Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-11-24

boys and girls near Rome, Ga
Paul de Cassagnac. a French writer
recently sent a challenge to a duel to
/ Lieut.. Baron Won Forstner. Of the
! German army. who, according to a
local newspaper, insulted the French
nag. The challenge was sent in a
registered letter which Forstner re-
turned unopened.
The violent general strike In Christ
church, y. T., has increased to a point
Of such danger that q whole regiment
of special constabIes was enrolled on
| Saturday. The carriers voted TO join
the walkout today
Captain Alfred Brown of New York
| who claims to be the champion long
distance swimmer of the world, swan
Gatun lake yesterday. The "a miles
were covered in IL hours and 30 min
uteS.
A New York dispatch says Nathan
Straus, long leading figure in the
mercantile world, has retired from &C
tive business to devote himself to hu.
manitarian work.
The annual convention of the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor, which has
been in session in Seattle. adjourned
late Saturday, to meet in Philadelphia
in 1914.
With the statement that IL chill
dren in every hundred in the public
schools are mentally unuseful," DR..
Arnold Gesell, in a conclusion pub
lished by the United States bureau
Of education, urges the creation Of
special classes and forms Of educa-
ton
Mrs. Minnie Sherman Fitch, wife
of Lieut. Thomas w. Fitch, U. S. NJ,
retired, and daughter of the late Gen
William T. Sherman, died at Gulfport,
Miss, Saturday, and the remains will
be taken to st. Louis today for inter-
ment beside the body of the general
The increasing importance of Ger
manys relations with Latin America
is indicated by provision in the i'm
perial budget for 1914, raising to the
rank Of full legations the minister
residences, now credited to Guatema-
la, Venezuela and Peru.
Gen. Ballington Booth, commander
in-chief of the Volunteers of America,
and his brother, Gen. BramwelI
Booth, commanderin-chief of the Sal
walton Army, will have their long de-
ferred union today in New York city,
it was announced last night The
meeting will be private.
The two separated II years ago,
when Ballington Booth organized a
separate body, after quitting his ia
Their, William Booth, founder of the
Salvation Army.
George MCGUIRE, q known as 1.-The
Father of Labor Day." is dead at an
advanced age at Manchester, New
Hampshire. Mcclure. who was a
first made the suggestion
Of a labor holiday 81 a labor conven-
ton in Chicago, in 1854.
The fastest passenger train on the
Lackawanna railroad, equipped with
special wireless apparatus, was COM
municated with at will yesterday in
a successful test of a wireless sys-
tenn of train dispatching to prevent
collisions. -
Mrs. Lucy E. Parsons, widow. Of
Albert r. Parsons, the Chicago anar-
chist who was hanged for participa-
ton in. the Haymarket riots, was
turned back by the Canadian immi-
grafton authorities yesterday when
she Started to board a steamer at
Seattle for Vancouver, British Colum-
bia.
Mrs. Parsons was to deliver a lee
ture on labor in Vancouver tonight.
Before 400 students and a number
of professors, two freshmen of the
Georgia School of Technology met in
an improVised ring and settled their
quarrel with bare fists.
Professor w. F. Herman acted as
referee and the principals were his
brother, Frank Herman, from New Or
leans, and Bill Boney of Columbus.
Ga. The fight was savage and both
boys were terribly punished.
The aides for the Jessie Wilson
wedding are announced as follows:
Lieut.. Commander Needham l.. Jones.
U. S. NJ, naval aide to the president
and the secretary of the navy; DR..
Cary T. Grayson, U. S. NJ; Lieut..
Richard S. Galloway, u S. N; Lieu:
F. A. Todd, q. S. NJ; Lieut.. John J.
London, U. S. NJ; Lieut.. Harold T.
Wirgman, U. S. NJ; Lieut.. H. H. Clag-
gett, U S. A; Lieut., Charles X.
Rockwell, U. S. A; Lieut. Beverley C.
Dunn, U. S. A; Lieut. Joseph c. Me-
haffey, U. S. A; Lieut.. Joseph P Ale
shire, U. S. A., and Lieut., James A.
Dorset, U. S. A.
The aides will be in attendance on
the diplomatic; corps and official
guests generally.
After a trial at Dortmund, lasting
ia days, Herr Ohm, managing d.
rector of the Niederdeutsche bank.