The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-05-26
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Both Austria and Germany arc i'm
proving their steamship services /,
China.
Over Eve hundred warships will rep
resent Britain 8 naval power at thu
coronation.
A crusade is being wsged in Ger
many against all kinds of outdoor ad
verttsing signs.
Nine students are quarantined in
tents at the University of Missouri
! two new cases Of smallpox having de
veloped.
Acknowledgement Wickersham will
be the commencement day orator at tn,
graduation exercises of the Yale Law
School, June 10.
Col. w. G. Cummings, a veteran Of
the Civil War and friend and eomradC
of General Custer, died at Kansas City
aged seventy-twO.
Driven by an electric motor, an in,
genious machine has been invented to
paste paper labels on bottles, no mat.
ter what their shape.
The greatest railway shops in Can.
ada outside of Winnipeg will be erect
ed by the Grand Trunk Railway, with.
in few miles of Quebec.
No less than $40 100000 is now paid
annually by the American government
for the travelling expenses Of its Off
Gals in the several branches.
The government has announced its
intention to prosecuting Seattle and
Tacoma census enumerators, who are
alleged to have made fraudulent re.
turns.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad Com.
pany has announced its intention to
erect ten.story office building, cost.
ing $750,000, on Hastings street. Van.
couver.
A fourteen-year- old school boy in
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, has been de-
clared to be leper by the physicians
of the Massachusetts general hospital,
10 which institution he was taken.
ID. Il. Howard. formerly secretary of
the treasury of Liberia, has been elect
ed president of the republic, succeed
ing President Arthur Barclay, whose
term expires with the present year.
The custom of casting roses on the
surface of the Columbia River in mem
DRY of the sailor dead will be observed
by the Women IS Relief Corps of Van.
couver, Washington, on Decoration
Day.
DR.. Wilson L. Gill of Philadelphia,
originator of the "school city," will
install the elf.government system in
the Indian schools, beginning with a
few of the institutions as an expert.
ment.
w. C. S. Gladstone, grandson Of the
great statesman, who is on the staff of
Mr.. Bryce, ambassador at Washington,
will be appointed lord lieutenant of
Flintshire, England, according to au
unofficial report.
DIR. Henry Van Dyke, who resigned
last November as the Murray professor
Of English literature at Princeton Uni
versity, has withdrawn the resignation
at the request of the trustees and will
retain the chair.
Father Vaughan, the famous Roman
Catholic preacher of London, declared
in a recent sermon that "the Mormons
should be taken by the scruff of the
neck, rushed across our island and
dropped into the sea.
During thunderstorms that occurred
throughout Germany recently lightning
killed eight persons in and near Ham
burg, and wrecked a natural gas well
which had been recently capped with
/ lnt greatest
Jamison Bros & Co., bankers and
brokers, announced their insolvency on
the Philadelphia Stock Exchange and
later filed voluntary petition in bank
ruptcy. They say their liabilities are
$54l 1896 and assets $3S5,776.
The wages of the trainmen in the
United States and Canada have been
increased $S7,0O0,O00 in a year, accord.
ing to the report made to the interna-
tional convention of the Brotherhood
Of Railroad Trainmen at Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania.
More than 100000 autos were regis.
tered in the capitals of the various
States of the Union on May 1. New
York leads in the number of registra-
tions with approximately 10000. Penn
sylvania aud California came next,
with 10000 each.
DIR, A. w. Reed and DR.. Robert Jul
liam of Forum, Oklahoma, were killed
when n passenger train crashed into
the automobile in which they were rid
ing. The two men were racing the
train and attemnted to dash across the
track ahead of It,
4" Nonsense, was Colonel Roose.
velt.'s brief response to an inquiry as
to whether he intended to spend the
summer of 19l2--Presidenti year
in hunting polar bears in the Arctic
with Capt. Robert Bartlett, late Of the
Peary polar expedition.
In the face of protests from work
ingmen to the number of more than
81 900, the Seattle City Council passed
a bin prohibiting smoking on street.
cars unless compartments for that pur-
pose are furnished by the companies
operating the cars in the city.
Representative Bartholdt of Missouri
has been selected by President Taft Ia
represent the United States at the pre-
sentatiOn to the German Emperor of O
replica in miniature of the statue OF
Baron Won Steuben, recently unveiled
in Washington. The date has not beer
set.
Samuel S. Koenig, former secretary
of the State of New York, was elected
president of the New York county
committee after an all night fight, tc
succeed Lloyd c. Griscom, lately re
signed, defeating State Senator John
Neweomb. Newcomb represented the
old guard faction.
The Fresno Traffic Association and
the Fresno Chamber Of Commerce in
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