The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-08-02
CONDENSED NEWS
FROM COAST FILES

Rev. DR.. Griffith John. missionary of
the London Missionary Society at Han.
kow, China, died in London.
Former Governor Richards of wyo.
ming died in Australia, where he was
a member of land seekers party.
Theodore Levine, aged twenty one.
of Cincinnati, was drowned in the Y.
NJ. C. a. swimming pool at fndianapo-
! lis. The body was found in six feet
of water
Charles +. Immekus, visitor from
Pittsburgh, lost his life in the Erie
canal at Rochester, New York, while
diving for his pocletbook, which con.
tanned SIS.
Mrs. John Rusmann, aged twenty.
one, q 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 Mt 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.
| cIared, SO share, payable August 81.
DR.. Edmund Rininger, one of the
most widely known surgeons in the
northwest, was killed, and Miss Luella
Davis, a trained nurse was fatally in.
jnred 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 a 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 fiancee, Madge York, was found
dead in his room in New York. He
had been living on an allowance sup.
piled by old friends.
Formal denial of the published state.
ment that 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.
partment at Washington from the
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. TIE
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 1926, 900. |
lie was an enthusiastic musician, how
ever, 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. Starlight, humorist and jour
nalist, and formerly president of the
American Press Humorists' Association,
is critically i'll in Los Angeles and his
physicians stated there was little hope
for his recovery. Mr.. Starlight suffered
severe injuries in an automobile acci-
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 8,
when Shawnee, Delaware, Cherokee
and Usage Indians will hold 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 a new crop
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 a sun-drying process for straw
berries which has proved entirely sue
cesstul, and samples of the dried prod
net appear to bear out the statement
that within n few wears many sections
of the West, heretofore depending ON
the profits from strawberries which
could only be shipped in season, will
benefit from being able to dry this
fruit in large quantities and realize
satisfactory returns.
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