The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-10-27
NEWS
FROM COAST FILES

pion checker player, died IN Edlnhufeh.
scetland.
Postmaster General Hitchcock, IN bic
annual report. has come out equarely
for parceis poet.
The Nationalist press in Cairo u again
raising a cry against tho American
! Mission In Egypt. and b. calling upon
The Government 20 roprcrs bv force the
Christianiging of Moslem lads. on the
ground that Egypt is a Mohammedan
country.
In the 1orimer Senatorial investiga.
tion at Chicngo, former Representative
William G. Blair was removed from the
witness stand by Senator Gamble,
charged with being intoxicated. lie
was ordered into the custody of a
Scrgeant.at Arms, pending further
orders OF the committee.
While On route TO Golden Gate Park
for the panama-Pacifc Exposition
ground breaking ceremonies motor
ear containing the family Of James
Rolph .rr., Mayor-clect and director
of the exposition, was in collision with
another car. Mrs. Rolph and other oc-
cupants were painfully injured
Mrs Rena Ridgeway of Wabash,
Indiana, received word from Govern
ment engineers in Arizona that her
husband, Oliver Ridgeway, a Govern
ment engineer, had been killed by
Yaqui Indians in sparsely settled
part of Arizona. Beside the body of
Ridgeway were found three dead Mexi-
can miners and eight Indians.
Irving II. Wheetcroft owner of the
, st. James stud farm at Lexington,
, Kentucky, shipped all his stable to
Australia, where he proposes to start
, large establishment near Melbourne.
There were 159 horses, valued at
$250,000 in the shipment. Mr.. Wheel
croft, who accompanies the horses, is
reported to have said that the enforce
ment of betting laws forced him to
leave the country.
John Madden of Towanda, Pennsyl-
vania, who was n member of the Third
Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery during
the civil war, has just received n letter
which he wrote to his wife while
stationed at Fort Monroe forty-seven
years ago. Where the letter has been
all these years he does not know. 1t
arrived in a different envelope from
that in which it was sent and it was
postmarked Towanda.
Struck by biplane during n trial
fight at Joplin, Missouri, James Kin
ney, fifty years old, was instantly
killed. The elevator of the machine
broke Kinney's neck. The biplane was
built by Joplin high school boys and
was piloted by Harold Robinson of
st. Louis. Robinson ran the machine
for about hundred yards, preparatory
to leaving the ground. Kinney ran
in front of it and was hit.
The old stepping-stone which for
seven hundred years stood in the
public square at bingham, England,
was presented to the town of that
name in Massachusetts, on behalf of the
people of the English village by James
, Bryce, the British Ambassador. The
stone is to be used as the cornerstone
of a bell tower to commemorate the
landing there 275 years ago of band
of pilgrims from bingham, England.
With representatives of both the
"Blues" and the "Grays" present, a
granite shaft erected by the United
States government in memory of the
Confederate dead who were buried in
the Pittsville national cemetery at
Philadelphia during the civil war was
unveiled on October 10 with apprOpri-
ate ceremonies. The shaft, which
stands nine feet six inches in height,
was erected to perpetuate the memory
of one hundred and eighty-four Con
federates who died while prisoners of
war in Chester, Pennsylvania, during
the war.
Jan Kubelik, violinist, opened his
farewell American tour at the Hippod-
rome, New York, to one of the largest
and most enthusiastic audiences ever
attending a Sunday concert in New
York. He was assisted by Nathan
FRANKIE and an orchestra of sixty,fve
players from the Philharmonic Or
chestra. Not only was every seat
taken, but four hundred additional
chairs were placed on the stage and in
the orchestra pit. The nights receipts
amounted to more than $4,000. Critics
said that KubeGk had broadened and
developed.
= DIR. II. l.. Garner, the student of
monkeys, returned to New York from
Central Africa with the second gorilla
1 ever brought into this country alive
e lie had been away since last April
y
z in the Bronx. With fellow scientist
Ii Mr. Imbrie of Baltimore, DIR. Garner
5 roamed over four hundred miles o.
$ Jungle for more than two month";
without coming on trace of a gorilla
) He at last learned of one which wa
8 kept by French trader on the Uppe
y Congo. The trader refused to sell a
first, and Dr. Garner lived with him
n week before he changed his mind.
d Carnegie Technical Schools, at Pitts
i burgh, have been made the recipient o
= whit is supposed to be the largest poI
l. trait Of Andrew Carnegie ever painted
| The picture is life size, the heavy gol
frame measuring seven and a half fee
=. nv FIVE and half II was painted b
e. Howard Russell Butler, of Now Yorl
rs and shows the "lairdn in the role q
IN lord rector of the University Of n