The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-12-31
Foreign News
By Gable

IL L.
ST. PETERSBURG, December 30
1t is reported that the history of the
Russo-Japanese war written by Cen
eral Kuropatkin has been confscated
by the authorities.
THE MEXICAN LAUNCHED.
SAN FRANCISCO, December 30.-
The Americana Hawaiian steamship
Mexican was successfully launched
here yesterday.
CELEBRATED NOVELIST A BRIDE
TOXIC, December 3O.-Secretary
Wheeler of the American Embassy was
married yesterday to Miss Halle Err
mimic Rives, the celebrated American
novelist.
DURAND SAILS FOR HOME.
WASHINGTON, December SO.-Sir
Henry Mortimer Durand, the British
Ambassador, sailed for England yes
terday.
TERRORISM CLOSES FACTORIES.
LODI, Poland, December SO.-Fac-
tories employing total of one hundred
thousand hands have been closed here
as a result of the terrorism prevailing.
Thirty-two persons have been murder
ed or killed in the conflicts which pre-
vailed.
WARREN ORDERED TO SEA.
SCAN FRANCISCO, December 3d.
The army transport Warren has been
ordered to prepare to sail for China,
carrying supplies to the famine dis
tricts of Kiangsu.
BIG BLAZE IN LOS ANGELES.
LOS ANGELES, December 3O.-Fire
destroyed property to the value of
100000 here yesterday
JAPANESE LEGISLATORS MEET.
TOXIC, December 9O.-The Emperor
has opened the Diet.
MANY KILLED IN A WRECK.
WASHINGTON, December BIN a
train wreck on the Baltimore & Ohio
Railway, three miles out of this city,
thirty-eight were killed and sixty in
THE VENERABLE BARONESS
BURDETT-COUTTS DEAD
LONDON, December 31.-The Baron
ess Burdett-Coutts is dead.
Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts was
created first Baroness of the name in
1871. She was a partner in Coutts G.
Co., bankers, and removed as a philan-
thropist, Born April 81, 1914, she was
in the ninety third year of her age at
death. She was the daughter of Sir
Francis Burdett, Baronet M. p, and
Sophia, daughter of Thomas Coutts
banker.
In 1881 the Baroness married an Am
erican, William Lehman Ashmead
Bartlett of Plymouth, Mass, he as
Stunning her name. His grandparents
on both sides were British subjects
The marriage was a sensational one
from the fact that the bride was 81
years older than the bridegroom, she
being 81 and he 30 years old He had
finished his education with the degree
of NJ. A. at oxford in 1876. Since 1886
he has represented Westminster in
Parliament.
The Baroness found her spouse an
able assistant in carrying out her great
philanthropies. She having originated
the Turkish Compassionate Fund, Mr.
Burdett-Coutts volunteered to proceed
to the Russo Turkish war as special
| commissioner, in that role winning In
| 1877 the star and second-class OF the
Medjidie. Another scheme of the Bar
oness which he largely developed was
one for benefting the Irish fishermen.
| CARUsO's SENTENCE AFFIRMED.
NEW YORK, December Stu. S. Cir
cult Judge Nathan Golf has oftirmed
the sentence Of Signor Caruso the TIA
| Ian Onera singer
Signor Caruso was heavily fined In
the police court, New York, some time
ago for accosting ladies, with whom ne
was not acquainted, in the park. The
incident has been the occasion of mucf
discussion in the press on both sides
! of the Atlantic.
| IN EXECUTED REBELS MEMORY
MANILA, December S1-The anniver'
sary of the execution of Rial has beer
| celebrated.
SHIPS CREW MUTINY.
MAZATLAN, Mex, December 81
The crew of the Drummond has mutt
MED and thirteen are in prison.
There is no vessel named the Drum
mond in the latest New York Maritime
Register at hand, The British shil
Drunonouir. 1898 tons, Captain Arm