The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-09
CONDENSED NEWS
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brook Valley, N. ", that the Mine.
Vile dam had broken. They fed to
the hills and from that place Of per
sonal safety watched their homes
swept away by the food
Two young men of Martins Ferry, a
suburb Of Philadelphia, fought a duel
with shot-guns over woman. One
was killed and the other fatally
wounded.
George Borup OF New York and
Samuel Case of Norwich, Conn, were
drowned in Long Island sound by the
overturning of their power canoe by
storm. Borup accompanied Peary
on his North Pole expedition.
1t is said that j. Bruce Ismay is on
the verge of serious collapse as a
result of the severe criticism to which
his actions at the time of the Titanic
disaster have been subjected.
A group of prominent bankers in
Wall Street, all of whom were per
sonal friends of Captain Smith Of the
Titanic, have started a fund for the
benefit of the widow and daughter,
and for a memorial to the brave mar
iner
It is feared that all bodies not al
ready picked up by the coffin ships
have found their final grave. The
Mackay- Bennett has recovered 1870
bodies
The Supreme Court has held that
Alaska is an organized territory rath-
er than mere district and that the
Interstate commerce laws extend to
It.
Colonel Goethals may resign as the
canal head rather than undertake the
opening of the canal without proper
~ trained administrative force for
which congress has not yet provided
funds.
The house military committee held
an interesting session over the Sui
ger bill, which provides for two more
Chaplains for the army. Several pro
minent Jews addressed the commit
tee, urging that one If not both of
these chaplains should be of the Jew
Ism faith.
The North German Lloyd steamer
bremen, which has just locked at
New York, passed through sea Of
Lodies, victims of the Titanic disas-
ter.
The government has vested author
ity in the Alaskan legislature to grant
suffrage to women.
Mrs. Taft has started the "women's
Titanic memorial fund" for the cree
ton in Washington. of a monument
to the men who gave their lives for
the women. A subscription of 81 is
asked from every woman in the coun.
try.
William H. Moore has been elected
head of the Rock Island railway sys-
tenn to succeed Robert S. Walker.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor expects to
become a mother the latter part of
June. Her physicians state that her
health was not seriously endangered
by the hardships she endured in the
recent disaster.
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famous confidence men who had ship
ped on the Titanic expecting to reap
a harvest were lost when the steamer
sank.
Rear-Admiral Chauncey Thomas has
Teen placed on the retired list of the
navy. He was appointed to the ma
val academy from Pennsylvania in
1867.
Names of the stockholders of the
Standard Oil company of Indiana were
made public in Wall street for the
first time. John D. Rockefeller heads
the list with 74,46O shares.
With a physicians statement that
| Clarence Richeson, the minister who
murdered his fiance, is "irresponsi-
lie" his lawyers will appear before
Governor Foss and request "A COM
mutation of sentence.
H. H. Rogers, Jr., son of the former
Standard Oil man, withdrew his ap-
rlication from the Union League Club
of New York when he heard that he
would be rejected.
DIR. Allen Gentry, a former Phila-
delphia practitioner, has been arrested
fer stealing at least five high-priced
automobiles. He had disposed of them
to unsuspecting persons at good
price.
The Red Cross has sent out anoth-
er urgent appeal for aid, saying that
over million people arc starving in
China at the present time. The Red
Cross Society wants to raise $780,