Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-07

Chairman Hilles of the Republican
national committee save out state
h ment today in which he says:
Republicans throughout the coun-
try; right-thinking citizens and fair
minded men, fully realize the political
situation in California. Governor John
/ son, who is the candidate for Vice
President on the third-term ticket,
E controls the election machinery. When
he abandoned the Republican party
he should have. in common decency,
surrendered the Republican party's af-
fairs into the hands fof Republicans. !"
/ The New York district attorneys Of
flee expressed satisfaction today in
/ the discovery of salvation Army girl
who was an eyewitness to the murder
OF Herman Rosenthal the Unknown
gambler. II is said she can identity
several or all of the men involved in
| the shooting.
/ Another witness, a member of the
Elk Club here, has been traced to.
Troy, New York, and an assistant dis
trict attorney was dispatched there
last night. ~. .S.s;.
Shortly before Dark this evening,
the largest pontoon ever constructed
IVES launched at the Union Iron
Works, San. Francisco. The pontoon
is 125 feet long, seventy feet wide and
twenty-four feet deep, and steel
lthroughout. 1t is to be toWed to Pearl
Harbor, Honolulu. and electrically OPP
f<a1 he irc IN
deck.
Cornelius N. Bliss Jr. is to be asked
to testify before the Senate commit
tee investigating campaign contribu-
tions. The Senators think he might
held local written evidence of the
Hartman and Standard Oil contribu-.
tons to the Republican presidential
campaign of 1904. eg. ~
Adjutant General andrews today
telegraphed to Mrs. Macarthur and
the two sons of the head officer, Cap
tain Douglas Macarthur, u. S. A., at
FIT. Leavenworth, and Lieutenant
Commander Arthur Macarthur, Jr.,
in the naval war college in Newport,
r. l., to learn their wishes about par
ticipation of the army in the funeral
service. t.. RI .. z-f..-ss III. 4 I
Mrs. Arthur Macarthur, widow of
Lieutenant-Gene Macarthur, who
became unconscious when informed |
of the sudden death of her. husband |
last night, while attending banquet |
of the survivors of his old regiment, /
the Twenty-fourth Wisconsin Volun- |
teers, has regaincd consciousness and |
no immediate change for the worse is |
expected by physicians. in attendance. |
She is still on the verge of death.
United States naval, forces in Nj
caragua are taking steps to prevent |
the revolution being aided by filibust-
ering expeditions through, the Bay OF
Fonseca. Rear-Admiral Switzerland
reported to the navy department to-
day that he was taking drastic mea-
sures to close up the route of ingress
at that point.
Dr.. Philip Newton, speeding home
ward on Pacific steamship from a
scientific expedition in the Philippine
Islands for the Smithsonian Institu- +
tion, is ignorant that his bride-to-be
was buried here today.
Alice Dorothy Nixon, who was
near Washington yesterday
while attempting to save companion
was the fiancee. A cablegram to Ma
Mia informing Doctor Newton that
the bride he was hurrying home to
claim had been drowned, missed him
by few hours. II
Miss Frances Ford is under arrest
here charged with being an accessory