The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-02-08
NEWS In A NUTSHELL.
Bits of Paragraphs that Give Con-
densed Notes OF the Day.

Il. c. Macfarlane is on the sick list
President Dole visited the L. S. S.
Oregon this morning.
A special meeting of the Myrtle Boat
| club will be held this evening.
There will be meeting of the board
| of health at the usual hour this after
noon.
The band will play on the grounds of
the Executive building at o'clock this
afternoon.
Jim Hewson, selling liquor, will be
heard in Judge WilCoX's court Friday
| morning.
+. J. Cross has been appointed in
| speCtOr of the local board of insurance
underwriters.
Honolulu Commandery will meet in
| regular conclave tomorrow evening. In
StallatiOn of officers.
Gunner Nord of one of the eight inch
! guns of the Oregon is thirty second
| degree Scottish rite Mason.
julie Walters will appear at the Or
| pheum tonight in the laughable farce
| comedy, The Private Secretary.
There will not be any session of the
| courts tomorrow on account of the fun
eral Of the late Judge =. a. Widemann.
Captain Barker ana officers of the
l.. :. :. Oregon will be entertained by
Minister Sewall at dinner this even
ms.
Il. S. Townsend. inspector general of
schools, left by the w. G. Hall, yester-
Gay afternoon for tour of the Island
of Kauai.
The case of Joe Kalana, the man
whose hack ran over the soldier Sat
urday, has gone over in the police
court to next Tuesday.
DR. Shaws condition is improving
every day. 1t is expected that he will
be about, with the aid Of clutches, in
about three weeks time.
The Chamber of Commerce requests
business houses to close at p. m, to-
morrow, during the funeral of the late
Judge II. \. Widemann.
Dan HOught failing was acquitted by
a native jury yesterday afternoon Ct
the charge Of selling liquor without a
license, three dissenting.
The Honolulu Drug Company will
serve free soda tomorrow at their
King street store in the Won Holt
block. Everyone invited to call
The Nuuanu stream rose about two
feet yesterday. but there was no fresh
ct. To-day there is only a small cur
rent running under the second bridge.
The new Catholic church at Mar
Guesville, Punahou, which has been
built through the efforts of Father
Clement, will be dedicated next sun
day.
Three members of the Kansas regi-
ment left in hospitals here will leave
by the Valencia for the Preside at
san Francisco, where they will await
orders.
The bar, as a body, has arranged to
send special floral tribute to the fun
eral of the late Judge Wideman II
will probably be in the form of a hand
some cross.
The housewives are doing their own
cooking this evening and will have to
| stick to it till Saturday evening. Those
| who have japanese cooks get the best
| of it just now.
The police court session this morn
| ing lasted only a few minutes. Judge
Wilcox was subpOened to appear as q
witness in the Roche DiCkey damage
suit in the circuit court.
On account of the inability of the pc"
lice to find one of the jurymen the
coroner's investigation in the killing
of Private Harrington by a hack last
Saturday has gone over to Friday.
The pail bearers for the funeral of
the late Judge Widemann have not yet
been selected, because it was desired
| to communicate with some old friends
| of the deceased on Kauai. The stea-
mer tomorrow morning will bring word
! from them.