The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-06-18
NEWS CONVERSATIONS
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More rioting has been reported from
the Turkish province of Deurtyul.
Excavations for the dry dock at Ia.
ranto near Rome are yielding important
archaeological finds.
The United States Steel Corporation
has taken determined stand against
its workmen drinking liquor.
Jesse Miller of Vermont was driven
from the state of Georgia for attempt
ing to organize negro labor unions.
The widow of Father John, of Cron.
stadt, died in st. Petersburg on June
8. Father John died on January 2.
The army transport Sherman is to be
overhauled and repaired in San Fran
cisco at a cost of not less than $780,
900.
st. Petersburg is on the verge of
serious epidemic of cholera and the
water supply of the city is contami-
mated.
The infant daughter of Queen Will
helmina of Holland was christened at
the Lutheran church at The Hague on
June 8.
A st. Louis woman killed herself and
her two children when her husband,
John .Glaesser, was arrested for EN-
bezZlement.
President Taft will probably aban-
don his trip to Alaska, as Mrs. Taft's
health will probably prevent her from
accompanying him.
1T has been officially announced in
Paris that President Fallieres will meet
bourg on July 31st.
Miss, Billie Burke. the actress, has
adopted the little girl of her dearest
friend, Mrs. Thomas Watson, who died
recently in New York.
Charles H. Turner, the defaulting
grand secretary of the Native Sons of
the Golden West, has been sentenced to
San Quentin for three years.
Premier Deakin, of Australia, has
formally offered the government of
Great Britain Dreadnought or cor
responding addition to the navy.
A number of women and children
were drowned when wharf upon which
the passengers of a New Orleans ex-
cursion steamer had been landed, gave
way.
The Roosevelt expedition has starred
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which there is waterless tract that
, it will take two days and half to
: traverse.
: proved the Netherlands Venezuelan pro-
tocol. the Venezuelan Consul in Cura-
Gao has issued papers to Dutch steam
) err to enter port.
The conditions in Asia Minor are far
from settled and it is thought that it
| will take long time and government
, much stronger than the present one to
assure perfect safety.
I The Peruvian government has can
3 celed the exequatur of the Swedish
r Consul General at Lima in whose house
E several men implicatd in the uprising
e against the government took refuge.
A petition to Governor Gillett for
: pardon is the latest move by George
S ID. Collins, the convicted perjurer, who
: appeared before Judge Lawlor with the
t petition attached to a lengthy affidavit
( Eight conviets and two wardens were
8 killed during a desperate fight in the
1 prison in Tifiis when the convicts, who
n were condemned to death, overpowered
the wardens, wounding and disarmine
a them.
Thirteen German balloons started
from Essen, Prussia, on a long dis
:, lance trial race. The three making the
best record will take part in the race
for the international cup in Switzer
land in the fall.
The council of the Russian Empire
has adopted the marine budget restor
ing the appropriation of &,70O,OOI
. elected by the Duma. The amount II
! to 90 toward the construction of foul
] new battleships.
The State of Kansas is planning Il
make commencement exercises les
e costly and the State Superintendent
=. of Schools will urge the abandonment
!. of costly graduation accessories tina
are a needless expense to the parents
= Aaron Cohen, Of Buffalo, made des
o perate effort to save his wife iron
q drowning in the Niagara River, bu
fought a losing battle as she died il
II his arms before they could be rescued
o and it was with difficulty that his lif'
was saved by the rescuers.
o Claus Spreckels Jr. arrived in New
York on the same steamer with hi
fiancee, Miss Mary Case, OF Portland
: He was met by his father in New Yorl
n and it is rumored the young man, ha
g been persuaded to postpone his mar
h riage for at least two years
q The presence of the United State
y gunboat Nashville in the Lakes, making
the eighth American cruiser there
is causing adverse criticism in the pres
4 of the Dominion and 1t is not improb
S able that formal protest will be mad
n to the United States in the matter.
The arrest of Paul G. Gaul, an In