The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-23
Condensed News Of
World, From Files

Swinburne's tomb will be on the Isle
of Wight.
The French claim to have a shell
known as the ssP' which no existing
armor plate can resist.
DR.. Wolfe will probably reIinquish
his place as professor of music at the
University of California.
Contrary to current reports Mount
Aetna is not in eruption and no appre-
hension is felt that another earthquake
is imminent.
Senior Titonni, Italian Minister of
Foreign Affairs, held a conference with
Prince Won Buelow, the German Impe-
rial Chancellor, at Venice.
James Montgomery Jr., Harvard
graduate with the class of 1906, lost
his life in a snowsl1le near Valdez
while prospecting for copper.
The druggists at Grand Junction,
Col, have petitioned the city council
to revoke their liquor licenses as they
have no wish to handle intoxicants.
Five students of the University of
Oregon are suspended for Tubing
Ralph Bristol, a Portland boy, who be-
came insane as a result of the hazing.
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor is going to Europe
in June to study the conditions of the
laboring classes in European countries.
The Paris salon this year contains
an unusually large number of can
vases by American artists which are
conceded to have extraordinary merit.
A fashionable hotel in Asheville, N.
c., was burned, and the lives of the
occupants We're endangered, as the
blaze broke out in the early morning
hours.
The California Raisin Day Commit
tee has issued pamphlet containing
an account of the method of making
raisins, which will be one of the souv-
enirs of Raisin Day-April 30.
According to advices from Paris the
French government does not in any
sense consider Castro as prisoner and
it has no intention of molesting him
| unless he tries to foment public dis
order.
A great fire at Rochester, N Y.
caused loss of a million dollars and
! rendered hundreds of people homeless.
A heavy rain helped to extinguish the
! flames but worked a great hardship on
the homeless.
Max Johnston. the foreman of an
English factory in st. Petersburg, was
beaten to death with ropes by his dis
satisfied employees because the Easter
gratuities given them by Johnston were
considered insufficient.
Andrew Carnegie has given 100000
to Hamilton College, n. Y, and de-
sired that the fund be known as the
Elihu Root peace fund in recognition
of Secretary Root services in the
| cause of international peace.
|, The Chester won the twenty-fouF
hour full speed test of cruisers off the
coast of New York The Salem finish
ed second but the Birmingham was
forced to drop out because of some
arrangement of her machinery.
Mrs. Anna Jones, aged ninety. and
said to have been a playmate of Queen
Victoria, died at Catskill, N. Y. Her
father was head gardener at Tunbridge
Wells, England, where Queen Victoria
passed much of her early childhood.
The Stanford Club of San Francisco
gave q dinner in honor of the trus-
tees of Stanford University. This at
fair has been deferred for three years,
1906, the day of the earthquake and
| fire.
| Edward Lacey, one of the foremost
bankers of the country and resident
of Chicago, was recent visitor to
| San Francisco, and expressed the great
est astonishment at the amount of re-
| Mobilization work that has been done
since the fire.
"Lucky" Baldwin IS physician has
doubled his original bill making it
I oh Ind af only his
death bed attendance but services COW
| ering a period of twelve years for
| which Baldwin had not settled. The
| bill will be paid without litigation.
Miss Kate Goodman, a New York
| woman of good family, is engaged to
| marry japanese Presbyterian minis
ter in Los Angeles but owing to the
adverse sentiment brought out at the
time of the marriage of Miss Helen
Emory and Gingora Aoki, they have
| decided to delay their marriage lndef-
initely.
J. Pierpont Morgan has declared that
America should rejoice at Roosevelt 5
absence, and that personally ne hoped
his return would be indefinitely de-
ferred. He added that the ex-PresI-
dent s name would pass into history
as that of a man who had caused much
commercial and financial damage to
America.
What is believed by many to be the
most brilliant electrical display ever
held in this country opened in Louis,
vile, KY, April u, when President
Taft pressed the button in the White
House at Washington, dedicating and
starting the Southern Electrical and
Industrial Exposition.
A government searching party from
Manila has learned the story OF the
murder of DR.. William Jones, an an
thropologist connected with the Column
bian Museum in Chicago. He was XIII
ed by hostile tribes in the llongoto
county where he had been studying
the natives at close range. lis Valu-
able collection of eurios was recovered.
Frederick Macmonnies, the American
sculptor who has won international
fame, has separated from his wife. who
also has an enviable reputation as an
artist and who is one of this year
exhibitors at the Paris SALON. Artistic
rivalry is the cause of the separation
Macmonnies believed that one celebrity
in the family was enough and quarreled
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