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

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
| ii 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
Matteawan asylum. 1t is estimated
that his case has already cost him
nearly $1,000,0O0 and the State $780,
600.
w. Cameron Forbes, Governor-Gen.
eral of the Philippines, is reported
i'll at New Bedford, Mass, where he
IS spending the summer.
A pitched battle between whites
and blacks in Georgia resulted in the
fatal shooting of the sheriff and the
injury of two other white men.
A small boy stole 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 valise belonged to
the United Cigar Stores Company.
Robert M. Gunlyiff, retired mer-
chant of Philadelphia, while laughing
az one of his own jokes, was seized
with7a 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, precipitating
200 Masons and their families Is feet
into the rayine. Thirty persons were
seriously injured, one fatally.
Thirteen Detroit councilmen are
under arrest for. graft in connection.
with a grant of city land to be used
as a terminal by the Wabash rail-
road. Dictagraph testimony and
marked money will be- used as evil
stienoek ii Z 4lE /: - +, e.. -.
A MichigAn Central train struck an
auto4obilek near Toledo, Ohio, kill.
ing six persons.
A bomb was exploded in a New
York East Side tenement. The lower
part of the building was wrecked but
no one was hurt. sf+s /
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 Knickerbo ecker
Hotel ID New York. Mrs. Mcnamara
is a paralytie and her husband be,
lieves that Mrs. Perkins, her house
instigated the flight.
Another battalion of troops has
beeh ordered to fight the riot of min.
iers 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 al
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 toI
be raised, 5000 of which has al
ready been pledged by citizens of
the. town. /
ss A woman of South Philadelphia
who has attained the age of 104 |
claims that she could beat any wo-
nan over so in race to the top OF
the City Hall.
Because jealous, young girl oil
Chicago, killed her fance and then
herself In their home-to-be+.
Political note-The Bull Moose"
Hracer consists of a third French !
Nermouth, third Italian Yarmouth,
& third gin, spoonful of maraschino. |
Serve trappe.