Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-08-12
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Anna Held has left London a week
before her $1250-a-week contract had
expired. She did not take" so well
with the British audiences as with the
American.
Ten Japanese laborers crossed the
seas 5000 mile voyage-in a fifty
foot fishing junk and were Struggled
ashore near Eureka, Calf. Nine OF
them have been captured by the in
spectors
| Wells Fargo and Company may with
draw from California since the action
of the Railroad Commission ordering
a reduction in rates.
A Triptych by the Belgian painter.
nogier Van Der Weyden, was bought
by the French government for $780,
90. 1t will be transferred from the
collection of the Duke of Westminster
in London to the Louvre in Paris.
An armless woman, anxious to use
her new privilege of suffrage, voted
at an election In haywood, suburb
of Chicago, marking the ballot with
her foot
Driven mad by poverty and debts.
a j.
his wife and son and committed sui
eide in his cottage at Little Kings
hill, Bucks. He was brother of Tom
Gallon, author and playwright.
A double explosion in the East
Brookside Mine of the Philadelphia
and Reading coal and Iron company
near Tower city, Pa, resulted In the
death of eighteen men. Two others
were seriously injured.
Anxiety is felt for the Pope's
health, the hot weather which has
ing had weakening effect.
A japanese. boy lay down on a
southern Pacific track at jacksonville
junction, with his body across the
rails, and was killed by the train
which passed few minutes later He
was thought to have been homesick,
and so ended his life.
In a riot resulting from wage
controversy among hop pickers at
Wheatland, Cal, four men were kill
ed, and q number of hop pickers in
jured. A district attorney and deputy
sheriff were among the dead.
There is a rumor abroad to the eff
feet that Great Britain is planning to
establish great naval base in the
bermuda Islands
General Felix Diaz with his wife and
a retinue of aids and secretaries, Is
in San Francisco.
s. Osgood Pell, millionaire and soci-
ETY. leader of New York, was instantly
killed by Long Island railroad train
which crashed into the automobile in
which he was returning from a. din
ner given by w. X. Vanderbilt. Mrs
Pell was in Vanderbilt's car ahead.
The chauffeur was killed, and Mr.. and
Mrs Laimber badly injured. . .s,.
Four women constables have been
added to the Los Angeles police force.
They will aid in guarding department
stores against shop lifters.
Henry J. jeffrey of Woodbury., Conn.
lis at work keeping his bees on Con-
anecticut seal done in honey for exhi-
oition at the Panama-Pacific exposi-
ton.
The English press denies that the
refusal of England to exhibit In San
Francisco In 1916 was due to resent
ment over Panama Canal tolls.
I During the morning service at St
Paul's cathedral, London, chorus of
forty suffragettes chanted a prayer
for Emmeline Pankhurst, and were
forcibly removed by the ushers.
Thirteen persons we're killed and
thirty wounded in riot at Cawnpore,
india, over the destruction of por-
ton Of mosque for street improve
ments.
Emperor William has warned the
students in the German universities
against too free use Of alcoholic
drinks.