The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-10
EASTERN NEWS.
Originating East of the Mississippi
RiVer.)

Originating East of the Mississippi I.
River)
The Presidential preference pri- |
mary bill for Illinois has been signed /.
by the governor.
DR. Harvey w. Wiley has closed /.
the contract to give 100 lectures next
season. The tour will extend from
Maine to California
Over $4,000 mine workers in the |.
East have gone on strike The
bituminous coal men instead of strik-
ing with the anthracite workers have
adopted a peace compact
A Russian boy, sixteen years old,
who came to Boston from his native
country last September, has already
become a junior in the high school
and is able to speak five languages
including almost perfect English.
A crazy Pole, with a club and muir
deruus intent, awaited Roosevelt at
the station at Waukesha, Wis, but as
the Colonels train did not pass
through that city, his life was spared,
1t is reported that Miss Katherine
Elkins recently sent a 5000 talking
machine to the Duke D'Abruzzi with
several records of Miss Elkns' voice
along with songs by the opera stars.
! Two artists died in their respective
studies in New York, oversome. by
escaping gas.
William Watson Mcintyre. former
Congressman and prominent Repub-
lican, died of apoplexy in Baltimore.
With the addition of the four SEN
ators from the new states, the Senate
will have ninety-four members-fifty-
one Republicans and forty-three Dem
ocrats.
A group of Southern bankers has
rendered loan of $1OOOO,OOO to Hon
duras for the refunding of the foreign
debt
AS result of the mysterious cruise
of the West Virginia from Honolulu
last winter, Rear Admiral Souther-
land has reported that Palmyra Is
lands over which Great Britain is
claiming sovereignty, bears no sur
face object which would entitle her
to such claim. The island was pro-
claimed part of Hawaii in 1882.
1f,,n ~ 80
mill operatives is anticipated through
out New England. big strike has
been averted at New Bedford by the
agreement of the manufacturers to
raise the wages.
Colonel Roosevelt has returned 70
Oyster Bay after his trip through the
Central states. He claims to be thor
oughly satisfied with the trip and ex.
poets big results.
Over 100000 coal miners are on
) strike. 1t is expected that a settle
ment will soon be made with the bi
5 luminous workers, but the anthracite
workers may remain out for some
f weeks.
e All but two of the courthouse assas
sins of Hillsville, Va, have been cap
n tured and bloodhounds are on The
;, trail of the two still at large.
+ Senator Robert Love Taylor of Ten
nessee, known and loved Throughout
= the South as ''Fiddling Bob" died il
/ Washington, unable to stand thu
/, shock of a recent operation.
+ George w, Baker, one of six claim
ants to the very material fortune lief
d by Mary Baker Eddy, the Christian
r Science leader, has withdrawn from
}, the fight, having himself accepted {
+ material settlement.
By a vote of 1S9 to 92 the House
passed the Underwood bill revisinl
y the WOOL schedule of the Payne
f. Alduch tariff law
D Roosevelt has left for speechmal5
. ing tour through the solid South
General Frederick Dent Grant i.
b seriously i'll in Washington. 1t is
D feared he has the same throat trouble
3 that killed his father, General Grant