The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-01-29
Foreign News
By Cable
RUsso-GERMAN ALLIANCE.


ST. PETERSBURG, January 2S.-On
the occasion of the celebration of the
German Emperor's birthday here, the
Car i'm a speech forecast a Russo-G Ger
man alliance.
PARDEE APPOINTS SLOSS.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2S.-Judge
Louis Sloss has been appointed Assoc
ciate Justice of the Supreme Court
The appointment is to fill the vacan-
cy on the Supreme Bench Of California
caused by the recent death Of Justice
Walter S. NanDyke of Los Angeles.
There has been something of a struggle
among California lawyers with politi-
cal pulls for the place, the strongest
candidates hitherto mentioned having
been Superior Judge II. $. Melvin of
Alameda County and Judge Sweeney
of Tehama. In appointing Judge Sloss
of the Superior Court of San Francisco,
Governor Partee has chosen one of the
soundest lawyers on the California
bench, and it may be has strengthened
his own political position at the same
time. Pardee is a candidate for re-
election, and all the gossip of the va
cant Supreme Court judgeshp in Cali
fronia has had its political sde.
EMPRESS OF IRELAND LAUNCHED
GLASGOW, January 2S.-The Cana
dian Pacifc's new steamer Empress of
Ireland has been launched.
EDITOR MANN ARRESTED.
NEW YORK, January 2S.-Editor
| Mann, of Town Topics, has been ar
rested on charge of perjury commit
ted in the recent trial for libel.
The cable Saturday stated that Nor
man Hapgood, one of the editors of
Golfers Weekly, has been acquitted Of
a charge of libel. The charge was
| brought by VIM. D. Mann. editor of
Town Topics, whom Golfers had ac-
cused Of holding up" New York mil
| lionaires.
| KILLED BY COACHMAN.
| Los ANGELES, January 2S.-The
wife of Garfield, the oil millionaire. has
been shot and killed by a discharged
coachman.
WRECK OF THE VALENCIA.
| OTTAWA, Canada, January 2S.-The
Government has ordered an nvestiga-
ton of the loss of the steamer Valen-
ella on the coast of Vancouver Island.
| SIX'TEEN BODIES RECOVERED.
! VICTORIA, b. c., January 2S.-Six-
teen bodies have been recovered from
| the wreck of the Valencia.
GOVERNMENT WINS.
LONDON, January 2S.-The Parlia-
mentary elections are over. The gov
eminent coalition has returned $50
members, and the opposition 100.
THE SLOCUM HORROR.
NEW YORK, January 2S.-Captain
Van Shaick, of the steamer Slocum,
which was burned in 1904, has been
sentenced to ten years Imprisonment
for failure to enforce fire drill on that
boat.
On June Is, 1904, the excursion steam
err General Slocum, with a picnic party
on the Sunday school of st. Mark
Lutheran church on board, was burned
and sunk off Rikers' Island, In Long
Island Sound, and nearly one thousand
persons, for the most part women and
children, lost their lives. The boat, a
side-wheeler and very fast, caught fire
after leaving her dock and her cap
tain made a desperate attempt to
save some of his human freight.
ORDER AT VLADIVOSTOK.
General Linevitch reports the existence
of quietude in the Manchurian armies
and the restoration of order at Vladi-
vostok
NOTED MAN DROWNED.
VICTORIA, January ga telegram
from Bamfield reports that the fishing
schooner. Ella G. turned turtle, and six
were drowned including Alexander Nc
Lean of Carmencita notoriety.
GENERAL WHEELER'S FUNERAL
NEW YORK, January 29-An impos-
ing military funeral is being accorded
to the late General Joseph Wheeler
The body is now en- route to Arlington
for burial in the National cemetery.
NAVAL STATION FIRE.
NEWPORT, January 29.-Sever
buildings of the naval training station
at Coasters Harbor have been burned
with loss of 100000.
FOR ALICE'S WEDDING.
PEKING, January 29.-The Dowagei
Empress of China has forwarded wed,
ding presents for Miss Alice Roosevelt
JAPAN'S HUGE WAR BILL.
TOXIC, January 29.-The war with
Russia cost Japan 5S5,OOOO0O,