The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-17
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Ter the earEnquake IN Sicily anu Nd4d
bria.
The National Educational Assoeia
ton will hold its meeting next year in
San Francisco.
The anti-racetraek law viii be tested
ON writ Of habeas corpus in the courts
of San Francisco.
A severe earthquake shock in Simla,
India, which did considerable damage
to life and property.
Clark Burton, fourteen-year old
boy was instantly killed by thunder
built at Wallowa. Or.
Violent earthquake shocks occurred
in Algeria on July 6 which did consid-
cradle damage to property.
/ The third trial of the Smell will case
has been begun in Illinois and many
new sensations are promised.
a lone, unmasked bandit held up the
cashier of bank at Everett, Wash,
and escaped with bag of coin.
Francis w. Cushman, representative
in Congress from Tacoma, Wash, died
in New York of pneumonia on July 6.
Three suffragettes invaded Wall
Street with pamphlets but being given
a boisterous reception they quickly win
drew
President Taft participated in the
festivities that marked the close of
the college year at Yale-his alma
mater.
Gladys Goldstein of San Francisco
died in Los Angeles as result of
burns received from the explosion of a
gasoline stove.
The tug Crawling which sailed last
May from Seattle for Panama has not
been heard from and she is believed
to have been lost.
A scarcity of mechanics at the
Bremerton navy yard is causing much
delay in the work OF repairing the four
armored cruisers at the yard.
The Chinese government has issued
decree ordering a number of princes
to offer up prayer for rain which is
greatly needed throughout the Empire
Frank Hopkins, the Modesto boy who
shot his six-year- old brother and buried
him before life was extinct, has been
sent to the reform school at Whittier.
George A. Newhall was elected presi-
dent of the San Francisco Board Of Fire
Commissioners, in place Of Bernard
Faymonville, who resigned from the
commission.
Holland has promised to send one
warship, and perhaps two. to the Portola
festival in San Francisco, according to
advices from the special Portola Com
missioner sent to The Hague.
The French Minister of Finance.
was struck in the face as he was leav-
- I. e ~
who claimed that the Minister had
slandered him in the Chamber.
Ambassador Reid has been informed
that the fifth cruiser squadron con-
sisting of four ships has been desig-
mated to attend the Hudson Fulton
celebration in New York next month.
Following a direct appeal to the
King by Mrs. Despard and deputa-
ton of suffragettes the Home Secre-
tary accorded courteous audience to
eight of the women s representatives.
A pension of two dollars and fifty
cents week has been granted to each
of the four grandchildren of Charles
Dickens Gin recognition of the literary
eminence of their grandfather and in
of their Strengthened cir
Traffic in the middle west was demon,
allied on July 6 by heavy storm which
flooded the tracks in various sections
At Pueblo, Col, an unknown tramp
saved a train from destruction where
long stretch of road bed
The lawyers have exhausted the last
device to preserve the liberty of John
A. Benson who will be forced to serve
a year. Imprisonment for entering into
a conspiracy with DR.. E. B. PERI for
unlawful requirement of $4,000 acres of
timber land in Tehama County, Cal
The case of Captain of Police Michael
Joseph Conboy, charged with assault
with attempt to commit murder, was
continued in the police court pending
the condition of the victim of the as,
sault who lies in a critical condition
still at the hospital in San Francisco.
An insane fireman on board the Amer.
lean Hawaiian steamship Columbian
ran amuck on the high seas and used
razor and his teeth in battle with
Captain Nichols and several members
of the engine room force. who were
severely injured before he was sub,
dued
France is preparing for tariff war
and Senator Channie in the Chamber
Of Deputies urged that further con
sideration of the tariff be suspended
and that bill be submitted that
would safeguard Frances political and
economic interests with foreign coun-
tries.
Piano PLAYING and singing after ten
O'Clock at night is disorderly conduct,
as much 50 as eursing or fighting, ac-
cording to a recent decision in
Washington, D. c.. court and the ring
ing of a curfew hereafter will deter
mine the time at which such revel
shall cease.
Unprecedented rain storms have
swollen the rivers of the Middle West
and number of casualties have been
reported. On July eth a Santa Fe
train with 800 passengers aboard slip
ped into the river near Kansas Citv.
drowning one child and iniuring a
number of others.
The correctional court at Auch.
France, fined Archbishop Ricard 800
for making public a pastoral letter in
which he denounced secular education
as anti Christian and anti-patriotie. On
his refusal to pay the fine he was or
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