The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-06-27
the people against him and they are
now in a fair way to turn him out of
office.
EASTERN NEWS.

The government has seized the
gunboat Hornet which was purchased
by private parties at New Orleans
and which was fitted out for a revo-
lutionary attack on the government
of Honduras.
Colonel Krag, inventor Of the Krag-
Jorgenson gun, has invented a rife |
even more deadly than the gun now
used by the United States forces,
which has an effective range of five |
miles.
A Belgian couple who have spent !
twenty-one years in America, during
which the husband accumulated a
small fortune as a glass worker, have
now returned to Belgium with TWEEN
ty.four children, all born in this coun-
try.
Cardinal Gibbons says: Il think the
place for woman is in the home.
Women should not want to vote, but
if they took proper interest in affairs
of their husbands and brothers they
could easily have them cast their bal
lots in the right manner"
There are only 400 women students
out of 5000 at Cornell, but this year
women took the two highest prizes
in commencement awards, and four
of the ten honor graduates were
women.
More than 1000 bids have been re-
ceived for the governments $5O,OOO,-
600 issue of three per cent Panama
bonds.
Life insurance organizations of the
United States and Canada distributed
in the year 1910 over $55O,OOO,OOO.
New insurance to the amount of
$4,000, 100000 was written.
Strenuous efforts are being made
by the frieDds of both parties to pre-
vent the elder Drexels of Philadel-
phia continuing in their determine
ton to get a divorce.
Disciples of John Alexander Dowie
have lately been sleeping beside his
grave, believing that he was about to
rise, and smite the backsliders Of
Zion City hip and thigh"
The government is experimenting
with new type of motor wagon,
which if successful will result in its
adoption by the army and the aban-
donment of the old time army mule.
The Panama canal commission has
S placed a contract for 100000
n pounds of dynamite. The price aver
ages about $13 hundred pounds.
y Senator Penrose claims that sixty
e of the agreement with Canada and
g will vote in favor of reciprocity.
l. Harold Vanderbilt had narrow es
cape from death when fast power
# launch he was running caught fire
e from gasoline. The owner jumped
t overheard.
i A great bakers trust has been
: formed in New York City, twenty-one
+ firms being merged into a huge con
Germ with $25,OOO,OOO capital.
g A river steamer burned to the wa
a ters edge near Paducah, KY, and il
5. is thought that the loss of life will be
e heavy.
t 1t is expected that the President
will send a special message to Con
2. gress at once calling for an emery
d ency appropriation to complete the
> protection of the Imperial Valley il
= California from the Colorado Rive
4 floods.
y The postoffice department has Sc
lected fifty more cities in which pos
q tai savings banks will be opened
o This will make a total of 700 posta
r savings banks to be established il
&c this country.
p Members of the University of Cali
o. fornia Glee Club have sailed for Eu
rope from New York The club will
. appear before American colonies il
e most of the big cities of Europe.
|, An exposition bill has been intro
duced in the House providing for tn,
appointment of a Federal committe,
to act in conjunction with the Pana
- ma-Pacific Exposition Company in tn
- building of the 1915 fair.
% Seven submarines are to make
trip of $50 miles under water alonj
- the Atlantic Coast. The vessels will
= enter a port each night for shelter
- and then rise from the depths. 9th
~ erwise they will travel submerged.
III Professor Hiram Corson, of Cornell
I'll University, is dead He was famou
as the best American Interpreter o
ie Shakespeare and Browning.
70 A Chicago judge has held tina
ST thousands of Chicago marriages ar
IN Illegal, because made by justices O
IL the peace who had M i11ricdictiO,, {,