The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-10-18


Dreadnoughts
Two militia companies were or.
dered out to guard against the loot
ing of Black River Falls, the flooded
Wisconsin city.
j. p. Morgan, in payment for the
best shave of the year." gave the
barber a go bill
Blood poison from the handling Of
money caused the death of the treas
urer of a Waltham, Mass, bank.
Ethel Barrymore is sufficiently le-
covered from her Illness to return to
Chicago She will not cancel her
western tour.
Eight persons were injured in Pitts
burg when a street car ran amuck.
James B. Haggin is at the head Of
an enterprise for the formation of a
tenyear hurley tobacco pool, includ-
ing the establishment of a co-opera-
tive factory. 1t will be capitalized at
$5,OOO,OOO.
1t is believed that the long-missing
heirs of the Churchill estate in New
foundland have been found in an
elderly woman and her niece, le-
Gently arrived in New York. The
estate is valued at $4,000
A charge Of involuntary manslaugh-
ter will be preferred against the per-
sons guilty of negligence in the con-
struction or maintenance of the dam
at Austin, Pa, the break in which
was respor bic for the great dis
aster
Rodgers, on his aeroplane flight 20
the coast, made 1922 miles in 1873 min.
utes.
Geraldine Farrar declares that any
woman may acquire and maintain a
svelt figure by merely keeping her
brain active. Fat thoughts make a
big waist-lne.
Forfeiture suits nave been insti.
tuted against Nathan Allen and John
R. Collins for the smuggling of duti-
able merchandise in connection with
the Helen Dwelle Jenkins case. The
actions are for $15O.)OO and $4,000.
The eldest daughter of Senator La
Toilette has announced her engage,
ment to George Middleton, the play
wright of New York city. Miss La
Toilette will continue her career as
an actress.
General Wickersham denies the re-
port that the government has insti.
tuted proceedings against the steel
trust
The Berlin II, winning balloon in
the international race came down
near Holcomb, Wisconsin, having
covered $50 miles.
Mrs. R. D. Dorsey Coale, a beauti-
full Baltimore woman, died as the re-
suit of a needless operation for ap-
pndicitis.
Miss Moissant, the woman aviator.
and Earl Ovington defied the deputy.
sheriffs who endeavored to enforce
the Sunday observance law in Mas
sau county, New York. The deputies
attempted to arrest the aviators. but
were themselves thrown from the
field by the mob. Miss Moissant was
badly bruised from the rough hand
ling she received.
The retirement of Admiral NichoI.
son as chief of the Bureau of Naviga-
ton has greatly stirred naval circles.
The conservative element fear that
Meyer will select a young officer TO
fill the position instead of comforting
it upon one of the distinguished
higher officers, as has been the GUS
tom in the past.
A negro chauffeur was lynched in
Georgia for an attempted attack On
the woman whose machine he oper-
ated.
Captain Brodie, who was making
balloon ascension from the fair
grounds at Triton, Georgia, fell 700
feet and was instantly killed.
John Armstrong ChaIoner, pleading
for verdict of sanity, told marvellous
tales of elmer conversations" with
his Faculty" by means of plan
Ghetto.
A Chicago woman is organizing a
convention to push the claims of
American heirs to the Wertz fortune
of $1SO,OOO,OOO in Holland.
Both troops and strikers of the Hi
nois Central lines are prepared fer
an endurance struggle.
Upton Sinclair denies that there is
a possibility of reconciliation with
his wife. He has not withdrawn the
suit for divorce.
The prosecution has been begun
in Cleveland against several big
wallpaper firms for conspiring to re-
strain trade GOVarnOp nix of NJ.