The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-02-20


The Overland railroads have agreed
not 10 enter into any more speed con-
tests 10 Ect mail contracts
The report ~ the engineers for the
sanitation ~ colon has been placed IN
the hands VI Secretary Tar
Four persons have been KILLED In q
train wtsck ON the Oregon Railway
and Navigation Company line.
Governor Folk Of Missouri Is oppos-
ed to personal tax. holding % r,spon-
sible for the spread OF perjury
Los Angeles has scheme Of eXpan-
sion which will give the city a popu-
lation of four hundred thousand.
chief Engineer Wallace claims that
a years work on the Panama Canal
has been lost because of official red
tape.
Prince Paul Metternich, second son
OF that diplomat who took leading
part in the downfall Of Napoleon l., Is
dead.
President Roosevelt thinks dismissal
is too severe punishment for hazing in
Naval Academy. and wants the law
changed.
Richard Outcault, creator OF Buster
Brown" has brought suit for 100000
against the New York Herald, alleg-
ing libel.
The false Emperor OF Russia and his
suite. who have been stirring up trou-
BILE In the Volga region, have been
captured.
The curtain OF the New York Casino
took fire during a performance, bu.
the discipline OF the stage crew avert
ed a panic.
The acquisition of the Illinois Cen
trail will give Hartman line of his
own for the Union Pacific from Chi
cago to Omaha.
The Superintendent of the San Mateo
county poor farm. In California, has
been indicted for grating in the pur-,
chase of supplies.
1t is said that Mrs Miner. who was
the widow of Yerkes, will try to break
the will of the late millionaire in the
interest OF her young husband.
Midshipman Minor Meriweather,
convicted of hazing and sentenced to
dismissal from Annapolis, will be par
doned and restored to his rank.
A charge of manslaughter has been
filed against c. Johnson, "a pugilist who
recently killed another with a blow
over the heart at Colma, California.
The Manhattan Theater in New
York, for many years the playhouse
of Minnie Maddern Fiske, has been
sold to make room for a tunnel ter
minal.
The rich men who have homes on
the shores of Lake Tahoe have pro-
tested against the diversion of the
waters of the lake for purposes of irri-
cation.
Evidence taken in the Valencia in
quiry at Victoria show that at least
a part Of the loss of life on the steam
er was due to the Generalization Of
the crew.
Russia has appointed commissioners
to investigate two American railway
projects, one for line from Taskend
to Tomsk, and the other to run from
Chita to Behring Sea.
Count Bcni de Castellane is hard VI
already, and will consent to let his
wife have a divorce for consideration
The Castellane family is making des
perate efforts to secure an amicab!'
settlement.
A Sacramento man, by name j. Add
son Marshall, claims that he has dis
lowered a method of making golt
grow" from the base metals by thu
duplication of heat, electricity and GER
tain chemicals.
Rev. George II. Simmons pastor an
bank president of Peoria, Illinois, com
mitted suicide by swallowing cyanid
of potassium, after having been accus
ed of, and confessing to, the commits
sion Of a grave crime.
Professor Walter n. Wolfe, forme
teacher of geology In Brigham Youn
College at Logan, Titan. told the sen
ate committee investigating the Smoc
, case that the seed Of treason was SOW
: in the Mormon oath taken in the Ell
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