Dewey Drydock Sinks at Manila
Manila reports the great drydock Dewey sank in harbor with authorities suspecting valve tampering. A formal investigation has begun and efforts to raise the vessel will proceed with divers assessing the sinking cause.
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Newspaper
Evening Bulletin
Location
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1910
Page
4
Manila reports the great drydock Dewey sank in harbor with authorities suspecting valve tampering. A formal investigation has begun and efforts to raise the vessel will proceed with divers assessing the sinking cause.
San Francisco May 24 The police committee of the Board of Supervisors approved a permit for the Johnson JoMeson prize fight despite a state law aimed to halt many exhibitions. Officials are expected to issue the permit after protests from ministers. The event is likely set for July 4 per the current program.
May 24 report describes government forces attacking entrenched provisional troops at Bluefields Nicaragua. The Venus is landed, while the steamer Vewny Mee carries a British flag. Appeals are made in the United States to seize the vessel for alleged neutrality law violations amid suspected contraband cargo for Madrid.
One hundred laborers bound for Hawaii sailed from Manila today, recruited by Hawaii planters’ agents. They expect employment that could lift them into better jobs than they have here.
New York May 24 Charles Dickson founder and former president of the Carnegie trust is dead. He was a millionaire with a wife and son. Death resulted from inhaling gases after an explosion in his laboratory.
Albany to New York flight announced for Thursday by Curtiss the aeronaut. Sugar Trust probe gains new witness with President Thomas of the American Sugar Company subpoenaed in the investigation.
Professor David Todd of Amherst College reports superior views of a bright comet from a Springfield balloon ascent with Mrs Todd and Charles J. Glidden. The party landed in East Haddam after dawn. a rifle shot nearly struck the balloon three miles north of Manchester. Todd observed the comet brighter from the balloon than from the Amherst observatory, sketching a curved tail as meteors were seen but likely unconnected.
Judge Robertson in federal court denied the motion to veto forfeiture of bail in the Territory v. Chink Kim Hee. The Chinaman, charged with being in the country illegally, failed to appear as required, later arriving from San Francisco declaring no intention to remain. Bail forfeiture proceedings proceeded after the hearing.
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