The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-03
EASTERN NEWS.

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| Mrs. Julius Kruttschnitt, who has
gone to live in New York, calls the
400" there a set of bores as she has
found the best society" everywhere
to be.
Congressman Kahn of California in
tends to put up strong fight for the
use of oil-burners on the government
transports along the Pacific coast.
The life sentence of Mrs. Angela
Funk of Milwaukee has been commut-
ed to twenty-five years
Henry II. Marmaduke has been APP
pointed agent of the naval war rec
ords office of the naval department
at Washington,
Wright Lorimer, the actor, com
mitted suicide by asphyxiation at his
home in New York Financial diff
culties, for which in a final note he
blames Manager VIM. Brady, are be.
lieved to have caused the tragedy
The contract for carrying the mails
between this country and Australia
has been granted to the Oceanic
Steamship Company of San Francis
CO. The contract with the Euglish-
Australian line now carrying those
mails will be cancelled.
A forty-pound turkey was sent to
Taft from Rhode Island
The Countess Won Butcher, who
claims to be the widow of a descend.
ant of the famous Butcher of Water.
loo, is in Jail for New York for in.
toxication.
Vinson Mclean, known as the S100,
100000 baby entertained the Russian
ambassador Admiral Dewey, the Dan
ish ambassador and others at his third
Christmas celebration.
Four promoters who have netted
millions in two years as the Burr
Brothers, Inc, by selling fraudulent
stock, have been sentenced to years
Imprisonment on Blackwell's Island
In President Taft's message to Con
gress concerning the wool tariff, he
condemns the present method of levy
ing duty, and suggests that scrubbed
wool be assessed, and outlines a grad
uated scale of ad valorem rates on
cloth
Rear Admiral Rodgers, prominent
at the battle of Santiago, has retired
from the service. No promotion fol
lows his retirement as he was an ex
ira number.
Miss Henrietta JOY, daughter of the
late Professor JOY of Columbia Uni
versity, has married Captain Thee
dore Eldridge of the British navy
The establishment of an American
bank in Nicaragua has been proposed
The government is proceeding will
the grand jury investigation in tn,
case of the American Sugar Refinini
Company.
In a message to congress dealini
with currency reform, Presiden
Taft declared himself opposed to an.
consolidation of the banking power
of the country.
Taft has been assured of the SUI
port of the New York Republican
county delegation in the coming ma
tional convention.
n The founders of the New York new
1fhaafar proiaot bova obapdOpad III
undertaking after spending severa
oFminionb dollars in an attempt to max
tlpracticable
Ip1JThe court Of Lee County, virgins
lphas called all those selling their vote
d in the recent election 10 appear an
confess and thus escape prosecution.
~ Charles w: Morse IS still CRITICAL
} i'll at Atlanta, Ga. .uaaJudd 10
1Ho Colonel Henry Watterson3 editor o
the Louisville Courier-J otHhaP has de
clared that if Roosevelt is put in tn
1lWhite House in 1912 he will never b.
fgot out again except feet first III"
The mayor and Inayofess of indian
apol1s, VINO are .waging' an 'effectiv
war on high Prices, Went into the MAJ
1Iket before Christmas and sold iiv
chickens and turkeys, walnuts AM
!, mineemeat at cut rates. 'di a.
J over 1900 viii attend the cominI
peace dinner IN New New York Fl TAFT will
be the, guest Of honor coming Wit
nearly all his cabinet and the mem
hers wives and most of the ambassa
doris They will travel in cars ,proHd
lea by J, P. Morgan. s, 'i-' "'
Mrs. Upton Sinclair, wife Of tn,
author, is living with Harry Kemp
the Kansas poet in the wilds Of New
Jersey, while her husband is tryin
al to get a divorce in New York City.
Nd The wife of A, I. Erlanger, membe
tof the theatrical trust" firm of Klav
"a & Erlanger, has Just secured a divorce
4 beautiful chorus girl broke up he
I'd home. -.. ....... .....
,HH Peter G. Hams, Jr,r former capital
in the United States army, is about I
l.