The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-04

saving of $S,O00,000.
The town of Truekee, Cal, was
threatened by fire when the WHIT
ney Hotel was destroyed.
Fifteen miners were killed and thir-
ty entombed by the dropping of a
cage into the La Paz mine at Mexico
city.
A thousand families were rendered
homeless by fire at Remembering,
Russia, which started in local lumber
mill.
The first fight of an aeroplane in
Russia proved disastrous, the machine
being wrecked and the aviator in
jured.
1t is rumored that E. FL. Hartman
has negotiated for the purchase of
some fast horses as the nucleus of a
racing stable.
Ten cents is to be the fee in future
FOR registered mail, as the government
las been losing heavily through the
present shstem.
The battleship South Carolina in her
trial trip surpassed the record of her
sister ship the Michigan by three
tenths of knot.
The Spanish government has closed
ninetyfour schools in connection with
the movement to stamp out revolution
airy tendencies.
A fierce fire which ragged for days in
the Northwest on the Pend Oreille
river in Idaho did untold damage be-
fore it was checked.
A recess has been taken in the Cal
houn trial owing to the illness of At
torney Stanley Moore, who was oper
ated on for appendicitis.
Bubonie plague caused the death of
100 persons in Annoy during a fort
night ending August %, according to
an official announcement.
District Attorney jerome, of New
York, has announced that he will be
candidate for reelection in the fall,
when he will run independently.
Drastic measures are to be ordered
by the new General Superintendent of
Police of Chicago to make the streets
safe from speeding automobiles.
William McInery, a youth of Placer
vile, Cal, has been arrested on the
charge of having set more than Given
ty fires in the town in month. -
New York was startled by the re-
port that Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
had been shot but the story proved up
on investigation to be canard.
The attempted assassination of Will
liam B. MeMasters, of New York,
United States vice consul at Cartagena,
has been reported from Columbia.
John a. Hammond, one of the most
expert telegraphers in the United
States, was fatally injured at Ham
mond, Ind, while trying to board
train
The province of Sienna in Italy was
severely shaken by an earthquake. Many
houses were destroyed, number of
persons were injured and panic pre-
vailed.
Mrs Morris, widow of Nelson Nor
ris, the Chicago Packer, viii erect a
memorial to him in the form of
pathological hospital and institution for
medical research.
As a measure of reprisal following
the defeat in the extensive litigation
after the Kingston earthquake, eight
English Insurance companies have with
drawn from business in Jamaica.
In recognition of the good it has
accomplished in the San Francisco
French colony medal of honor has
| been awarded the Franco-C Californian
by the French Newspaper Syndicate
The San Francisco Chamber of Com
meree has sent protest to the Sec
rotary of the Navy scoring the present
policy in which the government gives
preference to foreign tramp steamers.
Five transatlantic liners locked in
one day in New York recently estab-
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passengers landing in twenty four
hours, which was approximately H.
o15.
The final papers in the agreement
between the Hill and Hartman lines
for the use by the latter of the North
IN Pacific track between Portland and
Puget Sound have been formally ex-
ecuted
Officials of the Department of Com
merce and Labor feel considerably con
cerned from receiving no report from
agent W. |. Lembkey as they fear he
may have been murdered by japanese
seal poaehers in North Alaskan waters.
Mrs. Herman Oelrich gave a hand
some dinner at Roseeliff, her Newport
home, recently, at which wonderful
electrical effects were employed in the
elaborate decorations. The affair has
never before been eclipsed at Newport.
David E. Thompson, U. S. Embassa-
dor to Mexico, has bought for approx
imately $4,000, 900 the Pan-American
railroad and it is understood that
eoterie of st. Louis millionaires are as
ISOLATED with the diplomat in the trans
action.
The quartermaster' Office of the
War Department, after granting Mrs.
Sutton permission to have the body of
her son exhumed revoked the order on
the ground that too much notoriety
has been given to the affair.
An undertaken of Goshen. Ind, halt
ed funeral at the grave and pre-
vented the burial of the corpse on the
ground that the dead man six years
before had entered into contract with
him to have his body cremated in Chi
cage.
The State Controller of California
has signifed his intention of trying to
collect over million dollars which has
escaped the treasury of the State
through evasions of the inheritance tax
law since 1t was placed on the statute
books in 1896.