The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-22
LATEST NEWS BULLENTlN.

Lady Decies, formerly Vivian Gould,
underwent an operation in London for
appendicitis, following her presenta-
ton at Court. Lady Decies went
through the operation successfully and
will soon be out
The New York and Cuban Mail
steamer Merida was sunk by a steam
err of the United Fruit Company, but
ali hands, including 325 people were
saved by the fruit steamer and
brought to Norfolk, Va.
Fourteen birdmen demonstrated
aeroplanes before the British Parlia-
ment, and A. J. Balfour flew for severa'
minutes in a warfaring biplane.
Karl Baedeker, son of the publisher
of the well known guide book service,
has just died in Germany.
The Pope has suspended his audi
ences for the present owing to his
continued i'll health. He is permitted
a few private audiences however.
DR.. Henry Van Dyke has withdrawn
his resignation presented some time
ago to the Board of Trustees of Prince
ton University. The resignation had
not been acted upon.
the Pacific Mail and Bates-Chese-
brough lines has ended and the United
States will be the arbiter in coming
to an agreement.
The Mormon Church has deprived
one of it's priests of his vestments, de-
claring that he is a polygamist, and
that the Church no longer counten-
ances nor teaches plural marriages.
The prop has been knocked from
under the Beef Trust by a court de-
cision overruling the trust demurrer
to the indictments, thus holding the
Sherman Law legal, and indicating
that an unlawful combination has been
made.
Peter Tanning, Mayor McCarthy's
private detective, has been suspended
from duty as result of his indictment
by the Grand Jury for completely in
the crib cases.
The Kern Valley Bank of Bakers
field has been closed by the State
Superintendent of Banks for violating
the law by carrying too many bonds
Of one issue.
The government has begun its fight
against the Southern Pacific oil lands
in California. over $5OO,OOO,OOO is in
volved in the suits over the vast tracks
granted the railroads.
GENERAL NEWS BULLETIN.
1t is reported that Quantrell, the
guerilla, supposed to have been
killed in a battle in Kentucky in
1865, is still alive and is now in Next
CO.
Fear is expressed for the condition
Of the Pope, who besides having at
tacks of govt has weak heart and
shows symptoms of arterial degenera-
ton.
A coterie Of San Francisco capital
lists have formed a $5,0O0,000 corpora
ton to manufacture a safety blasting
powder by a secret process. The fac
tory will be located at Antioch, Cal.
The combined musical clubs of Stan
ford University are to travel to Chic
ago and back this summer giving
concerts en- route.
The president of a Fresno, Cal,
bank, DR.. ]. L. Butin, has been arrest
ed for violating medical laws in the
issuance of opium prescriptions.
1t is reported that Congress will
probably make a so per cent. reduction
in the tariff on wool as a compromise
with those who demanded free wool,
Second Lieutenant George M. E.
Kelley of the Thirtieth Infantry, was
killed at San Antonio, Texas, by a
fall from a Curtiss aeroplane. He was
one of the War Departments most
promising military aviators.
Dynamiters, supposed to be BLACK
Hand" agents, blew up the home of
wealthy Italian residing in Pittsburg
because he refused to pay any atten-
ton to letter demanding $4,000.
The steamship Corwin has left Seat
tie for Nome. The latter place has
been cut off from direct communica-
ton with the outside world since last
October. The Corwin is the first pas
senger steamer to enter the Boring
sea this year.
John Hays Hammond has secured
immensely valuable water rights In
Northern California and is forming