The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-08

President Taft addressed the negro
graduates at Howard University.
A bill abolishing capital punishment
passed the Illinois state legislature.
Augustus Ingrahm of California has
been made consul at Bradford, England
The Bankers Association of Califor-
MA held a successful convention at Del
Monte.
President Taft has accepted honorary
membership in the Grand Army of the
Republic.
F. P. Baker, the Oldest newspaper
man in Kansas, died at Topeka in his
ninetieth year.
Julia Ward Howe celebrated her
ninetieth birthday at her home in Bos-
ton on May 81.
Eastern astronomers have reported
that on May "A strange comet ap-
preached very near the earth.
Twenty-seven students at Stanford
were permanently suspended for a Sec
ond delinquency in scholarship.
The liner Princess Alice went
aground while passing out of New
| York harbor on her last trip to Bremen.
In Muskegon, Mich, the ministers
have announced that they will refuse
to officiate at weddings where liquor is
served
The Imperial Steel Trust Incorporated
in the State of Delaware may become
great rival of the United States Steel
| Corporation.
The Hartman lines have placed an
order for over one hundred locomotives
| with the Baldwin Locomotive Works
of Philadelphia.
John W. Kern, mining engineer
from Alameda, Cal, was sentenced in
| Chicago to three years Imprisonment
for counterfeiting.
Major Israel Greene, who captured
John Brown at Harper IS Ferry during
| the war, died in South Dakota at the
age of eightyfve.
A Divinity student at preparatory
school in Oakland hanged himself when
he was accused of stealing five dollars
from fellow student.
The entire feet of cargo carriers Of
the Standard Oil Company will be
placed in regular service between San
Francisco and New York.
After a strenuous war. horticulturlsts,
for the first time, have conquered the
black aphis which has always been such
menace to California orchardists.
E. H. Hartman intends to live and
sleep as much as possible in the open
air and will spend his home hours on
the roof of his New York residence.
Omaha train robbers were captured
through the accidental discovery of
three small boys who will share the
reward and receive ten thousand dol
lars apiece.
Friction with Secretary Nagel caused
! Census Director S. n. d. North to re-
sign and E. Dana Duranda, former Stan
ford professor, has been appointed to
succeed him.
The wires and cables of the Sunset
| Telephone Company of Pasadena were
| ordered cut by the municipal author
ties as result of the company 5 refusal
! to pay the city tax.
Ten persons persisted in tornado IN
Oklahoma which destroyed two towns.
Lady bugs imported from Australia
are destroying the cotton scale pests
in the Lodi. Cal, orchards.
! Henry H. Rogers left nearly all OF
| his great fortune to his relatives, his
only public beguest being 100000
which he left to the town of Fairhaven
| for the betterment of its primary and
grammar schools.
| The Los Angeles officers have failed
to find any trace of the murderer OF
Anna Poltera, the nine year-oid child
| whose mutilated body was found in one
of the suburbs, though many suspects
! have been arrested.
American makers have found ne"
process of hardening armor plate which
| is said to be superior and cheaper than
Krupp g. The royalty the Americans
have paid the Krupps for years has
amounted to 100000 annually.
! A statement by Thomas H. Lawson
| that owing to the death of Henry Il
Rogers the proposed issue Of the Pro
cess Copper Company bonds has be
come impossible has given eredence tt
the rumor that Lawson and Rogers has
some financial connection, though they
were supposed to have been enemies.
A telegraph operator in Colorado frus
| trated an attempted train robbery By
! telegraphing ahead to the authorities
who were thus prepared for the bandits
The University of California Gie'
| Club gave a concert at the Auditorium
! in Chicago, under the auspices of thu
| Chicago Railway Club which was
great success artistically and hnan
eially.