The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-05-19

Diamond imports begin to show re-
vivaL
Northern California has had heavy
rains.
The Treadwell strike in Alaska has
been broken.
There are signs of another revolu-
ton in Cuba.
Portugal may lease Delagoa bay to
the Transvaal.
Hartman plans a Union Pacific bond
issue of sl0o.0o0.000.
Missionary Bishop Thoburn has ask
ed retirement for sss.
a new 17.cea ton vessel is being built
for the Red Star line.
The restoration of stanford Memorial
church is soon to begin.
The father of Mrs. Howard Gould has
died in an insane asylum.
Thaw may be set at liberty owing to
a flaw in his commitment.
Calcutta police are investigating
plot for great uprising.
The Democratic delegates from
Minnesota are, for Johnson.
Fields in Carson river valley. Utah,
are being laid waste by mice.
The selling price of shingles is now
below the cost of manufacture.
The Kentucky Republican State con-
vention favored a great navy.
The San Francisco jury found TREY
L. Ford not guilty of bribery.
Gompers blames Speaker Cannon
for the failure of the labor bills.
The death of the Duke de Chaulnes
followed his visit TO an opium club.
The higher pay for the army in
creases the public outlay by s7,eo0.0oo.
Owing to the Patten-Bartlett corner
the price of corn is going up steadily.
Benjamin Ide Wheeler will lecture
before the University OF Berlin in
1s0S-lO
Sailors OF the fleet protest against
prices charged by the San Francisco
BARRIERS.
The winter in the Arctic has been
unusually stormy and there are heavy
ice drifts.
Railroads plan to advance freight
rates so as to enable them to escape
bankruptcy.
In the Senate Depew defended the
Forestry policy of Roosevelt and his
predecessors.
Secretary Metcalf plans position for
Evans in the Navy with the grade of
vice admiral.
The arrest of Prince Eulenburg at
Berlin was caused by further charges
of immortality.
On the day of the fleets arrival the
San Francisco trolley cars carried a
million people.
Veterinary surgeons are trying TO
restore the sight of a rhinOceros at
the Bronx Zoo.
Evelyn Thaw has sued the Hotel
Knickerbocker for s25.0e0 damages
for ejccting her
At the Methodist Conference at Bal
tiTore the Bishops decided to keep
the han on theaters.
The closing OF Mrs. Stanford's
estate releases 100000 TO benefciar-
les and the university.
The Republican State convention of
Utah declared for Roosevelt as first
and Taft as second choice.
Hetty Green has exchanged her SIS
per month fat in Hoboken for SIS a
day apartments at the Plaza hotel.
The san Francisco supervisors are
tired of paving rat catchers and want
the government to pay for the work.
The recent large fire in san Francis
90 destroyed the buildings Of the Blythe
estate near Market and Kearney SITS.
Hundreds Of liquor saloons in ILL
nois have been forced TO suspend.
Stocks are being disposed Of al bar
gain sales.
The President has recalled the order
transferring Col VIM. F Stewart. L.
:. A, to Florida He will remain at
Fort Grant, Fla.
Commissioner Kilbey, western head
Of the Salvation Army, has retired
from the command, fearing the coll
lapse OF his health.
The French and Italian round-the-
world motor cars arrived at Toxic,
May l. They viii leave within a few
lays for Vladivostok va Tsuruga
Winston ChurchiIPs speeches at Dun
lee were stopped by an angry suffra-
yette who followed his automobile
about ringing a dinner bell whenever it
stopped for him 10 speak
The London Times has been mulcted
n $1,000 damages for libel. by John
Murray. the publisher, whom the Times
lad accused OF extortion in selling the
etters OF Queen Victoria at a high
price.
A loaded hve-inch shell. a relic Of
he Civil War. used as fireplace orna-
nent ct Armory hall, Riverside, the
other night exploded and severely in
ured three persons, one man and two
women The walls and ceilings OF the
hall were damaged.
a Wilkesbarre CPa-), despatch says:
Blackie, the only cat in the world
with a private fortune Of $4,000, died
today. being chloroformed to end pain
when il was seen that its illness was
hopeless. Blackie and sister Pinkie,
were left $4,000 by the late Benjamin
E Dillsy. the income 10 be used in
providing FOR them as long az they
lived.
President Roosevelt. in a formal let
ter, notified Secretary Straus Of the
Of Commerce and Labor
that he had reappointed him for an
other term Of six years as one Of the
American members Of the permanent
court Of arbitration at The Hague.
Secretary Straus was appointed after
the death Of the late President Har-
rison, who was one Of the courts first
members.
The referee in the Mckee divorce
Ease retraced the history Of the Nc