Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-07-09
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/, in the House OF Commons that the
date for starting the penny-postage
plan between Great Britain and Amer.
lea be changed to July 4, but 1t vas
not adopted on, the ground that Oct. 1
Is the more expedient date.
Count Zeppelin tested new side
stearing gear for his airship at Fried.
richshafen, Germany, remaining in
the air two hours with the airship
under perfect control through all
kinds of maneuvers.
| A report from Vallejo, Calf, says
that all three-pounder guns on the
cruisers and battleships of the At
lantic and Pacific Fleets are to be
dismantled and turned over to naval
stations, six-pounders being mounted
In their places on the ships.
The Russo-Chinese bank. in spite
OF the protest of the Russian Lega-
ton at Pekin, will Immediately with
draw It's branches from that portion
of Manchuria over which Japan exer-
cises It's influence, according to a re-
port from Mukden, China.
I Charles NJ. Phillips, founder of the
Christian Standard, brother of ex-
Congressman Thomas w. Phillips of
/ Newcastle, Pa. and a member of the
firm Of Phillips Bros Company, oil
producers, is dead at Pasadena. Cal.
I Mrs. August p. johnson. wife of a
farmer living near Ida Grove, Iowa,
drowned her four children, the
youngest year old and the Oldest 6,
in a cistern at her home.
/ DR.. Hamilton Fisk Biggar, John ID.
Rockefellers physician, offered to
kiss any woman who would give 800
to the propaganda fund at the Ma
tional Convention of Homeopathists
at Kansas City, Mo, and for the next
half-hour was kept busy kissing wo-
men who subscribed $1,000.
According to the Washington Post,
President Roosevelt has a plan to re-
form the Government of the District
OF Columbia by giving It a single
head, instead of n Board of Commits
sioners. He may ask Congress to au-
thoriZe the change.
Robert W. Perks. who was G. T.
Yerkes' right-hand man in the Lon
don tube" railroad enterprises, has
been made a baronet in the list of
birthday honors.
The steel bridge across the Column
bia river at Vancouver has been com
pleted. 1t is two miles in length, cost
$2,000,000, and is said to be the
longest steel bridge in the world.
William ]. Campbell, chairman OF
the historical sites committee for
Philadelphia founders week, says
the story OF the designing of the
American flag by Betsy Ross is
fake"
| Lawrence Friend, a brakeman. lost
his life at Paris. ILL.,, as he was throw
ing switch which prevented n Big
Four flyer from crashing into
freight train.
A dispatch from Reval reports that
q schoolmistress. ordered by fellow
revolutionists to kill the Gear on his
visit there, committed suicide rather
than obey the order.
Anothony COmstock. head of the
New York Society for the Suppression
OF Vice, says his society will fight the
sheath gown, whether worn by chorus
girls or members of the 400.
young woman III galveston, Tex,
VINO Bl'es her name as Louise Whlt-
ney beimont clark says she Is the
ohiy daush'er OF the late U. IL. L. Bel
mon, ana VIII ME claim TO MS estate.
James B. Forgan of Chicago, ad.
dressing meeting OF bankers at Pc
oria, ILL.,, condemned the proposed plan
10 guarantee bank deposits by law.
wine SteihheiI' WIDOW OF the
rrcnch arist VINO was strangied 10
uea'h May 81 IN Paris. denied that
any pohucai motive was behind the
srihie' one ueniea tnat her husband
nau neiu compromisihg ietters from
pUhinent poh''ciah'
~ H. Johnson. negro VINO last sep.
SmDei nrneu DeputS SiS Marshai
swan AT Wllourtoh' oKia'' reappeared
mere III woman sarD ana killed TWO
took lot pursuers.