The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-05

tOunCll OF the Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite Masons for the Southern
Jurisdiction.
Chicagos plan of sharing in the |.
earnings of public service corporations
brought $3S5,192 into the city treas
ury from the Commonwealth Edison
Electric Co. This is an increase of
100000 over last lear.
A church treasurer in a w. Virginia
church was robbed of the mornings
collection by a masked robber who
met him as he stepped into the vestry
room with the collection to count it.
1t has come out that the United
States senators and others concerned
in the Lorimer investigation are be-
ing followed by Lorlmer spies in an
effort to discredit witnesses against
Lorimer.
John D. Rockefeller secretly depart
ed from his home at Celeveland, Ohio,
and returned to his Tarrytown home.
1t is thought he returned to New York
for secret conference regarding the
Standard Oil reorganization.
The Interstate-C Commerce Commits
sion has stopped the Santa Fe Rail-
road from raising freight rates APP
proXimately 10 per cent on cereals.
]. A. Wells, Jr., son of a Pittsburg
millionaire, was found penniless and
forlorn in the streets of San Fran
CISCO He ran away from home years
ago and has been a wanderer ever
since.
The new dreadnaught Utah, recent
lI launched at Rockland, Me-, has
attained speed of over q knots, and
has made good in every way.
Alaskan coal is lost to the Cunning
ham claimants. Secretary Fisher of
the Interior Dept. has reversed Bal
fingers findings, holding that fraudu-
lent entries were made
Mrs. Jenkins, an adventures who
toured Europe with Nathan Allen, of
Kenosha, Wis, who is organizer of
the leather trust, and multi-mlllion-
aire, posing as Aliens wife, has eX-
posed him, and will sue for a return of
securities he gave her, and then took
back.
Four Italians were fatally wounded,
and several men badly injured in a
race war between Italians and Amer
leans in West Virginia in a colliery
town.
Fourteen lumber dealers have been
indicted by the Chicago Grand Jury
for violating the antitrust law.
Rodman Wanamaker, son of John
Wanamaker, the noted merchant, has
taken $4,5OO,OOO life insurance. This
amount is far greater than that Of
any other person in the world.
Captain Fleming Day of New York
has commenced a 1000 mile sea voy-
age from New York to Rome, in a %
foot yawl.
Some of Senator Lorimer's slush
fund hackers have been revealed in
testimony as being Roger Sullivan.
Democratic national committeeman
from Illinois, E. s. Conway, president
OF the W. w. Kimball Co., and Wager
hauser
The Senate committee of territor-
les reported favorably the House res,
olution admitting New Mexico and
Arizona to statehood, with some
changes in the respective constitu-
tions.
The United Fruit Company has been
sued for S3,5OO,OOO damages by the
receiver of the Bluefields Steamship
Co. which was forced into bankruptcy
by merging with the United. The suit
is instituted under the Sherman anti.
trust act.
The Federal Circuit Court has ruled
that the Union Pacific-Southern Paci-
fic merger was legal. The lines never
competing in all respects there was
no violation of the antitrust law is
the edict.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
named fifty additional postal savings
depositaries, making a total OF 500
postal savings banks.
The House of Representatives
sticks to the rights of the states, and
refuses to concur in the direct cleo.
ton amendment by a strict party
vote.
Captain Isaac Emerson, "Bromo-
Settler King" recently divorced, is
now reported engaged to Mrs. Annie
Preston Mccormick, of Baltimore.
All children can be turned into
prodigies according to DR.. Boris Sidis,
whose thirteen year old son is finish.
ing his second year at Harvard. In
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