The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-26
News From the
Coast Papers
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In race war in Portland schoo
a fight occurred between the white
and Oriental children.
Owing TO stagnation in the Coast
lumber trade. many steam lumber
schooners may be laid up.
Albert G. Vanderbilt has engaged
a fat overlooking Piccadilly, for
which he pays $4,000 year.
The French Chamber of Deputies has
I amended the voting law so as to prac-
tically adopt the Australian ballot
/ system.
As high as sl25 each was offered
for seats in the convention hall dur
ing the Republican Convention in
J Chicago.
The Chinese Six Companies of San
Francisco Will establish a school in
that city in which the Chinese clas-
] sizes will be taught.
/ TetraZzini on account of the cold and
distant manner Of Melba has declin-
ed to appear in a concert with the
latter in Covent Garden.
The monitor Wyoming. which it is
reported may be sent here as sta
ton ship, will be placed in commits
sion the latter part of July.
The price of sealskins is rapidly
/ advancing owing 10 the decreasing
numbers of the fur seal and the in
/ creasing demand for the fur.
Mrs. Hetty Green, reputed the rich
| est woman in the world, has left the
Plaza Hotel. New York, where she
has made her home for some months.
Ruel Rounds, United States Mar
shall for Idaho, has been given an OPP
portunity TO resign pending removal
for unsatisfactory administration of
Office.
BY special permission of King Ed
ward. the marriage of Miss Jean Reid,
daughter OF ambassador Reid to Hon.
John Ward will take place at the
Chapel Royal June %.
Five men charged with conspiracy
to defraud the state by rendering false
bills for metallic furniture for the new
Pennsylvania state house We're ac-
quilted at Harrisburg lately.
Glenn Farnworth aged thirteen, and
Vincent Whitehead aged Il, in Los
Angeles, charge that Harry Hayes
aged 70, forced them at the point of
a revolver 10 commit about fifty
crimes.
The molar tooth of a mammoth WAS
found on the beach about five miles
south Of the Cliff House, San Fran
cisco. late, and has been placed on
exhibition in the Golden Gate Park
Museum.
Eugene P. Murphy of Murphy,
Grant & Co. san Francisco, who was
the representative of the United
States who received the transfer of
Alaska from Russia, died in san Fran
cisco June Is, aged IS years.
The Canadian government has no.
tilted Japan that the limit of immi-
grants allowed for one year has been
reached and that no more japanese
laborers should be allowed to be sent
TO Canada before next January.
William Swing aged 81 years, of
Anderson. California, was stricken
with blindness while sleeping. He
suffered no pain and was not aware
Of any trouble until he struck a
match 10 see what time it was.
In an experiment to test the eff
cheney Of her watertight bulkheads,
the monitor Florida was pierced with
an American Whitehead torpedo car
rying a charge Of gun cotton which
tore a great hole in her side, She
did not sink however.
Rameses II has set the fashion IN
tea gowns this year. design for
an artistic frock copied from the war
dress of the great Pharaoh was shown
at the Dress Designers Exhibition.
which opened at the New Dudley CAL
lery. London. recently.
Henry Phipps of Pittsburg and
New York. who founded the Phipps
Institute for tuberculosis Research in
Philadelphia with an endowment Of
81 500. 900. has given a sum said to
exceed 100000 10 Johns Hopkins Hos
piral and University for the study of
insanity.
The Queen of siam is the possessor
Of the most costly dress owned by any
woman in the world. according TO a
writer in a Berlin newspaper. 1t is a
silken robe Of state in which the
fabric is entirely hidden under an en-
hroidery Of diamonds. emeralds, rubies
and sapphires A rough estimate of
the value Of the garment is about |
$. 600 coo. SAYS the Philadelphia Press
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