The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-16

4 rich gold strike has been reported
from Grass Valley, Cal
The Philippine assembly by a vote
of a to refused to approve the Payne
bill.
Hartman plans to enter the smelt-
ing field in Mexico in competition with
the trust.
A six-year-old boy is held for the
murder of girl in Union s. c., having
shot his victim.
Sir Alphonso Ruffer, an English
nobleman and banker, died suddenly at
San Antonio, Texas.
The wife of A. D. Meyers, the mil
lionaire mining man of Goldfelds, has
petitioned for divorce.
Greeks are to displace japanese. as
laborers on the Northern Pacific and
Great Northern railroads.
Lucky Baldwin s widow is to receive
$4,000 a month until the executor of
the will files the inventory.
A fire threatened the Yuba Hospital
near Marysville, Cal, and the fifty pa
tients were moved to place of safety.
twenty-five fishermen were swept in
to the sea by the bursting of a dyke
near Naples and eleven were drowned.
A big lumber sale has been reported
from Victoria where thirty-eight tim
Der berths were disposed of for $780,
900.
The present depression in the ocean
carrying trade of the world has effect
ed German vessels with especial sew
Gritty.
The Turkish editor of the Liberal
paper at Constantinople, was assas-
sinated. The crime is believed to be
political.
James Butler, rich Jersey City man
received letter demanding $1,000 and
which purports to be a Black Hand
Missive
! Many talesman are examined In the
Calhoun case, and some profess to be
impartial but no new jurors are added
to the panel.
/ Portland Republicans nominated a
municipal ticket on April Z. The
primaries will be held May and the
election June z.
| Mrs Frank NJ. Avery, the widow OF
a wealthy watch manufacturer of Chi
cago, will marry James Kidder, a Har
ward graduates.
! Church officers in Methodist Episco
pal church find $1,000 bill in the eollec
tion plate and believe that some one
made mistake.
/ Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulloch. g
lawyer, politician and suffragist, has
been reelected as justice of the peace
in Evanston, Ill.
The crisis in Porto Rico is serious
! and the Island Commissioner in Wash.
ington, Senior Munoz Rivera, has said
that its present deadlock is acute
| A Michigan justice decides that a
father may spank a daughter sged
seventeen and upholds the old fashion,
ed method of correcting hayward off
spring.
The engagement of the daughter of
President Fegueroa of Salvador and
| Max Rosenbloom of San Francisco
has been annulied by the young lady s
f, father.
Percy L. Bonebrake, son of Major
George I'll. Bonebrake, the Los Angeles
banker, was arrested for cattle steal.
ing in Tulare county, but has denied
| the charge.
The Hartman lines have petitioned
! to be relieved from the operation of
| the order in the Spokane rate case. II
is expected that the r. R. Commission
will refuse the appeal.
Ten thousand lake engineers, firemen
| oilers and water tenders have gone on
strike, and the opening of naviga-
| ton on the Great Lakes is threatened
with a complete tie-up.
Marcus D. Simpson, Brigadier Gen
eral, United States Army (retired), and
| said to have been the oldest living
| graduate of West Point, died at River
side at the age of eighty-fve.
The mining of 100000 tons of coal
for the United States Navy viii begin
| at once in Colorado, as the tests from
| the properties of the Wooten Land and
| Fuel Company have been satisfactory.
A story from Port Arthur relates the
| pathetic straits of an Indian Woman
| who was forced to cut strips of flesh
| from her arm to use as bait to catch
fish to keep her children from starving.
! Mrs NJ A. Wilcox, a society Leader
OF LOS Angeles ana, III HeT ed-Iftf
| years. considered the handsomest
woman in California. is not expected
to survive her present serious illness,
| The rescued passengers from the In
diana had a pleasant trip north on the
cruiser California and expressed them.
selves as delighted with their expe-
rience, on their arrival in San Fran
| cisco.
| Dick Croker resents the new prohibi-
| tion law and the wave of moral legisla-
| ton throughout the United States. as
| he believes that rich Americans viii be
| driven abroad where more liberal views
prevail
Wheat jumped to the highest point
in years and wild scenes, equalling
the old days of the Hutchinson deals
| were enacted in Chicago when james
| A Patten put May wheat up to 1-25 L
on April 8.
| John Griffin, banished January, 1908
| from the United States for five years
on penalty of penal servitude if he re-
| turned. came back from Tahiti as a
stowaway on the Mariposa and was
sent to Jail.