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


against Clarence Fung of the Inter.
national Harvester Company because
the latter testified that Hines "a ked
him for $4,000 to help put Lorimer
over"
The gymnasium director at Wiscon-
sin University announces that fifty.
one per cent of the women Of the
freshmen class are knock.kneed and
thirteen per cent are fatfooted.
A maid in New York hospital put /
oxalic acid in the feeding bottles of .
eight babies, hoping their sick erie
would bother the nurses upon whom
she wished to get revenge. All the
babies died.
The navy department has inaugural. /.
ed a system of daily position reports"
of all naval vessels within the radius
of naval wire less stations. The new
system is expected to be of vast bene.
fit to merchant shipping in case as.
distance is needed.
A $1OOOO,OOO increase in their ex.
penses is involved in the demands Of
locomotive engineers according to the
officials on al railroads east of Chi.
cago.
Donald Mcmillan, Peary's assistant
in the dash for the pole, is to start
for the pole again next July, accom-.
panied by a few of Peary's former
crew. The expedition will be gone at
least two years.
Ernst Thalmann, a well-known New
York banker, died recently in that
city. Thalmann was for many years
president of the United Railways in
vestment company operating in San
Francisco and Pittsburg,
The House. by a vote of 2O7 to s,
has passed a resolution directing the
committee on banking and currency
to institute an immediate and drastic
investigation into the money trust.
The navy department has denied
the report that the men on the Yer
mont mutined against incubation for
typhoid
Japan will hold third place in the
naval powers of the world and Amer
lea will fall back to fourth, says Sec.
rotary Meyer, unless the United States
government assures the construction
of two batt'eshirs a year.
The application of the eight-hour
law has raised the cost of the CON
struction of naval vessels from 10 to
81 per cent.
The Union leaders have reviewed
the demands of the coal miners of
the country preliminary to confer.
ence with the anthracite coal opera
tors.
The government has brought thirty
indictments against the National Cash
Register Company charging conspiracy
to obstruct and monopolize the cash
Register business in violation of the
criminal provisions of the Sherman
antitrust law.
The twenty-year-old daughter of
Governor Woodrow Wilson of New
Jersey is marooned in Mexico on ac-
count of the war between the rebels
and the federal troops.
Lawrence, Mass, textile workers
who tried to send their children to
other towns to excite sympathy for
the strikers, engaged in a pitched bat
tie with the militia when the latter
prevented the children from leaving
/ town.
Mortimer S. Schiff the New York
fnancier, and his attorney may be in
dicted for conspiracy in getting
Schiff's former valet sentenced to jail
for thirty years on false testimony.
The valet, Foulke Brandt, has been
released after serving five years.
The New York police have discov-
cred that a great many taxicab chauf-
feurs are former criminals which ac-
counts for the great increase in auto
mobile robberies.
Columbia University has an attend
ance of more than 5000. The percent
age of growth is higher than that of
any other state university in the coun-
try.
Foodstuffs essential to the table
have increased in cost to the consum-
err in New York approximately % per
cent during the last year.
President Taft has rejected Pc5tmas-
ter General Hitchcock's plan to buy
the telegraph lines of the country, but
approves the proposal to raise rates
on magazines and newspapers to two
cents a pound.
The total loss in HOuston's great
fire was S6,5OOOOO with a total insur-
ance of $4,5OOOOO.
George Washington's declaration
against the third term, was loudly APP
plauded in the House of Represent
atives when the first presidents fare
well address was read.