The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-21
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Mrs May Real, widow of Portland,
Oregon, was instantly killed by an an-
tomobile.
The British cruiser Hermione ran
ashore off the Humber River but sus-
tanned little damage.
Luther Burbank has been accused of
being nature faker by the florists Of
Southern California.
The War Department has abandoned
work planned for Fort Winfield Scott
at the Golden Gate, San Francisco.
That President Diaz will resign the
presidency if Ramon Corral is elected
vice president. has been reported.
Fourteen hundred delegates attended
the convention of the international
| typographical union at st. Joseph, No.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, aceompa-
| MED by her sister, Miss Carew, and her
family, have reached Paris from Milan.
Judgt Silas w. Lamoreaux, United
States Land Commissioner under Pres
/ ident Cleveland, died at Beaverdam,
Wis.
Count Zeppelin, the German aviator,
| has been taken to hospital at Con-
! SlduEe IOT treatment IO1 dDCCSo OA 141o
neck.
Rose Winter, an English actress,
figures prominently in the action for
divorce fled against Frank J. Gould
| by his wife.
Captain Rowland V. Webster, has
been appointed by the Royal Geogra-
phical Society to lead an expedition to
| the South Pole.
1t is reported that Don Jaime, pre-
fender to the Spanish throne, will
shortly marry princess OF royal
German family.
General Arthur Murray, U. S. Army,
inspected the site for the new barracks
at the Preside at San Francisco prior
to his departure for Washington.
Earl Grey, Governor General of
/ Canada, accompanied by Lady Sybil
Grey, has gone to the Yukon Country
on camping trip.
Walter Byrod, a structural iron
worker, was fatally hurt by falling
from an iron girder on the Anglo-Call-
| fornia Bank building.
| The battleships of the North Allan
tic feet arrived in Hampton Roads to-
day, following a month s practise OFF
the New England Coast.
Nearly 100000 Sockeye salmon
were taken from traps at Bellingham
for the week ending August z, break
ing all previous records. .
Freight weighing departments will
be inaugurated at San Francisco and
/ Seattle by the Transcontinental
Freight Bureau after October l.
Henry G. Parker, Assistant City En-,
| oineer of Los Angeles, was drowned
| in a sewer, the construction of which
he was inspecting.
Shima, the japanese potato king,
has the largest acreage of potatoes all
in one patch in the world, situated III
the San Joaquin Valley.
While thousands of unemployed are
| to be found in Chicago, the Northwest
with a record breaking crop is suffer
| ing for Iaborers in the field.
|. Charles A. Silk, an actor in San
Francisco. crazed by drink, stabbed
himself twenty-five times with pocket
/ knife, but failed to inhiet any mortal
wounds.
A receiver has been appointed by
| Governor Patterson, for the town of
Lennox, Tenn, to wind up the affairs
of the municipality upon the repeal OF
its charter.
| Litigation between the children of
Henry Wempe, the wealthy paper box
manufacturer. over the division of his
estate, has been begun IN the San
Francisco courts.
The United States Cavalry will par
| ticipate in the horse show at the Madi-
son Square Gardens in November, for
the first time in the history of the
| National Horse Show.
| Much trouble has resulted in San
! Francisco over the discovery by the
| Board of Public Works that the fire
| cisterns furnished for the city by con-
tractors viii not hold water.
Mrs. Maude Johnson, the accident
| swindler, was taken to Seattle from
| Oakland to answer to a charge of OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses
from the Seattle Electric Railway.
john T. McCutcheon, the cartoonist,
has sailed for British East Africa,
where he will hunt big game. He will
nrobablv meet the Roosevelt party and
| will make his cartoon contribution
from the jungle.
At the fifth annual convention OF
the Associated Clubs of America,
which convenes in Louisville, August
% advertising in all its phases and
legitimate place in American com
merce will be the question discussed.
The executive board Of the United
States Manufacturers and Merchants
| Association met in Chicago to take
| action in reference to attacts that are
being mode on the tobacco industry
nv the Women s Christian Temperance
F, Union.
Secretary MaeVeagh has announced
that none of the new Panama bonds
authorized by Congress at the session
| lust closed would be issued before
| Congress meets again and has an op-
| portunitv to change the existing cir
| eulation tax.
Serious trouble is said to be brew
| mo over the Cretan situation, as Tur-
kew has threatened to sever diplo-
matte relations with Greece If disap-
proval is not expressed at the annexa-
| tion of Crete and a formal declaration
that Greece has no ambition regard
ing the Island.
The Treasury Department has order.
cd a diseontinuance of the coinage OF
the Lincoln penny It is claimed that
the new pennies viii not "stack
with the old ones. ond it has been
urged that being larger and thicker
"a.