The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-31
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IIprlaH0 IdstFO, FORMER president Oh
Venezuela, has gone to Solares, Spain.
A national museum will be built at
Washington, D. c., for the Roosevelt
trophies.
Glenn Curtiss, an American aviator,
sprained his ankle in an accident at
Rheims, France.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson adj
dressed the Food Commissioners Con-
gress at Denver.
Eleven passengers occupying Pull
man car were injured in a wreck near
Clearwater, Missouri.
Fire destroyed portion of the bust
| ness section of Fresno. A loss of
| $4,000 was entailed.
| IF John d. Rockefeller lives till his
eightieth birthday, he will be the first
Millionaire in history.
Timber to the value of a million dol
lars has been destroyed in the recent
forest fire at Spokane.
Thomas J. Connor, an employee in the
Southern Pacific ticket Office, was ar
rested for embezzlement.
General John HI. Dickinson, promi-
nent figure in California, died August
% at his home at Healdsburg.
John Wool, a Santa Fe engineer, was
fatally burned when his engine turn
ed over on soft piece of track.
The cruiser st. Louis broke all pre-
| vIous records for steaming on her recent
! trip from Hilo to San Frincisco.
Philippine bonds sold slightly above
| par when bids were received and opened
| In Washington, d. c., on August II.
| The mayor of Portsmouth, Va, has
| announced that silver medal will be
| given every child born in the town.
R. w. Bryan of the Great Northern
railroad was killed at Covina, Cal, by
! being crushed under a farm wagon.
Moses Thatcher, prominent in the
] business and political life of Utah, died
at his home in Logan, Utah, August %.
Japanese are taking the place of
| Greek laborers on the Western Pacific
| railroad, which is building in Nevada.
Wall street is profoundly interested
in the state of Hartman S health, and
stocks have dropped at recent reports.
| The infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Colby of Hugo, Oregon, was
trampled to death by runaway horse.
| The store and stock of the J. B. Rey-
nolds Furniture Company at San Pedro
was destroyed by fire at a loss of
| $4,000.
| Five lives were lost at the opening
of the Indianapolis motor speedway on
! August 10, as the result of automobile
accidents.
| The mother of Harry K. Thaw claims
that he is being mistreated at the Mat
| teawan ayslum since his return to that
institution.
| Five lives were lost as result of an
| ayptocion WI ha Own m 70
house of the Western Explosive Com
| pany at Vancouver.
| DR.. Fonnce, president of Brown Uni
| versity, asserts that American colleges
are not doing their duty in the foster
ing of pure English.
/ The regular soldiers who were called
| out from Fort William to suppress the
dock strikers at Winnipeg have return
ed to their barracks.
Fred Bryant, aged twelve, saved the
life of small playmate, aged ten, who
was drowning in the Columbia river
near Woodland, Wash.
The Wright aeroplane, with which
Lieutenant Calderarm of the italian
army has been making experiments
was damaged in storm.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has written
an eloquent protest to the London
Times on the misgovernment of the
Congo Independent State.
4 Nicholas Covarrubias, pioneer OF
Santa Barbara, has been chosen to rep
resent Gaspar de Portola at the festival
in San Francisco in October.
| W. H. Oakley, paymaster of the
Franklin Construction Company, al
Bluefeld, w. Va. was shot by an IN
known man and robbed CT $4,000.
The official program for the meeting
| of President Taft and Presidency Diaz
has been given out, and will include
banquets on both sides of the border
Whitelaw Reid will not be reappoint
ed Ambassador to Great Britain, ac
cording to the latest report. His sue
cessor has not vet been decided upon
| The Trans Mississippi Commercial
| Congress, which convened in Denver
was occupied primarily in fight fol
better freight regulations in the West
W.P. Harmon, who has the financial
backing of Pierpont Morgan, may buy
Clear Lake, Cal, in order to widen the
scope of the Harmon Power Syndicate
L. c. Cary of Los Angeles, inventor
of the Cary automatic ear coupler, was
found dead at the Menlo Hotel, Sar
Francisco, from an overdose of NOR
phine.
President Taft played golf in 6
binding rainstorm at Beverly, Mass.
with his brother, Charles Taft, and his
cousin, Samuel Carr, Of Boston, as op
ponents.
| Gambling devices worth 100000
taken from the most deliberately fur
nished gambling houses in the West
| were burned by. order of the State OF
Indiana
| NJ. Gusef, private secretary to Count
ToIstoi. has been exiled to the province
of Perm for two wears for circulating
| Tolstoi's pamphlet, "Thou Shalt Dc
No Murder
| -Four men. among them Captain
Campbell Babcoek, e. s. A, were in
iured in an automobile accident in San
| Francisco, through the carelessness OF
a chauffeur.
Paul Schmidt, a Hungarian violinist
in Rigo s orchestra at Teeehau's Tav
ern, San Francisco, dropped dead OF
heart failua while playing in the
crowded cafe.
". H. Wright, formerly well-to-dc
merchant of Neosho. Missouri, has re
! turned to his home after an absence Of
wears and after having been declared
1 locally lead