The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-01

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The Calhoun trial has cost the city
of San Francisco 100000.
The resignation of the Hungarian
Cabinet has been accepted by the EN-
peror.
st. John Hankin, author and drama
fist, committed suicide by drowning il
Wales.
DR.. Robert Lincoln Watkins OF New
York claims that tuberculosis is dis
ease of the blood and can be cured.
An Ell Paso, Texas, woman, who, il
January, 1908, gave birth to triplets
has just become the mother of twins.
Two Custom Inspectors seized 149
tins of opium in Chinatown in San
Francisco and the drug viii be de-
stroyed.
The budget of 1910, which was intro
duecd into the Chamber of Deputies in
Paris by the Minister of Finance, shows
a deficit of $21 100000.
Jose Magnane, Mexican, charged
| with completely in murder at Gold
! field, was captured on the Nevada desert
! after desperate struggle.
An order for 81 100000 pounds of
beef has been received by one of the
Chicago stock yard firms for the Brit.
ISL War Department.
The British cruiser Sappho was sunk
| in a collision off Dungeness, the life
i boats landed 200 of the crew, and ac-
| cording to report no lives were lost.
The exports from the United States
in the fiscal year will fall below those
of 1908 and 1907, according to a state
ment issued by the Bureau of Statistics.
There is a strong possibility that
President Woodrow Wilson of Prince
ton University will be the next Dem
ocratic nominee for Governor Of New
Jersey.
Eight jurors were temporary passed
in the trial of James Tread well, a di-
rector of the California SAFE Deposit
and Trust Company, charged with EN-
bezzlement.
The Swedish Consul in New York, in
a dispatch to his government, advises
Swedes not to emigrate to America,
where, he declares, times are bad at the
present time.
Sainthill Eardly- WiImot, who has ar
rived in London on a visit after So
years service in India, holds the
world IS record as a hunter of tigers.
He has 100 to his credit.
Officer Michael Conboy of San Fran
cisco while intoxicated shot Bernard
Lagan who was assisting him to rise
from the sidewalk where he had fallen.
His victim will probably die.
A jury to try James Treadwell for
the second time for the wrecking of the
California Safe Deposit and Trust
Company has been secured and the
trial will proceed Immediately.
The Pacific fleet, commanded by Rear
Admiral Sebree, will make a cruise into
foreign waters this fall, and will prob
ably proceed up the coast to Alaskan
waters and thence to the Philippines.
Nine new war vessels will be added
to the German Navy this year. The
list includes two battleships, one large
armored cruiser. four small armored
cruisers; and river gunboat for China.
Secretary of State Valez, at Havana,
Cuba, in replying to Senior Soler, the
Spanish minister, has declined to con-
slider Spain s proposal that Cuba assume
a portion of the Spanish national debt.
President Taft today decided to
grant hearing to the various interests
in the controversy as to what is
whiskey, under the pure food law, and
has set June 2sth as the time of the
hearing.
The Picking branch of the Interna-
tional Banking Corporation, the First
American Bank in the East to join the
group of British, French, German and
japanese institutions there, has just
been opened.
Bob Leun, wealthy Chinese of Ell
Paso. Texas, was found guilty and Car
los Sevedra and Jose Passa, Mexican
miners. were found not guilty of par
ticiptating in the FL Paso Chinese
smuggling case.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs has
announced in the Chamber of Deputies
in Constantinople that should the pow
ers evacuate the Island of Crete the
government would maintain Turkish
sovereignty there.
The son of Cyrus w. Field is working
as a clerk in a Bowery lodging house IN
New York. where it is claimed he is
patiently laboring to regain his name
and place in society which ne lost
through dissipation.
Expert testimony introduced IN the
trial of Broughten Brandenburg tended
to prove that the alleged forged letter
which Brandenburg sold to the New