The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-04-20
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Lieut.. David A. Lindsay, a signal
corps officer, shot himself at the Pre-
sidio, San Francisco, on April s.
The board of public works, San
Francisco, asks the Supervisors for
nearly six million dollars for the use
of the department next year.
The Consumers Electric Company,
with capital stock, bonds and other
obligations aggregating about $780,
900, was placed in receivership at
New Orleans last week.
The new cruiser Birmingham was
formally turned over to the Govern
ment at the Boston navy yard on
April 10. Commander Burns T. Wall
ing will command her.
Senator Stephen b. Elkins asked
the newspapers through the Associat-
ed Press to cease publishing reports
of the rumored engagement of his
daughter to the Duke of Abruzzi.
Whenever there should be reason for
the announcement he would give it
to the press.
Prof Oscar Lovel Triggs, formerly
of Chicago University, married Miss
Ada Beall Cox, who met him first
while she was a student at that in
sttution.s The marriage was some
what on the sly, no announcement Of
engagement having been made.
Pacific Mutual Insurance Co. Is
making an effort to have itself ex-
cepted from the ban placed by Ne
braska upon California insurance
companies. It is claimed that the
Pacific Mutual complied with the
state laws which other California
companies violated.
United States Senators Henry Ca
bot Lodge and w. Murray Crane, eX-
Secretary, of the Navy John D. Long
and Sidney o. Bigney, a business
man, will head the Republican dele
cation of Massachusetts, which goes
to Chicago uninstructed.
Mrs. j. P. Perkins of New York
was elected president of the new or
ganization of Wives, Mothers and Sis
ters of Senators and Representatives
at a meeting held in the Capitol,
| Washington. Mrs. Julius Kahu of
San Francisco is third vice presid-
ent.
A squad of twenty-five contraband
Chinese was to leave Los Angeles
in charge of deputy United States
marshals last Sunday. The conting-
ent has been ordered deported, and
was scheduled to sail from San Fran
cisco on the steamer Mongolia Tues
day.
At a meeting of the senior class
of Stanford University called to re
consider the action of the class in
foregoing the festivities of senior
week as a protest against the dras'
tic action of the committee on stu
dent affairs, it was voted to reaf
firm the former action absolutely.
Nineteen Doukhobors, nine women
and ten men, were sentenced at Fort
William, Canada, to six months in
prison at Toronto for pacing the
streets unclother Fifty-three others
have been warned of tehir fate il
they persist in their refusal to wear
clothes.
William II. Jarvis, an alleged Eng,
fish officer who served in the Boer
war, was arrested in New York for
entering room in the Gilsey House
He had booked to leave for England
the next day. Another man who was
with him had disappeared. The room
entered was one of several that had
been robbed With ma few days.
NanaimO, B. c., has extended ar
invitation to the United States feet
to attend the big regatta that is tc
be held on Nanaimo harbor on Vic
toria day If all the fleet cannot come
the invitation presses for a couple
OF boats at least. If the invitation
!. is accepted the war ships will receive
monster welcome.
Harry Miller, City Marshal o
Kent, Washington, was shot and fat
ally wounded at 10 o'clock the nigh
0 of April 10 by five highwaymen, WHIT
0 had robbed Patrick O'Brien in Orilli
n an hour previous. A sheriff's poss
with bloodhounds went in pursuit o
the murderers, for the arrest of on
or all Of whom reward of $500 wa
offered
Judge Colan in San Francisco re
: manded to the Federal authorities
}, Isaac Miller, charged by II. W
+ Strecklow, a citizen, with being al
= anarchist. Strecklow testified Mile
: had told him that he believed al
government should be overturned
that dynamite was the best remedy
and that he himself was a champion
bomb-maker.
. The Supreme Court of New YorI
threw out evidence presented by He
ward Gould in his wifes separation
I suit, relating to her relations will
: Col Cody before marriage. It wa
held by the court that Gould's affida
Wit did not comply with the lega
requirements, and that Mrs Gould
1 alleged ante-nuptial acts did not con
j stitute a defense in her suit for SEP
aration on the ground of cruelt,
since the marriage.
> Mrs. Catherine H. Smiths will wa
admitted to probate in San Francisco