The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-08-02
CONDENSED news
FROM COAST FILES

Rev. Dr.. uriflth John. missionary Of
tho London Missionary Society AZ Han.
kow, China, died in London
Former Governor Richards Of WYE.
ming died In Australia, where he was
member Of a land seekers party.
Theodore Levine, aged twenty one,
Of Cincinnati, was drowned in the Y.
NJ. &. a. swimming pool at mdianapo.
lie The body WIS found in six feet
of water.
Charles +. lmmekus, visitor from
Pittsburgh lost his life in the Erie
! canal AZ Rochester, New York, while
diving for his pocletbook, which con.
tanned IS.
Mrs. John Rusmann, aged twenty.
one bride of two months, was
drowned in the Mississippi river at
, Davenport, Iowa, while bathing with
her husband.
John D. Rockefeller has given his
pastor, the Rev. W. w. BASTARD of the
Euclid Avenue Baptist church, Cleve-
land, Ohio, an automobile. The pastor.
ial visits are made in it.
The province of Ontario, Canada, has
passed a law empowering local school
boards to require the attendance of
boys and girls up TO eighteen years of
age at day or evening classes.
At meeting of the board of direct
ors of the Standard Oil Company of
Indiana the first quarterly dividend of
the reorganized corporation was de
clared, SO a share, payable August 81.
Dr. Edmund Rininger, one of the
most widely known surgeons in the
northwest, was killed, and Miss Luella
Davis, trained nurse, was fatally in
jured when a railroad train struck their
automobile near Seattle.
Cleveland, Ohio, observed July IS as
Tom l.. johnson Memorial Day. Had
the former mayor, champion OF single
tax and three-cent fare, lived, that
would have been his fifty-eighth birth
day. Practically all city Offices were
closed.
While playing William Tell, with
baseball for an apple, during the alb
sence of their parents, the head of
eight year.old William Dare, son of
coal MINER, was blown off with shot
gun in the hands of his brother at
! Altoona, Pennsylvania.
James B. Gentry, the actor, who was
released from the Pennsylvania state
prison two years ago after having
served fifteen years for the murder
of his fancee, Madge York, was found
dead in his room in New York. He
had been living on an allowance sup
piled by old friends.
| al oil af th, -,
ment that a treaty between Japan and
Russia looking to the definition of their
respective interests in Manchuria and
Mongolia is about to be signed at St.
Petersburg has reached the state de-
American embassy at Toxic.
Chancellor David Lloyd George an
nounced in the British house of COM
mons the intention of the government
to introduce bill to deal with labor
disputes, such as the dock strike. The
chancellor indicated the measure was
| likely to involve compulsory arbitra-
ton and financial guarantees for OBJ
serving agreements.
The London grand opera house con-
cluded its season July IA. Oscar Ham
merstein in speech said his losses for
seven months amounted to $225,000.
HE was an enthusiastic musician, how
lever, he said, and the thought of Civ
ing up the beautiful edifice and stink
ing away was an absolute horror. He
was going on again in November.
Frank T. Searight, humorist and jour
naist, and formerly president of the
American Press Humorists' Association
is critically ill in Los Angeles and his
physicians stated there was little hope
for his recovery. Mr.. Starlight suffered
severe injuries in an automobile acct
dent several months ago, since which
time he has been practically helpless.
What promises to be one of the
unique gatherings since the opening of
Indian Territory will be held at Ramo-
ma, Oklahoma, July 81 to August g.
when Shawnee, Delaware, Cherokee
and Usage Indians will hold a grand
stomp dance and pow-wow. Some OF
the most noted chiefs in the southwest
will gather and hold high council. In
dian stomp dances are seldom seen
now and hundreds of people are expect
ed at Ramona to witness one of the
last affairs of the kind that will ever
be staged in Oklahoma.
Dried strawberries is new croI
soon to become of commercial import
ance in many Western States, accord
ing to reports made to the department
of commerce and labor. A berry grow
er of the State of Washington has dis
covered sun-drying process for straw
berries which has proved entirely sue
cessful, and samples of the dried prod
net appear to bear out the statemen
that within few years many section
of the West, heretofore depending OF
the profits from Strawberries whicl
could only be shipped in season, vii
], benefit from being able to dry thi
: fruit in large quantities and realiz
: satisfactory returns.