The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-26
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IN race war IN a Portland school
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
fiat overlooking Piccadilly, for
which he pays $4,000 year.
The French Chamber of Deputies has
amended the voting law so as to prac-
tlcally adopt the Australian ballot
system.
AS high as SIPS each was offered
for seats in the. convention hall dur
ing the Republican Convention in
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 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 to 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 were ac-
quilted at Harrisburg lately.
Glenn Farnworth aged thirteen, and
Whitehead aged IA. in Los
aged 10, forced them at the point of
a revolver to 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 69 years.
The Canadian government has no.
tined Japan that the limit of immi-
grants allowed for one year has been
reached and that no more Japanese
should be allowed to be sent
to Canada before next January.
William Swing aged ca 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 to see what time 1t 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
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did not sink however.
Rameses II has set the fashion in
tea gowns this year A design for
an artistic frock copied from the wer
dress of the great Pharaoh was shown
at the Dress Designers Exhibition,
which opened AT the New Dudley Gall
lery, London. recently.
Henry Phipps of Pittsburg and
New York. who founded the Phipps
Institute for tuberculosis Research in
with an endowment of
81, 100000, has given a sum said to
exceed 100000 TO Johns Hopkins Hos
pital and University for the study of
insanity.
The Queen of siam is the possessor
of the most costly dress owned by any
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 em-
of diamonds, emeralds, rubies
md sapphires. A rough estimate of
he value of the garment is about
s., 0O0, 900, says the Philadelphia Press.