Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-05-16
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clared by Thomas f. Ryan before the
special grand jury which investigated
the Metropolitan Street railroad In
New York.
Stanford university junior class an
nual. the 1909 quad" cleverly criu.
cises the faculty.
DR.. Julius Goebel. former Stanford
| professor and critic of Roosevelt's
book. given high position in Illinois.
United States will not submit to
arbitration in matter of Columbia
claim.
Republican caucus of house com
mits itself to principle of CONNER
! cial paper as an asset In time OF EN-
Urgency.
Senate passes bill restricting the
hours Of child labor In District OF
/ Columbia,
When visited by Mayor Taylor and
reception committee Admiral Evans
! talks of need of battlcships In the
! Pacific.
Beacons on every hill light the
course of the battleships up the coast
| to the welcome waiting at the Golden
Gate.
! Anna Matthews, is years old, after
vainly trying heroic rescue of the
others, is the sole survivor of fami.
ly Of five as the result Of prairie
fire which destroyed their home In
Battleford, Saskatchewan.
General army orders issued at
Washington, d. c.. decreed that here.
after no man less than feet inches
in height or victim of couor blind
ness shall be appointed as an officer
from civil life.
Il is reported at Washington that
President Roosevelt Is planning a
hunt for big game In South Africa
! next year.
Rufus b. Cowing, formerly judge
of the Court Of General Sessions In
New York, says insane slayers should
be forced to take the stand in their
own defense and that the court
should pay experts.
Mrs. Hetty Green, who probably
has transacted more business than
any other woman, said she had never
used a telephone.
A mo tip" barber shop, which
started out in New York on magni.
ficent scale, has been forced to re-
turn to the old gratuity system.
A sensation was sprung at the sub
marine investigation In Washington
when an affidavit by Fred Whitney
was read confessing he had written
! the anonymous letters that have fig
ured in the inquiry. Whitney former
ly was attorney for the Lake Boat
company.
The head OF Mrs. Belle Guinness
the Laport Und) woman. who will
n her three children persisted In he
burning home, cannot be found. TIL
s ruins of the house were searched TO
it in vain. Ray Lamphere Is hell
S charged with having started the fire
Il The state department at Washing
ton will ask Ambassador Leishmal
+ to explain why he endeavored to in
$ duce Mrs. Bernard Warkintin Of Kan
sas to sign paper releasing thu
}. Turkish prince who accidentally sho
her husband on railroad train nea
e Damascus.
r John ID. Rockefeller has refused L
r buy for $500 a sword sent him by
young woman in England with tn
i information that the weapon wa
n carried by soldier in Cromwell
famous "Ironsides" troopers and ha
O. been buried $50 years near a church
II II am a man of peace" he said, "an
have no use for sword"
n Because the evidence was mostl
" circumstantial a jury at Canon Cit,
h Col, recommended life imprisor
. ment at hard labor of Anton Bavarii
a. convicted Of quadruple murder. Thi
IS was the extreme penalty provided 1
such cases by new state law.
IS Bishop Henry c. Potter, accordin
+. to a dispatch from New York, Is S
It seriously III that he has been force
S. to abandon participation in the affair
d Of his episcopal diocese.
& Robert Caldwell, the man wante
in England for alleged perjury In tn
IS famous bruce case, who is In the cit
d insane asylum in New York, Is NJ
expected to live.
Of The Norwegian cabinet accepte
to the resignation OF Fridjof Nansel
q. minister to Great Britain. DR.. MAJ