The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-01-26

surgeon General Reilly has retired.
The new Cuban Congress met Janu.
airy 10.
Cortelyou may head a big gas COM
bine in New York.
California fruit-growers demand q
tariff on bananas.
Admiral Roiestvensky died of neu.
ralgia of the heart.
Carrie Nation is in an English Jail
for raiding saloon.
Two millions have been cut from the
pension appropriation.
The Oklahoma Legislature has en-.
dorsed State prohibition.
Secretary Root has signed arbitra.
tion treaties with Costa Rica and Chile.
1t is reported that Hartman will go
south for n period of rest, his health
being poor.
Fair lobbyists at Sacramento wear
their most stunning frocks to win suf-
frage votes.
The Senate will make no inquiry
into Tillman's action, saying he has
violated no law.
General j. +. Weston has taken
command of the Department of Cali
fornia.
February 10 is the day selected for
counting the electoral vote in the
House.
r. +. Lobbet of Brooklyn has been
arrested for stealing the plans of the
new self.propelling torpedo.
The President, after riding ninety.
eight miles in mud and storm, showed
no marked signs of WEAKNESS.
= The California Assembly passed a
bill making February II, 1909, Lin
coins birthday, State holiday.
DR.. Biggar, personal friend Of the
oil trust king, says that Rockefeller
will live to be hundred years old.
Bat Nelson, lightweight champion,
called upon President Roosevelt, who
gave him an autograph photograph.
The choice of Abbott Lawrence
Lowell for president of Harvard has
been confirmed by the overseers of the
college.
The Russian Finance Minister has
closed an arrangement with syndi
cate in Paris for a loan of $240,0O0, 200
at Az per cent.
More bounties will be asked of the
State of California to destroy the
packs of coyotes in Mendocino and ad
jacent counties.
Rafael Nebilinias, aged seventy
years, was refused license to wed
Isabel Bermuda, aged fifteen, by q
Los Angeles court.
A young Fresno mother has beer
sent to the insane asylum as a result
of Holy Rollerism. She has been in a
trance for several weeks.
Charles Gilman, father of the actress
Mhybelle Gilman, who married Stee
trust Magnate Corey, was stricken with
apoplexy at San Francisco.
The cause of the food in the Sacra
mento valley was the bursting of the
Philbrook dam, the released water rails
ing the Feather river fifty feet.
The latest developments at Washing
ton point to the probability of Ari
| IONA and New Mexico being raised tt
statehood by the present Congress.
A mail carrier in Mexico was muir
dered and the mail bags looted Of
about 500 in cash. Bandits also raid
ed mining company's office and stol'
| $4,000.
Watchmen and police caught banl
| burglar in the Swiss American Banl
of San Francisco and landed him il
Jail, although the burglar fourished ;
| revolver.
The British steamer Wyneric, from
San Francisco for Dublin, put int,
Saint Vincent for coal after having
| burned part of the cargo, as well a
| stores and fixtures.
Il. II. Hartman has ordered the en-
gineering department of the Union Pa
cific Railroad to parallel at once the
lines of the Colorado & Southern il
the northern part of Colorado.
More than $4,000 were realized a
New York from the first days sales OF
art treasures of the late Baron Specl
Won Sternberg, formerly German Am
bassador to the United States.
Emma Goldman, the anarchist lee
turer, was arrested in Oakland, will
her manager, and confined in the cit,
Jail. The authorities propose to con
front them with eight charges of con
spiracy.
John G. Howell, ST., of Oakland,
well known newspaperman, has beel
| adjudged insane. In 1891 he was ar
rested for shooting and killing r. 5
Colvin, and upon his acquittal his min'
began to weaken.
ID. V. Williams of Randsburg, on
of party of Automobiles lost in
desert near teaches Point, was fOun
by searching party. He had bee
wandering for seven days without foo
and three days without water.
The Standard Oil is said to be plan
ming to secure the control of larg
share of the retail grocery business o
the country. Negotiations for the pun
chase of upwards of two hundred bus
inesses are already said to be unde
way.
John C. Beatty of Vernon, n. Y
was found dead in bath-tub, in whic
hot water was running. The body ha
been in the water several hours befor
it was found, and was literally boiled
The deceased was a wealthy lane
owner.
Beatrice Mills, daughter of ogde
Mills, and the Earl of Grannard, Mai
ter of Horse to King Edward, wer
married in New York, at the Mil
residence, on January IA. The tots
value of the wedding presents wa
100000.
A fire under the Medford Oregon
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