The Dolores star., 1901-08-09
rELEoRAPHIc RREviTiEs.

Paul Kruger is Mt The Hague, and it
is said he will start for South Africa
in October.
The new battleship Maine was
launched mt Cramps shipyard in Phil
adelphia July 9th.
The 1000 or more Bocr prisoners at
st. Helena have started the publication
of a weekly newspaper.
Admiral Melville is preparing casks
to send adrift in the Arctic ocean to
find the currents crossing the pole.
Sir Henry Irving and Miss Helen
Terry will make a twenty-five weeks
tour of this country during the coming
season.
The shoemakers of Vienna have ask
cd the government to prevent Ameri-
cans from starting shoe factories in
Austria.
The law departments of the Union
and Southern Pacific are TO be consoli-
dated. with John NJ. Thurston as chief
counsel.
The government has determined to
make vast improvements in the forti-
tications around the harbor of San
Francisco.
John l.. Collins, son OF Admiral Col
lins of Civil War fame, plunged four
teen stories to his death in the Chica
go Masonic temple July 24th.
\ New York engineer has invented
n new fuel of compressed air and pc
trOleum which he claims will carry
ships TO Europe in four days.
The postmaster general has issued
an order formally placing the Ameri-
nnSt11 Spryipn i'm (FhinD tho
same basis as before the outbreak.
Great preparations are being made in
Montreal in connection with the visit
of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall
and York. who are expected there
about September 1Tth.
Secretary Root has directed the prep
aration of an order creating a board of
army officers to investigate the whole
subject of changes in the military posts
throughout the country.
Many of the horses in Chicago are
said to be afflicted with the grip. and
the disease has taken such n severe
form in some localities that it has been
necessary for owners to stop work.
a forest fire in the province of
Jentland, Sweden, has assumed gi-
gantic proportions. Three thousand
troops have been ordered to assist the
men who are combating the flames.
The Southern Pacific company has
closed timber land deals recently that
promise to pave the way for the later
opening of vast tracts of timber coun-
try in the northern part of California.
a Paris lawyer has just been beaten
in an attempt in court to stop the play
ing of a piano in boarding school op-
poste his office. The tribunal pro-
nounced piano playing social insd-
tuition.
DIR. w. c. Gray, for twenty-five years
editor of the Interior, the organ of the
Presbyterian Church, has disposed of
his interest in the paper and resigned.
The paper has been incorporated with
a capital of $4,000.
The Rush Medical College at Chica-
go announces that co-education will be
introduced in the medical school. Here
after women will be admitted to the
freshman and sophomore classes on an
equal footing with men.
John G. Willis. property owner of
North Omaha, has submitted to Sena-
tor Millard Il plan for the cession of old
Fort Omaha by the government to the
lege and experiment station.
Ii Hung Chang, Prince Ching and
Kun Yang, resident members of the,
regency board, have received from the
throne long communication. laying
down general injunctions as to reform
and honesty of administration.
Rev. Adam Miller. called 1.-THE father
of German Methodism in America"
and said TO be the Oldest Methodist
minister in the United States. died at
his home in Chicago. July 29th, Of old
age, being ninety-one years old.
That Jacob S. Rogers, who left al
most all of his immense estate to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art of New
York, himself placed the estimate of
his property at S5,443,OOO, has been
discovered by the appraisers.
President Mlburn of the Buffalo
Exposition has issued a statement in
which he says the exposition has been
more than paying its expenses since
the beginning of June and has already
accumulated considerable surplus.
A New Whatcom, Washington, dis
patch tells of n phenomenal run of
salmon over all the fishing grounds of
the lower sound. On July 25th it is
estimated that 10000 cases of fish
We're packed of the value of $325OOO.
DR.. Felepe Caldas, the Brazilian bac-
teriologist who has a yellow fever SER
um, has sailed for Cuba, accompanied
by DR.. Angel Bellinzaghi, his assistant,
to direct experiments with his serum.
with a view to stamping out the dis
ease.
Lulu Prince Kennedy of Kansas
City, under sentence of ten years for
killing her husband, Philip II. Kep-
nedy, January 10th last, has been re-
leased on bond of $4,000, pending an
appeal of her case to the State Su-
preme Court.
In a fight between the Mad Mullah
and the British July nth, the former
was routed, leaving seventy killed.
The British casualties We're Lieuten-
ant Fredericks and twelve men killed
and Lieutenant Dickson and twenty
men wounded.
The Rock Island railroad, which mt
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