The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-04-13

A dock IRE AZ Havana has caused
heavy loss.
A baby was born on an elevated train
in New York.
New press laws have esused a serious
riot iu cairo.
A Federal regulation Of bnllooning
has been urged.
Colonel Cocktails has left New York
for the Canal Zone.
President Taft drew his first salary
of sj625 on April |.
High School students Of Oakland.
Cal, will test the new fraternity law.
Dr. Edmonds of Sitka will accom-
pany Captain Amundsen ON his polar
expedition.
Langhsm, the San Francisco letter
box burglar, is identified rs "A convict
from Texas.
The Wisconsin Legislature passed n
bill making the penalty for kidnapping
life imprisonment
Helen Emery becomes a subject of
the Mikado through her marriage with
the japanese Aoki.
A Georgia minister swindled people
to the extent of Sl,000,000 by the sale
of worthless mining stock.
Captain William b. Moore, founder
of Skaguay. and a pioneer steamboat
man, died in British Columbia.
Mrs. Maurice Schweitzer of San
Francisco lost $4,000 pearl neck
lace while shopping in Chicago.
The electric power plant connected
with the Bonanza King mine in Trim
ity County was destroyed by fire.
Five suspensions have followed at
the University of California as a re-
suit of the hazing of a student.
Opium was barred from importation
into the United States, except for
medicinal purposes. after April ].
Three men were killed in Los An
geles as the result of the collapsing of
iail wall which was being RACED.
An Italian at San Pedro was killed
as the result of blow from the fist
| of man with whom he was arguing.
Six hundred optimists met at din
ner at the Waldorf Astoria in New
York. Senator Nixon of Nevada
spoke.
A laborer mt Salem. Ore, unearthed-
ed $4,000 which had been buried for
thirty years, and decamped with the
| treasure.
The Freshmen of the University of
California won in the track meet with
the Stanford freshmen by score of
20 to 49,
The Duke of Abercorn has sent an
Invitation to Roosevelt to visit Rho
desia. which the ex-President is forced
to decline.
Two convicts escape from Folsom,
swim the American River and get away
| in the brush. Both were serving terms
for robbery.
Fred Stratton, Collector of the Port
! of San Francisco. says that opium
upon which duty has been paid is not
! liable to seizure.
A donation of $3.50 for the students
| infirmarv of the University of Cali
fornia was received from Shima, the
japanese potato king.
The Balstural Golf Club house at
Newark, N. j., was burned, and sew.
eral members and servants barely es
capped with their lives
A fine mirage was seen off Point
Iona lighthouse. near San Diego
which consisted of vision of big
castle and of large city.
An apology will follow the arrest in
| Pitfsburg of a prominent Chinese mer
chant of Vancouver, as a result OF
the protest of the Chinese Minister
Captain Amundsen will meet Nan
sens famous ship Fran at Nome and
will enter the Arctic Ocean through
Bering Sea in his expedition to thu
North Pole.
The guns which ex-President Roose
welt will use OH his hunting trip arr
equipped with silencers which will in
sure his making new records in big
game hunting.
The mechanical harshness of tn
photograph will be eliminated by re
cent invention by DR.. John Vanmate
of New Jersey after ten years of labo
ON the device.
There will be a technical fight i
the Sothern divorce case which wa
filed by Virginia Harmed MRS. Sotl
ernl in Reno recently. The case vii
be viewed as test of Nevada IS di
vorce laws.
A. l.. Conrad of Red Bluff has lai
claim to 100000 inches of the Sacra
mento river. 1t is the biggest waite
location ever made in that part of tn
state and is made in the interest o
the Iron Canyon irrigation project.
President Taft has resumed his gol
D playing, which has been interrupte
during the past months, and played
spirited game with Vice Presiden
/ Sherman on the Chevy Chase links.
S. c. Pooler, Democratic politicia
/ Of New Mexico, was assassinated j
r his home at Albuquerque, and his STAY
, | a, was hrnnuht ~ tho Tprritnrial nor