The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-06-25
Condensed News From
Latest Coast Files

Jacob Gording, a well.known writer
of Hebrew plays, died at his home in
Brooklyn. He was a native of Russia.
The Cunard liner Slavonia went
aground on Flores Island, one of the
Azores group, and will be total loss.
-Four persons vert killed by the col
lapsing of floor in the six-story plant
Of the Peninsula Stove Works in De-
trOit.
An explosion of dynamite in Freder-
icksburg, Iowa, wrecked the business
section of the town and injured score
Of persons
Kansas has a wheat crop this year
valued at $4,000, 900, and the State
will need 1900 extra men to help har-
vest the crop.
A Japanese supposed TO be suffering
from leprosy at Visalia, Cal, escaped
from a Waterman while waiting for
medical examination.
Twenty.eght miles of carpet to cover
fourteen acres of floor space is being
woven at Hartford for the new La
Sale Hotel in Chicago
San Francisco hackmen are making
an organized effort to keep taxicabs,
which are trying to get foothold in
the city, off the street.
One soldier was killed and four
wounded in trouble resulting through
the mutiny of the Philippine police on
the Island of Mindanao.
A laborer injured in the Monterey
plant of the Spreckels Sugar Company
has been awarded $4,000 by the Supreme
Court for the loss of an eye.
dispatch from White Horse says
that the Yukon river is free from ice
and the steamer service between White
Horse and Dawson has begun.
Mrs. j. Thurner, of Berkeley, bride
of ten months, admits having commit
ted series of thefts which have been
battling the police for six months.
Bjornson, the Norwegian novelist,
who has been seriously i'll, is improving,
and neither his mind nor speech has
been affected from the paralytic stroke.
William Manix, a private in the Sig.
nal Corps, stationed in the Yosemite
Valley, was fatally injured when his
horse backed over cliff in the valley.
1t is estimated that there are over
10000 Japanese in the city of Los An
geles, and they have divided into two
powerful and aggressive factions-re-
form ana uDeral.
The United States government will
erect additional fortifications at the
entrance to Puget Sound on 200 acres
of ground just purchased on WILDLY
Island near Greenbrae.
Suspects are being arrested almost
daily in connection with the murder of
the little Poltera girl in Los Angeles,
but the authorities have failed to at
tach the crime TO any of them.
Forests fires have been raging along
the north shore of New Brunswick and
rain is the only hope of the lumber
men for the saving of many thousands
of dollars worth of valuable timber.
Specifications received from the Chi
eGgo, Milwaukee and st. Paul carshopi
for 100000 feet of lumber have caus
ed the millowners of the Northwest tc
predict big revival in the lumber
trade.
A new aeroplane which promises tc
rival the Wright invention has beer
successfully launched in Minneapolis
1t rises with its own engines and weighs
only one-third as much as the Wright
aeroplane.
A delay in the furnishing of an alb
stract of the title of the land selected
in San Francisco for subtreasury sit,
threatens to cancel the sale. Mrs. Viii
lie X. Vanderbilt, Jr. Birdie Fair), il
the owner of the land.
A wireless appeal for assistance from