The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-24

l e. L. Baldwin, a prominent drug
gist of San Francisco committed sui
eide by shooting himself He had been
seriously i'll from stomach trouble
]. NJ. Studebaker, the famous car
riage and automobile builder, is visit
ing Placerville, known as "Hangtown"
fifty years ago in California Here
Studebaker began his fortune by build
7 ing wheelbarrows for miners.
{ The government has brought suit
against the Southern Pacific to re-
cover 100000 acres of oil and other
lands in California valued at $4,000
600.
Petitions are now being circulated
among the Ohio militia which are to|
be forwarded to the President calling
upon him to remove Secretary of Wat
Stimson from office. He opposed a
militia bill.
General Orozco of the Mexican rebel
army has turned about-face in his eff.
forts to insult Americans and is now
most anxious to come to terms with
Washington.
The Home Rule bill passed its first
reading in the English House of Com
mons by vote of 800 to 226.
It is said that Prince Adelbert, the
sailor son of the Kaiser, has fallen
desperately in love with Miss Won Ort-
we'll, a wealthy American girl from
Mississippi He is now engaged in
"having it out" with his parents.
Clifford Pinchot, formerly an ardent
La Toilette man, is to make a speech
making tour of the Coast in the in
) terests of Roosevelt, following on the
heels of La Follette's stumping tour.
'Sir" Harry Westwood Cooper big
amist and all around crook, who elop-
ed from Oakland with nurse some
months ago, has just been caught in
London.
p Miss Harriet Quimby, a California
aviatress, sailed across the English
! channel. She is the first airwoman to
= accomplish this feat.
Y Thomas Dunbar, one of California S
pioneers who at one time owned over
+ 100 acres of land adjoining the site
= of San Francisco's civic center, wa.
5 found without money or food in Tracy
He is ninety-eight years old and wal
/ walking to Fresno, being too proud
;. to beg.
T. A balloon making a fight in Swift
n zerlsnd with pilot and three pas
. sengeEs blew against a rock and threw
2 out the pilot and two of the men thel
sailed up to $1,000 feet with the thir,
n man who was totally ignorant of hand
+ ling it.
e The floods along the Mississippi
q have driven the inhabitants from 1Ol
+ square miles in two days Tallulah
Louisiana, is under water
During the ceremonies in connec
ton with the laying of the corner
II stone of a church in Harrington Park
, n. D. the floor collapsed, throwing
4 300 people into the basement, hllint
;. two and injuring many
Miss NIathilde NIoissant, aviatrix
+ while landing after her final trip
b struck a ridge of earth, the frame
# work of the machine crumpled GnC
= caught fire, and if help had not beer
~ close at hand, Miss Moissant hersel
n would have been seriously burned
Jessie w. Walters, solicitor of thu
o city court of Albany Georgia, sho
II himself because of the exposure of hi
6 marriage to a negress-an incident
I'm his life which his enemies brough
q forth as a political weapon. At thu
!. time of his marriage he believed the
d girl to be white.
4 Miss Jennie Crocker, the wealthes
+ of CALIFORNIA; heiresses, has announc
{ ed her engagement to Malcolm d
!. Whitman, New York lawyer and all
Q round athlete, especially noted on thu
e tennis court.
i! The worst storm of the year in Mon
+ tana and Wyoming is reported. Rail
r. roads and telegraph lines are hamper
Il ed by the great snowfall which Is
said to be three feet deep in the noun
It tains.
d The Santa Fee railroad system pro
Il poses to tunnel the San Bernardin'
mountains at Capon Pass in order t.
e avoid the heavy grade.
l. General Arthur Murray left Sal
D. Francisco rather suddenly for the cas-
and it is rumored that he may sue
T. coed the late General Grant as com
e mander of the Eastern Division.
el A Stockton, Cal, man is suspecteI
e in connection with the murder o
George March, an elderly manufac
a ture of Lynn, Mass. The accused ma
+ is a nephew Of Marchs niece VIII
o lives in Stockton.
L. Italian forces attempting to land Of
p Tripol were attacked by Arabs VIII