The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-12-07
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Associated Prose Morning Service
LONDON. December TT Us feared
that there may Doe recurrence of
Kaiser Williams throat trouble. Ply
sicians have found slight crosions near
the wound caused by the recent opera
lions on the Emperors throat. and II Is
feared that another operation may be
necessary. Great concern is felt over
the health of the Kaiser
VENICE, December Heavy storms
did much damage here today. st.
Marks Cathedral was flooded.
CHICAGO. December 7-Dowie has
arranged to settle Immediately all the
debts against Zion city. The creditors
have agreed to drop the receivership
proceedings. Dowie charges the enc
mics of his religious project with hav-
ing instigated the suits.
NEW YORK. December Eek Mayor
Grace is III with pneumonia.
EX-Mayor Grace of New York has for
some time been in poor health. He is
seventy-one years old. He was mayor
of New York from 1881 to 1882 and was
again elected mayor in 1885. Grace
had an adventurous career. At four
teen he ran awav from his home in Ire
land and worked his way on sailing
vessel to New York. He remained in
New York for two years and then re-
turned to Ireland but the year 1850
found him at Callao. Peru. where he
secured employment as a clerk and
ultimately worked himself up to be
head ofvthe firm which originally EN-
ployed him. lie returned 20 New
York with a fortune and organized the
! firm of W. K. Grace d Co.. which be-
came leading firm in the South and
! Central American trade. In 1891 he
established the New York and Pacific
Steamship Co.
SAN FRANCISCO, December Two
| hundred restaurants will be closed to-
! morrow because of the refusal Of the
restaurant men to accede to the de-
mands of the cooks and walters
STANFORD, California December I.
Twelve cases OF diphtheria have
broken out among the students at the
university. Prompt quarantine by the
college authorities proved effective and
spread of the disease is unlikely.
SAN FRANCISCO, December AS
| a result of turf scandal here Book
maker Davis and three Jockeys have
been ruled off California race tracks.
SAN FRANCISCO, December THE
reinsurance on the French bark Paris
now out 211 days from Hamburg to
Honolulu, is quoted at Go.
CHICAGO. ILL., December 7-Frede-
rick Grant Gleason, the composer, is
dead.
GLASGOW, December THE speed
! trials with the Libertad which the
| British government recently purchased
| from Chile, shows her to be the fastest
| battleship ahoat. The Libertad made
2O.3 knots an hour. She was built in
| England.
WASHINGTON, December 7.-Secre-
tary of War Root in a letter which has
been made public recommends insular
| protection by reducing the duty on
Philippine products. This is in line
, with the policy of President Roosevelt.
TEN TSIN, December THE Rus
slams have expelled the Chinese officials
| of the Treasury at Mukden.
| PHILADELPHIA December Ed
ward L. Wentz, the young Philadelphia
millionaire who disappeared from his
home nearly two months ago, was dis
! covered by searching party in the
y Tennessee mountains. Outlaw noun
| taineers are said to have pcon respon-
sible for his disappearance.
Millionaire Wantz disappeared on Oc-
| tOber Nth and since that time twenty
! five hundred men. detectives and blood
hounds have been searching the noun
tains of Virginia and Tennessee for
| him. A reward of $4,000 had been Of
| fered by his family for his rescue from
! supposed bandits in the mountains OF
for the delivery of his body to them.
NEW YORK, December Enormous
frauds through which fire insurance
companies were robbed of millions have
been uncovered. Prominent lawyers
| firemen and insurance adjusters are al
| involved in the scandal. The COM
panies lost millions of dollars. A num-
Der of arrests have been made.
VICTORIA. December THE at
tempt made to float the Flora has not
| been successful.
! YOKOHAMA, Dec. 6-The battleship'
Kentucky, Wisconsin and Oregon have