Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-09-05
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IL To the Advertiser
Representative Murray Of Oklahoma
lin the house today by inference crit
Iicized the Mexican policy of President
Wilson. He declared that il was abb
Isurd to urge Americans to flee from
i Mexico in the face of a declaration
THAT war is not expected. Murray's
declaration was made over an item
/ In the deficiency bill making an APP
lpropriation to bring Americans out OF
the country. Murray said:
IF we have war after the war is
lover, how win the billion dollars be
collected? / can see nothing but a
lresort to arms am against war, but
lrapine and murder are worse than
lwar. They talk about moral suasion
to bring about settlement in Mexi-
leo. On the same theory why not re-
move the guards from the gates at
1.-THE White House? Why not abolish
fall hangings, and persuade men not
to commit murder? p
Representative Murray continued:
Never have we had a war because
I've stood up for our rights under
treaty obligations.
Interrogation or Porter Charlton,
1.-THE twenty-four year old American, by
Examining Judge Rogpmi and Signor
Mellini was completed today at Como,
Italy Charlton was confronted with
the trunk in which he hid his wife's
body intake Como.
He gazed at it intently for few
moments, looking at the brown blood
stains, but did not finch
The date of the trial will be fixed
next week.
4 Lord Kintore announced today that
/ if the British government persists in
refusing to exhibit at the Panama-Pa-
cific Exposition in San Francisco in
1916, the committee in charge of the
Anglo-American Exposition at London
met year will organize and manage the
British exhibit at San Francisco.
The Hamburg-American liner Presi.
dent Lincoln went aground at seven
lo'clock this morning In heavy fog
lon Bay Ridge, while outward bound
from New York. 1t was floated later
by tugs called by wireless. Nc dam
age was done. The liner returned to
| its dock
Pope Plus is i'll again. His Holiness
| is suffering from a cold accompanied
Iby hoarseness. Although advised by
physicians to take an absolute rest to-
day, he insisted upon carrying out his
Engagement, which included the recep-
ltion of a number Of pilgrims at the
vatican.
The formal inquest into the wreck
of the Bar Harbor Express, which
cost the lives OF twenty-one persons,
began behind closed doors this morn
ing in the Offices sof Coroner Elmix.
The facts adduced were turned over
to the States attorney.
| H. w. Belknap, chief inspector of
/ the Interstate Commerce Commission,
which will begin public inquiry at
New Haven tomorrow, was present at
the inquest A. B. Miller, engineer
of the White Mountain Express,
(which crashed into the Bar Harbor
train. and Flagman Charles H. Murray,
of the doomed express. the most inn
iportant witnesses, were the first call
ed. Both have been locked up since
tuesday night
Two million dollars worth of pro-
perry has been destroyed in Beau
ford county, the entire town of Bell
haven has been wiped out, many head
of live stock have been killed, and
/ it is not improbable that lives have
been lost, the result of hurricane
that swept along the North Carolina
coast yesterday.
| The storm, coming from the south
and east, broke with sudden fury, es-
pecially in the little town of Bellhav-
len. The town has a population of
about six hundred Many of the res
idents took refuge in cellars, thus es-
Gaping with their lives.
President Wilson sent special mes
sage to the senate late today stating
that he has given to the chairman
| of its finance committee the protests
of foreign nations against the provis-
ion in the tariff bill granting a rebate
of five per cent on goods imported in
American bottoms.
The message included statement
from Counsel Moore of the state de-
partment that the proposed rebates
violate treaties of the United States
with foreign nations. The provision
was stricken from the bill.
Acting on instructions received from
President Wilson, the United States
transport Buford is being made in
readiness tonight at San Francisco to
proceed to the ports along the west
coast of Mexico and take aboard the
large number of American refugees.
/ The Glacier on a recent cruise from