Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-12-01
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General Villa asserts that the rebels
will control northern Mexico within
two weeks andRill then concentrate
their forces for combined attack
upon the City4of Mexico.
Minister Mohena of the Mexican Of
] fee of foreign affairs, took a special
train for Vera Cruz Saturday on a
mysterious mission. obstensibly to
inject his father, but it is believed that
he Is going to meet Special Envoy
John Lind, and that his visit has an
important bearing on the situation.
In the event Of anti-foreign riots in
Mexico City, all foreign residents are
asked to take protection under the
British flag, Sir Lionel Garden, Brit
| ish minister. having extended an in
vitat.on to this effect in a circular
letter.
| A force of about $500 cavalry, in
fantry and militia, or nearly a fourth
Of the whole force assigned to duty on
the Mexican border, will be concen-
trated at Ell Paso within a few days
| Judge lands Of the United States
district court in Chicago has demon
strated that soldiers life is worth
more than $3.50. The Mobile and Ohio
railroad had settled out of court with
MRS. Mary Panek on the death of her
son, soldier. in a railway wreck for
$3.50, less $3.50 attorneys fees. Judge
Lands appointed new attorneys for
, Mrs. Panek and when the case was
called on Saturday, a settlement out
Of court was $500 was announced.
Premier Asquith, travelling by auto
mobile from Leeds on Saturday, had
screens of wire gauze to keep off mill
tants. He was escorted by four auto
mobiles in which were Scotland Yard
detectives.
Three masked bandits ION Saturday
held up the motor car tof Cornelius
| Doremus, president Of the Germania
Life Insurance Company at a lonely
spot on Pelham parkway New York
City, obtaining more than $1,000.
An inquiry against the beef pack.
ers, into a charge that meats Of all
kinds are doped with slow poisons to
preserve the appearance of freshness,
and that the health of the American
nation is being ruined as result. The
request will be made id a resolution,
which Representative Robert Fowler
of Illinois intends to introduce,
. i ~r,o9tE7---- T.f9 -:
The value of the Panama canal to
the. United States depends more than
anything else. on whether the United
States enacts such laws as will bring
into existence United, States mercan.
j tile marine engaged, in foreign com.
]mereet" This was the statement of
) Colonel William s., Ebert, U. s. A., of
/ the engineer corps gin charge of the
construc tion ct the Gatnn locks IN his
!, address before the National Geograph.
ical Society in. Washington,
Joseph Letter of Chiago vows he
will try to break the bank at Monte
/, Carlo, as he, did fifteen years ago. Mr..
Letter and his wife are on a visit to
Paris while on their way to Marseilles.
Representative jKellar of Tennessee
! introduced new cold storage BILL in
the house on Saturday 1t provides
for limit Of time for meats and other
food products. and provides that eggs
may not be kept in cold storage for
more than three months.
| Additional suits were filed in the
United States court in New Orleans on
Saturday, under the. antitrust law,
against the American Sugar Refining
Company for heavy damages. With
these new suits there are now total
of nine actions for damages against the
alleged sugar trust" on file for total
damages aggregating $S,167,4S1.
! Captain Robert F. Scott's old ship
Discovery, used on the first antarctic
expedition, was acquired last Satur.
day from the Hudson Bay Company by
Foster Stackhouse of London. leader
of the British antarctic expedition In
4 1904. The Discovery, on former trip,
was frozen in an icefeld for nearly
three years.
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, the pure food
! expert, was elected president of the
Mems League for Woman Suffrage
which was organized in Washington
last Saturday. General Nelson Miles
was elected vice president, ellison
Gardner. second vice president, and
| w. L. Stoddard, secretary.
Secretary of State Bryan has de,
cided to appoint some competent law.
yer, now in China, to temporarily dis,
charge the duties of judge of the Uni.
ted States court for China, at Shang
hal, pending the nomination of a sue,
cessor to Judge Rufus H. Thayer
whose resignation has been accepted
twenty-five reasons why former Pc
lice Lieutenant Charles Becker should
not be executed for the murder OF
Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, will
be presented during the week to the
New York state court court of ap