Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-17
OVERNIGHT
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To the Advertiser

i FRUSTRATED as result OF a. leiIHiS
| heat wave which has made Chicago
/ roast for the last forty eight hours.
Yesterday the thermometer climbed 10
lninety-four, while thousands OF peo-
ple spent last night in the parks and
ON the roofs of their tenements. Be,
tween 1900 and 1000 head of hogs
have died in the Union Stock Yards
/ ere from the heat, enabling loss oil
about $500.
/ Five persons were killed in Milwau-
kee by yesterdays heat and seven
others today are in q serious condi-
Ition. The temperature went up to
ninety-six degrees. A shower last
night temporarily relieved the suffer
ing of thousands, but the mercury
started climbing again this morning
and no relief is in sight.
There were two deaths and numer-
out prostrations from heat in Phiia-
delphia today. No relief from the hot
wave is in sight and it is predicted
that the worst is yet to come.
4 President Wilson today announced
that currency legislation will be
launched this week in congress, prob
ably on Friday.
He denied that the currency bill
ould be a strict party measure"
saying he hoped and expected aid from
the other side. The president said
the currency bill will be introduced
simultaneously in both houses.
4 The president expects wide differ
ence of opinion on the measure among
the Democratic leaders, but asserted
that the bill covers broad general
principle and he has hopes that 1t will
receive general support He declared
he is receiving letters from many
manufacturers urging an early pass
age of the tariff law on the ground
that business will be unsettled until
it is passed.
After six weeks of work on the I'm
derwood tariff bill, Democratic lead
ers of the senate have nearly COM
pleted their task and will have the
revised measure ready for the party
caucus some day this week.
Majority members of the finance
committee met today to begin consid-
Grafton of the subcommittee report of
the agricultural schedule.
Schedules remaining to be approved
are the sundries, silk and free list,
and the committee also has yet to act
on the income tax and administrative
sections.
Taking their cue from the great ny.
! draulic mining plants on the Pacific
Coast, the army engineers in the Ca
nal Zone have resolved to try to wash
away the hills which tower above the
Culebra Cut. Already an elaborate
plant of hydraulic monitors has been
installed near Gold Hill A large sup
ply of water has been obtained by
!. ldamming the Ohispo t.river and the
engineers will seek To sluice away
the sides of the hill sd that the water
horne earth will be carried to the val
ley in the rear.
i Six of the eight San Francisco po-
licemen indicted by the grand jury on
a charge of conspiracy in connection
with the operations sof the 100000
Italian bunco ring, pleaded guilty in
The court of Superior Judge f. P. Law.
lor this morning, and five we're sen
fenced to nine months each in the
county Jail.
The plans for the permanent gov.
eminent of the Canal Zone are per-
fected, according to an announcement
from the war department last night.
The plans will be held in allegiance,
however, and no change in the pres.
ent government of the zone will be
made until the canal is opened and in
operation.
An unidentified sailing vessel to-
night struck submerged mine in the
harbor of Smyrna and was destroyed,
it is feared, with all on board
The vessel sank Immediately. No
Information so far has been available
as to the number killed or injured or
the name of the vessel. =. +.
A son of Kiamil Pasha, former
grand vizier, has been arrested and
J, charged with being implicated in the
assassination of Mahmoud Shefket
Tasha. -.
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