The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-08-04
NEWS
FROM COAST FILES

Adm ai Togo while ia London. wac
elected hn honorary Knight tlcepfe
tidcni 81 ihe Knirhis 81 She Round
Table Club
The y. n. G. A. 81 san Jose. Califor.
MIA. has pufchased site for a 100000
building AZ The corner Of Santa Clara
and Third streets
Jacob NJ. Dickinson. late secretary Of
war IN President Taft Z cabinet. has
been appointed 30 chair Of law In
Vanderbilt university.
A eantaioupe train Of one hundred
and thirty cars, over a mile In length,
WIS sent from Imperial Valley, CALI
fornia, 10 New York.
The Commercial Tribune, morning
newspaper, with all lee equipment, was
sold at Cincinnati 70 Francis n. Homer.
q baltimore attorney, for 100000.
The politicians in New Jersey cities
are fighting hard and in many cases
with success against the adoption Of
tho commission form Of government.
Another mile Of pneumatic mail tnbe
service will be installed in New York
city. making the total used by the post
office in that city t~enty-six and half
miles.
Mayor Evans Of Winnipeg has an
nounced that the city has decided to
purchase the entire plant of the Win
nipeg Electric Railway Company for
$l5, 900, 900.
c. w. Stetson, the American artist,
who has resided in Rome for some years
past, died there, following an opera
ton. He was born at Tiverton, Rhode
Island, in 1858.
Senator Black Is constituting amend
ment to raise the salary of the governor
of New York from 10000 to $4,000
was passed in the Assembly at Albany
without dissent.
The money sent home by Hungarian
emlgrants in the United States during
the decade 1900-l909 amounted to the
enormous sum of $222O31 PA. Last
years contribution was $37,617915.
While walking under an umbrella
Mt Benton Harhor, Michigan, Miss Mil
licent Turnock was struck by lightning
and probably fatally injured. Her
clothes were torn to shreds and she was
severely scorched.
The geographical society of Copen-
hagen has Cancelled the. diploma grant
ing gold medal to DIR. Frederick A.
Cook for his alleged discovery of the
North pole. This step has been under.
consideration for many months.
The body of Homer Dimon, the eigh-
teen-year-old youth of Arlington, Mas
saehnsetts, who was lost in the Alps
on July 8, has been found Embedded in
the ice in q crevasse of a glacier on
the side of the Dent du Midi.
Miss Mary Louise Thomas, an Amer
lean, and her Swiss teacher, Miss Lee
vanchy, were drowned in Lake Leman,
Switzerland. They were in a rowboat
with four Others, when their craft was
run down by mstorboat, Their COM
panions were saved.
Mrs. Lillian Paxton Flynn, eonvict-
ed at Los Angeles on the charge of
forging the name of Jennie B. Boane
to deed for realty to obtain $4,000
from the COMMANDMENT Savings
banks, was sentenced to serve three
years at San Quentin.
Charles Durburrow, banker of Phil
adelphia, accomplished the greatest
long distance swim ever made in wa
tiers around New York, when he swan
from the Battery to within one and
quarter miles of Sandy Hook, dis
tance of eighteen miles.
Since the first woman deputy of Nor
way, Madame Olga Roystad, has made
such an exceptional record among the
lawmakers of that country, doors hither-
to barred have been opened to women.
The Academy of Sciences, for centuries
tightly closed against women, has Just
elected its first woman member.
Edmund Cooper, secretary to Presi-
dent Andrew jackson, died at the age
of ninety at his home in Shelbyville,
Tennessee. He was a half -brother of
Colonel Duncan B. Cooper, who, with
his son, Robin, figured in the sensation
al trial in which they were charged with
the murder of former United States
Senator Carmack.
The National Press Association, until
recently known as the National Edito-
rial Association, adopted resolutions at
| their convention in Detroit indorsing
the administration of Dr. II. w. Wiley,
chief of the bureau-o chemistry of the
| department of agriculture, and Oppos-
ing the enactment Of legislation grant
ing penny postage.
Armed with a magazine rifle of the
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fanatic, calmy stood at the corner of
the Operahouse block, in Chicago, and
fired into the thronged streets, shoot
ing six persons, but none fatally. In
midst of the panic, "a reporter, at whom
the maniac had fired one shot, sprang
upon him and pinioned his arms until
the police overpowered him.
| New York city Is said to have been
overcharged 1880 for the fire works
with which 1t celebrated July 4, accord.
ing to report made by Raymond B,
FosdiclS, commissioner Of accounts, to
Mayor Gaynor He finds that small
ljobber who was given contracts to
furnish displays for the Bronx and
Brooklyn let out his contract to two
sub.eontractors, whose prices totalled
1880 as compared with $lS,s90, which
the city paid.
Marriage by telephone, with the of
iciating clergyman in one place, the
bridegroom in another and the bride
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