The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-10-10
EASTERN NEWS
Originating East of the Mississippi
River)


opment.
/ A warrant was issued for the ar
rest of former Lieutenant Governor
Timothy Woodruff of New York fol-
violating the Sunday law. He DO
NOTED an aviation meet.
Fifty persons were injured when a
grandstand collapsed at Abbeyville
Louisiana.
Geo. Schober of Newark, N. j..
weighing $50 pounds, has just died 1T
the age of fifty He was so far as IS
known, the heaviest man in the
world.
Members of the Boston suffrageuc
organization want a new marriage
service with the word "obey" left out
Carl Ovington is the fourth aviator
to begin the ocean to ocean air flignr.
He leaves New York on October ord.
Rogers, the only remaining entrant,
has not yet reached Chicago
A New York smuggling millineg
named Lichtenstein has been fined
$4,000 for defrauded duties and Civ
en- four months in Jail.
Nathan Allen and John R. Collins,
just ordinary millionaire smugglera,
were fined $4,000 and $4,000 respec-
lively. Extra duty paid however will
raise the fines to over 100000.
We'll, I'm still in the ring" said Al
torney General Wickersham, when
told that the Steel Trust had put its
house in order and defied the govern
ment to attack it,
me department OF AgTiCuItuTe is
investigating the serious deterioration
of fruit farms in the west. Those on
irrigated lands where intensive farm
ing is tried have suffered the most.
c. p. Rogers, the only entrant left
in the Coast to Coast aeroplane con
test is now in Ohio, still having trou-
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reach Chicago in another day.
A bursting dam sent a seething sea
of water down valley in Pennsyl-
vania, wiped out the town of Austin,
and drowned 1000 people. The prep
erty loss is in the hundred thousands.
Governor Dix of New York is to
pardon Captain Peter C. Hams, now
serving an indeterminate sentence Of
from eight to sixteen years for the
murder of VIM. E. Annis in 1909.
Earl Grey, Canada's governor-gen-
eral, in a recent speech said that
ada's liberty and prosperity depends
upon the maintenance of British ST.
premacy on the seas.
Harry l.. Horton, millionaire men,
Der of the Chicago Board of Trade,
has been sued for $4,000 in a breach
of promise suit by Miss Elizabeth
Berg, wealthy Chicago woman.
The Employers Association of New
York has threatened to lock out 49,
900 members of the building trades
unions unless the latter at once cell
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a hotel being built by Alfred Wander
bilt.
The property loss from the Peun-
sylvania flood resulting from a burst
ing dam will amount to $6,OOO,OOO.
Scholars in a Chicago High school
struck when a professor asked them
to count the number of words in the
The class raised such
fuss that the matter came to the at
tention of the Board of Education,
which seemed inclined to support the
pun lis
A green" policeman in the new
House office building in Washington
lost the master key, the only one, and
the government had to spend $500
to put new locks on every door.
Former Secretary of the Interior
Ballinger has decided to sue Clifford
Pinchot for libel, though Ballinger
wishes it understood that the action
IS not necessary to vindication He
claims to have already been vindicat-
ed by the President.
The head of one of New Yorks larg-
est realty companies has had submit
ed to him feasible plans for the con
struction of a 1OO-story skyscraper. II
built it will cost $3O,OOO,OOO, will take
.hree years to build, and when com.
oleted, will house $4,000 people in its
offices.
A trainload of whiskey sent from
Peoria, H., to San Francisco, is being
shipped by rail to New York and
hence by water to San Francisco, a
of $4,000 miles. A great saw
ng in freight is effected over sending
he whiskey 1000 miles direct by rail.
Former Governor Fletcher d. Proc
or of Vermont is dead.
Mrs. Tiny Johnson of Chicago,
mother of the famous "Lil Artha" ne.
lies that the "smOka" has pODa hroilo