Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-11-07
EASTERN NEWS.

4. sOilcS. "
i s, A., retired, has just died at his
home in Portland, Maine. at the age
/ of 60. He was in charge of the San
francisco Preside at the time of the
Earthquake.
i 1t has just been made public that
six months ago historic emerald ring
given to General Grant by the emper-
or of Japan and inherited by his
daughter, Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris
Jones, was lost down q. waste pipe of
la New York hotel The insurance
company after searching the sewers
paid the $4,000 for which the ring had
been insured.
4 The Society of Jesuits in America
lis much exercised over the disappear
ance of one OF its most distinguished
members, Father Bernard Vaughan.
/ He was last heard from in Vancouver,
land was reported to be III. 1t is fear
ed that his mind has become affected
on his way east
j. Pierpont Morgan has promised a
4 100000 library and administration
building to Trinity College at Hart
1 ford. Conn. His total gifts to the coll
|ilege amount to $3,700,O00.
Nineteen persons of Anderson, Ind,
watching workmen repairing a trolley
wire. were stricken blind by terrific
flash of electricity.
Fl John T. Meehan, the well-known
\ owner of Dolan,s beef and restaur-
ant of New York, has just died in New
York, leaving an estate valued at
i 81 ,000, 600.
rsaf.a;,.. xyan,.l., Ia,i,,<,,a 49,,
York bachelor and a former promi-
nent baseball player at Yale, is on his
way to California. presumably to get
him a wife.
An Ingenious youth of Sterling, H.,
is in jail because he stole the trous-
seau of his former fiancee and ruined
it with generous applications of indel-
ible ink
DR.. Carl L. Alsberg. chemical biol
ogist in the bureau of plant industry
at Washington, is mentioned as can
didate to succeed Dr. Wiley, as chief
of the bureau of chemistry.
Irwin c. Stump, an elderly mining
man and pioneer Californian, was
seriously injured by falling down the
Elevator shaft of New York apart
ment house.
John Bernauer. who confessed to
the robbery of j. p Morgan and other
New York millionaires. was sentenced
to from five to ten years impfison-
ment.
Three thieves entered the office of
lone of the Prudential Insurance COM
pany's New York branches and after
gagging the woman cashier, robbed
the safe of $1,000.
Gen. John s. Mosby, the famous
Confederate officer, is to undergo an
| operation for kidney trouble at the
Garfield hospital, Washington.
H. K. King, an elderly banker of
Idaho, was sentenced to five years in
the federal prison at Leavenworth for
making false reports.
A young couple from Fort Wayne,
Indiana, flew 20 miles to Hillsdale,
Mich, in the young mans biplane, and
were married. The brides parents,
who had objected to the match, wired
that they would forgive them if they
would come back by train. ~
Thurston U. Vaughn of South Caro-
lima has been sentenced to death for
attacking three little girls. =.-.
Fl A $40 contribution has been receiv-
ed from the municipal council of AK
les Bains, France, for monument to
be erected to the late Harriet Quimby,
the ayiatrix.
The friends of the Jesuit leader, Fa-
Their Vaughn are denying the report Of
his Illness and subsequent disappear
ance They say he is in New York
and is soon to lecture in the western
states. 60.
The new superdreadnought of the
United States navy, the 27,O00-ton bat
tleship New York, is to be launched
with much ceremony. President Taft
land Secretary of the Navy Meyer will
be present at the launching.
s. Mrs Jack Geraghty, the Newport
heiress who married a chauffeur last
summer, and her mother, Mrs. Amoe
Tuck French, have been reconciled .af-
ter the estrangement caused by the
elopement.
3 Col Roosevelt celebrated his fifty
fourth birthday with. his family at
Oyster Bay.
| A papal blessing was read by Car
ldinal Farley of New York at the dedi-
cation Of the Immaculate Conception
cathedral at Denver.