The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-08-13

The cholera scourge In st. Petersburg
remains unchecked.
The San Francisco mint has coined its
first issue of pennies.
The labor conflict in Sweden Is prov.
ing a question of much gravity.
A Western Hotel Press Association
has been formed in San Francisco.
Alabama has become "dry' by the
latest act of the State Legislature.
A special board at Mare Island has
disrated several veterans of the cleri.
cal force.
The survey for the automobile road
to the summit of Mt. Shasta has been
completed.
The French Ambassador, NJ. Jusse-
rand, and Nine. Jusserand have sailed
for Europe.
The, Van Mugs Hotel in Los Angeles,
owned by Milo Potter, has been sold
for $15O000.
President Roosevelt was the guest of
honor at public banquet at Nairoba
on August 3.
Lieutenant II. +. Wensthoff, U.S.A.,
has applied for divorce from his wife
at Cincinnati.
E. II. Hartman has gone to Vienna
for course of special treatment at the
Austrian capital.
The degree of LID. was conferred
on ex-President Roosevelt by the Uni
versity of Leipsic.
The Cleveland three-cent fare ordi-
nance was defeated by vote of the
people of the city.
Governor Hughes was the speaker
at the celebration of New York day
at the Seattle fair.
President Taft will spend only one
day at San Francisco on his tour of
the West in October.
A French airship reached the height
of 500 feet near Paris beating the rec
ord of Wilbur Wright.
Count Zeppelin personally steered his
airship on July % for the first time
since his recent accident.
A Fresno farmer has Just concluded
thirty-day fast, and says that he has
overcome the habit of eating.
A cloudburst at Lagos, Mexico, re.
suited in much damage to property and
| the death of three children.
A combination gasoline and electric
engine for use on motor cars has prov
en- n great success in Chicago.
A bronze bust of James j. Hill was
NluutSDtd LAY dJ JLe SotdI-
| tie exposition by Governor johnson.
Nine. Lillian Nordica, the American
opera singer, was married in London to
George w. Young, New York banker.
The daughters of Emperor Nicholas
went ashore at Cowes on a shopping ex-
petition and attracted much attention.
The Western Federation of Miners,
in convention at Denver, have voiced
| their sympathy in the cause of social
| ism.
The Portola Committee of San Fran
cisco will send twelve working girls
of the city to the Seattle fair for a
trip.
To promote the use of the wireless
| telegraph, German insurance men will
cut the rates for ships having the equip
| ment.
An enormous run of salmon is on in
the northwest. Half mil ion fish were
| taken in twenty four hours at Belling-
| ham, Wash.
The wife of the captain of the Win.
nebago proved a heroine when the ship
was sinking near Point Arenas on
August End.
Two thousand pilgrims gathered
near Dublin, Ireland, to hold contin'
uous prayer meeting and await the end
of the world.
! Francis J. Heney has returned from
| his Alaskan trip and will proceed to
San Francisco to act as prosecutor in
the second Calhoun trial.
The victoria and team of Mrs
Timothy Guy Phelps, a society woman
of Burlingame, were stolen from hel
stables, during the absence of the fam
ily
A sailor was fatally hurt on the U
S. S. Vermont while engaged in a real
istic exhibition bout which was tt
have been used to make a moving pic
ture film.
Ten thousand dollars in cash and {
large quantity of provisions have beer
sent to the earthquake sufferers a
Acapulco by the Federal government
of Mexico.
Railroads throughout the country ar
considering the wisdom of doing bust
ness according to the calendar year
instead of having the fiscal year enc
June 80, as heretofore.
Miss Ruth Sikafoss, the Stockton
schoolgirl, arrested in San Francisc
for masquerading in male attire Will
sightseeing in Chinatown. was dismiss
ed by the judge with a severe repri
mand.
millionaire William b. Bradbury ha
been remanded to the Jail at San Ra
fael to await the result of his appea
. to Governor Gillett. He was sentence
to one year in the penitentiary 70
perjury.
The fear of scandal caused Mrs
Emma Michel of Chicago TO kill heI
self and her two children, when a
indiscretion committed before her maj
rage was to be communicated to he
children.
Free. thinkers from all political par
ties in Portugal presented petition I
the Cortes for the abrogation of tn
existing laws of the freedom of cor
science and for the suppression of tn
: religious orders in the country.
/. w. Hellman, Sr., of San Francisc'
returned from a six months "trip I
Europe and in an interview said tina
+. II. Hartman has reached n positio
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