The Dolores star., 1901-12-13

caDied to the United States that Flor
efice Nightingale was near death was
unfounded. Florence Nightingale Is
well.
Announcement is made that the SEN
tenoe of accommodation against
Father jeremiah J. Crowley of Chi
cago would be recalled within a few
days.
J. S. Andrews, who pre-empted a
claim within the present limits of
Chicago in 1914. died at Wichita, Kan
sas, December 3rd, aged eighty-four
years.
Maria Luisa. n neGress, 160 years old,
died last month Mt Rio Janeiro, Brazil.
She was the last representative of the
slaves who were imported directly
from Africa.
Edward John Eyre, who wns gov
ernor of jamaica and its dependencies,
1SG2-66, and who put down the mutiny
of the negroes there, is dead He was
born in 1915.
Sousa and his band played by royal
command on the night of December
LIST at Sandringham before their majes-
ties, King Edward and Queen Alexan-
dria and the royal family.
Purdue College of Lafayette, Indi-
ana, received as Thanksgiving pres
ent 100000 from Mrs. Eliza Fowler, to
be expended for the erection and
equipment of an assembly hall.
Kansas is experiencing its second
water famine for this year. Water
works companies say that the situa-
tion. as far rs the water supply is con-
cerned, is rs serious rs last summer.
Latest reports indicate that probably
only three lives were lost in the ferry
boat collision at San Francisco, De-
cember list. 1t was Mt first thought
that as many as twenty were drowned.
1t is officially stated at the Hague
that the story reproduced in the Lon
don News from the Vaamsche Ca
Zette about Queen Wilhelmina quar-
reling with the prince consort is un-
true.
The Peruvian minister, Senor Osman,
and the Bolivian minister of foreign
affairs have signed a protocol submit
ting to arbitration the pending ques-
tons between their respective ooun-
tries.
For the first time Russian univer-
sity has this time placed Tolstoi's
works in its curriculum. special
y
ings and teachings has been opened at
Kieff.
The statistician of the Department of
Agriculture reports 9,G74,000 bales as
the probable cotton production of the
United States in 19O1-02. This was
about 100000 bales less than trade
estimates.
William Alexander Selliirk, CALI
fornia pioneer of 1850, and for nearly
half century prominent figure in
the newspaper and political world Of
the Pacific coast, died at Seattle, De
cember 1st.
An important archaeological discov-
cry is announced from Vologoda,
where n skeleton, declared to be hu-
man, has been found with the unpre-
cedented length of 4.75 arshines, or
over eleven feet.
John Heinrich, who pleaded guilty
to the charge of picking the pockets OF
members of the late President McKin-
ley's party during their visit to Los
Angeles last May, was given three
years In San Quentin prison.
In recent fast run to make up time
between Chicago and Cleveland, the
Lake Shore train carrying the Aus
tralian mail made eighty miles an hour
for part of the distance and averaged
fifty-five miles including stops.
The German Colonial Council has
decided that while the emancipation of
the children of slaves might be prac-
ticable in Togoland and the Camerons,
the time had not arrived to declare
them free in German East Africa.
The estimates for Germany's expen-
ditures in China for 1902 are $9,SOO,-
900, as against $3O,00OO00 expended in
1901. Pensions for widows and or.
phans resulting from the China expe-
>ution amount to $4,000 annually.
The Illinois Appellate Court has re-
versed the decree entered year ago
by which the Chicago Board of Trade
was enjoined from interfering with the
service of the Central Stock and Grain
Exchange in receiving market reports.
There was to have been an open
meeting of anarchists in London to
celebrate the fourteenth anniversary
Of the execution of the Chicago an
archists, but the police ordered the
owner Of the hall to cancel the con-
tract.
1t is expected that Parliament will
be opened on January 18th by the
King in person at London. The govern
ment will at tho earliest possible mo-
ment Introduce bill for the reform
Of the procedure In the House Of Com
mons.
GiOletti, italian minister Of tho inter
ior, says Louis Granoth 10 now IN Chi-
cago, where he Is being shadowed by
the pclice. Granosti, an aecomphce Of
DreGcl, the ASSASSIN Of King Humbcrt,
has been sentenced to life imprfson-
msnt.