The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-05-10

Introducing q charge Of liquid air 10
suddenly chill Il The sudden con
traction OF the rock By the liquid air
makes IT brittle and easy to remove.
Plans are being formulated which
are expected 10 result in the addition
Of . hundred miles or more 10 the
electric railway system Of Los An
geles County
Galreston's state taxes have been
RENTED for two years in eonsidera-
ton Of the money being applied to
raise the grade Of the city above the
level Of the gulf.
Mr.. Carnegie's $1,000 600 Fifth-ave-
nue residence IN New York win be q
monument 10 q colossal failure II
| Is TO be built out of the proceeds of
an option forfeit
Application was maze in New York
to Justice Andrews of Supreme Court
by John McGuinness for receiver
| for the Boston and Montana Copper
Company of Montana
| The total capitalization of the tele-
phone companies in the country now
exceeds $500 900. 600 1t has grown to
that amount from $4,000 900. which
was the total in 1885.
Il was. stated in the New York dis
i patches a day or two since that ru-
NOR was gaining credence that the
next great trust to be formed would
be an insurance trust
/ For the one thousand positions as
school-teachers in the Philippines
which the Government intends TO dis
pose of, there are said to be about ten
times the number of applicants.
4 The New York Legislature at its
recent session saved the State about
s.. O00. 900 by abolishing commissions
and cutting down the number of at
taches of those allowed to remain.
A city election in Frederick a few
days ago gave the first test to the
new election law of Maryland. and
it was found the illiterates managed
to vote about as regularly as ever.
| The resumption of diplomatic rela-
tons between Mexico and Austria is
said to be due to the erection by the
former of an expiatory chapel at Que
! retaro. where Macmillan was shot.
| A Kansas City carpenter accused
of bigamy escaped the consequences
of his crime by securing an accept
able husband for wife No. 1, and per-
!, suading No. to remain with him.
A great Northern express train was
wrecked two miles west of Fort Ben
ton May 1. The engine, tender and
| baggage mail cars were ditched and
; Engineer John Wilkinson was killed.
, Philip K Stern, a mechanical and
!, electrical engineer, states that he has
perfected an apparatus for the trans
mission of optical images in colors.
, The device will be known as ''telop-
toscope."
II No city in the Russian Empire is
developing more rapidly than yladi-
vostok. On the LIST of January last
, there were over 10000 residents in
, the city, not including the Russian
soldiery.
Iii Hung Chang is still devoting his
, energies to the task of convincing
the powers that the Imperial Govern
ment is not responsible for various
uprisings which have recently dis.
turbed China.
! The French Government is planning
to abolish the octroi duties. The oc-
troll is a tax which has come down
!, from medieval times and is levied at
!, the gates of the cities upon provis
ions and other imports.
The recent visit to ST Petersburg
of NJ. Delcasse. the French Minister
of Foreign Affairs is considered as
opportune and important because OF
the alterations in the new grouping
of the powers in prospect
The Supreme Court of Massaehu
sets decided the other dey that the
use of voting machines at elections
is not illegal and there is good pros
pect of their early adoption by the
: cities and towns of the State.
The warm. dry weather of the ear
ly part of April had such a marked
effect upon the snow banks in the
higher Sierras of California that the
miners on the mother lode in the
central Sierran counties grew alarm
ed over the prospects Of the coming
: summer.