The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-24
EASTERN NEWS.

sident's cabinet in order to enter bust.
ness in New York at a salary Of S25,.
600 year.
A riot marked the Republican state
convention at Bay City, Michigan,
when both the Taft and Roosevelt
parties claimed the delegates.> State
militia was called upon to preserve
order.
President Taft, speaking before the
Union League club of New York,
claimed that recall agitations were
almost always the work of dema-
gogues insufTiciently informed, or Of
cranks who believe any conditions 70
be more desirable than those already
existing.
The Democrats of New York state
have chosen a delegation of 80 to rep
resent them at the national conven-
ton. The delegates are uninstructed
but bound by the unit rule.
Congressman W. r. Mckinley, ma
tional director of Tafts campaign,
has issued a statement holly de-
nouncing the newspaper story which
claimed that Taft would retire from
the race in favor Of a compromise
candidate.
New York working girls will be in
structed in jiu jitsu for the purpose of
self defense. The movement is fin
anced by Miss Anne Morgan, daugh-
ter of ]. p Morgan, round sum hav-
ing already been "jiu iitsued" out of
her.
The case of Frederick Beach, mil
lionaire society man, who is suspect
ed of slashing his wife's throat at
Aiken, S. c., is arousing society to
his defense and the Aikenites to the
protection of their reputation. Beach
accused an unknown negro of the as
sault.
1t is said that j. ]. Hill has pur.
chased two miles of lake front near
Port William, Ont, where will be
erected steel works ana furnaces, and
which may serve as a terminus for a
new railroad through Western Can
ada.
The House steel investigating com
mittee has received the report from
en- ore mining expert to the effect
that 100000 tons of iron ore are
valuable in the Lake Superior re-
gion, of which amount one-third is
controlled by the United States Steel
Corporation.
Miss Clara Barton, the Florence
Nightingale of America and founder
of the Red Cross, has just died ut
her home in Maryland, at the age
of ninety years. She had not COM
pleted her autobiography, but the
work will be carried on by her
nephew.
George F. Marsh, a wealthy manu-
facturer of Lynn, Mass, was found
dead on a boulevard near that city
The police believe that he was muir
dered while riding in an automobile,
A monument to the honor of the
confederate women of South Carolina
was unveiled at Columbia, S. c..
One thousand postoffices of the
fourth class are to be designated pos
tai savings depositaries on May LIST.
Eventually practically all Offices han
ding money orders will be made saw
ings depositaries,
Benjamin Gatins, a young New
York broker, eloped with Miss Dor
othy Waters, prominent society girl
Of that city.
An appropriation bill for $1OO,7OO,-
600 for maintenance of the navy dur
ing the coming year will be report
ed by the house naval affairs com
mittee. This does not include the
cost of construction of new vessels.
The new automatic pistol is to re.
place the revolver in the regular
army. The national guard will receive
the new weapons shortly, but it will
be a year before the entire army is
supplied.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
denied the report that he will resign
from the cabinet.
A movement is a-foot to unite all
the mechanical trades on the rail
roads for the purpose of concerted &C
ton when differences arise between
the shopmen and the railroads.
The Daughters of the American
Revolution are holding their twenty
first national congress in Washington
At the annual meeting Of the Iii
nois State Bar association to be helC
in Chicago this month, the question
of the judicial recall will be discuss
ed by representative lawyers from
forty states.
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