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Newspaper
Evening Bulletin
Location
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1897
Page
1
J. T. Waterhouse promotes mid-summer crafts with low prices on infant bonnets and caps, serges for ladies wear, quilts, pillow linen, handkerchiefs, white tucking and puffing, and cotton laces. Buying direct from manufacturers allows high quality at lower costs. Customers are invited to inspect the stock.
The steamer Kinau brought news of the death of Captain Albert George Sidovy Hawes, British Commissioner and Consul General, at Hilo on Friday morning from blood poisoning linked to ear lacerations. Vice Consul T R Walker and Miss Gay, his fiancée, were with him. burial arrangements and embalming in Honolulu followed. The body was ferried to the ship in ice, guarded, and to be transported to Honolulu for funeral services, with the event prompting official tributes from British and Hawaiian authorities.
Police respond to two strange incidents at dawn. Chung Wo lies mortally wounded in an alley near Maunakea and King, with Lt Edwards and Officer Bowers at the scene. Dr. Emerson tends his throat wound as the victim’s condition worsens, with no clear account of the events. A separate note mentions a minstrel charity show on Monday August 23 and consular red tape affecting mastings at the American consulate, tied to Hawes’s death delaying the flag at half mast for ten days.
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