The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-19
7HE WORLDS NEWS Condensed
Especial mail report to Star San Francisco)

beginnings of despotism.'
Because Japan is building a fast
scout cruiser Secretary Of the Navy
Meyer has asked the Committee on
Naval Affairs to recommend the con.
struction of a thirty-knot vessel of
similar construction for the United
/ States
! Miss Bessie Mccoy, dancer, denies
the oft-repeGted rumor that she is to
marry Richard Harding Davis. She
! says that Mr.. Davis is married, which
seems to settle the question for the
time being.
San Francisco suffragettes demand
ed their share of positions in the tax
collectors office. When refused they
threatened to make trouble at the next
election.
Samuel Winterton of New Jersey
hasn't missed attendance at the First
Baptist Sunday school of Keyport in
fifty years. The church is preparing
to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary Of
his loyal membership.
After four years of fighting with an
unpopular student affairs committee
the Stanford University men will be
permitted self-government. The wom-
en- were allowed control of their I'M
dergraduate affairs last fall
General Jules Coicou, the former
} milf 90 10 h,,-
demned to death. In 1908 he betray-
ed his three brothers to the govern
ment and personally superintended
their execution.
This years crop of coffee in San
Salvatore, South America will fall
short 100000 quintals.
e An automatic Thanking machine
e which will do away with the need for
stamp is being tried out in the Lon
don postoffice. A penny dropped in
a slot causes the machine to register
frank on the letter
The Czarna has had another break
T. down in health, and her general con-
dtion is the cause of grave anxiety
f Herr Hoffman, a German aviator,
= took up four passengers in a mono
= plane and kept them aloft over half
5 an hour, This establishes new
l worlds record.
, The new 9OO-ft. liner Titanic will
make her maiden trip, running be
q tween Southampton and New York
4 next April.
s The socialists of Oakland, Cal, are
J.. taking steps to recall Mayor Mott anC
the entire city administration.
> A fifty-mile gale in Southern Cali
q fornia did thousands of dollars wortl
= of damage at the beach resorts.
An incendiary caused fire los
, of $4,000 at Kenneth, Cal.
1t has been found that the Panama
canal bill relating to the railroad con
troll of steamships contains a joker
it being pointed out that railroad-owr
: ed ships will be able to seize mono
=, poly.
y, The steamer YOSEMITE, loaded wit
lumber, bound for San Diego, brok
~ her propeller-shaft and was picked u
- by another steamer.
=" Seven men from Lowell, Mass, ar
to start a two-years' horseback tri
u which will take them clear around tn
q United States.
IL Talcott Williams, editor of the Phi
IL oil hoe hann annnintp
director of the new school of iourna
Id ism at Columbia University, recent
+ endowed by Pulitzer
The end Of the Lawrence, Mass
strike is in sight, a small advance /
lie wages being assured. The financii
IS losses for both sides during the strik
will aggregate over $2,6O0,0O0.
ia Sugar refining companies of Phili
IN delphia owe the government $4,000
ed in duties wrongfully withheld TIL
n government is to start proceeding
NJ unless the amount is paid forthwith
American cyclists have raised 500
lie of the necessary $4,000 to send tea
is to Stockholm 10 participate in II
ne Olmpic games.
at King George of England has take
m out a patent for a coal-saving rams
or which he recently perfected.
al. Sir Thomas Upton, the most elusi'
nv bachelor in Europe, is said to ha'
ar fallen in love with Miss Ruth Boe
- scher of Denver. She has demands
that Sir Thomas do something b
sides make money before she sa
IN yes.
~. ~ 1t is said that Germany has enter'
~ into negotiations with the governme
-, of Colombia to secure harbors on Il
va Atlantic coast to Columbia with
Ivy striking distance of the northern G
ss' trance of the Panama canal.
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