Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-14


In gratitude for having restored his
appetite, Raymond Glib Brady, a
wealthy broker of New York, has
given $500 to the John Hopkins Hos
pital. a..
The British steamer Strathardle
went ashore yesterday at Angel ISL
and while going to the station for
Immigration. Tugs succeeded in pull
ingsh off at high water. ..~-
The steamship Corsican yesterday
struck an iceberg in the Straits Of
Belle Isle. Little damage resulted to
the vessel and she proceeded on her
way to Liverpool.
w. w. Rockhill, the minister to
Turkey, is giving serious considera-
ton to an offer made by China as
adviser to the new Chinese Republic.
William Spencer, carpenter IN
San Francisco, has been notified that
fortune of $4S,o00 has been left te
him by q deceased relative in New
Lexington, Ohio.
1t is stated that the stork is hover
ing over the residence of Mrs. John
Jacob Astor.,5 Mrs. Aston was one of
the few who were saved on the Tt
tanic. ;. ! =
b. Il to- iot To- hn ffrcf
flight across the English 0hannel in
an aeropIane, but has done mo flying
for over three years, has made appli-
cation for membership in the New
Friendly Society of Ayiators and will
take to the air again. - -.
r. An explosion OF fireworks in Au-
turn, N. Y..!g that we're being made for
the celebration Of the Feast of the
Ascension. killed five people.
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1t is predicted that If Taft signs the
Panama bill, which he is expected to
do shortly, Great Britain will file a
protest against the bill at The Hague.
Postmaster Copeland, of Byron,
Cal, has been arrested, for q diseov-
cred, shortage in his postal funds. He
claims that he used the money to
tide over some of his farmer friends.
Three thousand dead and at least
fifty thousand homeless is the last
report from the quake stricken dis
triet of Turkey. Conditions there are
stated to be almost unbelievable.
Opium valued at $22,500 is under
confiscation today and s. d. Williams,
railroad conductor running between
Los Angeles and Benson, Arizona, is
under arrest following raid upon a
house, In Chinatown. Williams is al
legged to have brought the drug to Los
Angeles in steamer trunks.
The Royal Mail Steam Packet Com
paRy has given orders to a Belfast
concern for four new 650-feet passeri-
ger liners for the Panama Canal SER
vice to meet expected severe German
competition.
A small menagerie belonging to the
Great Raymond, a magician appear
ing. in San Francisco, was refused
landing and condemned to the chloro-
form pit at Angel Island on account
of the danger of disease from animals
brought from the Orient. The ship
ment consisted of dogs, cats, geese,
rabbits and chickens.
81 expect to sign papers today or
tomorrow that will close arrangements
for a ten-round bout with Joe Jean
cite, in New York City" said Jack
Johnson yesterday. Il have decided to
fight this battle for the sake of my
wife only"
Mrs. Alice Brown, young divorce,
charged with having swind1ed David
Mapping, a wealthy Illinois farmer,
out of $1,000, was ordered extradited
today to San Francisco, where she
will have to face a charge of larceny.
Yesterday President Taft sent to
the Senate the nomination of Jacob
Gould Schurman, president of Cornell
University, to be minister from the
United States to Greece and Monte
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