Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-02-24
Worlds News

| Mysterious shadows on the sun, OBJ
served by Mt. Wilson astronomers,
were found to be caused by acorns de-
posted inside the bellows of the cam
era by mouse.
Professor and Mrs Thomas j. Pres
ton formerly Mrs. Grover Cleveland)
are spending their honeymoon in Flor
ida. ~ .
An elephant, performing in small
circus in Watertown, \. Y, became
crazed by the cold and ambled care
lessly through the town, breaking
store windows and smashing furniture.
Governor Blease OF South Carolina
has forbidden the South Carolina mi
litia to attend the inauguration at
Washington because negro troops
were to march ahead of South Caro-
lima troops in the parade.
| Because a Baltimore woman spent
money needed for the maintenance of
her four children to buy license for
her pet dog, three of the children were
taken from her custody by the Juvenile
court. Nither she nor the children
showed any emotion. .-..... ........ -.
Charles r. Hefke, sentenced to six
months Imprisonment for sugar
weighing frauds, has applied for par
don on the ground that he aided the
government in prosecuting the frauds.
He is 65 years old. .. I'll Z
Princess Victoria Louise, only
daughter of the German emperor and
empress, is to marry Prince Ernest
August, son of the Duke of Cumber-
land, in October. H.. a., -. -"
MINNIE Lima Cavalieri is again in
New York after an absence of three
years. Her collection of jewels now
totals $4,000, 000,-butf she claims her
choicest possession to be a magic rec
ipe for cooking spaghetti. .-... =.
The U. S, government is watching
the gulf ports to prevent filibustering
expeditions to Nicaragua, which is said
to be again on the verge of revolt.
3. Bryan CIV. j. is again in the United
States after. "Trip to Cuba and the Isle
of Pines. laa@ .rts@ q - d III. ~ ~.
The senate andsthe house met in the
quadrenniala joint session and formal
lily, declared Woodrow Wilson and
Thomas Marshall to have been elected
president and viee-president of the
United States. = =. sCs e.. 2. g. i.e... - =.
United States Ambassador to Vienna
Kerens, in London for his grandson's
christening, denies the rumors of the
ill-health of Franz Joseph. Though
80, the emperor is in the best of
health. ~ ~..-.- -. T. -. IS =: 49,. s....
Sir Ernest Shacklet0n, Antarctic ex-
plorer, has been made president of the
Tabard Cigarette andItTobacco Co. of
London. His headquarters are in New
York city. ......r. .:
tits rumored that John Fox, Jr., Wis
tied Fritzie Scheff, his divorced wife,
lat Evansville, Ind, and that every
thing is fixed up between them"
The violet producers in New York
/, state admit that their industry has
been practically ruined by the advent
of the new ''near-dances The deli
cate little violet is "all in"iafter one
round of the turkey-trut. >.~... 49,
Placards have been posted all over
the town of Cairo, ILL.,, warning all ne
groes to leave the vicinity within thir-
| ty days. .... $780,.
A general strike of Belgian work
ingmen has been called by the national
council of their organizations for
April IA. =. H.. .......
The suffragette army" marching to
Washington made its first "bivouac"
at Metuchten, n. J. The weather was
a bit ''snappy'' and only sixteen re-
manned at night of the 200 who march
ed gaily forth from Newark, n j., that
morning. ~ ."..