival a
San Francisco, because of information
which reached the authorities that {
quantity of smuggled opium wa
aboard Numerous other dutiable ar
ticles were discovered, but not a grain
of opium was found.
Three European nations will give {
) hand in building the new Chinese rail
syoad in the province of Hupeh. Ger
Imam, English and French groups vii
equally participate in the furnishing o.
supplies for the road, and the loan o.
$27, 100000 will be raised in equa
pats by German, English and French
banks
An attempt is being made in Mis-
souri, to have Broughton Brandenburs
indicted for abducting the boy Jane
Shepard Cabanne III. Brandenbur!
asserted on his arrival in San Fran
stepfather. but this claim viii be dis
regarded The penalty of abduction il
Missouri is death.
The driver of a chemical engine il
San Francisco proved himself a her
when he deliberately overturned tn
vehicle while strapped to the seat T.
avoid a collision with car, whereof,
a number of lives would have been en-
dangered. He suffered a broken leg an
many bruises as the result of bein:
crushed by the apparatus.
Major Krauthoff, U. 5. A, who ha
been purchasing cOmmissary and super
intendent of the Army Transport Ser
vice in San Francisco since 1908, wa
given reception and testimonial a
the Hotel St. Francis prior to his sail
ing for the Philippines. The decision
Of the War Department to keep tn
H. Army transport headquarters in Sal
~ (rancisco after the fire was largel,
due to the efforts of Major Krautkoff
ana appreciation of this fact was ex
him.