Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-01
EASTERN NEWS.

Bags or g0ld-dl1St ana nuggets, VAL
lied at $4,000, were found hidden in
the cottage of Mrs. Ann M. Bern
hart, who died recently In Davenport,
Kas. Heirs are being sought.
The women's national lawn tennis
championship was won for the second
time by Miss Mary Browne of Los
Angeles, who won the final game in
the Philadelphia tournament.
As a result of the recent fedora
ton of Roumanian Jews In Philadel-
phia. congress will be petitioned to
take steps toward putting an end to
the persecution Of the Jews at the
hands OF the Roiifnanian government.
Charmed by tho music of little
German band, al two-year old boy
leaned from a third-fIoor window,
lost his balance and fell to the
street, receiving fatal injuries.
In the hope of helping to reduce
the cost of living, 200 farmers in Ne
braska have pledged themselves to
the production of beef cattle under
scientific direction.
1t is now generally believed that
all other legislation will be laid aside
Iildl -llC CultlC CAli q OCSOlOH Vi
congress will be given up to the pass
ing of the tariff BILL =
It is thought that in the course of
time all the $126,000,000 of Southern
Pacific stock now held by the Union
Pacific will be acquired by the Penn
sylvania railroad
The first hot spell of the season
has struck the eastern states Many
prcstrations are reported from the
lake districts, several drownings also
being the indirect result of the city
heat
Eecause the conductor on the New
Orleans and Great Northern train at
Columbia, Miss, objected to his bois-
ferrous conduct, negro shot him to
death and was himself killed by a
shot fired from the window by a
white passenger.
A wisconsin farmer has been
charged with hitching his 12-year.old
son beside mule to cultivator and
driving him in the fields with the
thermometer at 120 degrees.
Captain P. L. Smith of the United
States army lost his heart a year
ago to Miss Janet Gardner of Scot
land, whom he saw in "Bunty Pulls
the Strings" She promised to marry
him if he would write to her in Scot
land every day. He did-so she has
come back to New York to keep her
part of the bargain s....s.-.... :.
AS result of a cavein on the new
subway construction in New York,
eleyen workmen were killed. Thirteen
men were entombed. e.
! Philip Francis Kelly, Jr., broker
and well known club man of Phila'
fdelphia, committed suicide by shoot
j ing. .a..>* Ill., =:
Mrs. Robert Hilliard, wife of the
actor, died suddenly of heart disease
at her summer home in Siasconset,
Mass. -. -. +. Hi
The total estimated annual revenue
los from the free list as approved
by the senate finance committee is
about $27.000,000. ~=.. T.. .:......~
The engagement of Mrs. Upton Sin
clair to Hugh Bert Halliwell has
been announced to an intimate circle,
Mrs. Sinclair is the divorced wife OF
j the novelist. - 49,. 49,. -. +.
The. hoof of a kicking mule made
a spark with an electric wire con
meeting with a powder keg at mine
near Pine Fork, Ohio, and an explos
ion followed which injured four men
probably fatally. ......@ ...- -.
i The Zeeandbee, the new steamer OF
the Cleveland and Buffalo transporta
4 ton company made her maiden voyage
from Detroit to Cleveland. She is the
largest side-wheeler afloat, and can
carry 5000 passengers. -. - d.
The University of Pennsylvania
conferred the honorary degree oil
doctor of laws upon Colonel Goethals
Henry p. Dawson, the New York
banker, and DIR. George NJ. Phillips