The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-05-03

George 4 Phillips Of Chicago
Is Just nov closing successful corn
l speculation IN which he IS repUred 10
have made = large sun Of money.
Charles B Shanks is in Ogden.
Utah. arranging for his forthcoming
! trip from San Francisco 10 New York
By automobile with Alexander WInton
New York PHYSICIANS are finding IT
necessary to organize q protective as
sociation 10 eomoat malpractice suits
instituted for blackmailing purposes
A Philadelphia doctor who charg-
i ed $50 an hour for his professional
services while caring for the late
State Senator Chris Magee Of Pennsyi-
vania-
| The bodies of the five murdered chill
| dren of the farmer named Briere. who
were killed on April 21st were inferred
at Charters, France, in q common
grave
The latest reports show that from
| $50 TO 200 men were drowned or killed
| at the time of the wreck of the Turk
ish transport Asian. near Yembo, re-
Gently.
The treasury officials at Washington
| are said to be much concerned in re-
gard to the recklessness with which
spectators are now operating in Wall
street
Dispatches from St. Petersburg to
the London Mail state that Chinese ar
mics have broken loose again in Man
churia and are making trouble for the
| Russians.
War is on, it is declared, among
the heirs of Col P. Huntington for
| $20, 100000 which the estate has earned
since the railroad magnate's death on
| August 14th last
Portland is TO furnish ten Oregon
spruce spars for the Belmont syndi-
| cate yachts. one of which will repre-
| sent America in the international
yacht race in August
The French Government is to have
an official residence erected in Wash
| ington on a two-acre tract located on
a high knoll commanding a fine view
OF the national Capitol.
The New York Legislature has abol-
ished the common law marriage, which
merely required man and woman to
live together as husband and wife to
| constitute valid union.
The postofice department has made
new rule regarding rural free deliv-
cry, to the effect that it will be con-
tinued only in those districts where
good roads have been built
There are strong indications that
| the Japanese Government purposes
putting itself at the head of the re-
form movement in China in order to
overthrow the Manchu dynasty.
As the result of the outbreak of
the Beaumont, Tex, oil gusher, 100
companies with combined capital of
| S2S,537. 900 have been organized to
develop the States oil resources.
Twelve million marks is to be spent
by the governments of Baden, Bavaria
and Alsace-Lorraine this year on the
| improvement of the navigation of the
Rhine below tue city of Strasburg.
The vital statistics of Massachusetts
! show a big excess in the deaths of
those of native parentage over the
births, while the births from foreign
born parents greatly exceed deaths.
An amendment admitting women to
seats defeated proposed new consti-
tuition for the Methodist Episcopal gen.
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| majority of 81 in total vote of 213.
Russia is awakening to the uses of
| electricity. Various cities. from Odes-
sa on the Black Sea to Vladivestoek
on the Pacific are inviting estimates
in trolley systems and electric light
ing.
The British war loan of $500 900 GOO
is said to have been subscribed five
| times over. and it is stated that $780,
100000, or one-sixth of the amount,
will be allotted to American subscrib-
ers.
An Aspen, Col, dispatch reports the
discovery in one of the mines in that
neighborhood of a vein of cadmium.
This is a mineral which is so rare that
it is practically unknown TO most min
ers.
The manufacture of illustrated post
al cards in Germany is a productive
industry. 1t is said that the Govern
ment derived last year daily income
of s15,S45 from this source alone last
year.
The will of Oswald Ottendorfer. late
editor of the New York Staats-Zeitung,
was unique in that it left the generous
legacy of $4,000 to be distributed
equitably among the employees of the
paper.
1t has been determined to increase
the regular Army to approximately
$4,000 men, and to leave it at that
number unless conditions in the Phil
ippines should make more troops ne
cessary.
The tremendous slaughter of pige-
ons in recent shooting matches in New
York has set tie ball moving in the
State Legislature for the passage of
an act prohibiting pigeon shooting
matches.
It is impossible to estimate. except
vaguely. the number of railroad ties in
use in the United States, but a single
road. the New York Central. has re-
placed 100000 old ties with new ones
last year.
The acquisition of the Burlington
lines by the two northern transconti-
mental railroads has made decided
change in the relations hitherto exist
ing among our great transportation
companies.
Since Aguinaldo gave his adhesion
TO the sovereignty of the United States
he has devoted himself TO the work of