Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-10

sentence of the two officers of the
American Naval Stores Company OF
Savannah, Ga, the socalled Turpen-
tine Trust.
1t also reversed the decision as to
five other officers of the company, &C.
cused of combining to nionopolize the
turpentine industry.
Occupants of four hotels on Walnut
street, Cincinnati, were seized with
panic early today when fire destroyed
five-story building near by. No one
' as injured
w. L. O'Brien, Kansas labor COM
missioner. has issued call for $4,000
harvest hands. John Fitzpatrick, Mis-
souri, labor commissioner, is in Kansas
City today making arrangements to Co
operate with Kansas in obtaining the
needed harvest hands. Fitzpatrick is
sued orders to the state free employ
ment bureaus OF Kansas City, st. Jo-
seph and st. Louis to get In touch
with men willing to go to Kansas ana
work in the fields.
James MCGOWAN. one of the eight
detectives indicted in the Italian bun
co case, may decile to confess before
his trial, set for Monday morning. A
report that he would tell the inside OF
police graft was circulated this morn
ing. II is intimated he is holding out
for an immunity. but Judge Lawlor
denied motion to allow the indicted
detectives separate trials.
President Yuan Shih-kai of China
and his premier. Chao Bing Kwan are
suspected by the citizens of the Chi
nese republic of being the instigators
Of the assassination of Sung Chic Jen.
senator-elect and minister of agricul-
ture and forestry under Provisional
President DIR. Sun Vat Sen. So strong
have these suspicious become that the
people are demanding the impeach-
ment of the executive and his aid and
their trials on charges of murder.
This sensational insight into affairs
in the infant republic is contained in
a letter from Picking, received at San
Francisco today by prominent mem
bers of the local Chinese colony. While
the authorship Of the, epistle is being
withheld the recipient Of the letter as
serts that the writer's name, II dis
closed, would alone vouch for the au-
thenticity and reliability Of the news.
Scotland Yard authorities today are
considering prohibiting she big public
funeral the militant suffragettes are
arranging for Miss Emily Dawson, who
died from injuries after grasping the
bride of King Georges entry, Anmer,
in the Derby.
It is feared that grave disorders may
accompany the buF1a Of me body Of
Miss Dawson, whom the suffragette
ranks consider their first martyr.
In Mourning at Trial.
The trials of the seven suffragettes
arraigned in the police raid In their
headquarters began IN London TODAY.
Mrs. Drummond. who is critically i'll,
was absent. All the defendants wore
sleeve bands of crepe in mourning for
Miss Dawson.
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The entire northeast section OF
Springfield, Mo-, was swept by fire
early today, which caused financial
loss estimated at 100000 before it
" as controlled. Heer Dry Goods Com
pany. in whose basement the fire
started, was the heaviest loser. being
damaged to the extent of $250,000
Wireless dispatches received at New
rork at noon from the Cuban steam
CT Olinda, which was reported on fire
at sea earlier in the day, stated all
was well and that the vessel lay 525
miles south Of Scotland lightship. 1t
is believed the vessel is en- route either
to Brunswick, Ca, or Savannah.
The insidious lobby charge already
has had the intended effect and re-
lieved President Wilson and United
States senators and congressman Of
a considerable burden.
This, in effect, was the statement
made by President Wilson today in
his semi-weekly audience with the
newspaper correspondents. He be-;
lieves many of the lobbyists already
have run out of Washington and
thinks "the breed" will be scarce dur
ing the senate consideration of the
Underwood tariff bill.
That Australian beef Is not as good
or economical as the American pro-
duct and that it does not comply with
the San Francisco specifications, but
that Australian mutton is better than
the American article, is the substance
of a report, on test made of frozen
meats, to the San Francisco supervis-
Crs. The city is in the market for
supplies for the relief home.
Less than ten minutes after she had
unloaded twenty excursiopists at Va
isson island, the. passenger launch
Mignonette took fire and burned to
the waters edge near Point Defiance,
near Tacoma.
With his vessel enveloped in flames,
A. j.. Backeler, master of the Mig
nonette, sent the LAUNCH ahead at full
speed to the beach at the point, while
large crowd of picnickers lined the