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

ter at Waltham, Massac huettes, on
June 49,
Henry George, IT., was the guest re
Gently of Count Leo Tolstoi at his home
in Russia
Latest reports state that many new
| cases of cholera have developed in St
Petersburg.
A torrential rain has stopped the
rayages of the forest fires in Maine and
! New Brunswick.
The Senate has nxed rate o. 81 a
ton on print paper in place of the House
rate of So a ton.
! The British bark Roderick Castle has
/ not been spoken since December 6, and
/ it is feared she has been lost.
An organized army of railway thieves
recently discovered in st. Petersburg
has been broken up by the police.
DR.. Haldine Clemson of Chicago has
been held by the grand jury for inn
| plication in the death of his wife.
Charles Fairall, one of Abe Ruef's
attorneys, has attached building or
Kearny street to secure his fee OF
/ $4,000
Nine business houses were burned OF
! East street in San Francisco on JUNE
II, causing damages estimated al
$4,000.
The jewels of the Queen of Sian
valued at $4,000, were stolen durjtis
| the trip from London to the Siamas.
, capital.
] The steamer Campania ran aground
| near Quebec on June Is. There was a
| panic among the passengers, but no one
was injured.
Maude Allen, the American dancer
win appear in the United States in
1910. She will give her Salome dance
during a tea-weeks' tour.
i Thomas O'Connor, drink-crazed Ia
borer in Tracy, California, killed him
| self after wounding his friend, who was
| trying to prevent him from destroying
| himself.
A vast liptical-shaped convention
hall which will be modified reproduc-
| tion of the Flavian amphitheater in
Rome has been planned for construction
in Chicago.
The home of Superintendent w. FL.
Whalen. of the Tucson division of the
Southern Pacific, was blown up by dy-
| namiters The occupants of the house
escaped injury.
Old st. Mary's, which was land
mark in San Francisco for fifty years
and which was destroyed during the fire
and earthquake, has been restored and
was dedicated on June 20.
Lena Sellmar of San Francisco shot
her husband after quarrel and would
have killed him but for the intercession
! of their six-year-old son. 1t is thought
that the woman is demented.
Baptist circles generally are in a state
of excitement over the efforts to GUST
Professor George Burnham Foster from
the faculty of the University of Chi
cago and from the ministry.
The revenue cutter Thetis is fast in
the ice eighty miles from Nome, but Is
considered safe. Five steamers from
Seattle succeeded in breaking through
the ice and reached Nome safely
The steamer Jefferson has arrived at
Seattle from Alaska with over $1,000
600, represented in six and one-half
tons of virgin gold 1T is the largest
! single shipment ever sent from Alaska.
Robert L. Hayes of st. Louis was ar
rested on suspicion of sending black
mailing letters to the officials of the
w dDasH TdIfOdu. l. Hc 1tttcIS CoAee1@AiS1A
threats to dynamite the tracks unless
$500 were paid.
Ambassador Bryce, representative OF
Great Britain at Washington, is the
only member of the diplomatic corps
who does not dictate to stenographer.
He writes his letters by hand and then
has them typed
San Joaquin county melon growers
have begun suit for damages against
firm of eastern seedmen because Of
their loss of crop and custom due to
the inferior quality of seed furnished
them by the seed firm.
Sixteen children in Sparta, Georgia,
! who gathered under tree to escape a
i shower, were rendered unconscious by
a lightning bolt; six were fatally hurt,
and on the bodies of nine the tree had
been perfectly photographed by the
electric bolt.
Frederick de Martins, professor of in
Eternational law in the University of st.
Petersburg. is dead. He was chosen on
several occasions by European and
American powers as international arhi-
TRAITOR, and Edinburgh, Cambridge, and
! Yale universities made him an LID.
FAY Freeman. San Francisco mil
liner, has married a Chinese restaurant
keeper at Vancouver.