The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-12-21
CONDENSED NEWS
FROM COAST FILES

run.
Madame Tetrazziui's opening concert
IN SAN Francisco was attended by $500
people.
san Diego voted in favor of a 5000
- 600 bond issue to build Polytnecuic
High School.
Columbia University of New York re-
ceived over two million dollars in gifts
the past year.
Genky Mitsunaga, japanese. was
found guilty of numbering Mrs. kathe-
r.ne Wilson at Denver.
John W. Hunt, president and princi-
pal owner Of the Angelus Hotel at Los
Angeles, died in a sanatorium at Dallas,
Texas
EckIev Hall. a Stockton contractor,
was eIectrocuted in his home while
turning on light with defective
wiring.
Seattle expects that the cruiser Bos
ton viii be turned over to the Puget
Sound naval militia and stationed at
that port.
Ten thousand bricklayers in New
York win demand an increase of wages
to seventy-five cents an hour, begin
ming with January !.
Two silver dollars of 1904 We're found
among the property Of the lste John
c. Comfort at Carlisle, Pennsylvania,
and are valued at $4,000 each.
Edward Henry Oman, American
consuI-general at CoustantinCple, died
after a brief illness. He was born at
Rochester, Mimi, August 6, 1857
- ! = Il,
| typist, established a new world 5 record
for ten minutes. at st. LOUIS, writing
| l144 words with but eleven errors.
:. Izumi, a japanese, was sentenced
at Fresno, California, to life imprls0n-
! ment for the murder of another Japa-
nese who refused to pay him a debt
| Of $50.
| 4 blizzard swept along the Atlantic
| staboard the first week in December.
! Twelve degrees below zero at Canton,
New York, was the lowest temperature
recorded.
With salute of one hundred guns,
Augusta Georgia. honored the hun
dredth birthday anniversary of iona
than Miller, next to the oldest person
in the city.
TurnbulI for a two-ninths share in the
$1,000 900 estate Of the late Z. J. Bald |
win was begun in the superior court at
Los Angeles.
Acting Governor George T. Young IS !
sued the proclamation setting February |
9th as the day of election for the rati- !
fication Of the recently completed Ari
zcna constitution. !
W. L. Eagen. member Of the North |
western Normal football team of Ava |
Oklahoma, died as the result of injuries |
sustained in a football game. He suf |
fered fracture of the skull.
\ mob at Fresno. California. at
tackled and severely beat a number of |
street orators Of the Industrial Work
ers of the World and burned their camp
on the outskirts of the city.
1t is understood that Henry (. Hunt
ington is to finance the independent tel
ephone company in southern California
territory. now practically monopoliZed
by subsidiaries of the Bell corporation.
Dr. Emanuel Lasker of New York re-
tanned the worlds chess championship
by defeating the challenger, d. Janow-
skie of Paris, with score OF eight
games to none. Three games were
drawn.
Margaret L. Levingston died at Free
port, Illinois, aged 10 years. She was
the widow OF Dr. William w. Loving
ston. commonly believed to have been
William \. Rockefeller, father Of john
d. Rockefeller.
The engagement of the oldest daugh
ter of Count Won BernstOrtf. the Ger
man ambassador, to Count Ranaund
Pourtales, an attache Of the embassy,
Is announced. No date has been set
for the wedding.
John Porteous, p years old, who won
the prize for being the tallest and
- skiuniest Elk at the National con
ventioD in Denver in 1907, is dead Of
tuberculosis at Paducah, Kentucky.
Porteous was feet inches tall.
big Tom" Curriar, deputy United
States marshal, who bore striking re-
semblance to President Taft, died IN
Chicago at the age OF Ga. Currier, who
WAS a familiar figure about the federal
building for twenty years, stood b feet
80 inches in his stocking feet, and
weighed 800 pounds.
John D. Rockefeller is to be Santa
Claus this wear for TarrytOwn, New
York, children. Cards were distributed
all over the village announcing that all
children who are members of the sun
day school Of Rockefeller ; church
the First Baptist Church-wlu receive
q Christmas stocking full OF goodies.
RAYMOND Hamilton, a chauffeur, was
burned to death at Orange New Jersey.
H. wa. try;uU % adj a defect in the