The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-02
Twelve lives were lost in the Texas

The Calhoun jury box is once more
filed, but one is to be reexamined.
Mrs. Duden, who killed her brother
in-law, was acquitted in San Diego.
Wade II. Ellis of Ohio will continue
as assistant to the Attorney General
The California Powder Works will
erect extensive magazines at Antioch.
Rio Janeiro has one skyscraper. 1t
is newspaper office and has nine
stories.
The police in Palermo are exerting
every effort to catch the slayer of Pc
trosini.
Gailot, the French astronomer, has
announced the discovery of two new
planets.
Major w. P. Richardson, head of
the Army highway board, goes back to
Alaska.
The Sunset express was ditehed near
Yuma but the passengers escaped with
out injury.
A plan to put a tax on corporation
incomes will be suggested to Congress
by President Taft.
A battery charge was placed against
young man who kissed girls in the
streets of Oakland.
Prehistoric weapons and a suit of
copper armor have been found by ex-
cavators in Mexico.
The commission plan of municipal
government has proven a success in
Des Moines, Iowa. /.
The California polo team won the
All-American championship at the tour
nament at Coronado.
Two preachers in Missouri quarreled
and one Rev. Martin johnson killed
Rev Solomon Odell.
There is an unverifed report that
the Union Pacific and the New York
Central will combine.
Sing Chung, Chinese merchant of
Nevada City, has named his SON for
ex-President Roosevelt.
The Board of State Prison Directors
has abolished the position of resident
chaplain at San Quentin.
The torpedo boat destroyer Farragut
was repaired at Mare Island and has
left for Magdalena Bay.
Residents of Klamath County (Ore.)
are terrorized by strange rumbiings
from the old lava beds.
Dustra Farnum, the actor, was
quietly married at Chicago to his lead
ing woman, Miss Conwell.
A waitress in a New York restau-
rant was blinded by being struck in
the eye with tabasco sauce.
Over one hundred miles of moving
picture films were destroyed in fire
in supply depot in Oregon.
John McElroy, the District Attor-
ney of Oakland, Cal, succumbed to
pneumonia after a brief illness.
w. b. Hamblin, noted railroad
man, connected with the Burlington
road, died suddenly at Pasadena.
w. L. Wolf, mining man, says that
spineless cactus grows wild In great
profusion on the Mexican ranges
Congress will be given an opportu-
nitv to vote for the Statehood Bill
when it convenes next December.
Successful flights on the Wright aero
plane were made at Pau by two French
men, pupils of the Wright brothers.
The building of the Chamber of Dep
mites in Mexico City was burned and
the records and archives destroyed.
Ambassador Bryce was given honor
ary degree of LII. D. at the Charter Day
exercises at the University of Califor-
MIA.
Trouble over the Payne bill Is pre-
dicted, and opponents argue that the
Cuban treaty will precipitate trade
war.
Miss Thaw, daughter of Alexander
Blair Thaw, Pittsburg millionaire,
| is to marry an Italian marquis IN
| Rome.
/ Members of the Shackleton south
pole expedition suffered great hard
ships during the journey towards the
south pole. :.
Pittsburg is in the throes of a graft
prosecution and several milllonalres
and prominent men are indicted by the
grand jury.
Champ Clark of Missouri attacked
the tariff measure and declared for
economy in the government instead Oh
| more taxes. :,
| James C. Tomalty, formerly chief
bookkeeper in the Treasurer S Once IN
San Francisco, is indicted for faIsify-
ing records.
daughter has been born to Mrs.
Waldorf Astor in London. She was
| formerly Miss Mamie Langhorne shaw
of Virginia. -.
horse plunged into train at
| Centralia. Wash, which killed Miss
Anna Haines and injured her nance
| and his sister.
The San Francisco Outdoor ART
League mourns the loss Of its bunga-
low on Telegraph Hill, which was de-
stroyed by fire,
Germany denies the story of the BRIT
ons and says that in 1912 she VIII nave
/ thirteen and not seventeen warshlps OF
the big gun type,
chase after a Chinese thief IN
| Chinatown in San Francisco caused a
rumor of another tong war and created
| much excitement.
The weight of President Taft proved
TOO great for the Roosevelt office chair
and it was borne from the White
House for repairs.
The skeleton of giant Indian, sup
nosed to be the remains of Chief VAN
DO. of the Digger tribe, has been I'M
| earthed at San Rafael.
The gunboat Vicksburg, which IS now
at Mare Island. will be placed IN com
mission and will probably be sent to
| the Atlantic coast.
| The razing of the City Hall IN San
Francisco will be investigated and con
tractors will be compelled TO safeguard