The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-02

The introduction Of the wool bin In
the House of Representatives will de-.
lay the consideration Of the free tolls
bill with reference to the canal. The
delay it is expected will enable those
in favor to gain many adhereuts to
free tolls for American shipping using
the Panama canal
The fastest dreadnought in the
American navy and probably in the
world is the new battleship Florida,
which made 22.54 knots on her trial
run.
The Countess of Warwick, who
came to this country recently to make
an extended lecture tour on Social
ISM" suddenly abandoned her plans
and returned hurriedly to England.
She said business called her and she
would return to America later.
The Pulitzer School of Journalism
at Columbia University will accept
anyone of ability whatever his pre-
liminary school training A college
degree is not necessary to take the
course.
| Chicago is soon to have a hippo
drome with a seating capacity of 6lOO.
1t will be the largest auditorium used
exclusively as a theater in America.
A baby thrown out of four-story
window by a frantic mother caught
in a fire at Auburn, Me, was caught
by a spectator in the street below.
The baby was not injured in any
way.
Theodore Roosevelt has received
many threatening letters recently
from cranks who object evidently to
his third term" explanations.
The Maine legislature defeated the
proposed amendment to the constitu-
ton to allow local option on the liq-
uor question. The Democratic major.
ity failed to muster the two-thirds
vote to pass the amendment
The Santa Fe Railroad has appro
J priated $22,7OO,OOO for improvements
during the coming year Double
tracking the coast lines will cost
| $2,OOO,OOO.
The Salvation Army has started g
movement to locate poor families o.
, St. Paul and Minneapolis on forty-acrt
farms in Northern Minnesota. Those
placed on similar farms in California
and Ohio have made good.
The fifty Eastern railroads upor
which the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers made demands for a gen
eral salary raise have refused to ac
cede to the demands. A strike is il
prospect.
The now famous Allen band of Vir
ginia murderers have been surround
t ednn by the police ad will probably
A be starved out and forced to surren
, der
+ The ashes of George Fuller Colder
! an eminent American actor. WHIT
7 founded the White Rats Association
of actors, were thrown from tn,
= Statue OF Liberty in New York har
p Dor, in accordance with his dying re
quest.
Governor Deneen has called a spe
cial session of the Illinois Legislature
. to enact a preferential presidential
, primary bill
Six Taft and two Roosevelt dele
gates to the Chicago convention wer'
bhosen in Indiana recently.
A suffragette at a New York politi
cal meeting interrupted Roosevelt t,
demand his views on woman suffrag
which she denounced as not beini
ION the square. The crowd hoote'
and the woman finally had to be car
ried from the hall bodily by a police
: man.
Mrs. Belva Lockwood, twice a car
i didate for the presidential chair, ar
nounces that Mrs. o. H. p. Belmon
I should be elected president of tn
United States.
j A stock dividend of 290O per CEN
e the largest ever paid by a corpora
d ton within the memory of Wal
e street, has just been declared by tn
s Standard Oil Company of Indiana
s Stock in this company jumped fror
$1,000 to $4,000 a share in fey
= weeks.
S John s. De Mont Molliu. a confet
d crate veteran, who just died at Ma
/ con, Ca, had very convincing docr
o ments to fortify his claim that he wa
heir to the throne of Spain.
The vetoed wool tariff bill has bee
reintroduced in the House and tn
ii measure will be used by the Demo
Gratis as a basis for the arraignmen
6 of the board.
Il Anti-suffragists trying to reinstat