The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-12-07
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! Associated Press. Morning Service
| LONDON, December 1T is feared
! that there may be a recurrence of
Kaiser Williams throat trouble Ply
sicians have found slight erosions near
! the wound caused by the recent opera
tons on the Emperor's throat, and IL 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 i'll 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 a 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 clerk and
ultimately worked himself up to be
head of the firm which originally en-
ployed him. He returned to New
York with a fortune and organized the
firm of w. r. Grace & Co.. which be-
came a 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 T.
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 7.--As
a result of a 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 90.
CHICAGO, III, December 7.-Frede-
rick Grant Gleason, the composer, is
dead.
GLASGOW, December THE speed
trials with the Lioartad which the
British government recently purchased
from Chile, shows her to be the fastest
battleship afloat. 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.
TIEN-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 a searching party in the
Tennessee mountains. Outlaw noun
taineers are said to have pccn respon-
sble for his disappearance.
Millionaire Wantz disappeared on Oc-
tober 14th 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 100000 had been Of
fered by his family for his rescue from
supposed bandits in the mountains or
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 all
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 battlaships
KentuckY Wisconsin and Oregon have