The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-04-24
LATEST COAST, EASTERN
AND FOREIGN NEWS NOTES

lcisco three days. The record is nov
. twenty-four days.
The licensed saloon has been entirel
wiped out of Riverside county, Ca
Santa Paula, South Riverside, Coron
and Oceanside, have also gone dry. L
the north, Vacaville went dry an
Sonoma county wet.
EASTEhN NEWS.
Washington bankers score the Aid
rich bill.
Chelsea insurance losses will be pal,
promptly.
Louis Sherry. the famous restaurant
keeper, has been sued for divorce.
Blooded horses at Reno were kille,
by eating alfalfa raised on alkali land
The election at Redwood City, Cal
was carried by the Good Governmen
League.
The police at VancouveE shot
maniac who was trying to mhrder hi
family.
Mark Twain has quit the leetur,
| PLATFORM and will make no NOR,
speeches.
Massachusetts, delegates to the Re.
publican National Convention will gC
uninstructed.
Sixteen guards surround John D
Rockefeller and his family when they
are travelling.
Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy declares that
armament is necessary to "Prevent
War and Preserve Peace
Pennsylvania constabulary fought a
traction mob at Chester and a number
were hurt on both sides of the row.
President Roosevelt has referred the
employers liability law to Attorney
General Bonaparte for advice as to its
legality. s,s112-s -.
Senator Elkins has appealed to the
press to cease publishing reports about
the marriage of his daughter to the
Duke d'Abruzzi.
Representative Lilley wants to abol-
ish the navy yards at Charleston, Port
Royal, Portsmouth, N. H., New Orleans,
Key West and Mare island.
Samuel Gompets, President of the
American Federation of Labor, declares
that the workers were in no way re-
sponsible for the recent money troubles.
Jane Adams, the social reformer,
has been denied a chance to address a
Roman Catholic body because of the
supposed sympathy of Hull House with
anarchy.
Prince Helie de sagan and Nine.
Gould have sailed for Europe. 1t is
runnored that they were married in
New Jersey a few hours before the
steamer sailed.
Mrs. Jere Cooke has refused To Sc
cure a divorce from her husband,
minister who eloped from Hampstead,
Long Island, with FToretta Whaley,
and who is now living in San Fran
cisco.
1t is reported that America will de-
mand reparatiol from Japan for the
outrageous attack of japanese rowdies
upon Consul General Straight and the
servants of the American Consulate at
Mukden.
President Roosevelt has invited
Grover Cleveland, Andrew Carnegie,
John Mitchell, w. J. Bryan, and James
j. Hill to attend a conference at the
White House to discuss the conserva-
tlon of the natural resources of the
country.
Senator Curtis introduced a bill to
require corporations organized under
Federal or State charters to register
with the Department of Commerce and
Labor and secure permit therefrom
before attempting to transact business
in State or Territory other than that |
in which it is organized.
FOREIGN l!EWs.
Two thousand Chinese perished in the
Hankow floods.
High police officials OF Moscow are
being prosecuted for corrupt acts.
Two American fishing vessels have
been seized by Newfoundlanders.
Women smoking in Continental res
causes but little comment now
ldays.
Several political pictures and car
looms have been barred from the Paris
salons.
The United States and Russia are
'aid to have reached an agreement over
Manchuria.
Miss Mary Robinson, one of the wit
lesses in the famous Druce case, has
been sentenced to four years. penal
ervitude for wilful perjury.
Whltelaw Reid, American Ambassa-
lor to Great Britain, in a recent speech
before the Chamber of Com
nerce of Luton, praised San Francisco
or its wonderful recuperative spirit.
If by June next Belgium has not an
lexed the CONGO Independent State in
acceptable terms the British govern
nent is determined, with the co-opera-
ion of the American government, to
axe measures which will compel the
'ongO government to observe its treaty
lights, which have been "openly and
violated"