The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-03
EASTERN NEWS.

nave perlSned.
Five young negroes are to be hung
at the same time in Oklahoma for the
murder of a white man.
Former Mayor Mcclellan of New
York has accepted the chair of pub
. lie affairs at Princeton University.
The sum of $4,000 has been raised to
endow the chair.
Mrs. Serene Payne, wife of the au-
thor Of the Tariff Law, is dead She
. succumbed to heart disease.
Delegates from all over the coun-
try are assembling in Washington to
attend the Child Welfare Congress
to be held under the auspices of the
National Congress of Mothers.
= Professor Carney of the geological
department of Dennison University
declares that it will be but short
period of time before Niagara Falls
will be gone and the Great Lakes will
disappear.
I Senator La Toilette has introduced
a resolution which will revive the
entire Alaska coal controversy.
/ Revised railroad statistics gather
ed by the railroads show that $4,000
colonists came from beyond the
Rockies to Western States during the
thirty days colonist rates were in eff
feet. Most of the travellers came TO
the far Western States.
! Senator Bourne of Oregon heads
the Senate Committee on Postoffices.
Taft did not favor the matter, as
Bourne is a foe to Hitchcock, postmas-
ter-general.
j 1t is reported that Judge E. H. Gary
is to quit the Steel Trust Board and
be succeeded by practical steel man.
ufacturer. 1t is felt that legal head
is no longer needed by the company,
and keen competition makes a prac-
tical head imperative.
! Creditors of the late John AleXan-
der Dowie were paid final dividend
of 2.S per cent of their claim A prior
dividend of 1O.5 per cent had been
paid.
The 1909 pool of the Burley Tobac-
co Society, amounting to $2,6Ol,OOO is
to be divided among farmers in Ohio,
Indiana and Kentucky.
The Wisconsin Senate has adopted
a resolution favoring an amendment
to the Constitution providing for the
recall of all state officers save the jul
dietary.
A bomb exploded under a Chica-
go liquor house injured a score of peo-
pie, and it is thought killed three
others. The explosion wrecked the
building.
A steamer has arrived in New York
from Port Antonio with 41,OOO bunch
es of bananas, the largest cargo of
it's kind ever received at Eastern
ports.
Edna Goodrich, formerly Mrs. Nat
Goodwin, No. 4, has written a book
THE Denyard Divorce" She draws
upon her own experiences, but re-
verses the situation.
Caruso has ordered a solid silver
bust of himself, which he will give
as a votive offering to an Italian
saint-whose miraculous power Car
uso believes will be used to remedy
his throat trouble.
The Thaw family have made heavy
purchases of remote farm land in New
Hampshire, and it is rumored that
Harry X. Thaw of the famous Thaw
trial is shortly to be released from
Matteawan and will live in seclusion
on the newly bought farm.
Governor Eberhart of Minnesota
has signed bill providing for the di- 1
rect nomination of United States
Senators by the direct vote of the
people.
Yale University has put an end to
the "snobbery of wealth" Next fall
all classes will have rooms on the
campus, and the private expensive
flats viii be done away with. It IS
thought this will strengthen the old
Yale spirit
Frederick Townsend Martin, the New
York millionaire who has taken ND the
mission of reform, and who began
with an effort entitled "The Passing
of the Idle Rich" is to publish a real
book on my Personal Experience
With Snobs."
Henry r. Huntington, of Los An
geles, has purchased the Gutenberg
bible, the first book ever printed from
movable type. The book was sold at
the auction of the Henry Hoe library
and brought $4,000
Captain John Bower. superintend- |