The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-25

Vesuvius is again active according to
dispatches from Rome.
Abdul Hamid, the deposed Sultan of
Turkey, is writing history of his reign.
Professor Wolf of Heidelberg, has
been the first to photograph Halley's
comet.
Edward Morgonbanks, second Baron
Tweedmouth, died in London, Septem-
| Der 10th.
j. ". Brick of San Diego issued in
| vitations to his funeral and then com
mitted suicide.
The 26,0OO-ton battleship to be built
by the New York Shipbuilding Company
! will be named the Arkansas.
A daring attempt was made to rob
the Denver & Rio Grande train at Lead
vile, Colo, on September 10th.
President Taft sent President Diaz a
congratulatory telegram on the occa-
sion of his seventy ninth birthday.
| Demetry Treschenko, the murderer of
Dorothy Malakauoff, aged ten, has been
sentenced to death in San Francisco.
George Wingfeld, the Nevada mil
lionaire, has bought new gold claims at
Buckhorn for which he has paid $780,
| 600.
dispatch from Tifiis says that 1000
Persian brigands are massed on the
frontier and are menacing Russian
| guards.
The Emanuel Walter collection of
paintings and sketches have become the
property of the San Francisco Art Ass0-
| citation.
Claims for 81, $780, 900 for extra work
| done in the construction of the present
subway are pending against the City of
New York.
The Point Arena Creamery, a CO.
operative institution owned by Cali
fornia farmers of the vicinity, was de-
stroyed by fire.
Florence Oakley, the actress, was mar
ried secretly at. San Rafael to Percival
Pryor, son of Judge Pryor, the Pasa-
dena millionaire.
Halley's comet has been observed at
Lick Observatory and is said to be APP
preaching the earth at the rate of four
million miles day.
The Atlantic submarine fleet which
will take part in the Hudson-Fulton
celebration in New York sailed from
Newport, September 18th.
A welcome banquet to DR.. Frederick
Cook viii take place at the Waldorf
Astoria, on his arrival in New York
under the auspices of the Arctic Club.
| Postmaster General Hitchcock has
planned some reforms in the money
order system with view Of obtaining
greater efficiency and less expenditure
The greatest military demonstration
that has ever occurred on the border
will be made when President Taft and
President Diaz meet at FL Paso Oh
October 10th.
American workmen employed in the
Pressed Steel Car Company plant IL
Pittsburg marched behind the Stars and
Stripes and defied the strikers to fire or
or insult the flag.
Upon their return from Honolulu the
members of the Congressional delega
tion to Hawaii will be taken on trip
to Mt. Tamalpais by the California Pro
motion Committee.
Investigation into affairs at the Naps
Insane Asylum (Cal.) has resulted il
the removal of Miss Ivy Kingsbury, the
matron, and DR.. Pulsifer, one of the
resident physicians.
President Taft has placed himself OF
record In letter to Washington news
paper as being opposed to suffrage re
strictions intended to discriminate
against the negro race.
/. FL. Jacobs, pioneer merchant Of
San Joaquin valley and the most ex
tensive individual land owner of tina
section, died at his home in San Fran
cisco on September 10th.
The Secretary of the defunct Marke
Street Bank in San Francisco. admitted
| IN court that large amount of securi
ties are worthless and was charged witt
having dissipated the funds.
Mrs. George Bramer. bride of thre,
/ weeks, at Lawrence. Mass. has beer
made heir to 100000 because of tn
kindness of her mother and herself t
an old man they met in Bermuda.
1t has been reported that the Swedish
Cabinet has resolved to present bill t
i Parliament abolishing all order of ranl
and grades of precedence except anon,
the officers of the Army and Navy.
4 John Moore, aged 90. and Levi Hall
q aged 50. rival suitors for the hand o
. Miss Harriet Coe, IS. have become sue
i bitter enemies that when they met a
her home in Los Angeles a serious fgh
ensued.
temperance campaign which prom
3 lses 10 have a marked effect on the cor
sumption of alcohol in Germany ha
been begun as result of resolutio
i adopted at the Socialist convention a
D Leipsic.
Deputy Sheriff f. G. Wood of sa
4 Bernadino County, Cal. permitted
q prisoner to escape in Oakland while e
y route to San Quentin. but he was r,
captured before making his escape frol
- the city.
Eugene Pearson. the defaulting Qua
termaster clerk of the Army Transpol
Service In San Francisco, was sentence
to one years Imprisonment at Sa
Quentin. His populations amounted
over $1,000.
Forty-seven students have been a
cepted to 60 to the United States
study under arrangement by which til;
part of the Boxer indemnity returned
D China by America is to be expended f,
educational purposes.