Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-27
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the Monte negrins outside Scutari.
The combined force will now attempt
to carry this fort by assault. Another
body of SerYians, thirteen thousand
Greeks and a part of the Bulgarian
army will advance against the Otto
mans within the line of Tchatalja,
while the Bulgarian forces which are
now beleaguering Adrianople press
the siege of that fortress. The fall of
Constantinople is predicted as a GER
tainty. The Turkish army is said to
be divided by many factions among
the old and the young pashas, and this
is crippling the Ottoman forces meas
urably. The armistice came to sud-
den end this afternoon. The Balkan
war with Turkey is resumed by all
the Allies. The bad faith in which the
Turks are now known to have acted
was severely arraigned by the Balkan
ENJOYS.
Judge De Haven. of the United
States district court for California
died at Napa, Cal, today. The jurist
had been ill for several weeks and the
end was not unexpected.
Baron James Rothschild, Familiarity
known as "Jim," one of the richest
members of the family, is to marry
Miss Daisy Pinto, daughter of finan-
cier of moderate wealth, but belonging
to the separdim, or Jewish aristocracy,
which settled principally in Saxony
and Portugal. Baron James is about
thirty years old and has the reputa-
ton of being one of the most daring
and as rule successful gamblers in
Europe, but he. also gives close atten-
ton to business.
A stylishly-dressed Japanese of fine
appearance startled the Sunday
crowds on Madison avenue, New York,
today by attempting to commit hara-5
kiri with the assistance of speeding
street car. The Japanese lay upon
the rails, anA ugly-looking knife with
blade appraised poised against the pit
of his stomach. The motorman ap-
piled the brakes. The Japanese, see
ing the car stopping a few feet from
him, waved the motorman to proceed.
After fine exhibition of jiu jitsu
with a burly policeman, the Oriental
was removed to the hospital. .
For the purpose of increasing the
efficiency Of the organizations COM
posing the Hawaiian garrison. officers
near the top of the roster in the serv-
lee in the Philippines will not be as
signed to fill Hawaiian vacancies. The
war department has issued new or
der covering assignments to foreign
service, the desire being to assure the
Hawaiian islands and Alaskan staff
and regimental officers sufficient time
to cope with the local situation, and
to carry out plans for defenses.
-Four battleships will be twenty
years old in 1914, and If Congress does
not provide a similar number this
year our fleet will suffer decline in
strength" says Admiral Dewey.
do you believe the building pro-
gram should be reduced before the
opening of the Panama Canal?" Ad-
miraI Dewey was asked.
81 do not believe It should be re-
,duced before, or even after, the open
ing of the canal" was the reply.
The American-HaWaiian Steamship
[Company's new passenger and freight
steamer Montanan was successfully
launched at Sparrows Point, Maryland,
yesterday, sponsored by Miss Lubell
Shepard, a pretty belle from New Jer-
say. Two other vessels for the Ho-
noluIu route, the Pennsylvania and
the Panamanian are approaching
completion.
Vernon G, LyttIe, mail carrier on ru-
raj route No. 5 out of Batavia, Ohio,
is the first man to accept and deliver
under parcel post conditions a live
baby. The baby, boy weighing ten
and three-fourth pounds, just within
the 11-pound weight limit, is the child
of Mr.. and Mrs Jessie Beagle, of Nor
gleneste. The package" was we'll
wrapped and ready for mailing
when the carrier got it today for de-
livery to Mrs. Louis Beagle, who lives
about mile from the baby's home.
The postage was fifteen cents and the
parcel" was insured for fifty dollars,
The design for the memorial to Ma
jor Archibald Butt, personal aide to
President Taft, and Francis d. Millett,
the artist, both lost with the Titanic,
was approved today by the president.
The memorial is fountain with a
shaft rising from its center, and viii
stand on the public grounds near the
White House. One side of the shaft
win be figure in bas relief repre-
senting art, and on the opposite side
a figure representing an armed knight
Daniel French, New York architect,
designed the memorial.
The steamer Macinaw, which left
San Pedro Harbor for San Pedro at
eleven O'Clock tonight, is now made
fast to the, wharf in the inner harbor
with a/hole. in her starboard bow.
After the pilot left her, the navigators
evidently lost their bearings in the
heavy fog which prevailed, and rail-
into the breakwater, STAYING a hole in
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