The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-01-13
CONDENSED NEWS
FROM COAST FILES

Francis A. Hayden, author of several
volumes on Masonry, died at Chicago,
aged seventy-siX years, He was made
thirty-third degree Mason in Wash
ington, d. c., in 1866.
Governor Marion f. Hay of Wash.
ington denied the request of Sunnyside
women who sent him a petition that
he recommend to the Legislature a bill
exempting women from jury duty.
The Masonic Temple Association of
San Francisco has acquired the site at
the corner of Van Ness avenue, Oak
street and Hickory avenue, at a cost
of $257,00O and ground will be broken
on Washington Birthday.
Judge Ben Sheeks of the superior
court at Hoquiam, Washington, favors
the passage of law by the Legislature
exempting women from jury duty. He
says they are needed at home and this
work can be cared for by men.
The New York police are searching
for man whom they characterize as
the meanest thief on record. He stole
the streamers of black and white Grape
which an undertaken had attached to
the door of Brooklyn residence.
Robbers blew up the safes in the
Citizens and State banks of Water.
vile, Kansas, and escaped with $4,000.
The Citizens Bank lost $4,000 and the
State Bank $4,000. The buildings were
wrecked. The robbers cut the telephone
lines.
Two new features developed in the
special grand jury investigating whole
sale buying of votes in Adams county,
1,nN Sc Fe oil
ing her son IS vote, and the other con-
cerned a voter who was bought in three
different ways.
Charles H. Webster, an actor of the
old school, who at one time supported
Booth and played with Barrett's famed
st. Louis stock company, died in New
York of heart failure. He was sixty
two years old, and was born at Hart
ford, Connecticut.
Preventing two men sent by her hus-
band from carrying off her small child
in Tacoma, Mrs. Victoria C. Herold shot
and seriously wounded one of the men,
/ Harry Williams, commercial traveller,
living in Seattle. He is now in a hos
pital and will probably die.
Mrs. Robert ]. Burdette and a num-
Der of other Los Angeles club women
are inclined to oppose the movement
for a State university in southern Cali
fornia, on the ground that it is not eX-
] actly what is needed. They favor a
State woman s college south of the Te-
hachapi.
| One man dead and two women and
child dangerously injured is the roll
of the latest Black Hand outrage,
which took place in Paterson, New Jer-
sey. An explosion, followed by a fire,
wrecked a double tenement on Scoley
street, The bomb was exploded under
a stairway.
The message sent by retiring Gov
ernor Gillett to the members of the
| thirty. ninth legislature of California
showed a balance of $2000,00G in the
State treasury above all obligations,
which sum, the message says, is double
that left by amy previous administra-
tion
| The Japanese government plans to
| BY unanimous decision, the Supreme
! Court of the United States has decided
that the federal government could not
maintain the so.called "Panama Canal
libel suit against the Press Publishing
Company of New York in the federal
courts of New York.
An unidentified man was instantly
/ killed and another fatally injured in
New York when an elevator ear in an
apartment house on West One Hundred
and Twelfth street, in which both men
were riding, assembled rapidly TO the
}, top of the shaft, snapped its cables and
dropped eight stories into the cellar.
I Southern Pacific overland train No.
! was held up by two masked bandits
at Reese, Utah. A negro porter was
killed and two persons injured. Over
a hundred passengers on the train were
relieved of their valuables. The ex.
press car was not tempered with. The
bandits held the train for more than an
4 hour.
George D. Hodges, hotel man Of
national reputation, died at Salinas,
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