The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-14
THE WORLDS NEWS
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Especial report to The Star from San FrancscoJ


Robert Bacon, former ambassador
to France, is again to become a part
ner in j. Pierpont Morgan & Co. He
resigned his financial position when
he was appointed assistant Secretary
of State.
! Representative J. M. Nelson of Wis
consin claims to have uncovered n
conspiracy existing between the beef
packing interests and certain high
officials in the Department of Agri.
culture, whereby thousands of dis
eased cattle are slaughtered weekly
and sold to the public.
Only one of the Titanic's dead
picked up by the steamer Nina died
of drowning The remaining sixteen
died of exposure
An unidentified negro who attacked
a white man at Greenville, Miss, was
lynched an hour later by mob.
Congress has been asked to probe
the cost of living. The House passed
a bill authorizing the coinage Of three
cent pieces and half-cent pieces.
Entries are being sought for the
Vanderbilt cup race, which will take
place some time in September on the
new Greenfield course at Milwaukee.
A monument will be erected to
mark the grave of Sarah Hodgeman
at North Bellerica, Mass. In 1911 she
sacrificed her life to nurse a family
, of victims of the smallpox epidemic
Two New Workers having wagered
, to "eat their hats" If the Massachu.
sets primaries went against their
favorites, were literally doing so
when interrupted by the police.
Senator Smith has announced that
there will be no more public hear
ings in the Titanic investigation.
In spite of the trouble with press
men and stereotypers, the Chicago pa
pers managed to get out their regular
editions on Monday.
The question of the intermixing Of
Atlantic and Pacific fish after the
! opening of the Panama canal is in
teresting the natural historians of the
country. Fisheries experts have made
a collection for the Smithsonian In
stitute of the fish now found in the
canal zone.
The Ultonia of the Cunard line lost
Der port propeller in an ice field in
the Gulf of st. Lawrence.
Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt, Jr., who
was operated on for appendicitis re-
Gently, has had a relapse and is in
serious condition
The place of Major Archibald Butt
as personal, aide to President Taft
will remain untitled, as no one is pos
sessed of the necessary requirements
to fill it.
A clubhouse will be erected at 44th
and Vanderbilt streets, New York, for
the "sons of old Eli" This Yale club
house will be the largest in the world
and will cost 100000.
Senator Works of California is op.
posing the formation of national bu.
reau of sanitation with the addition
of doctor to the presidents cabinet
because he is an ardent Christian
Scientist.
New York bankers will oppose the
Ashbrook bill which provides for the
coinage of the half cent piece. Thcy
claim that it would be confusing and
of no service.
Serious rioting by striking miners
hae occurred in the hard coal fields of
Pennsylvania.
Ambassador Calero from Mexico has
not yet presented his credentials at
Washington. His hostile attitude to
ward this country has resulted in, a
rather cold official reception.
According to the will of the late Johr
Jacob Aston his young wife must re
remain single or give up her $4,000,
+ 900 trust fund Astor left $3,0OO,OO'
3 10 the unborn heir.