Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-10-13
OVERNIGHT
FEDERAL
WIRELESS
To the Advertiser

Hundreds of police and soldiers,
both infantry and cavalry. are patrol
ling the streets Of Mexico City, pre-
Jared TO put down any uprising which
might occur. The rapid fire guns
which were placed In the Palace last
Friday and later withdrawn. have re-
turned.
All of the papers issued in the city
either remained strictly impartial in
their discussion OF the event or we're
strongly sympathetic with the Huerta
policy. -. -"
Minister of Foreign Affairs Moheno,
whom Huerta offered to place in the
cabinet, says that Huerta took his
action against the deputies when 1t
was learned that there was a plot on
foot in the chamber to put Huerta out
of the way and allow the revolution
in the north to triumph. .
The United States government Is
quietly preparing for any emergency
that may arise In Mexico. It's advices
shaw the 1mprobability of an cleo.
ton on October 26, not only because
Of the successes of the Constitution.
alists. but numerous fIlegalities in
connection with the preliminary ar.
rangements for an election. -
The dissolution of congress by force
is plainly looked upon in Washington
as an unconstitutional act.
Hereafter a matron and a. police
ri ov.l nth k,.1,
full eye In every public dance hall in
Boston to see that the tango, turkey
trot and other dances OF a similar
character are not attempted and that
further regulations just promulgated
by Mayor Fitzgerald are not violated
Mrs. Rose Manarik, As, who had not
been to q dance for 30 years, was in
itiated into the mysteries of the tan
90 by her daughter Stella at a Bo-
hemian dance at Chicago. After sew
eral hours of tangoing she tainted and
died.
Glenn H. Curtiss, the American
aeroplans manufacturer Is at St
Petersburg at the invitation of the
Russian navy department which is
now using flotilla of Curtiss hydro
planes on the Black Sea.
Curtiss admits that the object of
his visit is to further his plans to &C
quire q suitable piece Of land near
st. Petersburg on which to construct
q plant and become chief hydroplane
constructor of the Russian navy.
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ment include the supplying of aero
planes for the army as well as the
navy and in numbers which will put
Russia on an equal footing in this re-
spect with the other great powers.
Capt. B. o. Nilsson will command
the steamer Hilonian when she leaves
San Francisco next Wednesday for
Hawaiian ports via the Sound. Captain
Nilsson is veteran navigator on the
island run in windjammers but this
is the first venture in supreme COM
mand of q steamship.
Col. H. B. Mccoy, deputy collector
of customs at Manila, and Chas. H.
Sleeper, director of the Bureau Of
Lands in the Philippines have resign
ed, and Manuel Tinio has been ap-
pointed to succeed the latter. This
appointment is regarded as implying
the adoption OF a new attitude toward
the friar land question. Governor
General Francis Burton Harrison says
that he does not intend to make any
further changes at present.
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East Brookfeld, Mass, the birth
place of Connie Mack, celebrated his
victory with red fire parades and bell
ringing.
Headed by a drum corps crowd OF
men and boys marched over muddy
roads from Brookfield to East Brook
field to the house where Mack was
born. No members of the family
were there, but the present tenants of
the house had anticipated the coming
of the celebrators, and had red fire
burning on the steps.
All railroad cars running between
the two towns burned red lights.
Church bells were rung and a big
bonfire was lighted. -7 T..
The Furness line steamship Rap
pahannock which has on board num-
Der of passengers received from the
Volturno, Is due to arrive at Halifax
Wednesday. The yolturno has been
calling at that port for number of
years, and Captain Francis Inches
and his chief officer, H. w. Miller, are
both well known there.
Two experiments are to be made
with Ulivi's '.F'' rays in Italy in an
attempt to prove the inventors con-
tendon that he can destroy battle
ships by means of the rays without
direct connection. The experiments
x,.ill h. IL. nth koI