The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-12-29
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The Christian Herald office in New
York was damaged to the extent of
SO 600 by fire
Nine. Emma Eames. prima donna,
has confirmed reports of her engage
meut TO Emilio de Gogorza the operate
baritone.
Emmanuel F. Amador son of the first
president of Panama. has bought a 49,
600 residence in Upton, New York, and
viii make his home there.
Rev Doctor Murray editor of the
Presbyterian Witness and author of the
HYMN "Ocean Unto Ocean, died in
Halifax, aged seventy-nine years.
Last of family of five brothers and
sisters. each of whom has met death by
drowning. William Powers. a lumber
man. IS dead at North Twin Lake,
| Maine.
In partial distribution of the es-
tate of the late D. O. Mills. ordered
in the superior court at San Francisco,
Ogden Mills and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid
were given $685. each in cash.
The street railway arbitration board
of Winnipeg has decided that the men
can ubt hIlEh III ulilIUl III III tdIS. HC
men are dissatisfied. and mass meet
ing viii be held to consider strike.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany is preparing to construct an i'm
mense terminal and transfer yard, with
roundhouse and repair shop, at Auburn,
midway between Seattle and Tacoma.
| The boilermakers' lockout, affecting
| $4,000 men, in the London yards of
| the shipbuildlng employers federation,
ended with the acceptance by the men
of the terms made by the. employers
There were 1897 deer killed and 101
wounded during the seven days of the
! open hunting season in Massachusetts.
according to the official figures given
out by the fish and game commissioners
| Willis L. Moore. chief of the United
states weather bureau, denied the
| charges of acknowledgement, extrava
gance and irregularities in his depart
ment made by James Berry, a former
! employe.
| The 2Sth child has arrived at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Jason Bonner.
at Newcastle, Indiana. Twenty-one of
the children are living. Mr. Bonner is
forty-nine years old and his wife is
four years his junior
| S. J. Limstrong, a streetcar conductor
on the Old Dominion Railway, Wash
ington, D. c., died from injuries receiv-
ed in a race riot when he was struck
on the head with an iron pipe. Three
negroes have been arrested.
Charles Stewart and Hugh Ferguson,
Pittsburg councilmen, convicted on a
charge of conspiracy to defraud the
city, lost their appeals in the State
superior court. They were sentenced TO
serve eight months and pay a fine of
$500.
Struck on his bare head by a burning
gasoline stove thrown from the second
story of a neighbor IS house, into which
he was rushing in response to an alarm
of fire, James McCue of Los Angeles
was dangerously burned and will be
disfgured for life.
The bite of dog three years ago
has just caused the death here of
Charles !. Richards, fortyeight years
old, an officer of the New Hampshire
Humane Society. Richards was taken
i'll with pneumonia, and symptoms Of
hydrophobia developed.
Gen. Harrison Gray Otis. proprietor
VI INC LpS [NHStItS lItltS, HAS IuSG CLOS
ed a contract with an Oregon City paper
mill for $2,000,000 worth of paper to be
used in the publication of the Times
This is the largest single contract for
paper ever made in the West.
President Taft accepted an invitation
to address the Southern Commercial
congress on March 10 next, at Atlanta.
Former President Roosevelt, Governor
elect Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey
and the governors of practically all the
Southern States viii make addresses.
Neil Keith. one of the best known
railroad contractors in America. was
found frozen to death in the hills south
of Moose jaw, British Columbia While
suffering from a fever he wandered
away about six weeks ago. Mr.. Keith
had built railway lines for all the prin-
cipal companies in the West.
Miss Estelle Kruger Woodford, niece
of Dom Paul Kruger, is the plaintiff in
a suit in the New York Supreme Court
against John Willard Young. son of
Brigham Young. Miss Woodford seeks
to enforce a Judgment for $4,000 OBJ
tanned against Young in London thir-
teen years ago. The money, she SAYS,
represents loan.
From the top of the new Selling
+ building, in Portland, Oregon. Oscar
+ Qualle, foreman Of the scaffolding crew,
waved greeting to his brother Charles,
working on the top of the new fifteen
story Yeon building. block distant.
and moment later he was hurting
through the air to death on the pave
ment one hundred and twenty feet
/ below
Eldress Anna White, head of the
North family of Shakers, is dead at
+ Mount Lebanon, Massachusetts. at the
age Of seventy years. She was a
member of a wealthy New York family
and was herself possessed of consider
able wealth, which she devoted to the
Shaker propaganda. She was a cousin
of Richard Grant White. and herself a
writer of note.