Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-09


Secretary Bryan today appointed
Major J. J. Dickinson. New York
to be government com
missioner al, tie Panama Pacific Elk
position in San Francisco at a salary
of $500 a year.
Official announcement that all the
heavy concrete work of the six locks
of the Panama Canal has been COM
pIeted was made in Panama today.
Sir Thos. Upton, challenger for the
the America cup, today has chosen
w. p Burton to command the yacht
Shamrock ~ Burton is one of Eng
lands best known yachtsmen, having
sailed in over 10U0 races.
After fleeing from their beds upon
an alarm of fire, score of guests OF
tn famous hotel Potter, at Santa
Barbara, crept shiyering back after
flames that threatened the fourth
floor of the hosiery early today were
No one was hurt. although
Mrs. NJ. Lund of San Francisco is i'll
of fright, incident to her awakening
in a room fired with smoke. The
damage will not exceed $4,000.
King George today entertained at
luncheon at Buckingham Palace all
the Balkan and Turkish ENJOYS,
whose deliberations here closed the
Balkan war.
During the luncheon white pigeons
were released and fitted about the
tables. King George, members OF his
cabinet and several of the peace dele
gates spoke.
With two known to be dead and
only twenty rescued alive, little hope
is entertained at Pottsville, Penn, to-
day for the safety of thirty-five
miners who still are entombed in the
coal mine of the Scott colliery, near
Mount Carmel The men were caught
by an explosion of gas, just as the
day shift was about to enter the
workings.
VIM. Wood. millionaire head of the
Wooden Trust, was acquitted today
on all counts in the indictment
charge of conspiracy to plant dyna-
mite to discredit the Lawrence strik-
ers, Frederick Atteaux was acquitted
on the fifth count, but the jurors are
disagreed on the four other counts.
Dennis Collins, the Cambridge dog
fancier, was found guilty on the first
two counts, and not guilty on the
other three.
With more than twenty thousand
German athletes participating. the
new stadium at Berlin, in which the
Olympic games viii be held in 1916.
will be formally opened and dedicated
tomorrow in the presence OF Emperor
William, the Empress, Grown Prince
and Crown Princess and the Kaiser's
court as well as the entire diplo-
matte corps.
Damages against Mrs Emmeline
Pankhurst and her two daughters
and Pethrick Lawrence and Mrs.
Tnke were awarded London mer-
chants by jury at London today,
as the result of a suffragette window
smashing campaign. The merchants
were each given $500.
Henry Morgenthau, of New York.
who was chairman of the Democratic
finance committee for the Wilson
presidential campaign, to whom the
president has offered the post of am
bassador to Turkey, yesterday noti-
fled the president that he would be
unable to accept the position.
Its sanction to the conclusion of
treaty of arbitration between Uruguay
and the United States was given at
Montevidio today by the Uruguayan
senate.
Foxhall Keene, the well known
horseman and one of the leading
patrons of polo in America, who was
slated as one of the substitutes for
the American team in it's forthcoming
series with the British challengers for
the international championship cup,
was put out of the running yesterday
as the result of an accident during
practice. In a mix-up Keene's pony
was thrown and the rider catapuIted
onto the turf. The fall rendered him
unconscious and when he was picked
up it was found that his collar bone
had been broken.
Clipping one whole day and five
hours from the trans-Pacific record,
the steamship Empress of Russia, the
latest and greatest of the Canadian
Pacific Railroads globe-girdlfng fleet
of steamships, locked at Victoria.
The four largest volcanoes of the
Alaskan Peninsula are now in active
eruption and considerable uneasiness
is being felt among those. living in the
neighborhood of the scene. Frequent
earthquakes are felt, some violent.
For some time the craters have been
smoking and the country has been
covered with a pail of yellow fumes,
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