The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-05
CONDENSED NEWS
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Bishop Nichols of San Francisco has
proposed the erection in San Fran
cisco of a statue of St. Francis, on a
par with the New York statue Of
Liberty as a permanent feature Of
the 1915 fair.
John w, Gates left his son 100000
and his widow the balance Of his $780,
100000 fortune. He cut off his son
temporarily so that Charles former
wife could not secure big alimony.
Two free newspapers started some
months ago in Oklahoma City have
failed after costing their owners thou.
sands of dollars. The free papers were
evolved out of a bitter newspaper war
of three years duration.
President Taft in opening his 1912
campaign accused the Democrats and
the Insurgent Republicans of playing
politics with the tariff legislation.
Glenn Curtis, the aviator, is work
| ing on scheme to have airships land
on a rope attached to the masts of
battleship. If successful this will do
away with the necessity of erecting
huge platform on the vessels on
which aeroplanes light-something
which has been necessary in the past,
! The worlds greatest battleship, the
ID % tlo ,ovNy ba
just been launched at Quincy, Mass
! Six professional "frebugs' have
been caught in Chicago. They are
accused of setting fire to fifty Chicago
buildings, causing a loss Of over ST.
100000.
An Austrian laborer who served
twenty years in a Pittsburg Jail for
murder, and has been found innocent
| of the crime, has been given a pension
og $40 a month by Andrew Carnegie.
State Senator Shingler of Georgia
has introduced a bill which if passed
will impose a tax of $50 year on
bachelors. He claims that the "bache-
lor has lived on the fat of the land
long enough"
The Santa Fe is to put on
new Chicago-Los Angeles train
this winter which will exceed
any train in America in equip
ment and maintained speed. Il
will only run once week, will be
for the highest class travel, ana ar
excess fare of $25 will be charged fol
the privilege of riding on it.
The health of James r. Keene, the
American financier, who has been il
in London for several months, is worse
if anything, and his doctors and famil!
fear ne will never recover.
The Hamburg-American steamship
line is having a 10 foot passenger
steamer built to run between Hamburg
and New York. The Imperator will
. have displacement of $4,000 tons anc
will carry 5000 passengers.
Anna Held, who is coming to Ameri
, ca for a visit, will bring with her
piano formerly owned by King. Lee
plod and which cost $4,000 to build
1t is the most marvellous piano in tn
world. 1t will be exhibited at tn
worlds fair at San Francisco in 1915.
London is experiencing the worst ic
famine known in forty years, on ac
: count of the continued hot spell, whic
: has exhausted the ice supply
9 The young Prince of Wales has bee
gazetted a midshipman on a Births
}. training vessel, and he looks forwar
s with zest to his new life, which h
infinitely prefers to the court cer'
|. monies he has been forced to unders
i since his father became king.
At the wedding of the daughter of
e Turkish powder merchant at ConstaI
e tinople the powder magazine beneat
10 the house exploded killing the brid
a and groom and twenty-eight guests
T Special investigators report that III
L less prompt action is taken by SON
,, powerful Christian nation whole tribe
of peaceful Albanians will be eXte
2, minated by the Turkish troops.
~ German army officers are expeI
menting with a Photographic apparatl
ye to be attached to pigeons, which, fl
,e ing over the enemy's fortifcatioI
tb will make it possible to secure actu
photographs.
The Portuguese government is clos
IT, ly watching the Monarchist activity
Galicia. 1t is authenticity report
that the RoyaIists are planning an
vasion from the north as soon as pre-
- ticable.
- A race of people who have new
! seen a white man or an Indian h