The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-06-11
CONDENSED NEWS
FROM COAST FILES

The iNthN lnuaN ~ NNltlnNfr ana
fuiaw Frttaufnnl, tho oldest husieiff
il Baltimore, was damaged o. The es
tent 81 $4,000 by Ore which started in
Tho basement from On explosion Of un
known origin AZ guests escaped
Dr. James Munyou has purchased AZ
Tafrytown, New York the former sun.
mcr home Of Mark Twain NJ rarryy.
town, New York. The sale Of the e..
tate 10 John ID. Rockefeller has been
several times reported. II 10 valued az
about 100000.
Upton Sinclair Is reported by the
German papers TO be making an in
quiry into German conditions. He is
stopping with friends on the lakes near
Potsdam, and IL is said that he will
tour Germany on foot and afterward
write graphic account of the German
tranips.
The fortieth anniversary of the or.
rival in Japan of Henry LOOMS, civil
war veteran, entomologist, Presbyter-
ian Missionary, and agent of the Amer.
lean Bible society for thirty years,
was celebrated in Yokohama with the
unwilling of memorial tablet in Shi-
lob church.
The question of establishing a ma.
tional bureau of polite which will act
as a clearing house for the police de.
partments throughout the United
States, will be discussed at the conven.
tion of the international Association of
Chiefs of Police, which will convene at
Toronto July 8,
DR.. w. II. Odds, a pioneer physician
of Spokane, Washington, was shot and
killed by his wife, He was sixty years
old and his wife is twenty-nine. She
alleges that he reached home showing
signs of having been drinking. When
he began abusing her, she says she took
rifle and shot him.
Word was received at Seattle of the
death in Phoenix, Arizona, of Howard
II. Lewis, a prominent Seattle attorney
and real estate man. For number of
! cars he was member of the Wash
ington territorial supreme court. He
went to Arizona several months ago
because of i'll health.
Practical jolers who delight in trick
cigars that explode will have to forego
this form of amusement in Masachu-
sets hereafter The state police have
forbidden their manufacture or sale,
including them comprehensively under
the rules governing the storage of fire.
works and blasting materials.
Michael Corners, who shot John
Murphy at Willimantic, Connecticut,
because the latter had displaced him as
suicide in police cell by hanging him.
/ 20 Ia1E OH
Murphy at the same hour was dying at
a hospital few doors away.
Edward Heath, young man of New
| York who tried to ride new amuse-
ment continuance called "The Wooden
Donkey" at Coney Island was thrown
to the floor, landing on his heal. His
skull was fractured and he died in the
arms of n young woman who had ac-
companied him to the amusement park
Mrs Alice Walsh, at one time we'll
known actress, the mother of Flora
! Walsh, the actress who married Charles
Hoyt, the playwright, died at her home
in Brooklyn of heart disease. She was
born in California ifty-seven years
ago. III early life she played juvenile
parts. She organized the first juvenile
"Pinafore company which toured
America.
Thieves blew open the safe in the
postoffice at st. Clairsville, Ohio, and
secured $4,000 in mail matter and
money. They escaped in team stolen
from nearby stable, abandoning the
outfit near Bellaire. The postoffice is
in the county building, directly above
the vault of the county treasurer
which is reported to have contained
| 100000.
"Under the working of the presiden
tial preference primaries it will be i'm
possible hereafter to nominate a can
didate for President who does not pos
sess two things-gall and CAB. He
must be able to play to the gallerie:
and he must be able to talk said
former Senator Chauncey M. Depew tC
group of senators in the cloakroom
at the Capital in Washington.
President Taft pardoned Austin Nc
Kinney, convicted at Greenville, Soutl
Carolina in 1901 of selling liquor with
out license. 1t was unique case il
that the defendant was not present a
his trial, was wholly unaware of thu
proceedings and did not even hear o.
his conviction until eleven years after
ward, when he Immediately surrender
ed.
"There is as much religion in no
calling a Hebrew "sheeney,' an tia
liam dago,' and negro dinge,
as there is in chanting Psalm 49, de
/ cared Rev. Marinus James, of Brook
r Ign, Massachusetts,, in addressing tn
Northern Baptist convention, at De
Moines. "Americans are too hasty i
I. their judgment of the immigratio
question and their feeling of hatre
, toward the foreigner is too great"
Mrs Marie Garland, of Boston, ha
decided to sacrifice the income on $40
. 100000, which came to her through tn
{ will of her husband, in order that sh
may wed Francis Cushing Green, VIII