The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-26
THE WORLDS NEWS CONDENSED
Especial mail report to The Star from San Francisco)
LATEST NEWS BULLETIN.

~ 20 NEWS BOIIe I'm.
Originating on the Day the Steamer
Sailed.)
The government has brought suit
in Los Angeles to dissolve the plum
bling trust, in which many large Pa
citic Coast jobbing firms are inter
ested. The iobbers have been anxious
to quite for some time and have had
peace emissar1es in Washington for
some time.
The Crown Princess Cecelie, wife
of Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm of
Germany, has given birth to a son.
J. Percival Pollard, author and play
wright, has just died at Philadelphia
at the age of AZ years.
The Pope is somewhat i'll, a slight
fever resulting from his recent eXer-
tions when the new American car
dinals were appointed.
William H. DAILY, mining engineer of
San Francisco and New York, has
brought suit for 100000 libel against
Gelett Burgess, the author, for being
lridiculed in Burgess novel, The
Heart Line" He was described as an
| inordinate eater.
San Francisco's supervisors have
set off a bomb-shell by instructing the
!polce that dancing, singing, laughing
or cork-popping shall be forbidden on
New Years eve this year-which
fcomes on Sunday A famous San
Francisco event bids fair to become
extinct, and if you listen you can hear
the restaurant keepers swear even if
you are in Honolulu.
BY the terms of four documents filed
/ in Santa Ana, Cal, yesterday, Nat
Goodwin gives his last wife Edna
Goodrich 100000, payable in three in
stallments.
Nearly a thousand guests were driv-
en- to the streets in Chicago last night
while thirty-seven fire companies after
a desperate fight saved the Kaiserhof,
the Victoria and the Stafford hotels.
No one was injured so far as is known.
The Commercial Travellers National
League has notified hotelkeepers that
after January / the rule of members
of the league will be mo tips" The
Hotel Employers Association has al
ready declared for adequate wages in
place of tips.
Eleven people were killed and a
score injured when a locomotive
crashed into a Pullman sleeper on
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul train
at Odessa, MINI.
There are 1888 more girls than boys
attending California high schools, and
1892 girl graduates against 1864 boy
graduates this year.
A reward of $4,000 is said to await
the person who succeeds in assassin
ating Francisco Madero, MeXico's
president. The money is said to have
been deposited In a New York bank
by reactionaries.
over 100000 is to be spent at once
to double the berthing capacity of San
Franciscos ferry depot, in anticipa-
ton of the worlds fair business.
Since December l the New York
postofiice has received 27,104 sacks of
mail from incoming steamers and has
issued S6,745,744 worth of money or
ders to be sent abroad.
A Los Angeles woman attacked by.
a tramp fought for an hour and finally
tied the man up with her apron and
lashed him to a veranda post while
she ran for help.
The Wabash railway, a Gould road,
has been placed in the hands of re-
ceivers in a friendly effort to straight
en- out its financial condition.
The son Of General Reyes is under
arrest at Morelia, Mexico, charged
with melting a revolt against the
Mexican government
Secretary of the Interior Fisher told
the congress of Western Governors
that he favored the leasing system of /
government lands.
A wave of robberies is sweeping .
over Portland, Oregon, and many eX-
ira policemen have been ssworn in in
an attempt to end the burglaries in
the city's business section.