The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-04-24
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at Tecumseh, April Z, on VIII John
son, a negro boy who assaulted and
killed Mrs Mary Cuppy, an aged white
woman, a few weeks before.
Joe Wood, sixteen years old, was
sentenced at Camden, N. j., to thirty
years in the State prison for killing
nine-year-old Ethel Nevins on Octo-
Der last, the jury having convicted
him of murder in the second degree.
BY a vote of "a to 20 the New Jersey
House of Representatives passed the
Morgan child labor bill, which has
been fought hard throughout the ses-
sion by the South Jersey glass manu-
featuring industry. It's fate in the
Senate is in doubt.
| Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was on
board the Mauritania from New York
when she touched at Queenstown on
April Z, but he had locked himself in
his stateroom and the door was guard
/ ed by a steward, with orders to stop all
reporters.
! The Florence correspondent of the
Berliner zeitung says that the former
Countess Montignoso, formerly Crown
| Princess of Saxony, has left her hus-
band, Signor Toselli, and is determin-
ed to obtain a divorce that she may
marry the latest object of her affec-
lions, a young Italian author.
Three thousand Pc sh residents OF
the Wyoming Valley Pa, met and
adopted resolutions of protest against
the Prussian Governments treatment
OF their brethren III German Poland.
One of the prominent speeches was
made by ex-Congressman Henry w.
Palmer. The mass-meeting was at
tended by several of the Judges of the
courts and a number of men of vari-
GUS nationalities prominent in city and
county affairs.
The Methodist church of East AL
bany, Ca, has been torn into factions
by the arrest of Mrs. Spillers, wife OF
the pastor, who administered a whip
ping to Mrs. Kirkman and her four
teen-year-old boy, wife and son of one
of the leading members of the church.
The row was over a COW of the Kirk
: mans which had got loose and browsed
| on the parsons lawn.
Representative Sims, of Tennessee,
in an address before the Baltimore an
: nual conference of the Methodist
, he had little hope of having his bill
} providing for prohibition in the Dis
t trict of Columbia passed at this session
S of Congress.
0 Every ship in Admiral Evans fleet
: las beaten its former record by gooC
E margin" This announcement wa'
made by Lieut.. H. d. White, on arriv
ing at San Diego from Magdalena Ba!
on the naval collier Ajax. He is OF
= his way to Washington to make a re
port on the fleets work, having beel
sent to Magdalena Bay for that pur
q pose. -
. The Insular Bureau of the War De
y partment on April was informed o
= the death at Long Beach, Cal, of Ed
win c. Jones, assistant director o
printing at Manila, who had com
home for the benefit of his health. HI
had been slated for appointment a
. chief of the Philippine Printing Offic
, to succeed John S. Leech, who ha
: been appointed Public Printer a
L Washington.
! Owing to the publicity given to
= letter written by Senator Berger call
= ing the attention of the police to tn
T fact that undraped women were ap
,;CrI, hn Of ,.iD
q music halls, all of these places did
e roaring business tonight, Paris dis
n patch of April says. The crowd
# were disappointed, for early in the ev
/ ening the police visited these halls an,
/ ordered that all obnoxious turns b
e suppressed.
/ A decided return to prosperity ha
e come to the industrial district at Pitts
h burg, as was made apparent when Ger
tain railroad figures became public
few days ago. The Baltimore an
Ohio figures for March show an in
lie crease of 51a per cent over the figure
la of February, and also show that tn
10 month of March this year was only
A. per cent behind February of last yea
which was the banner year in railroa
% business of the country as well as /
If the Pittsburg district.
E. At the closing session of the Ne
# York conference of the Methods
Ig Episcopal church in New York u
70 Rev. F. C. Inglehart told today of tn
20 advance of the prohibition movemen
% especially in the South. "Seventee
20 million of the 100000 people in tn
- IA Southern States have already on
10 lawed the saloon. There were 5000
:, 900 people in dry territory in 100
-. and today the number has increase
- to 36,OO0,OOO. / am glad the Cover
- ment is taking no backward step. III
canteen is gone from the army al
despite what the generals and othe
say, l can assure you tnat there will
no return to it,"
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