The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-09-04
ITEMS or INTEREST.

George Barrett, the comedian, at
London is dead.
Butterflies won the great Futurity
stake at Sheephead Bay.
Cases of leprosy have recently been
, reported from several parts of Prussia. .
The proposed Central American
Union does not find favor in Costa .
| Rica.
The steamer Paris left Southampton |
Saturday with ll25 passengers from
New York.
At Orange, n. j., yesterday, several
persons were injured in runaway
electric car.
The Whisky Trust has ordered an in
crease of cents per gallon. This makes
the basis $l3j.
An unknown man, supposed to be
Melbourne. the rain-maker. committed
suicide at Denver.
Councilman Louis o. Deforges has
been indicted by the Grand Jury at
! ANt" OlItdhS lpi bIip'iy'
i A heavy earthquake occurred August
90 in Greece. The people of the cities
fed to the open fields for safety.
/ Militia companies are organizing at
Kansas City on the separate and dis
tnct lines of Catholic and anti Catholic.
The British Government is making
successful tests with gongs under water
r Remarkable results have followed the
experiments.
The Federal Council of Switzerland
has approved the bill for the Jura-
Simplon Railway tunnel. The cost will
be $4,000 O0Of
, There's hitch in the borrowing of that
100000 by the Whisky Trust to take
spirits out of bond. --ChicdgO inter
, ocean, Aug. ~.
Lyon silk manufacturers and Welsh
0 tinplate works are preparing for busy
season, anticipating large orders from
n the United States.
;. Marriage is growing popular again in
$ England The register for the first
d quarter of 1894 exceeds the first quarter
J.. of any year since 1888.
A member of the japanese Parla-
l. ment has been accused of bribery in
o corrupting his constituents with pre-
+ sents Of edible seaweed.
Work has already been begun at
] I ,,,,l.,Y, Il. A. ,,l,f,.i,
: is to run from Waterloo station under
- the Thames into the city.
o A cargo of wool is lying off Cape cod
+ waiting for the Tariff law to go into
h effect. 1t is said $4,000 will be made
by the few days of delay.
e There's baby three months old at
e ST. Ignace, Mich, which only weighs
is four pounds. Doctors say the child is
is healthy and is likely to live.
l. The County Court Judges of England
al have passed new rule enabling them,
without loss of dignity, to wear straw
hats during the hot weather.
Steve Elkins, it is stated by the Re-
ID publican paper of his district, will
refuse positively to be candidate for
: Congress from West Virginia.
j. The city of New York, in which there
% dwelt in 1865 only 1000 native-born
n voters, now reports 1S0, 900 native voters
h to 22G 900 naturalized foreigners.
if a fight occurred in the streets of Ric
he de Janeiro, August 24th, and fouI
lie policemen, seven sailors and eight
, soldiers were killed or wounded.
10 An attempt has been made to xii
. President Crespo of Venezuela witt
:" dynamite but it failed to work. tn,
'e bomb-thrower has been arrested
is 1t is said that Emperor William vii
,e endeavor to stop the observance o.
.y Sedan day, as it revives painful memo
ries on the other side Of the border.
o, Sugar, since the passage of the new
IL tariff, has gone up cent pound. Th
he means a tax of $500 per year on ever!
to family that uses ten pounds "a week.
~ Alonzo Kendall, the Kalamazoo, Mich.
dtlpHdul, lOsl Hlb ilblb bli lIC
a during an exhibition at Kalamazoo an,
- dropped 100 feet. His neck was broken
Ii The International Takamine Com
no pany, with S5,0OJ,00) capital, has beer
a incorporated in Illinois to control tn,
he new process for making fermente,
" liquors.
o. The proposition to make Unite
d, States Senators elective by the people i
r. making considerable progress, fourteen
en- State conventions having passed reso
e. buttons indorsing it.
Extensive forest fires are raging il
Alconaand Mason counties, Mich. Man
IS, families have lost their no mes. Every
he thin is as dry as finder, no rain havin
at fallen for six weeks.
srs About forty idle mechanics of Pull
as man met August 10th to consider pro
wv ject of moving to Kansas, where, it wa
claimed, an offer of work has been mad
at to them by capitalist of HIawatha,
oil George O. Barnes, the well.knowi
eNahscllat III leAluRtpl, N.Y., ueIlNtft'
re a lecture in which he urged all goot
IL citizens to vote for Colonel Brecken
zee ridge. 1t created a tremendous sensa
ton.
lg- Fifty persons were dropped distanc
he of twenty feet by the giving away of
he bridge at Paramount Park, Kansas City
re- Twenty were more or less severed
ne injured. Scarcely one escaped "a bruis
ne of some character.
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