The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-06-18

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dianapolis merchant and candidate for
Alderman, and Harry G. Prinzler, a
member of a prominent family of that
city, for conspring with bank clerk
to defraud the Capital National Bank
of $3l 900, has caused a profound sem
sation.
Gaspar Zittinck of New York, think
ing his wife the most beautiful woman
in the world, poured sulphurlc acid over
her face intending to mar her beauty
/ and make her unattractive TO other men.
The acid got into her eyes, penetrated
her brain and killed her, and her hus-
band was sentenced to twenty years for
manslaughter.
The ambassadors of Great Britain,
Italy, Germany and Japan and the Min
lister from Spain have promised to
drink President Taft's toast to San
Francisco Portola Day October 10 next.
They have also promised to ask their
governments to participate in the fes-
tival and they may go in person to
join in the celebration.
President j.. G. Schurman, of Cor.
nell, in can address to the senior class
on the eve of his departure for Europe
took exception to the statement of
President Woodrow Wilson that the
intellectual life in the American
Universities was decaying and warmly
defended the conditions in Cornell, Wis
consin, Nebraska and others which he
characterized as the "people IS" uni
versities and which he declared as in
situations for stronger minds and in
which less attention was paid to the
social side of college life than in the
older universities where age and tradi-
ton furnished social sttractiveness
rather than intellectual advantages.
Bad floods have tied up traffic in the
Canadian Northwest.
Annie Mathewson, San Francisco
girl, attempted suicide by swallowing
chloroform
E. Lindenburg, a wealthy retired
|, wool merchant, committed suicide in
San Francisco.
Many farms in the King River Dis
trict in California are flooded from the
breaking of levees.
Howard Gould>has been ordered into
court to tell his income and from what
sources he obtains it.
Miss Alma Bell, of Auburn, shot and
killed her lover, Joseph Armes, when
he refused to marry her.
1t is estimated that a complete sys
tenn of subways for Chicago will cost
over one hundred million dollars.
Five hundred persons were injured
by the explosion of an army powder
magazine in Cracow, Austrian Poland
Walter Wellman will undertake an
other expedition in search of che NORTH
Pole and will leave Paris about Au
gust l.
: Miss Adeline Knapp, the California
newspaper woman and magazine writer
: died at her home in Mill Valley OF
: June 6.
A negro, under sentence of death fol
! the murder of a sheriff, was taken from
! Jail and lynched by mob in Tallahas
see, Fla
The French Aerial League has per
fected plans for lines of dirigible bal
: looms from Paris to number Of in
terror towns.
The country in the vicinity of Sal
. Lake has been flooded and great dam
age done to property in many of th
= nearby towns.
General Chaffee is advocating tn
o making of military training part o
g the course of study in the high school
'. of Los Angeles.
Colonel NJ. II. Hecht, prominent Sa
Francisco business man, has bee
o stricken with paralysis and is not eS
pected to recover.
g President Taft has announced hi
intention of being present at the open
ing of the Portola Festival in Sal
s. Francisco in October.
The Mundy Lumber Company's mill
Q at Three Valleys, British Columbia
= have been destroyed by fire. The est
mated loss is $250,000.
g The passengers on the steamer Chin
:, were badly frightened by the burstin
~ of an ammonia tank on the last trip o
IS the liner TO San Francisco.
IT The New York Customs authorize
have on their hands a diamond cola
% and bracelet appraised at $4,000 whis
y the owner has failed to claim.
u A consignment of Whistles shippe
u from Kansas City in boxes bearing falls
" labels was seized in Oklahoma by orde
s. of the United States District Attol
B. ney.
N The Postofice Department is mo-
II shipping by freight large portion O
n its supplies which was previously ser
"a by mail and paid for at the regula
20 rate.
The National Tube Company's work
" at Wheeling, w. Va, which have bee
IS idle since November, 1907, have gon
a. into operation again, giving emplo,
* ment to $500 men.
IS Mrs. Electra II. Beard, convicted @
+ Incorporating about $4,000 of tn
funds of the Children's Hospital ASS
-. L.,
g to three years. imprisonment.
e, NJ. G. Amaral was arrested in Sa
ss Luis Obispo for the murder of ma
b. in the Azores Islands three years ag,
lie He is reputed to be of good family an
will be taken to Lisbon for trial.
n A movement which aims to seeuI