The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-01-22
WORLD HAPPENING
SINCE CLEVELAND
LEFT MANILA
CContinued From Page one.)

palace at Athens destroyed by fire..
starting from the urapery on
Christmas tree; former President
Zelaya, in the Cit5 or Mexico, is warn
that he may be assassinated; battle
ship Idaho, which ran ashore in the
Delaware river, is floated; President
Taft, in special message, recommends
sweeping measures for the control of
corporations; Senator Perkins is out
of danger; Secretary Meyer informs
Congress that Pearl Harbor, this
island, will be completed by July,
1912.
January S-Japan disapproves of the
naturalization of the Manchurian
railway, as proposed by Secretary
Knox; James Barr, dean of Harvard
law school, is dead; Representative
FISHERMAN, of Wisconsin, attacks
ship subsidy in the House; George
McCabe appointed acting-forester in
place of Clifford Pinchot, who was
summarily dismissed by President
Taft; Mayor p H. Mccarthy, of San
Francisco, took office.
January 9-Mayor Mccarthy an
nounces that he will open up San
Francisco to the pleasure seekers.
January 1O-Reported that Russia
has endorsed position of Secretary
Knox for the naturalization of the
Manchurian railway, that France will
follow suit England will probably
oppose, and that people of Manchura
are rejoicing over position of Knox;
great aviation week opens at Los
Angeles; J. D. Benedict, superintend-
ent of Indian affairs in Oklahoma,
suspended and charged with crooked
ness; Parliament dissolved to meet
again February Is; cruiser New Or
leans, which had sailed for Honolulu,
put back to San Francisco with boil
ers leaking; four sugar checkers sent
to all for a year each at New York
for fraud.
January 11-French government
endorses position of Japan, Russia
and England in Manchuria matter;
Secretary Root asks Congress for a
pension of $4,000 a year tor Mrs.
Grover Cleveland; bill providing sep
arate statehood for New Mexico in
PRODUCED in House; appropriation of
$4,000 for the navy passes the
House.
January 12-Plot to kill King Man
uel of Portugal is discovered. Several
persons arrested and confess; jury
completed and Francis j. Heney be-
gins prosecution of land fraud cases
at Portland, Ore; contest of the VIII
of Claus Spreckels is dropped at San
Francisco; new worlds records for
flying machines are established in
great worlds meet at Los Angeles;
sugar trust directors plead not guilty
of completely in frauds and deny that
their company is monopoly; victory
for the inurgents in Nicaragua is re-
ported from the battlefield of AGO.
yapa; white slave traffic prohibition
bill passes House; Henry S. Graves,
of Yale forestry school, succeeds Gift
ford Pinchot, who was summarily dis
missed by the President; Colonel
Walter Howe appointed brigadier-
general.
January 13-Coasting steamer Gar
ina wrecked on Coos Bay, Oregon, and
twenty-nine drowned; Paulhan drove
his machine to height of ALAG feet
in the aviation contests at Los An
geles, breaking all records; House
passed military Notifications bill,
carrying $5617,2OO, about half of
which is to be expended on fortifica-
ton work in the Hawaiian and Philip
pine Islands; House tables resolu-
tion requesting Taft to recognize Es-
trada's government in Nicaragua Re
Borland made a speech
in Congress opposing ship subsidy.
January 14.-Government has secur-
ed 100 acres of land at San Pedro for
fertilization purposes; President Taft
sends message to Congress endorsing
the conservation plans of Secretary
January 15.-Trafic in New York
blocked by storm and five deaths en-
sue from cold weather; 100000 made
available at once for Pearl Harbor,
this island; all newspapers suspended
in Denver on account of pressmen's
strike; Ohio river at flood stage and
gorged with ice; Congressman Dieke-
man, of Michigan, comes out as candi-
date for speakership of House at next
session. Liberals victorious in English ,
elections. IM