The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-04-23
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ID. Pulsiner.
Expert cracksmen made sensation
al robbery of diamonds and jewelry
valued between $45 900 and 5000 at
the store of Thomas Lundy, San Fran
cisco, early in the morning of April II.
Benjamin Stevens, for more than 50
years president OF the New England
mutual life insurance company, died at
his home in Boston on April II, aged
81 years.
Riveters and other men working on
the structural steel at the Berkeley ma
tional bank Berkeley, Cal, went on
strike because of the strike of the ce-
ment workers and the hiring of nom
union men.
Samuel L. Carleton, one time head
of the worlds organization of Sons of
Temperance, died at Portland, Me-,
April II, aged Sc years.
BY the judgment of the supreme
court of Tennessee in an opinion de-
! livered by Justice Neill the Standard
oil company is ousted from Tennessee
for the acts of this company at Gala
tin in restraining trade.
Senator Cullom, chairman of the
senate committee on foreign relations,
informed the president on April IL
that his committee would consider the
Venezuelan correspondence at it's ear
Hest convenience. He had no idea what
the committee would do, he said, but
on general principles he thought Presi-
dent Castro should have a good spank
ing.
In the suit brought in San Francisco
by Ruef against Judge Dunno, Land
don, Heney Spreckels, Burns, Buggy
and others for 1859, the cost of the
boss luxurious maintenance in a pri-
vate prison, notices of motion were
filed in behalf of Spreckels and Burns
to have the greater part of the COM
plant stricken out on the ground that
the allegations of Ruef are sham, ire
levant and redundant
Believing that the water problem is
the mos serious question before the
| people of San Francisco at the pres
ent time and that the gravity of the
situation has been greatly augmented
| by the deadlock between the city and
the Spring Valley company, Mayor
| Taylor and those associated with him
in the city government will cooperate
with the local civic organizations in
a big public meeting at which the en-
tire matter will be discussed.
Oliver N. MoXey, central figure in
the once famous MoXey trial, and who
on his wedding day four years ago was
given gift of an estate valued at
$3.50, 900 by his wife, is today a street.
car conductor on the McAllister line,
San Francisco, not one single dollar OF
the fortune Ior which he battled so
hard in the courts ana for which he
faced the besmirching of his reputa-
ton having come to him.
Deputy Sheriff Matt Starwich of Ra-
vensdale, Wash, and J. G. Storey, JUS
tice of the peace az Ravensdale and
special sheriff in the hunt for the STAY
ers of Marshal Miller of Kent, captur-
ed one of the highwaymen April II.
The man who was captured was shot
in the knee by Deputy Sheriff Star
wich and one OF the other highway
men was shot in the right side. The
man who was arrested is believed to
be the leader Of the gang.
The four delegates at large from
New York are General Steward L.
| Woodford, ex-Mayor Seth Low, Fred
erick R. Hazard of Syracuse and E.
H. Butler of Buffalo. They are in
structed to use all honorable means to
secure the nomination of Governor
Hughes for President. The platform
indorses in strong terms the admins
tration of President Roosevelt and
Governor Hughes and commends the
policies Of the federal administration
A revision of the tariff is favored and
the action of congress in declining to
revise the tariff by piecemeal is indoors
ed. Changes are advocated in the cur
rency laws to provide a more elastic
and satisfactory monetary system.
Norman Hamilton, Is years old, at
tempted suicide in San Francisco by
hardships had moved him to the last
desperate resort of suffering mortals.
Four years ago his mother died and he
was left to the care of his father, a
cook in the Terminus hotel at Vancou-
yer, B. c., who made him perform all
kinds of drudgery and beat him con-
stantly. The boy stood the cruel treat
ment as long as he could, and two
months ago ran away. Since then he
has worked his way along the coast,
cooking on small tugs and sailing YES
sells, and earning what he could, but
scarcely making more than his board
and lodging. He arrived in Oakland
recently and was picked up by police
man but allowed to go his way after
begging piteously to be released.
District Attorney Swallow has COM
menced action against It. B. Hickey,
John S. Cook and Frank Golden,
bondsmen of the county clerk of Es-
mpralda county NaVada IN rapOVar