Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-09-23


acter befitting the simplicity OF the
life which had just ended. A remark
able feature was the grief of the COM
mon people. The first of the ones TO
pass the bier was a crippled boy in
black.
just as the service began in Trim
ity church the city ceased for one
hour its manifold activities as trib-
ute to the late official This suspen-
sion of business extended to many
quarters.
.enty-fiye thousand school children OF
the city. Various foreign govern
ments were represented at the church
as well as the branches of the city,
state and national governments.
Lord De Freyne, of Roscommon.
Ireland. former soldier in the Unit
ed States army, and later an Irish
peer, died today at the age OF fifty
eight. after q long illness. Before he
came into the peerage he was Arthur
Reginald French, and enlisted in the
army at New York.
Proceedings looking to the Inn
parchment of two Federal judges
now are before the house committee
on judiciary The committee soon
will dispatch a subcommittee to Geor-
gia to take testimony in the case of
Judge Emory Speer of the Southern
District of Georgia, who is under FIRE.
NJ
ity for the statement that the charges
are not backed strongly. The Depart
ment of Justice today transmitted to
the judiciary committee, charges
against Judge Rufus B. Thayer of the
u. 8. court at Shanghai, made by.
Jas. f. curtis, "a lawyer.
Mrs. theodore Roosevelt will ac-
company her husband. when he sails.
for South America next month. Colon
ell and Mrs. Roosevelt will sail for
Buenos Ayres, October 4. on the liner
Vanoyck
The nomination of Joseph w. Folk
of ST Louis, former Governor OF Mis-
souri, to be solicitor of the State de-.
partment today was confirmed by the
senate.
TAKEFU, Japan. September 81
Especial cable to the Nippu Jill -
One third of this town has been wip-
ed out, about thousand stores and
buildings being burned to the ground,
in a great fire which broke out here
yesterday, It is estimated that many
thousands of dollars damage has re-
suited, though no persons are as yet
reported as being dead or injured
The fire occurred in the Fukui prefec-
ture late yesterday afternoon, and
rapidly spread over the city
ton Caminetti today denied the
charges of the Rev. p Land, mis-
sionary at Ellis Island, that hundreds
Of immigrants children have died at
the hospital there because they got
too much fresh air. He said: This
Is the first mixing have received
Of this condition. might expect
such charge from a hot house phys
ician, but not from a preacher of the
gospel"
Despite reports of his death, Fran
cisco Villa, Mexican rebel leader, is
very much alive, at the head Of his
troops 10 miles south of Juarez, ac-
cording to the information of Juar-
ez military and consular officials, and
Ten Hugh L Scott, commanding the
border troops Miguel E. Diebold, in
speetor of Mexican consulates, has re-
turned here from Palomas, where Viii
IA was reported wounded, a prisoner,
and says the report is false.
Millionaire Geo. H. Bixby won a
big victory today at Los Angeles,
when Judge Bledsoe ruled out the |
most important features of the tes-
,imony expected from Irene Brown
Levy. The court held that she could |
,estify only to her own conduct with |
Bixby and not Of his relations with !
leo Helen Barker, for whose delinq- |
lency he is being tried. .
Charles Miller. the California
who is to meet AL Pal
Ter next Wednesday at the st. Mich
,las ring. has received an offer from
lanes Coffroth, the San Francisco
promoter. Offering a match with Ar
hur Pelkey.