The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-05-14

the Western Federation of Miners.
James Bartlett Hammond, president
Of the typewriter company that bears
his name, has been declared insane.
Claus spreckels viii spend 100000
in repairs on the Spreckels Annex build
ing on Market street, in San Francisco.
+. G. Russell, executive agent of the
Grand Trunk Pacific railroad at Veto.
ria, b. c., committed suicide by shoot.
ing himself.
Harry Schaffner robbed in shop in
San Francisco where he was formerly
night watchman and was sentenced to
three years in prison.
The Rockaway Beach Taxpayers AS
sociation has asked the police to forbid
persons to appear on the beach in i'm
proper bathing suits.
Captain Charles Chandler of the U. S.
Signal Corps, with aeronaut j. G. Me
Coy, has undertaken balloon trip from
st. Louis to Washington.
| David Wilcox, ex-president of the
Delaware and Hudson railroad, shot
himself on board steamer returning
from Italy. He was in bad health.
The widow Of "Silent" Smith re-
ceived but $5,OO0,00O of his large es-
tate. His sister received $20,000000.
A contest over the will is expected.
A pistol falling from the pocket of
Hilano Hernandez, priest of Pueblo,
Mexico, instantly killed A. Sheora, a
wealthy friend with whom he was rid
ing.
Nevada farmers are fighting govern
ment agents over water rights. They
claim they are being duped and will va
cate their ranches if rates are not low
cred.
II. Z. Harrington denies that there is
J any possibility of combination be-
| tween himself and Hartman in the
electric railway interests in southern
California.
Katherine Morrison of San Jose was
kept prisoner by an insane brother and
made to pray continually for forty
eight hours. When rescued she became
unconscious.
Fred Reed, miner, slid 1900 feet
down declivity on an avalanche, in
Trinity county, California. He was
badly bruised but by some miracle es-
capped serious injury.
A panic was averted in the Orpheum
theater at Kansas City by Clifton Cor
dan. An alarm of fire had been given
but he assured the people that there
was no danger and went through with
his act.
Ian Maclaren who died recently at
Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, was stricken on
the train en- route from Minneapolis.
| He was carried to the hotel unconscious.
His illness was due to abcess in the ear.
A fierce snow storm swept over Ohio
May 4. In northern Missouri the mer-
curry registered 81 degrees above zero,
the coolest weather ever known in May,
in that locality.
s. T. X. Prime, for 25 years a col
lector of crop statistics, died recently
at the Home for Incurables in Chicago.
F" Prime Crop Reports" were know n
to American farmers everywhere.
Albert Ritter Yon Mosetig Moorhof,
famous Vienese surgeon, who intro
duced the use of iodoform, fell into the
Danube and was drowned. He was
subject to sudden fainting attacks.
President Roosevelt may pardon John
William January, convicted twelve
years ago of robbing II postoiiice in
Oklahoma. He escaped after five
years Imprisonment and established
himself in business, then went back to
prison.
President Roosevelt averted panic
at the opening of the jamestown exposi-
tion by leaping upon table and quiet
ing the crowd that were pushing
against the guard ropes. He exhorted
the men of Virginia to live up to their
traditions as chivalrous gentlemen.
Ninety per cent of the San Fran
cisco telephone operators are on Il
strike.
James l.. Flood has taken out per-
nit to erect n $4,000 building ON Mis-
sion street in San Francisco.
The jamestown Fair is so short of
money that it must float bonds to com,
plete the exposition grounds and build.
ings.
Lumber has dropped So thousand
feet in San Francisco. There has also
been II decline in lime and brick which
will increase building,
1t has been proved that the watch
trust is selling watches cheaper iu
Europe than in the United States. One
costing $lS5s in America was bought
in England for $7.9S.
Mildred T.. Dechmond of Alameda,
was frightfully bitten by vicious
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