The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-10-13


measure.
Recently the Turkish ministry of pub.
lie works advertised for bids ON conces.
sious for electric tramways and electric
light plants in Adrianople, Adana,
Aleppo and Jerusalem.
The report of Chicago s vice commits
sion can not be sent through the United
States mails, according TO decision
handed down by Acting Assistant At
! torney-General Keyser.
/ Preliminary registration at Columbia
/ University in New York indicates that
/ the number of students enrolled this
year will pass the eight thousand mark,
exceeding more than one thousand the
1 enrolment of any other American uni
versity. n
/ Winning prizes with fancy hens, oil
and water color paintings, specially
baked bread and cleverly fashioned wax
! figures, Mrs. Mary d. Porter of Brock
/ ton, Massachusetts, at eighty-four years
I of age, has made a record at the Wey-
mouth fair.
Two and half million dollars was on
deposit in the postal savings banks of
. tut lulLtl NNAltH On August OIL. utIt
was an increase of 81 100000 during
August It is estimated that the aggre.
gate of deposits September 30 viii be
$4,OOO,O0O
The municipality of Buenos Ayres has
established 4 free market'' to bring
together producer and consumer without
the invertention of middlemen. The
prices charged in this market are in
some cases only one-half those asked il
private markets.
Brother Michael, treasurer of st
Mary's College. Oakland, California, Of
which institution he was formerly presi
dent, and president of the Christian
} Brothers College of Portland Oregon
/ died at Oakland of heart trouble. II,
was ffty-seveu years old and a native
of Cork, Ireland.
The annual report of the Social Dem
oeratic party executive committee il
Berlin, which has just been issued
shows that the Socialists of Germany
have increqse their organized mem
hers by Il6 59I in the course of tn,
yer, to total of s36,562.
i Ensign Charles H. Hovey of Ports
j. mouth, New Hampshire, attached to tn
G United States gunboat Pampanga, wa
killed and three enlisted men of tn
a navy were wounded in an encounte
{ with hostile Yaeans on Basilan Island
one of the Philippine group.
Judges, lawyers and attendants at til
. court of special sessions in New Yor'
uron the recOnvening of court were SUI
pTised TO find that during the summe
> three steel cages for prisoners had bee
placed in the courtroom, 1t is said tina
the CamOrra trial in Italy was respons
HE for the innovations.
A plan to make one hundred acres
wear of public park land out of LAX
Michigan without cost to the city
being considered in Chicago. The schem
suggested is to allow contractors VIII
s cart away ashes, cinders. exeavate
earth and other materials, the privileg
of dumaing the waste in the lake, PR
vided they build retaining walls at the
own expense.
A new idea in campaigning has bee
sprung at New Brunswick, New Jerse
by Thomas +. Burke, one of the eand
dates for sheriff. Burke is an unde
n taker and his automobile hearse has a
!. peared on the street with its sides pl
m carded with admonitions to "vote fl
Thomas r. Burke for sheriff, Democrat
l. nominee"
In sight of thousands of homeWar
" bound shoppers, but unmolested, thr'
d burglars backed up one-horse cart
\. front of 1870 State street in Chicago al
a carried away furs silks, lace, embroi
,e cry and gloves valued at $4,000 from
a store on the second floor. A janitor sa
IA the men carrying ont the goods, b
4 they worked so nonchalantly that he d
I not suspect a robbery until the loss W
,r discovered later by Waterman emplo
" al hu tha stnra