Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-11-28

faintness at the White House at the
reception following the wedding OF
Mr.. Sayre and Miss Jessie Wilson. He
was assisted to an adjoining room
where he quickly recovered. Il
Thanksgiving dinner was the most
expensive holiday meal the American
people have eaten for 25 years, &C
cording to government statistics 1t
cost from 35 to 100 per cent more
than it did 10 years ago, and so per
cent more than any Thanksgiving
dinner during the last six years, say
the figures.
All French spinsters and bachelors
older than 80, unless they have at
least three persons depending on
them, are to be subject to an increase
of 20 per cent on the income tax i'm
posed by the bill now under consid-
Grafton in the French chamber of
deputies.
John H. McGurk. at one time pro-
prietor of a notorious resort known
as Suicide Hail." on the Bowery of
New York city, who died in Califor-
mia in January last, left an estate
valued at $102,739, according to the
appraisal filed Wednesday.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Bowes Sayre
arrived at the home of T. Harrison
Garrett, on the outskirts of Baltimore
at noon yesterday. and had Thanks
giving dinner with the Carrots They
were discovered about o'clock, and
immediately left in an automobile for
an unknown destination.
Before a brilliant gathering off not
ables, both American and British. at
the annual Thanksgiving banquet of
the American Society in London last
evening, Viscount Richard Burden
Haldane, British lord high chancellor,
in strong speech, emphat' cally up
held the Monroe Doctrine, as formu--
lated by the United States.
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Chapman Grant, son of Jesse r.
Grant and grandson of Gen. U. s..
Grant, has entered the United States
army, winning second lieutenant's
commission in competitive examina-
ton. He has received orders to join
the 18th cavalry on the Mexican bor-
der.
At the opening of the first italian
parliament elected by universal suf-
frage, King Victor Emmanuel declar-
ed the Vatican will never be allowed
to interfere. in state affairs.
Princess Louise of Belgium, daugh-
ter of the late King Leopold, has by
orders of the Paris courts been evict-
ed from her residence in the Avenue
du Bots de Boulogne by her landlady,I
Mrs. Whitcomb, widow of a wealthy
Californian. The princess failed to
pay her rent.
Fairfax Harrison, the original of
Mrs. Francis Hodgson Burnett's
Little Lord FaunteIroy," is tipped"
to become president of the Queen and
Crescent, succeeding w. W. Finley,
who died Tuesday, according to dis
patch from Cincinnati. -. - !
A report is in 5circuIation in Berlin
that the kaiser is about to sell the
old Mon Biiou Palace, now the Hob
enzollern Museum. l..
President Wilson will attend the
Army and Navy football game in
New York tomorrow. He will see the
game from the Army side during one
half and from the Navy side the other.
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Sir, Robert Ball, who made astron-
.omy popular by lectures, died in Lon
don Wednesday, following long ill
ness. =
+ Comtesse des Courtils was robbed
of bag containing pearl necklace
valued at $4,000 in Paris, On Wednes-
day. Thee police within two hours
captured a handsome girl in the act
of stealing another shoppers purse.
On being searched the comtesse's
pearls and seven other purses were
found in her clothing.