The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-12-28

\ "a piH uEt OCtuTTtu III DluTNbNlllt,
Cal, on Dee. IL.
shipDuilding is having great i'm.
petus in Japan.
| In making an enort to escape negro
eonvicts at jackson, Miss, wounded
| two officers.
Senator Bailey of Texas admits Dor.
rowing big sums of money from Pierce,
the oil magnate of Texas.
frick has purchased for $4,000, 900
| the Lenox library site on which he
Will erect palatial mansion.
| Deep waterIs found in Lake George,
New York, where before only danger
o,s shadows were encountered.
Water from the Pacific was forced
into the Atlantic. at Panama through
the Union Oil Co.-sA pipe line.
By striAing an obstruction during
her trial trip several plates in the
Dreadnought 8 hull were damaged.
The Police Gazette building in New
York, at rearl and Frankfort streets,
was Quilted by fire on December Il.
The governor of Santa Clara prov
ince, Cuba, is said to be preparing
to make war upon the United States.
II "A Et VI tlht-tAplItu
marines in the Turkish naval service
mutinied because of arrears in their
pay.
l American Consul General Steinhart
l of Havana has withdrawn his resigna-
| ton at the requested Governor Ma.
Coon.
General Harrison Gray Otis arrived
| at San Francisco from Yokohama and
Manila in a very bad condition of
health.
Colonel Pletta's leg was torn off by
a bomb explosion at Radon, Russia. A
| student, who threw the bomb, was ar.
rested.
Nine sailors of the British battle
| ship Hindustan were drowned owing to
the upsetting of cutter, off Ports
mouth.
| A committee of representative bust.
ness men of Los Angeles reports adj.
versely on the plan to hold world Z
fair there in 1915.
| The Church troubles in France are
reported to he opening the way for
the enemies of the Republic to league
for it's overthrow.
The Seattle Workingmen's League
adopted resolutions whereby they ask
ed that all Asiatics be excluded from
the United States.
Chas. Marburg has offered $4,000 to-
ward monument to Francis Scott Key
composer of "The Star Spangled Ban
ner," to be erected at Baltimore.
| Nearly, 10000 operatives employed
in the cotton mills at Lowell and
Chicopee, Mass, have been granted a
five per cent. advance in wages.
A burglar blew open the bank vault
at Valdes, Alaska, resulting in the
| building being set on fire and de.
stroyed, entailing a loss of 100000.
The Associated OIL Company of
Southern California has decided upon
another bond issue from the treasury
reserve to the par amount Of $780,
| 600.
A powerful gang of smugglers has
| been unearthed in San Francisco, its
plan being to smuggle Chinese into the
United States across the Mexican Dor.
| der.
The Lebaudy dirigible war balloon
La Patrie, with War Minister Picquart
| on board, was tested at Paris. 1t was
Unanswered for more than an hour over
the city.
A band of Seakha Khel Afridis ap.
| peared at station in India and cap
tured seven persons, including two
| Sepoys, and ran off with camels and
| cattle.
| Drovers' National Bank at Waynes.
burg, Pa, discloses a shortage of $780,
600. Business in the town came almost
| to a standstill.
| The Garrett bill to permit newspapers
to accept railway transportation was
the subject of hearing before the
House committee on Interstate and
Foreign Commerce.
William f. Bywaters, a prominent
citizen of Culpepper, Va, after marry.
| ing Miss Viola Strothers, was shot to
pieces by the brides brothers as he
attempted to leave the house after the
ceremony.
| A Chinese banner woman, married to
an Englishman and living at Van
couver claims the throne of China by
virtue of prior descent from the third
| Duke of Chou, to that of the Empress
Dowager.
| L. Benjamin Andrews, Chancellor of
the University of Nebraska, condemns
| the Salvation Army, claims its relief
work in Lincoln, Nebraska. is vicious
and pauperizing and calculated to
make relief work plague.
The Swedish Storthing did not wish
to confer the Nobel prize upon Roose
welt if n Swede could he found upon
whom to bestow it. Elizabeth Schoyen
ia Norwegian authoress, led the Nor
wegian wing against the Roosevelt
idea.
Herman Billik, fortune teller, has
been arrested in Chicago charged with
poisoning six members of the Vzral
family Billik is said to have received
! $4,000 from the wife of Standish York
a sister of Cassie Chadwick, few
days prior to the sudden death OF
York. An effort is being made to find