The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-04-21
CONDENSED NEWS
FROM COAST FILES

W ~ Nov was reelected mayor Of
Alameda. California.
James a. Morrow. prominent San
frangisco business man, dropped dead
~ heart failure In Oakland.
10 u now proposed 10 extend the PRO
iccted international highway between
I New York City aud Montreal south,
ward to Jacksonville, Florida.
A Moqui Indian chief from Arizona
visited President Taft and made pa
thetic plea that the government cease
its efforts TO civilizo the Indians.
Fifty girl students at Barnard Col
lege have been quarantined in Brooks
Hall. one of the dormitorics because
( Of a case Of scarlet fever discovered
there.
Yale University is left $50 GOO for
scholarship by the will of Louise KEEL
/ logg. widow of Martin 4. Kellogg once
president of the University of Cali
fornia.
The March statement Of the penny
banks of the ottawa, Ontario, public
! schools shows total deposits of $l2 ,234,
an increase of 1870 over the previous
month.
President Hill of the Great Northern
Railroad says the movement Of settlers
into the Northwest is the heaviest in
the history of the road, taxing equip.
ment to utmost capacity.
Seven years imprisonment was the
sentence given to each of four leaders
of n blackhand gang IN Newark, New
Jersey. A fifth prisoner, wealthy
Italian, was sentenced to three years.
A number of Spokane business men
have leased 1000 acres of lsnd north
of Edmonton in Manitoba for the pur-
| pose of starting a fur farm Mink and
other animals will be raised.
The United States Treasury began
business for April with a surplus of
! SO 100000 on all ordinary accounts.
There was a corresponding deficiency
of more than $16,00O,000 year ago.
Fifty Hollanders left Massachusetts
with their wives and children for Al
berta, Canada, where they, with an
other party from Holland, will found
n Dutch colony seventy miles west of
Edmonton.
French banks are loaning $19,300,000
to build railroad from Battambong, a
frontier city of French Indo- China, peO-
pied by Europeans, to Pnompenh, and
from there conveyance will be by boat
to Saigon. This viii connect Saigon and
Bangkok.
Two hundred men, women and chill
dren were burned to death in Bombay
in fire which destroyed the thatched
structure in which they had gathered
for a festival. Five hundred persons
were in the building. There was only
one exit and a panic ensued.
The British Columbia government as
sembled the Songhee band of Indians
on the reserve on the waterfront oppo
site the city of Victoria and paid over
to the heads of the tribes sums rang
ing from $4,000 to 81 800 each, total
of $425,000, for the surrender of the
reserve.
The notorious YoshiwaTi, the principal
quarter of Tokyo inhabited by the
! licensed hetairae, was destroyed by fire.
Many of these houses were almost pala-
tial in appearance and one thousand of
them were burned in little more than
three hours, Six thousand women were
rendered homeless.
To help in solving the playground
problem in New York, West street for
two miles up the Hudson from the Bat
terry is to be thrown open for Sunday
baseball. 1t is 200 feet wide, lined on
one side by warehouses and ship chan
dleries, on the other by piers and ferry
landings and on Sunday there is practi-
cally no traffic.
The King of England has just, given
permission to Oxford University to
dedicate a. special prayer book to him
for his coronation. This volume will be
known as the Coronation Prayer Book.
1t will be printed in red and black from
new type, specially designed initials
being introduced. Oxford India paper
will be used.
According to Sidney Storey, special
trade representative of the New Or
leans Progressive Union, who has just
returned from South America, Brazil
has tentatively agreed to cooperate with
New Orleans and other Mississippi val
ley cities in establishing a $3,000,00G
Brazil steamship line between New
Orleans and Brazil.
John Trower, reputed to have been
the wealthiest negro in the United
States, died at his home in German
town Philadelphia. Mr. Trower, whose
fortune is said to amount to 81 100000
was prominent in church work. and
lfoumded the Baptist seminary in Down
lington, near Philadelphia. He was
1sixty-one years of age.
Charles Aft Williams, aged ffty-OnC
years, assistant managing editor of the
Seattle Times, and one of the best
known newspaper men in the United
States, died from injuries received in
the Minneapolis Tribune FIRE Novem
Der 80, 1889, when eight persons were
KILLED and the lives of forty saved by
the heroism of Williams, then manag
ina editor of the Tribune.
The figures for the recent Frencl
census give Algiers population slight
ly above 10000. This is gain of 1900
in five years. OF the total population
all but $4,000 are Europeans. Algierl
is now the. second French city on the
Mediterranean, taking rank after Mar
settles and before Nice. its only com
lpetitor AS seaport it contests witt
Havre the second place among Frencl
harbors in tonnage entered and cleared
and its recent growth has been mucI
more rapid than that of the northern
city.
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