The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-06-29
EASTERN NEWS.

( conventions Governor Dix of New
York formally announced his candi-
dacy for denomination.
Five hundred and thirty degrees
were bestowed upon Harvard stud
/ ents by President Lowell.
Theodore Roosevelt has declined
the invitation to join the New York
Mems League for Women Suffrage, al
though he had publicly announced
that he was for woman suffrage.
New Hampshire has rejected the
proposed amendment to the consti-
tuition in favor of woman suffrage.
The House has passed Senator PN.
kins bill for the establishment of a
sailors home in San Francisco.
Miss Carol Newberry of Detroit
who recently cancelled her engage
ment to Capt. w. II. Alleyne, a Brit
ish army officer, has married Frank
Brooks, Jr, SON of the general man
ager of the Detroit United Railways,
-Four women in Philadelphia, incens-
ed by the high cost of meats, enter
ed butcher shops and sprinkled kero-
sene over the meats.
The maneuver camps of the regulad
army and the national guard may
have to be pc tponed as a result of
the veto of the army appropriation
hill nv Dracidapt Taft
President Taft signed the act OF
Congress which limits the working
day of laborers and mechanics EN-
ployed by the government to eight
hours, Contracts in connection with
the Panama canal mp to June l, 1918
N
are exempted,
Pennsylvania University conferred
the honorary degree of doctor of laws
upon John Swain, president of Swarth
more college, and John Grer Hibber
of Princeton.
An expedition has been organizeC
ii, rars ey City to search the islant
of Trinidad for several million dol
] lars believed TO haze been buried by
pirates in the early ninosSe eh'n cen
fury. -
Lumber and timber manufacturer.
rank third in vaiLe among the prod
ucts of the industries of the UnitoC
States, amounting to $l,156, 12S,7 al
for the year 1912.
Through a new order, all revenue
cutter boats are to be furnished witt
large guns and will be required tC
have target practice.
President Taft has pardoned Frank
lin p. Mays on the ground that his
conviction of land frauds was secur
ed by improper methods.
Miss Frances Petry of Paterson
~ j., eloped with DR. Darbari Ran
Pal, of Amritzar, India
Henry Rockwell Baker, nephew ant
heir Of John w. Gates, is said to b'
dying of quick consumption.
After testing the auto truck as ;
substitute for the army mule and
wagons, Capt NJ. e. Faville has re
ported in favor of the latter
The Ferris Industrial School 0
Wilmington, Del, has adopted hobbl
skirts to be worn by the inmates
This is to deter the boys from run
ming away, and is found to be NOR
cfficacious than ball and chain
The city council of Atlanta, Geol
gia, has forbidden bathing on Sur
day in any of the city parks,
The parcels post law is yiolentl
opposed by the National Travellers
Protective Association,
The Baroness Bertha Won Sutnel
president of the Austrian Peace ST
Ciety, has arrived in New York on ne
way to San Francisco where she wi
address the conference OF the Amet
lean Women's Clubs. She is Ia
author of the well known book, La
Down Your Arms
Mrs Cecil Clark Davis has bee
granted a divorce from Richard Har,
ing Davis, the well known author.
Reverend Arthur A, King pastor {
the Emanuel English Lutheran churc
Of New York died of heart diseas
while saying grace at breakfast
'i The millionaire directors of IN
Wright flying machine company hay