The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-06-29

The Oakland police are keeping up
their purity campaign.
Prof. E. Z. Brown, of the University
of California, has been named to sue
coed DR.. Harris as State Commissioner
Of Education.
Six dead and ten injured workmeu
were taken out of collapsed building
in Hamburg. Three men remained
buried in the ruins.
Mrs. Mae Wood claims to be the wife
of Senator Plat and has turned over
to her attorneys what she claims is the
certificate of the marriage.
Miss Boardman, chum of Mrs. Mich
! olas Longworth, is to wed Senator Muir
ray Crane, of Massachusetts,, whose age
is SO. The bride elect is 20 years old.
The San Diego Library Board has
cancelled all it's insurance contracts
with those companies not paying 100
per cent. of their losses in San Fran
cisco.
| All W 'hN Hipp"tN Va t"'
will of the late Snowman, j. A. Bailey,
has been filed in court. Bailey left his
entire estate of six millions to his
widow.
Benjamin Howard, the actor who
committed suicide, is said to have taken
I his life because of an infatuation for
! Mrs. Misner, formerly Mrs. Charles I.
| Yerkes.
The first Judgment in the first insur-
ance case tried arising out of the great
fire has been rendered to the effect that
the earthquake clause cannot prevent
payment.
Rev. Alexander Monroe, Chicago
divine, is charged with abducting his
own daughter from her home to prevent
her marriage and to promote the suit
of a rival.
Those who left California after the
earthquake are reported to be return
ing now in large numbers. West-bound
! traffic is greater now than before the
earthquake.
State Senator McCune, of Virginia,
the author of the "anti.kissing' bill
in that state, has been divorced by his
l6.year-old wife, who charged desertion.
McCune is 40 years old.
| The California Insurance Commission.
er will prosecute those companies which
refuse to live up to the agreements of
their policies and will follow them to
their own states if necessary.
| The Congo administration refuses to
publish the evidence taken before the
Congo Commission of Inquiry, which
investigated the alleged outrages on
the natives in Belgian Africa.
The Continental Fire Insurance com.
pany was the first to break away from
the Underwriters Adjusting Bureau,
al is attempting to compromise the
amount of insurance to be paid in Cali
fornia.
Many of the heads of municipal de-
partments in San Francisco that have
been occupying quarters in the school
buildings have been ordered to move
out, and as they have no place to move
to are in "A quandary.
The bill granting the state of Cali
fornia five per cent. of the amounts
realized from the sales of public lands
! since the admission of the state into
the Union has been passed. The
amount will be 100000.
Five of the faculty of the Chicago
University have resigned because of
the statement given out that from mo-
tives of economy their salaries would
have to be cut. Two of them will come
to the Stanford in the fall
The relief delegation sent from San
Francisco to Washington to secure a
government loan obtained from Secre-
tary Shaw assurances that $l2,000,000
in San Francisco bonds would be ne
cepted as security for government de-
posts. This will enable the bonds to
be sold Immediately at par. The Secre-
tary has also agreed to deposit &c..
100000 of government funds in the San
Francisco banks for use in rebuilding
the city.
The Sailors Union of the Pacific,
the Pacific Coast Marine Firemen s
Union and the Marine Cooks and Stew
ards Association Mt San Francisco have
withdrawn from the City Front FEEDER
alton because of the threat of the
United Shipping and Transportation As
ISOLATION to lock out all union long
shoremen. This was done To prevent
the trouble spreading among all the
unions Of the front and throws the onus
of starting any further trouble alto
gether on the shippers.
81, Louis is suffering from water
famine.
Two men have been killed by fall.
Ing wall IN San Francisco.
| The Japanese have Tocaptured