The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-20
Condensed News OF
World, From Files

The new Sultan, Mehemmed V, has
put an end to the reign of terror.
The entire fotilla of eleven torpedo
boats arrived at San Francisco from
San Diego.
q. III. Hartman has been elected
director of the Lake Shore and Michi-
gan Southern railroad.
Through the overcrowding of boat
at Pittsburg twenty persons were
drowned when it sank.
ormer Senator Stewart of Nevada
left heavy liabilities, which cannot be
satisfied by his meager estate.
Robert A. Taft, Yale 10, son of Presi-
dent Taft, has been chosen president of
the University Debating Association.
James Gilbert Chesley, for twenty
seven years cashier of the San Frau
cisco Chronicle, died al his home in that
city.
San Francisco fanciers are perfeeting
details for the merging of the People IS
Water Company with the Spring Valley
Company.
Joseph III. Portugal, the son of for
mer official of the Sultan, has married
Miss Clara G. Colt, an heiress of Bryn
Mawr, Pa.
Augusta Evans Wilson, the author
of ''St. Elmo and other novels, which
had great vogue forty years ago, died
in Alabama.
Seven Pittsburg boodlers were given
prison terms after conviction in the
municipal graft cases but the sentences
were very light.
The delegation of California lemon
men had an audience with President
Taft and impressed on him the necessity
Of an increased tariff.
waiter Weilman has announced that
he will renew his effort this summer TO
reach the North Pole by means of a
dirigible balloon or an airship.
The armored cruiser Pennsylvania
won the victory in the coal consumption
contest of the Pacific fleet. The Mary
land was second in coal economy.
A romance of twenty-four hours dur
alton eliminated with the marriage of
David Kemp, aged 70, and EmmaHig-
bee aged 60, at jacksonville, Cal.
The government ownership of two
railroad lines in Canada has proven a
failure as the year just closed shows a
deficit of over sixty thousand dollars.
Government experts are interested in
the Yuma Valley experiment farm
where 100 acres of Egyptian cotton has
been planted on the Indian reservation.
A Philadelphia woman who sued for
fifteen thousand dollars for the loss of
her foot in a steamboat accident, was
awarded twenty thousand dollars by a
jury.
Wilbur Vrettman, who has been cut
ting a wide swath in San Francisco
society as a Swedish count, was arrest
ed In Oakland for passing a bogus
check.
F. w. Rockill, the newly appointed
Ambassador to Russia, will face diff
fcult problem in the negotiation of the
new treaty of commerce and navigation
with Russia.
According to report the Honduran
government has taken back the Inter
Oceanic railroad, the transfer having
been made by the Valentine Syndicate
about May first.
The Seattle, the second steamer built
for the Pacific service of the Chicago
Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad was
launched at Toxic May 5th. The line
will be in operation in July.
The marriage of Miss Blanche Emory,
daughter of Rear Admiral William EN-
DRY ,U.SN., (retired) and Esmond Ovey
third secretary of the British Embassy
took place in Washington, ID. c.
Hammond Lamont, editor of the Ma
tion, died at the Roosevelt hospital in
New York following an operation. He
was one of the leading editorial writers
of the New York Evening Post.
The Administration will not consent
to the condition sought to be imposed
by Senator Perkins that Philippine
products admitted free of duty shall be
transported in American bottoms.
The California State school land fund
has been reduced to $4,000 through
loans made in cities, counties and school
districts. Six millions of the State land
fund is now out at good interest.
The Wright brothers are returning to
New York where they will conduct a
series of experiments of a secret nature
before undertaking some important
trials for the British government.
John r. Lindgren, Swedish Consul to
Chicago, has donated $4,000 to the
Northwestern University TO be utilized
3 for founding permanent series of lee
lures on international peace and inter
denomina tional religious harmony. This
Is the first material fruit of the Ma
tional Peace conference which was held
in Chicago.