The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-20
CONDENSED NEWS Of
WORLD, FROM FILES
London has a plague of rats.

The Sequoia Club of San Francisco
has moved to its downtown quarters.
Robert Warwick the actor, has been
subpoenaed IN the Hackett divorce
suit
The Elks of California will rally at
a grand lodge reunion at Los An
geles.
The students of Santa Clara College
gave successful presentation of their
annual play.
ifornia stole from his eliminates and
was arrested.
The faculty of Stanford University
has announced that rowing contests
will be abolished.
The continued drought is causing dam
age in the grain raising districts of
northern California.
The great fishery properties of the
Hume estate in the northwest are to
be sold out by the heirs.
Toxic students have been blamed
for a serious fire in the commercial
high school of that city.
Ben Greet and his company of play
ers presented THE Tempest" in the
| Greek Theater at Berkeley.
F. L. Beach of San Francisco, who
| had deserted his wife, returned, killed
her and then committed suicide.
Willard P. Calkins of the Newspaper
Syndicate has been accused of beating
| his wife, in her suit for divorce.
German warships have awed the Sa-
means, and the rebellious chiefs have
been removed and quiet restored.
Miss Guila Morosini the New York
| millionaire heiress, is reported to have
a romantic affection for a policeman.
The annual convention of the Daugh
ters of the Confederacy was held IN
San Francisco during the first week in
May
The government is preparing a new
postage stamp to commemorate the
development in Alaska ugon terri
tory.
A woman at Goldield, New, found
two diamond earrings in "a can of corn
which she had purchased at local
store.
The Geary street car-line in San
Francisco will have an underground
conduit if the city takes over the
road.
The price of diamonds and pearls
will be increased because of the demand
| of the West and South for precious
stones.
DR.. Barrows. director of education in
| Manila, has resigned to accept place
on the faculty Of the University of
| California.
Yale defeated Princeton in the track
meet by IS to 4e, and the score of the
| University of Chicago was 81 to Wis
consin S.
| Ground has been broken in Pasadena
| for the construction of $4,000 tower
telescope which win be the largest in
| the world.
in British Columbia, were totally de-
stroyed by fire with an aggregate loss
of $25o,0o0.
| Maurice Larallard, a boy. of twelve,
has a picture in this years Salon al
Il Paris, which is an event in the annals
of French art.
| Madame Nazimova, the Russian
actress, was a great success in Sar
Francisco in g Hedda Gabbler' and
1.-THE Dolls House. -
/ A woman performer in the Sells
FIoto circus fell from a trapeze dur
ing performance in San Francisc,
and was seriously injured.
There is reported discord at tn,
Spanish court. Queen Victoria ha
grown fat and cross and the king ha
begun to admire prettier women.
John Brown III, the great grandson
of John Brown of Harper's Ferry fame
has disappeared from his home in Port
land and his family are apprehensive.
III Baron Won Hutton has secured di
] voree from his wife in a German court
The baroness was prominent societ
> girl of Erie, Pa, before her marriage
Chinese have been smuggled, at tn
| rate. of two week, in dining car
from Ell Paso to Chicago by smuggler
! who We're assisted by the train crew
Alfonzo Zelaya, the only son of Pres
ldent Zelaya of Nicaragua and hi
young wife are supporting themselve
by working at five cent theater i
} Washington, d. C.
Norbert Weiner, son of ProfessC
! Weiner of Harvard, will graduate ne1
month from Tufts College at the ae
: of fourteen, proving himself reeor
4 breaker as prodigy.
Harry Irwin, president and managt
& of the North End Realty Company
= San Francisco, was hurled to deaf
from the fourth story of a buildir
that he was inspecting.
Reports from all the lumber distric
in Washington indicate that the b
mills are running light. because of Il
stoppage of Eastern purchases duril
the discussion of the tariff
James Dunphy of San Francisco HI
won his fight to have his maria,
annulled on the ground that his wi
was not legally free from her thi
husband when she married him.
The British government has undo
taken the systematic study of the pro
lem of aerial navigation by creating
'oa new department to investigate the m;
- ter in reference to imperial defense.
Lieutenant Commander James
e Walker, U.S.N., Governor of Guam. W
b stricken with a severe attack of nervo
& trouble at Los Angeles while en- ror
= to Washington from Agans, the capt
II | of Guam.
Lord Sholto Douglas, son of the Il
n Marquis of Queensberry, was aeauitt
q in Vancouver of a charge of attempt
III murder. The jury decided that he "
81 justified in shooting the man who
h noyed his wife.