The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-20

earthed by miners near Yreka, Cali
fornia.
A tornado devastated Ardmore,
town of $4,000 inhabitants in Okla
homa, on May 6.
Chicago is to have newspaper edit
ed and published under the auspices of
the Chicago police department.
Preparations are being made to guard
the Presidents home at Beverly Cove
while he is there during the summer.
According TO official announcement,
Gar Nichalos win return the visit of
President Fallieres of France during the
summer.
A fire which broke out in hay barn
at the rear of the county jail, in San
Francisco, menaced that institution
for time.
1t is reported that former President
Castro of Venezuela has decided to
make his permanent home on the Island
of Teneriffe
Ortis Hamilton, formerly Adjutant
General of Washington State, has been
arrested for shortage Of $4,000 in
his accounts.
Two Americans were killed recently
in riot in the Canal Zone caused by
the police attempting to arrest an es-
capped prisoner.
1t is rumored that Chancellor Won
Buelow will resign unless financial re-
form plans for the German Govern
ment are adopted.
The head baggage man at the Hotel
| Fairmont in San Francisco was robbed
of $4,000, most of which belonged to the
guests in the hotel
The ex-wife of George Whittell, Jr.,
son of the San Francisco millionaire,
has refused to remarry him and will
return to the stage.
A small British force was ambushed
by natives in West Africa and one Off
/ Ger and number of soldiers and ma
/ tive policemen were killed.
The Chinese Minister to Peru has de-
manded protection for Chinese subjects
and the payment of damages to prop
j ertY following riot in Lima
An insaL Japanese who murdered
a countrynan will be sent back to
/ Japan, instead of being dealt with by
| the authorities in San Francisco.
When shut out of the House of Com
mons by the police, the English suf-
| fragettes bombarded Parliament with
rockets containing their hand bills.
| The management of the Burlington
road has adopted new system, whereby
missed and not suspended as hereto
/ fore.
Miss Nora Iselin, the daughter of C.
Oliver Iselin of New York, married
| Count Ferdinand Collaredo- Mansfield
/ IL ry.
| Italy.
| AS precaution against the possible
development of hydrophobia Lord Min
to, Viceroy of India, and Lady Mimic
have been undergoing the Pasteur treat
/ ment.
The Princess de Broglie, formerly
Estelle Alexander of San Francisco
was granted a divorce from her hus
band in Paris and given the custody
of her child.
/ The business manager of a Social
| list publication at Fort Scott, Kansas
/ charged by the government with send.
! ing defamatory matter through the
mails, was found guilty by jury.
| A regular line of airships win be
built in Germany which will operate
| from Lucerne to North Germany. via
Frankfort-on-the Main. 1t is hoped tc
| open the line for traffic next year.
! The Insular government of the Philip
! pines is making every endeavor TO cap
| ture Moro pirate who, with consider
| able following, has been committing
| depredations on the Island of Mindanaa
/ James K. Motif, young merchant
| and banker of San Francisco, has beer
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/ California. He is the first representa-
| tive of the alumni to sit with the re
| gents.
/ Fourteen thousand acres OF barley
were destroyed by break in the levet
on the San Joaquin river, which com
| pletely inundated the land. Melting
snow in the mountains had caused the
river to rise.
/ Samuel A. Johnson, a Carnegie hero
who wears a medal, reached dire
straits in New York. was forced
TO pawn his clothes, and con
templated suicide because of lack OF
employment.
Wa Ting Fang, Chinese Minister t.
the United States, has, accepted the
presidency of the Chinese school OF
| Chicago, which is one of a series starte,
under the auspices of the Chinese I'm
perial government.
The viii of F. Marion Crawford, the
American novelist who died at Sorren
to on April 9th, has expressed the. de
sire that his yacht and villa be SOLD
and that his bes.y be buried in the
Saint Angelica cemetery
/ The District Attorney of Santa Rosa
CAL. has ordered the residents of the
tenderloin to go elsewhere, on The
ground that they are public nuisance
according to recent decision of the
Supreme Court of the State.