The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-08-03
Strong FOR Annexation THE WORLDS LATE DONGS
SHORT ITEMS FROM LATE PAPERS
IN SPICY PARs.
y Princely Duel-No Steel Armor
Plates From Carnegie Company
Coal Strike Not General.

Ex-senator Doolittle of Wisconsin is
dying.
The Brazilian troops have captured
the city of Canudos.
Robert Tracewell of Indiana will he
appointed Controller of the Treasury.
The Captain Cook" engagement, a
Hawaiian opera, is closed in New York
Lieutenant Peary and party left
Halifax on July 2j for the Arctic in
the steamer hope.
Claus Spreckels will not buy the
Stanford and Crocker interests in the
Southern Pacific.
The English Government has again
refused to grant clemency to Mrs.
Florence Maybrick.
Emperor William Of Germany met
defeat in the Prussian Diet over the
law of associations bill.
Only July 26 Mr.. and Mrs. Glad
stone celebrated the fifty-eighth an
niversary of their wedding.
DR.. Wolpert, the distinguished
German aeronaut, and Robert Knabe,
were burned to death recently while
making balloon ascension.
~
Whitelaw Reid will succeed Sherman
as McKinley's Secretary of State.
Uncle Sam will have two-company
garrison near the British line for the
protection of American interests in
the Klondyke.
The Carnegie and Bethlehem Com
panies decline to furnish steel armor
plates to Uncle Sam for the price set
by the Government.
The Count of Turin, nephew of the
King of Italy, has challenged Prince
Henry of Orleans to duel because of
the Princes insulting comment on the
Italian prisoners in Abyssinia.
+. Benjamin Andrews has resigned
the presidency of Brown University.
He will be chosen by the Democratic
party of Rhode Island as its candidate
for United States Senator.
The coal strike has failed to become
general in West Virginia A good
many mines in Ohio have resumed OPP
| erations. In the Pittsburg district all
| await the big meeting of operators.
On July "a President Mckinley sent
| a message to Congress urging that
| body to appoint a special non-partisan
monetary commission, that the sub
| ject may be acted upon IN December
next.
Dr. ID. Maclean, dean of the Califor-
MIA Medical College was dangerously
| wounded by Patrick Walsh in San
| Francisco last week. Walsh, who is n
| half-wtted young man, tried to es-
cape, but finding it impossible, shot
and killed himself.
The House of Commons on July &c
denounced the report of the committee
| on the Jamson raid. Some of them
| demanded Cecil Rhodes punishment.
| There was much talk, but the Govern.
ment won by large majority.
1t is stated that the Turkish mill
! tary commission will start Immediate
| ly for Thessaly to meet the Greek Off
GERS and mark out the new boundary.
1t is expected that the treaty of peace
will be signed by the end of the week.
While the Queen Regent Christiana
and King Alfonso of Spain were walk
ing in the woods at San Sebastian last
week a heavy load of shot discharged
| by youth who was out bird shooting
and who had not noticed their pres
ence, passed close to their heads.
Pat McNally, the Boston swimmer,
almost swan the English channel on
July 25. He started from Dover at
II: 80 O'Clock in the morning and was
in the water fifteen hours, in which
he covered thirty-fve miles. He was
picked up at 2:30 in the morning at
a point three miles from Cape Grinez