The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-05
LATEST NEWS BULLETIN.
News Originating on the Day Il

News Originating on the Day the
Steamer Sailed)
Except for u handful of revolutions
lists on the northwestern border of
the country, peace regins throughout 1
San Domingo.
The New York grand jury has de-
cided that Mortimer l.. Schiff, the
millionaire banker, did not conspire
to send his former valet, Foulke
Brandt, to Jail for thirty years.
San Francisco carried its bond cleo
ton, which would provide $S,0O0,O0O
for civic building improvements, by
vote of IL to /.
All the mobile American army is
going to the Mexican border shortly,
according to reports, the government
believing that an attack on the City
of Mexico is imminent, and that this
fight will be the signal for anarchy
to break out throughout Mexico.
So critical has the Mexican situa-
ton become that the government is
making arrangements with steamship
companies for the quick transporta-
ton of troops when this becomes nee
essary.
California ranks first in the total
deposits in the postal savings banks
and has greater average deposits than
any state in the Union,
The Michigan House by a vote OF
IS to 10 has passed a bill which will
enable the people to vote this fall on
whether or not woman suffrage will
prevail in that state.
Miss Helen Gould, the sister of the
railroad Goulds, and herself a phil
anthropist, is visiting in San Fran
cisco.
A Seattle woman advertised for
man to come to her home and help
her handle her husband, who was
wife-beater Eight men applied. The
one she selected trimmed her hus-
band so beautifully that the wife
raised the fee from IS to $40 and
took his address for future use.
Every one of the children of Kan
sas pays an average of 76 cents a
! year for school books.
George HORNE of Stanford Univer-
sity broke the worlds record for high
jumping, which has stood unbroken
for seventeen years, by going over
a bar feet 61s inches high.
Mrs. Rose Hughes, widow of Captain
Walter Hughes of the navy, attempt
ed to commit suicide in New York in
the home of her sister, who is the
daughter-in-law of Thomas Fitch, 'the
silver-tongued orator of the Golden
West" who was once Honolulu at
torney.
Roosevelt has thrown himself into
the Minnesota fight in an effort to get
Presidential preferential primaries in
that state.
Rudolph Spreckels, a leader among
the progressives, has bitterly attacked
those in California who have deserted
La Toilette and climbed on the Roose-
welt band wagon. And in turn he is
being attacked considerably himself.
Two 'honor" convicts in Oregon
have escaped from Governor Vests
honor" gang and are speeding for
parts unknown.
Warden Reilly of Folsom prison is
slated to lose his job because of lax
discipline, because Of employing in
competents, and because he allows
convicts to be tortured.
The Palmer Oil Company Of Califor'
MIA has been sold to an English syn
dictate for $1O,000,000.
A San Francisco bank clerk has
been arrested for highway robbery
He added to his salary by holding VI
= citizens after dark.
The citizens of San Francisco by
a vote of 2 to 1, have declared fol
municipal ownership of a telephone
service. This is a condemnation Of
the attempt to merge the Home ant
Pacific telephone companies.
The New York Assembly defeated
by a vote of 50 to g. bill to submit
the question of woman suffrage t.
the people.
Youngs famous ocean pier at Allan
tic City was practically destroyed b!
fire at loss of 100000.
Senator Robert L. Taylor OF Ten
d nessee is believed to be on the verg'
of death.
= GENERAL NEWS OF
MARCH % AND 2