The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-08-16
WORLDS NEWS.
CONDENSED

Battling Nelson wants to meet Jimmy
Britt in finish contest.
Two Berkeley children, sisters, have
confessed to breaking into a house.
Fire and explosion have, wiped out
the little town of Winona, Washing
ton.
Three San Francisco customs inspec-
tors have been suspended for drinking
while on duty.
F'eder4l indictments against the fish
trust and two railroads have been re-
turned in Chicago.
San Francisco unions are preparing
for a Labor Day parade to be held in
Golden Gate park.
Governor Hoke Smith signed the pro-
hibition law, making Georgia dry
State, on August 6.
The boilermakers in the Southern Pa
Gifts shops all over the Coast went on
strike on August Z.
An Oakland man is suing his wife for
divorce on the ground that she fire.
quents the race track.
Two hundred warships, forming the
British home guard, recently passed in
review before the king and queen.
Lieutenant Colonel John Mills of the
U. S. Engineers is authorized to return
to the States from the Philippines.
Mrs. Catherine Gilligan of New York,
who just died at the age Of 107, as
cribed her long life to eating onions.
The crime wave continues in New
York and many women and children
fear to pass along the streets after
dark.
CALIFORNIA; oil production this year
will reach s., 000, 900 barrels, an increase
of 100000 over the production of last
year.
The Benson-Hyde trial on a charge
of stealing government lands has been
begun in the Federal Court in San
Francisco.
Senator Crane of Massachusetts is
fighting Taft to get even with the
President for calling him "a nasty little
busybody."
Alamedas city council threatens
mandamus proceedings against Mayor
E. X. Taylor to compel him to attend
meetings.
A San Francisco wife is seeking a
divorce on the ground that her hus-
band refused to talk to her during their
honeymoon.
Canadian experts say that advanced
methods will have to be used to re-
cover the gold remaining in Yukon
gravel banks.
Federal officials who are probing the
Imperial valley land frauds expect to
enmesh some of the wealthiest people
of the district.
Maybelle Watson. heroine of the S.
S. Columbia disaster, makes affidavit
that Third Officer Hawse was not cruel
to wreck victims.
The President desiring to gain more
light on the situation in the Orient,
officers may be sent to
China and Japan.
The Southern Pacific will establish an
express freight train service on the
Ogden route and relieve the passenger
traffic of this work.
Rachel Foster Avery, noted woman
suffragist visiting San Francisco, says
the women Of America are behind on
the suffrage question.
District Attorney Langdon OF san
Francisco reports to Mayor Taylor of
having had set for trial in the past
year 300 cases in which bribery was
charged.
The son of Mrs. Eddy, Christian
Science leader, has gone east to settle
the famous case in which her next
friends have asked for an accounting
of her property.
The Government built battleship
Connecticut made an average speed of
1873 knots on her trial trip. Her sister
ship, the Louisiana, built by contract,
made 1889 knots.
A drunken Japanese in Oakland was
saved from the crowd by the police
when he created a disturbance by
shouting that Japan would soon own
the United States.
A New Yorker turned on the gas
and sat down to smoke and wait for
death by suffocation but became sick
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