Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-24
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A suffragette attempt TO wreck an
express train from London to Ply
mouth, in a tunnel near Davenport.
was reported today. A motor belong
ing to the London and Southwestern
railway, while proceeding through the
tunnel, came in contact with heavy
obstacle The motorman discovered
two heavy wooden ties wedged be-
tween the rails over which the ex-
PRESS train was due to pass. .....-
The sundry civil appropriation bill,
rhich the president has been holding
for some time. considering. the rider
which prevents the use of any OF the
amount appropriated under the bill
for the enforcement of the Sherman
antitrust law being used against labor
unions or associations of farmers,
finally affixed his signature to the bill
last night and made available the
amounts carried under it. -~:~. q.
Jack Johnson's attorney today asked
United States Judge Carpenter to
change the sentence OF years i'm
rrisonment in Joliet penitentiary and
fine of $1,000, melted out to the big
black pugilist, so as to allow him to
do his time in Leavenworth. Johnson
thinks that Joliet is too close to Chi
cago for him to escape Unpleasant
notoriety." T.. :......... ~"
In the hope of preventing impending
hostilities in the Balkans, the powers
are bringing all possible pressure for
peace between Greece, Servia and Bur
garia, who are on the verge of wal
over the localities captured from the
Turks. The powers are urging arbi-
tration of the territorial disputes be
tween the three nations.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Com
nany's steamer Curacao is a total
wreck today, having run full speed into
an uncharted rock at Warm Church,
thirty miles from Fish Egg, on the
west coast of Prince OF Wales island.
The pumps were powerless against
the thrush of water, the bottom G., the
vessel being ripped open, and Captain
Thomson Immediately headed the yes
sci for the beach, reaching shore just
as the water climbed to the deck line.
While several persons narrowly es-
capped drowning, no lives were lost.
The steamer sank to the bottom.
Meredith Nicholson. the well known
novelist of Indiana, has been offered
the post of United States minister to
Portugal, and has accepted. James
Fhelan, former mayor of San Francis
co, who had been offered the ambas-
sadorial post at Vienna, has declined.
President fPoincaire of France has
chosen England for his first official
visit after his, election and will arrive
at Spithead on Tuesday, on the dread
nought Jean Bart, to be the guest of
King George and the British, nation
until June q.
In their eagerness to get back to
work a score of Cincinnati women
were trampled upon and injured to-
day, during panic (which the reading
of telegram by business agents at a
massmeeting of 10000 striking gar
ment workers occakioned. The tele-
gram was from their union head coun-
Gil, ordering the strikers to resume
work. AS soon as the meaning of the
message was grasped, men and women
made wild rush for the exits of the
hall. Many of the weaker ones were
thrown to the floor and severely in
jured.
Following an Unsatisfactory reply
from the Huerta government to a de-
mand by the British minister at Mex
leo City that the English railroad be-
tween the City of Mexico and the sea
coast of Vera Cruz be kept open and
amply protected against attack by the
rebels, the British embassy at Wash
ington is today in receipt of report
covering the whole question. Beyond
stating that steps we're being taken to
prevent the capital from being iso-
lated, President Huerta would make
no guarantee. This was considered
far from satisfactory and the matter
was at once laid before the Washing
ton embassy. 49,. ~. e III.
Pelkey, the Canadian pugilist whose
blow in the ring killed Luther Me-
Carly on May "a at Calgary, and who
has been under arrest since on
charge of manslaughter with Tommy
Burns, his manager, named in the
same Indictment on a similar charge