Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-10-07

A series of anonymous letters sent
to prominent society women of San
Francisco for the purpose of making
trouble between husbands and wives
is being investigated.
Captain Matthias Johnson of Port
land, Me-, has reached Atlantic City
on his way from Maine to San Fran.
cisco in a small, open boat, formerly
gig attached to the cruiser Olympia.
The Spanish cabinet has decided
that the government shall participate
officially in the Panama-Pacific expo
sition. -
The Maier pier at Venice, Cal, was
partially destroyed by blast OF dyna-
mite. The pier was. in state of
construction and the loss is estimated
at So 1000.
The police of Toxic have discov-
cred a plot to assassinate the Japa-
nese minister of foreign affairs and
dynamite the foreign Office.
Prince Henry, the third son of
King George of England, has entered
Elton. He is Ii years old.
George F. Tilton of Los Angeles, Or
iginator of the Tilton Trolley Trips in
LAC fIS1ulIg Vi budI
suicide because of business failures.
A rebel band was routed from the
police barracks at Guayaquil, Ecua-
dor, which they had captured but
were unable to hold. .. ##-
Members Of the Royal Spanish
Guard, composed of scions of the
most prominent families Of Madrid,
rebeled when ordered to Morocco to
fight for their country. One man was
killed and several injured before the
mutiny was quelled. =
A great naval demonstration is be-
ing planned by the British admiralty
to take place in November in the
Mediterranean.
The trustees of the Vanderbilt Uni
yersity, Nashville, Tenn, were con-
demned by the conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South
for having accepted q $1,000,000 en-
dowment from Andrew Carnegie.
The estate of the late William j.
Gaynor is estimated at 100000. His
married daughters received only
$1,000 each. The share of his son Ru-
fus he placed in the hands of trust
.ees until he shall have reached the
age of 30.
A number of students were ex-
PEELED from German university be-
cause they refused to drink beer in
celebration of the kaiser's jubilee.
The Catholic party in Mexico has
nominated FREDERICK Gamboa, minis
ter of foreign affairs, as candidate FOR
the presidency. r. II. ~.
A train wreck in the yards at Indi-
ina, Pa, resulted in serious injuries
to four officials of the Buffalo, Ro-
chester & Pittsburg Railroad.
. The sea-going tugboat Gatun was.
passed through the Gatun locks-thei
first vessel to be put through the Pa
mama Canal. =. " s@..sa
Lady Jane Molesworth, widow Of
Sir Lewis William Wordsworth, was
stung on the jugular vein by a wasp
and died within half an hour at her
home in London. She was the daugh-
ter of Brigadier General Daniel NJ.
Frost, u. s. A., Of St Louis. =
Mrs J. Romeo Migiietta, the di-
vosced wife of Charles G. Gates, died
at the Ritz-Carlton 4. Hotel in New
York two weeks after the birth of a
daughter. -
The National Federation of Settle
ments meeting at Lillian Home near
Pittsburg passed a resolution favor
ing/th teaching of sex hygiene in the
public schools. -.
John d. Rockefeller has just cele-
brated the fifty-eighth anniversary of
his first position in Cleyeland--when
he started in at a week with a COM
firm. - r~ -.
Jane adams publicly commends
the present tendency in women's |
dress. She believes the fewer clothes !
a woman wears with modesty the bet |
ter. - s.t%" i
A woman Of Centralia, ILL.,, gave
birth to bankruptcies. The physicians |
believe all four sons will live. /
Archbishop Prendergast has ap-
pointed chaplain to the Catholic stu
dents at the University Of Pennsyl- !
vania !
The London Standard declares that I
Colombia, backed by English capital, !
could construct an ocean-tO-Ocean ca