The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-07
CONDENSED NEWS
FROM COAST FILES

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King Manuel arrived in Paris on No
vember 81
Rains have caused heavy losses in
Porto Rico.
Congressman Mann foresees a tariff
war with Canada.
A Chicago man of eighty-one took a
bride a year older.
The Wright aeropIane factory is
flooded with orders.
The Czarina is almost a total wreck
from nervous troubles.
The gunboat Princeton has been sent
to the Nicaragua coast.
Smallpox is raging in a Mexican
mining camp at Torreon.
Paris streets are in bad condition
OWING to mismanagement.
Admiral Barton. retired. has had q
slight stroke of apoplexy.
The year s lumber cut of the country
has decreased % per cent.
A Chicago woman danced herself to
death on Thanksgiving Day.
The giant pie that was sent to Pres
ldent Taft, was lost en- route.
Abe Ruef is making strenuous eff
forts TO secure release on bail.
James L. Davenport is the new Amer
lean commissioner of pensions.
Storms have again stopped cable COM
munieation with the West Indies.
The profile of French actress
adorns the Moroccan war medal.
Friction between Austria and Italy
has weakened the triple alliance.
The fiye-mile tunnel for the Trans
andean railroad has been pierced.
Richard Z. kerens of Missouri may
be the new ambassador to Austria.
Efforts are being made to introduce
American Pullman cars in Germany.
Waterworks for Henry VIII. have
been unearthed at Richmond, England.
Three people We're hurt when an auto
driven by a l4-year old boy eollided
Midnight holdups are increasing in
the residence district of San Francisco.
Premier BRAND condemns the atti-
tude of French Catholics as unpatri-
otic.
An auto store has been opened close
to the Vanderbilts' Fifth avenue pal
aces.
Seventy thousand Americans will
have taken up land in Canada this
year.
The Carthusian monks are to leave
Tarragouna, Spain, and settle in Hun
gary.
The mummy of one of the Rameses
kings of Egypt has arrived in New
York.
The Chicago and Northwestern Rail
road IS Flaming to reach to the Pacific
Coast.
Alma Bell, acquitted of numbering
her lover, may go on the vaudeville
stage.
The Treptow telescope in Germany is
said to be the most powerful in the
world
Ex-President Roosevelt, in a letter
from Africa, pays a high tribute to
Peary.
c. E. S. Wood, wealthy attorney
of Portland, Oregon, has joined the So
eialists.
The Spring Valley water system has
been offered to San Francisco for $35.-
100000.
The first authentic case of rabies in
California has been reported from Los
Angeles.
King Edward may arbitrate the Al
sop claim between the United States
and Chile.
Ore netting $40 per pound has been
taken from a mine near Nevada City,
California.
President Diaz attended dinner to
retiring Ambassador Thompson, an I'M
usual honor
Scandals in weighing big imports
have been discovered in the New York
customhouse.
A giant baboon in winter quarters
at Portland, Oregon, nearly bit his
trainer to death.
The increase of the beer trade of
the United States is seven-fold per
capita since 1860.
Ex-Governor General Smith says the
Philippines are no longer an expense
to the United States.
The steamship Beaver, for the San
Francisco-Portland trade, has been
launched at Norfolk
with a street ear in Los Angeles.
Canadians deny that they are in the
new telephone combine.
Mrs. Carrie Hayes Dilworth. of Pitts
burg, with an income of $4,000 a year,
has married a poor preacher.
Capt. Lucien Young will succeed
naval SoAA7tA Aie19t Ky ans tto A1AhAaSG1
of the Mare Island navy yard.
At Sandy Hook, artillerymen. firing
twenty shots, could not hit balloon
anchored at height of 500 feet.
Porto Rican labor leaders are in
Washington demanding citizenship and
various reforms in the island govern
ment
Mrs. ". W. Wheeler. a Denver clair
voyant. has been convicted of swindling
customers by selling them worthless
mines.
Gllett is the leading candidate of
the Republicans for governor of Cali
fornia, with Charles F. Curry second
choice.
NJ Zumoto, a member of the com
mercial embassy from Japan. advocates
the free selling of land in that country
TO foreigners.
Annapolis midshipmen are likely to
have the Iowa, Indiana and Massaehu-
sets for next years cruise in the
Mediterranean.
The small steamer Argo stranded
near Tillamook. Oregon. and turned
turtle. Three lives were lost from a
lifeboat.
French legal methods are to be re-
v:sed by a parliamentary commission.
Judges will probably lose the right OF
the interrogatoire.
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