The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-25
EASTERN NEWS.
Originating East of the Mlssissi
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The widow of Jim Fiske, one of
Americas most famous fnanciers in
the seventies, has been found dying
in poverty in a small house m South
Boston.
The Western Association OF Next
can War Veterans and the Western
Association Of California Pioneers
have just held their final meeting in
Chicago and have disbanded for all
time. The surviving members are too
old to attend any future meetings.
Thousands of tons of coal went mp
in smoke when wharves and coal
pockets on the Boston waterfront
were destroyed by fire. The money
loss will amount to about $4,000
The Steel Trust has prohibited the
use of tobacco in any form in all of
its steel mills. Iron molders and
brass machinists may chew tobacco
as protection against infections from
inhaling microscopic particles Of
brass and foundry dust.
B. F. B. Wright, former chemistry
professor at Harvard, is said to have
invented an explosive three times as
powerful as dynamite, yet is much
safer to handle. A child could play
with it according to report.
Two hundred and fifty thousand
children were killed last year by pois'
oned foods, according to Rutledge
Rutherford, a Chicago food expert. lie
declares that the use of preservatives
has a big effect on the death rate.
milk or beef broth three times a
day - Department of Agriculture
prescription to make chicken tat
From fourteen to seventeen days are
required for the full treatmnt,
Representative of 100 Scandinav
ian societies in Greater New York
have launched a movement to have
the Scandinavian languages recog
nized in the schools of New Yorl
state on an equality with French
German and other modern languages
General William Robertson Boggs
aged SO years, one of the few remain
ing generals of the Confederate army
has just died in South Carolina.
Former Senator w. A. Clark O
Montana will this season open hi
SS,O1O,OOO mansion in New York TO
the first time. This is said to be tn
most magnificent privat residence il
! the world and has taken many year
l to build.
DIR. Levy, chief health officer @
Richmond, Va, after an eXhaustiv
study of the subject, predicts tina
the American negro is dying out an
will disappear in the next century
l Ex-President Roosevelt spent da
+ on the bench at the chidlren's juvt
j. nile court in New York. He intima
ed that the Outlook would contai
2 some of his reflection upon what h
l had seen.
y Gaby Deslys, the Partisan dance
!. who cost King Manuel his throne, o
- account Of his infatuation for her, ha
2, arrived in New York City for lin
j. tied American engagement.
), Sheriff" Bob Chanler has sent h
lawyer to Paris to offer Lima Cavalier
t his wife, $4,000 if she will permit hi
} to secure a divorce without her d
n manding a marriage settlement.
s On Taft's departure on his WesteI
s tour he received messages from Il
business interests of New England d
o claring their confidence in Taft al
1t their approval of his policies.
p Roosevelt's African hunt cost So
600, of which the Smithsonian ms
II tuition paid three-ffths, and the colon
e the remainder. The list of contrib
o tors to the Institutions part of Il
N fund has never been made public.
k Philadelphia officials have bee
e. caught in a fraud conspiracy. II
Department of Public Safety pa
a. twice for work that was never do
6 at all. There was a "rake-off" of 81
# 600 on a 1925, 300 job.
n A Franco-English syndicate h
v, been formed to finance the Soutf
cotton crop this season. Any amou
"a has been guaranteed up to $1,000
- 600.
II Two members of the Shaker sect
- Florida are being tried for admin
. tering chloroform to a woman OF the
sect to end her sufferings from tube
culosis.
mo man will run away from 4
Presidency of the United States sa
Governor Harmon when quizzed as
y the possibility of his trying for T.
- Democratic Presidential nominate