Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-06
EASTERN NEWS.

CHo ChN NE"0'
! Herman Ridder, who has been
| treasurer of the Democratic National
| Committee for the past four years,
has been selected to fill that psoition
! .or the ensuing four years.
! 1t is reported in New York that the
| Great Northern railway is contem-
! plating extensive improvements, and
will issue new capital securities.
During the last fiscal year the gov
eminent received over $6,415 contri-
buttons to the sconscience fund.
Philadelphia's new public bath
house had just been completed when
IL was discovered that no provision
had been made for connecting up
with any water
Harry Thaw has again lost his suit
for freedom and must remain in the
Natteawan asylum. 1t is estimated
that his case has already cost him
nearly $1,000,000 and the State $780,
coo.
w. Cameron Forbes, Governor-Gen-
eral of the Philippines, is reported
i'll at New Bedford, Mass, where he
Is spending the summer. IT.
A pitched battle between whites
and blacks in Georgia resulted in the
fatal shooting of the sheriff and Che
injury of two other white men.
l. A small boy stole a satchel in New
York and on opening it found $500
600 in checks and currency. The
amount so terrified him that he gave
himself up. The svalise belonged sto
; the United Cigar Stores Company
Robert NJ Cunlyiff, retired mer-,
chant of Philadelphia, while laughing
at one of his own jokes, was seized
with an attack of heart disease which
proved fatal.
Fearful of the storm which threat
ened to wreck their boat on Lake
Conneaut, Pa, two women jumped
into the water and were drowned
A wooden platform built over ra-
vine at an open air theatre in Wheel
ing, w. Va. collapsed, precipitatingI
200 Masons and their families Is feet
into the ravine. Thirty persons were
seriously injured, one fatally.
Thirteen Detroit councilmen are
under arrest for graft in connection
with grant of city land to be used
as a. terminal by the Wabash rail
roadsk aDictagraph testimony and
hniRrked money. will be used as yeyi-
dcnce. n
A Michigan Central train struck an
automobile near Toledo, Ohio. kill
ing six persons. ;...:
A bomb was exploded in a New
York East Side tenement. The lower
~ - hail A.
no one was hurt. -
The servants who accompanied
Mrs. Mcnamara. wife of a San Fran
cisco millionaire banker, on her sen
sational flight from that city, have
been arrested at the Knickerbocker
Hotel in New, York. Mrs. Mcnamara
Is paralytic and her husband be-
lieVes that Mrs. Perkins, her house.
keeper, exerting q strange influence, |
lhstigated the flight. " i
Another battalion of troops has |
been ordered to fight the riot of min
ers in West Virginia.
Jack" Sullivan, known in New
York as the king of the newsies," is !
being held on the charge of being i'm.
plicated in the murder of Rosenthal. !
Chicago is growing poetic. A mag
azine of verse is to be published there
financed by 100 citizens who have
subscribed $4,000 a year for five
years.
Four bathers in the Kankakee river,
Illinois, were sucked down by
whirlpool and drowned .....,.. |
A memorial to William Mckinley
is to be erected at Niles, Ohio, the
birthplace of the martyred President.
One hundred thousand dollars is TO
be raised, $4,000 of which has al.
ready been pledged by, citizens of
the town.
A woman Of South Philadelphia
who has attained the age of 104
claims that she could beat any wo-
man over so in race to the top OF
the City Hail.. 1.s
Because jealous, a young girl OF
Chicago killed her fiance and then
herself in their home-to-be-.'
Political note-The Bull Moose"
Eraoer consists of a third French
Yarmouth, third Italian Yarmouth,
& third gin, spoonful of maraschino
Serve frappe.