The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-10-13
CONVERSATIONS From
LATEST COAST FILES

Theatrical Manager jacob. Lift is
dead.
The Union Iron Works in San Fran.
cisco will be enlarged.
John Alexander Dowie has been
stricken with paralysis.
A Louisville inventor has completed
a painless hanging machine.
An epidemic of diphtheria is raging
at the naval academy at Annapolis.
Alderman Walter Vaughan Morgan
has been chosen Lord Mayor of
| London.
The state of Nevada has revoked the |
| license of the New York Life Insurance
company.
President Harper of Chicago uni
'versity is very i'll and his condition is
thought to be hopeless.
A fire in Colon burned two blocks
and destroyed nearly all the govern
ment records last week.
| John d. Rockefeller has signed
checks for $1OO0O,00O in favor of the
General Education fund.
| Chief Rain-in-the-Face has confessed
| to firing the shot which killed General
Custer on June 25, 1876.
Two hundred volumes in the Carne-
gle library at Dawson, Yukon, have
been seized as naughty"
George l.. Hobson of Iowa, consul
general at Hang Chow, has resigned
con account of the SMELLS"
Mrs. Clarence Markham of Alpha,
ILL.,, killed her seven children with an
axe and then committed suicide while
insane.
"David Harum," the novel written
by the late Edward Noyes Westcott,
netted the authors estate about
$125,000.
The union men of Chicago have es-
tablished bank of their own to handle
the savings and money of all union
! members.
William R. Travers, millionaire and
clubman, killed himself in his apart
ments in New York. He was divorced
some time ago from his wife.
Secretary Taft absolutely denies the
story of Miss ROOSEVELT diving into a
tank on the Korea with Congressman
, Longworth on sudden dare.
General Otis has been bitterly at
tackled by DR.. Louis L. Seaman for
withholding supplies and doctors from
soldiers sick in the Philippines.
, A bill will be introduced into Con-
gress providing for the building of a
private car for the President and an
: nual sum to pay for transportation.
+, Ex-President Grover Cleveland has
: been offered the high position of rep
| ntati Of fha Initial tafa OF 40
second peace conference called by the
Gar.
President Goode of the Lewis and
Clark Fair has announced that stock
p holders will receive from 25 to 40 per
cent. of the amount of their subscrIp-
tions.
President Roosevelt has made public
correspondence showing his complete
It faith in the integrity of former Assist
"a ant Secretary of State Francis B.
LOOMS.
Two noted Chicago crooks and their
10 beautiful woman accomplish Septem-
n Der 9TH looted the mansion of John
le Mulhall in Dublin of nearly 81 200, 00C
10 worth of jewelry.
"a The dynamite used to blow up the
steamer Chatham, wrecked across the
channel of the Suez canal, made a hole
Vt ITO feet in the middle of the canal
ID and traffic was INSTRUCTED for a week
ID A huge raft of over 100000 feet OF
timber went ashore below Astoria il
the Columbia river while being towed
70 to sea en- route to San Francisco. 1t il
l. owned by the Robertson Raft Company
f. The Coast steamer Gipsey. which hal
Is run without stop for fifteen years be
" tween San Francisco and Monterey ant
has been well-known for thirty year
as "Old Perpetual Notion" is tota
IN loss outside of Monterey bay.
The Kaiser's latest outbreak in
er literary way is that he intends order
a. ing a superb illustrated work describ
ing the architecture and statuary fo
- the existence of which he is alone re
.ss sponsible, and explaining the attitude
~ of modern art tendencies and his pref
90 erences for the antique.
Thirty japanese fishermen were mur
II. dered by the natives at the settlement
an of Upika, which is situated on tn
as Kamchatka peninsula. and a simila
fate would have been visited on tie
- other men if they had not managed /
re-. make their escape to the American cod
,s fishing vessel s. n. Castle, which fortT
a nately happened to be lying at ancho
ia close to the settlement. The Japanes
bs. belonged TO fishing schooners, who's
IN. home port was Hakodate.
ed Ferdinand Ward, formerly of the fl