The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-22
EASTERN NEWS.

port to that effect being denied by the
Turkish ambassador at Washington,
who simply asked the government to
use its influence to prevent further
Italian atrocities.
The tobacco trust is not smashed
after all. The circuit court did not
dissolve the trust and the whole case
may have to be returned to the SUI
preme court, which means practically
that years Of government work in pre-.
pairing the case have been practically
wasted.
J. z. b. Atkins, a lawyer connected
with the Hamp' on-Columbian maya
zine has been arrested for using the
mails to defraud in selling stock in
the publishing corporation. 1t Is
thought the alleged swindle will
amount to $2,OOO,OOO
A Chicago man, accosted by po-
liceman, became literally dumb with
fright, recovering his voice only after
numerous medical treatments,
The contents of the New York
house of the late George Crocker will
be sold in January, 1912, The pro-
ceeds will be added to the Columbian
College fund for finding a cure for
cancer
Booth Harrington has been sued for
$4,000 damages by an Indianapolis
man who was run down by Tarking-
tons auto in July. Though the nov
elist was in Europe at the time, he is
held responsible as owner of the car.
Mrs Craig Biddle, Philadelphia So
ciety leader, smoked her after-lunch-
con cigarette in the crowded restau-
rant of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel.
Modern circuses are replacing
horse drawn vehicles by newer auto
mobile cage, band and baggage wag-
ons. Horses will only be used in the
circus for tricks and during parts Of
/ the performance.
A terrific cyclone sweeping through
| Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa caused
twenty deaths, many injuries and
thousands of dollars worth of dam
age.
zone grand beeg boob is zat porco
Caruso," says the tiny Trentini, the
opera singer who announced that she
and Caruso were to marry, only to
have Caruso deny the whole affair
and profess not to know her. Now
she is going to sue him for 100000
for breach of promise
Mrs Lillian Janeway-Platt, widow
of former United States Senator Plat
Of New York, has eloped with W. B.
,Atwater, a naval officer assigned to
the aeronautic and aeroplane squad.
I Evelyn Arthur See, leader of the
I"Absolue Life" cult, has been sen
fenced to prison for from one to five
years.
Two more arrests have been made
lin connection with the fraudulent sale
of the Columbian Magazine stock. The
prisoners are Lee Sidwell, treasurer,
and Eugene Yates, vice-president Of
the company.
Two women are employed by the
Treasury Department at Washington
who do nothing butt examine the con.
, tents of all waste baskets before the
contents are destroyed. They save
their annual salaries several hundred
times over by finding missing valu
able papers that inadvertently got in
, the baskets.
, Included in the Des Moines, la
, plan of city government is municipal
matrimonial bureau. All lonely PEG
, pie who are matched through the
q bureau will be married by the mayor
free of charge.
Mr. High Costofliving is knocke,
p out A Chicago man is demonstrating
8 that a person can live on $S2.26 ;
year, by what he terms the clearing
o. house cooperative system" NJ
p money is used in this clearing house
n however.
The Postoffce Department is hay
q ing a hard time getting enough ste
!. nographers, bookkeepers and type
o. writer's on account of the low salarie
:. the government pays for these posi
q tons
r The government is making eXhaus
r tive tests and comparisons to deter
4. mine whether the automobile shal
e. take the place Of the army mule. L
# to date the mule is holding his owl
o The superintendent of the Unite
, States military academy at Yves
o Point reports many of the cadets wo.
f fully deficient in English. Tie ask
for power to fill vacancies in the ST.
f dent body not to exceed thirty whic
v have not been filled by the regula
r entrance examinations.
n Champ Clark declares that tn
4 splendid record of the SiXty-secon
.ConVraee will anabIa the Democrat