The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-03-06
NEWS NOTES FROM FILES

Severe storms have tied up the rail
roads around Reno, Nevada.
Fifty million in bonds of the Yerkes
estate are said to be missing.
Mrs. Paul Lohse, philanthropist, of
Oakland, died after an operation.
Electric power for Los Angeles is to
be obtained from the Colorado river.
The British government has decided
to admit no more coolies into South
Africa.
o. McHenry, president of First Ma
tional bank, Modesto, died February 21
from cancer.
Western railway lines have cut their
round-trip fares to divert the Cuban
travel to California.
The cornerstone of the new city hall
of Sonoma was laid on 22d ult. with
Masonic ceremonies.
The highest building in the world is
planned for New York. The tower will
be 593 feet in the air.
A st. Louis syndicate has bought $780,
600 worth of Sacramento Valley lana
for vineyard purposes.
meet the Baltic and Black seas. The
scheme is that of an American.
California s State Harbor Commits
sion will build thousand foot extension
to the seawall at San Francisco.
Reign of crime reported in Chicago
Fifteen murders and 1O5 holdups and
robberies in six weeks the record.
Statistics show falling off of for.
/ eign trade, both import and export for
the first seven months of the fiscal year
| The fleet towing the drydock Dewey
is 4SO miles west of the Canaries. The
drydock had broken adrift three times
! Jas. Bryce, secretary for Ireland
stated in the House or Commons tnat
he stood on the Home Rule principles of
| Gladstone.
| s. 7. Morrison, of Mendoza, was shot
and killed, being fred at from a saloon
J window John Casey is under arrest
| for the crime.
Congress has passed a resolution
recommending general divorce law fol-
all states on the line of the Massa
| chusetts law.
Andrew ID. White, former ambassa
dor to Germany, has declared himself
strongly in favor of lynching for Ger
tain offences.
! Russia is establishing military out
posts along the whole Siberian ant
Central Asian frontier and on the Dor
der of Thibet.
Miss Susan p. Anthony was strickeI
by paralytic stroke while preparine
to attend banquet in honor of he
eighty sixth birthday.
Isaac II. Cohen, out of work and de
spondent, made an unsuccessful attemp
to kill his wife and child in San Fran
cisco and then suicided.
A big tent has been purchased for tn
performances of Nine. Sarah Bernhard
in Texas and California cities wher
! suitable opera houses can not be had.
; AS result of the Valencia wreck, nj
the vessels in Seattle harbor are bein
reinspected, in accordance with instruC
tions from the Secretary of the Navy.
Western Federation of Miners official
say that the arrest of three of thei
leaders for the Steunenberg murder
an attempt to break up their organize
tion.
, S. w. Gunter, the Clayton farme
1 who brutally murdered his aged fathe
and mother, has been adjudged insan
5 He has a religious mania and has bee
, twice in the State Insane Asylum.
/ A new political party has bee
0 launched in California under the nj
n tional public ownership banner. A
rangements for calling state and n
e tional conventions are being made.
d In the House, Prince of Illinois a
G tackled the Army Bill, denouncing Il
4 practice of promoting officers and reti
e ing them. Sixty-two Brigadier Ge
$ erals had only served one day in tn
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