Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-08-12

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The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has ordered reductions in express
rates throughout the country which
will cost the companies $26,000.000 a
year.
At the German Roman Catholic Gen.
trail Verein convention at Buffalo. a
/ Catholic Woman's League was organ
lied to combat the feminist movement
throughout The country
Two bandits engaged taxicab in
San Francisco, ordered the chauffeur
to drive to a lonely district, and rob-
! bed him.
Practically all the 1887 telegraphers
of the Northern Pacific Railway have
! voted in favor of a strike for higher
wages and better conditions
| Texas Democrats are raising fund
by popular subscription to be paid over
to Bryan il he will agree to abandon
the lecture platform and devote him.
self TO state affairs
Australia intends to exhibit at the
Panama Pacific Exhibition in spite of
England's action.
! Sir William John Lyme, former pre-
mier Of New South Wales, died at
Sydney at the age of So. He was at
one time treasurer of the Australian
commonwealth.
/ A man leaped from a Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas railway passenger train
near Sedalia. NO.. and was drowned in
the Saline river.
l King George and Queen Mary enter
tanned Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius Wander
bilt of New York at dinner on board
the royal yacht Victoria and Albert.
Prince -Mamuroff, Russian noble
man who had lived as monk in the
Holy Trinity Monastery at ST. Peters
burg for some years, was found dead
of starvation in his CELL
/ William Pitt Preble Longfellow,
nephew of the poet and an architect of
considerable reputation, died at Glou-
cester. Mass, at the age of a.
1 A tent city has been erected in Los
Angeles to accommodate two thousand
Seventh Day Adventists of Southern
California and Nevada, who will hold
their fourteenth annual camp meeting.
The first annual carnival at Victo-
ria, B. c., has opened with motorboat
races, water polo, diving and swim
ming at the yacht club headquarters,
Cadboro bay.
Germany has followed Great Brit
aims move In refusing to participate
in the Panama Pacific Exposition,
claiming that expositions are too nu-
merous to permit of participation in
all. 1t is thought, however, that the
canal tolls and the Democratic tariff
are the real reasons.
The United States inspector has de-
cided to forbid the grand lodge medi-
cine dance of the Chippewa Indians at
the Bots fort reservation and the Nett
Lake agencies. The superstitious In
dams, on those occasions give away
all their possession to the medicine
men.
| Prince Nicholas of Thurn and Taxis
since renouncing his royal rights, he
is merely Baron Won Hochstadt,--is to
marry Garcia Richenberger, the beau
tiful Munich actress.
! Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish has issued 500
invitations to fairyland ball at her
Newport home. The guests are to
represent fairyttale characters and
the grounds represent the lands of on
chantment.
/ Fred Lowen fell 100 feet from his
balloon at the University of Florida
and was unhurt.
Fire Commissioner Johnson of New
York has ordered that fire drills be
held in the factories at least once a
month under penalty of $500 fine.
, It is rumored that Gladys Wander
bilt, Countess Leszlo-Szechenyi is con-
templating seeking a divorce from her
husband, who has spent s7,000,000
since his marriage in 190S-most of it
his wife's money.