The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-06-25

practising law at Nome for three years.
William Jennings Bryan Jr. is TO
marry Miss Helen Berger, daughter of
Alexander Berger, prominent grain.
man of the Northwest. on June "a.
Algernon Sartoris, secretary of the
legation at Guatemala and a grandson
of the late President Grant. has resign
ed from the diplomatic service. The
cause assigned is i'll health but it is
stated that his resignation was request
ed by the Department.
The beautiful young wife of John
Wright Hunt, the aged millionaire
owner Of the Hotel Angelus in Los An
geles, deserted him in Paris and eloped
with penniless Russian adventurer.
Three deputy registrars, James Bow.
Ian, William Bausman and James
o 'Hea Of San Francisco, were seriously
injured by the crashing of a derrick
through skylight in the old City Hall.
Thornton Hams, brother of Peter e..
Hams, and tried with him for com
plicity in the murder of William Annis,
has gone to sea to earn his living, and
his relatives claim to have no knowl
edge as to his whereabouts and say
that they never expect to see or hear
from him again.
The dismembered body of a young
man wrapped in oilcloth, found on East
Ninety.eighth street, New York, re-
vealed the shocking murder of Prus
sian named Bresin, who is supposed to
have been killed by a rival sutton for
the affection of the girl with whom he
was in love.
The residences of twenty.four well
known revolutionists and anarchists, in.
Guiding that of Gustave Herve, the
anti-military agitator, were searched by
the Paris police in consequence of the
systematic cutting of telegraph wires
which is of daily occurrence lately
throughout France.
The new anti-cigarette law which has
gone into effect in Washington places
cigarettes absolutely under the ban and
under the law any one who has them
in his possession is guilty of a INSIDE
meanor The Alaska Yukon-Pacifc Elk.
position police will enforce the law
strictly and no one will be permitted
to smoke a cigarette on the grounds.
1t has Just been learned that Mary
Agnes Ruiz, correspondent in the New
York divorce case of Alfred Gwynne
Vanderbilt, committed suicide early in
May, following Vanderbilt's desertion
of her. The facts concerning her death
in London were suppressed and have
Just come to light Mrs Ruiz divorced
husband was n former attache of the
Cuban Legation at Washington.
Edward. ii. Hartman, who controls
$4,000 miles of rail and water transpor-
tation. keeps in constant touch with
public opinion regarding himself and
his railroads through the medium of a
synopsis of public sentiment as reflect.
ed by the press, furnished to him twice
month. He regards these reports as
valuable aids in detecting causes of
friction between his railroads and the
public, and in applying corrective meas
ures.
Mrs. Rosanna Wells Cooper, widow
of DIR. j. S. Cooper, surgeon in the
United States Army, died at her home
at Pacific Grove.
]. F. Harms. United States meat
inspector in the East st. Louis pack,
ing houses, has resigned, and has de.
manded of Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson, an investigation of the meat
inspection system of the National
Stockyards.
Much mystery surrounds the death
of Mrs. Caroline Steinman. of San Fran
cisco, whose body was found floating
in the bay near Fort Point. Murder,
suicide or accidental drowning appear
equally probable to the detectives
working on the case.
A proposition to do away with school
text books and other bound volumes
and substitute for them printed leaf
let's. compiled by local educators, has
been officially submitted to the School
Book Investigating Committee of the
Board of Education in Chicago.
The Dominion government is to take
over the Esqumalt Naval Station and
it will be used as the headquarters in
British Columbia for the Lighthouse and
fisheries protection service and the war
ship to be brought from Great Britain
as a training ship and fishery cruiser.
Russia has protested against Turkish
aggression in Northwestern Persia
Turkey has attempted the occupation
of the district of Urumiah, which would
be of great strategical Importance, al
the Turkish army, in case of var, coulC
operate against the Russian line o.
fortresses.