The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-01-10
CONDENSED NEWS
FROM COAST FILES

Australia produced gold valued at
! S6l ,222,27S last year, and New Zealand
$9,766,579 worth.
The first complete edition of the New
Testament translated into the Chinese
language recently was issued,
BY fortunate accident in London
hospital recently it was discovered that
certain forms of deafness could be
cured by X.rays.
The one millionth United States Pat
ont will be issued next summer, Just
about 1Gl years after the first one was
issued, in July, 1870.
The invention of process for max.
ing rope from the stringy bark of the
eucalyptus tree promises Australia an
important new industry.
George b, johnson, general treasurer
of the Methodist Episcopal Church OF
the United States, died at Cincinnati,
aged seventy-fve years
Aerial torpedoes invented by Swed.
ish army officer can be made TO. travel
three miles and explode either upon
contact or by clockwork.
A meat block for butchers that an
Arkansas man has invented revolves
when a pedal is pressed and can be adj
justed to different heights.
Germany, Holland, France, Belgium
and Austria'Ilungary, in the order
named, follow next after the United
States in coffee consumption.
Mrs. Antoinette d. Leach the only
woman lawyer in Sullivan county, In.
diana, has been elected president of
the bar association of that county.
On the Bowery in New York State
Senator Big Tim Sullivan fed 5000
dereliets and unfortunates, marking the
fifteenth annual Timothy d. Sullivan
Christmas feast.
Five hundred members of the Ma.
tional Woman's Christian Temperance
Union held memorial services before
the statue of Miss Willard in the Hall
of Fame at Washington.
Lieutenant. Colonel Valeuio of the
Mexican army, who was shot through
the leg Mt the battle of Nal Paso re-
Gently, died in chihuahua hospital,
following an amputation.
Arthur ]. Baum, n well-known cotton
broker, who inaugurated a movement a
few months ago for n monument to the
"Black Nanny, " committed suicide in
a hotel at Galveston, Texas.
Fire destroyed the dry goods and shoe
store of j. NJ. Becker & Co., Joseph
Whites clothing store and Joseph
Wolfes millinery shop in High street,
Buffalo. The loss is 100000.
Adam Sherman HILL professor emeri-
tus OF rhetoric ana oratory at Harvard
University and the author of notable
p uooAs U" InY'oiic, uleu NJ MS nome IN
Doe'on' aye" se.en'y'SeNe" years
Prof L; fukushima, Japanese
scholar ana lecturer, died in n hospital
at Roanoke, west virginia, Following
an operation for cirrhos's of the liver.
lie was tmrty'elght years OF age and
leaves WIDOW, ilVihg IN ohleago'
John T. pdell, retired banker Of
Chicago and formerly president of the
American Dankers' Association, died in
ST. JosePh's Hospital Denver, where
he was operated on for stomach trouble.
Mr.. Odell was fifty eight years of age.
Henry Lewis, son Of j. r. Lewis,
large lima bean grower of Oxnard. Cali.
fornia, was killed when his automobile
skidded and overturned, pinning him
face downward under the running
board and smothering him in the sand
of the road.
Statistics show that persons who have
lived together for twenty years are
seldom divorced and that If n husband
and wife can live together for even
four years the risk OF divorce becomes
lessj the stormy years being the first
four, during which the divorce rate
steadily rises.
A set of false teeth in her windpipe
explained the cause of the death Of
woman whose body was found in
Broadway lodgingbouse. Oakland The
coroner's iurv which conducted the in.
quest returned n verdict of death Inv
a blood eliot on the heart. superinduced
by strangulation
On the eve of his wedding. because
il is alleged. he had slapped his sister
George III Hendricks was shot and killed
by his brother William at Prescott.
Arkansas. The shooting occurred at
the store of the father Of the men. AT
the time the elder Hendricks was in
search of an officer to have his sons
arrested.
Seattle socialists drew up a commu.