The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-05-10
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registered 80 degrees May /.
The vernal eQuinoctial gale was iste
in visiting California this year.
Since last October, 1000. 600 fruit
trees have been planted in Georgia
A Kansas edleor has been fined
$1,000 for calling a politician a thief
An epidemic of typhus fever is
spreading rapidly at City II Mexico.
Considerable money is lstely being
invested in Mexican mining proper.
ties
Japan is suffering from a plague Of
rats. and New Jersey from one oil
cats
The German Emperor has fad fol
collecting boots and shoes of famous
people.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has
decided to tax the cigarette out OF
existence.
II Is reported that Buffalo Bill is
about to be installed as the president
OF a college
Modern Improvements in artillery
have revolutionized the status OF
many fortresses.
Arkansas has imposed a tax upor
men who patronize saloons as well as
upon the saloons.
The old frigate Minnesota is to be
turned over TO Massachusetts by the
avy Department
A Philadelphia minister declares
that the society women OF that town
play poker and drink absinthe.
A protocol renewing diplomatic re
lations between France and Venezu
ella is reported to have been signed.
United States Treasury official:
have estimated the national debts Of
the world at total of s31 900, 000, 900
The hello girl is no more in Paris
She must answer the telephone cal
hereafter with polite Il hear you.
1t is persistently reported that Their,
has been fresh fighting between tn,
Russians and the Chinese in Manchu
ria.
The reported separation of the Duk,
and Duchess OF Marlborough seems
to have been another yellow journa
fake.
According to statistics just publish
ed the population of Greenland at tn
end of 1899 numbered STA males an,
$500 females
Richmond, Va, has new anti
MASKING" law which directs loiterer
on the street to dispense at the orde
of policeman.
The voluntary offerings of the es
tablished church of England during
the past year amounted to f7,771 ,00
or about s39.000,000.
William F. Davidson, well-knowl
civil engineer who assisted in layinl
out the route of the Union Pacifi
Railroad. died May 1.
Captain ]. NJ. Forsyth has been de
tached from the Indiana at Leagu
island and ordered to Mare island a
Captain of the navy yard.
The Appellate Court of Illinois ha
seriously decided that it is not re
| versible error for an attorney to ca
a witness in a case liar.
| 1t has been officially announce,
that owing to the mourning for tn
late Queen no drawing rooms or lt
wees win be held this year.
An unofficial statement from Wash
ington represents that the census o
last year shows colored population
of $500 600 in the United States.
It is rumored that the Chicago an
Northwestern Railroad is about {.
lease the Union Pacific under q guar
antee to pay 6 per cent on its stoci
| The later petroleum discoveries Il
California have revived interest II
the mineral oil indications in tn
neighboring county OF Contra Costa
The Sultan is said to have sent
sharp note" to Bulgaria demanding
the immediate dissolution of the Ma
cedonian Committee in that country
It Is said that the New York Stat
tax rate this year is lower than at an,
time since 1854. when it was rs of
mill on the dollar: now il is 1.2 mills
| Il Is. said to have cost the lat
Queen Victoria $500 a year to pa
bounties to women who gave brit
TO triplets. Each triplet received $;
The original establishment founde
by the house of Rothschild at FRANK
Ifort-on-the-Main is to be closed an
its business transferred to a Berii
bank
The Cuban Commissioners appea
to have received no encouragement
from the President in regard to a N
duction of duties on sugar and ts
hacco.
1 Mining men are beginning to tax
"a lively interest In San Diego count,
as they are doing elsewhere. In Ii
great masses of iov-grade ore exisi
ing there.
| A dispatch from San Juan. Port
fRico. states that it Is reported Their
that the American Sugar Refinery
getting options on large estates I
the island
A new method Of blasting vithou
report or shock hiss been devised.
/ consists NJ SrSs charging the hole