The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-03-14

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provement-
The cartmen connected with the
Havana custom house have refused 70
haul freight from the steamer Moro
Castle. but the dock lahore-s' strike
IS not ret general
Mrs. Frank Leslie nov subscTibes
herself ia Bzronne de Bazus- This
is the way she was booked on the
steamer Maria Teresa which Is car
ring her to Rome
The workingman's Publishing As
ISOLATION. publishers and distributors
OF literature on economic questions
a. New York. have assigned for the
benefit Of creditors
The Treasury Department has Is
ed a warrant in favor Of Admiral
G gorge Dewey for 50 $40 OF account OF
prize money found to be due him from
the Court OF Claims
II Is stated that negotiations are
( proceeding between the steel trust
and the German Wire NAH Associs-
ton. aiming at an agreement upon
p-ices in competition
Groaf & Co. who have silk hat
band factory in Paterson. y. J.. have
granted % per cent increase in
wages 20 avoid a threatened strike
among their weavers.
The census returns show that the
city OF Bombay. india. has 10000 in
hshirants. q decrease of over 50 900
~ ten years. mainly due TO the exc
DIS on account of the plague.
The Rio Grande Western viii in
al probability pass into the control
o. the railway magnates headed by
Gould. Rockefeller and Hartman
within the next thirty days.
a London physician recently OBJ
tanned an award Of $500 from jury
as compensation for damages from
vibration caused by the trains Of the
Central Underground Railway.
The Illinois Electrical Vehicle Com
pany's automobiles at Chicago, are
again running The strike of the Oper-
ators declared some time ago has been
settled in favor OF the strikers.
/ in Shan Tung province. Governor
Yuan has annulled the recantation
pledged of native converts. In the
province are 10000 Roman Catholic
converts and $1,000 Protestant ma
tives
f. n Fitzhugh, vice-president and
! general manager of the Central Yer
mont Railroad. will. according to most
/ reliable sources. accept a prominent
position on the Southern Pacific
Railway.
/ Mrs. Myrtle Webster is at the To
peka. Kan, county Jail. charged with
1 killing ner husband. Norman Webster
I March = a razor was the weapon
used Mrs. Webster is thought &c
be insane.
The building occupied by the Fay
! Stocking Company ar Elyria. Ohio
and the Elyria Canning Company was
destroyed by fire March Z Loss $50,
600 One hundred persons are thrown
out of work
Four persons were seriously burned
and eleven others narrowly escaped
/ serious injury by the explosion of a
/ large gasoline lamp in the dining
room of the Hotel Colfax at Colfax
Wash. March 6.
The announcement was made at
Chicago on March 9Th that Honore
Palmer. son of Potter Palmer and the
! heir to a S50.000.000 estate, is after
the Democratic nomination for alder
man in the Twenty-first ward.
The entire German press approves
the motion made in the Reichstag to
erect imperiol armor plate works I'M
less Krupp and the other great manu-
I facturers reduce the price of armor
plate TO the price made to the United
States
/ The St Paul Dispatch says that ].
! j. Hill is likely to enter the field
as a competitor of the steel trust and
that he has secured great tracts OF
( iron-bearing lands in Northern Min
nesota upon winch he will erect iron
smelters.
The organization of the American
Cattle Growers Association was com
/ pleted FEB {. at Denver, Cal. The
/ constitution as adopted permits men
! engaged in raising both cattle and
i sheep. to become members provided
cattle raising is their paramount in
dustry.
! In a number of libel suits against
the British ship Mont Calmly by mule
teers at New Orleans who went to
/ South Africa. the plaintiffs ask dam
ages for bad treatment. unwholesome
| food and refusal of wages by the cap
tain because they declined to join the
British army
The Senate in executive session
March ratified an agreement with
various European powers for the
anendation of the treaty made al
/ BRUSSELS some years ago for the pro
tectIon of industrial property as af
j fected by the registration of patents
/ trade marks. etc
As the result Of a fierce fight be
/ tween the crew of north-bound
i freight train and gang of twenty-five
tramps at Los Bauas. Calf, William
/ Welsh. one of the latter. lies in the
+ branch county hospital with a bullet
wound in the leg and the railroad
men are in the custody of the sheriff.
German Naval Estimates.