The Dolores star., 1901-11-08
rELEeRAPHIc sREviriEs.

ny has reduced its capital finding the
separation of iron by magnets unproiit-
able.
The Scottish Rite Masons unveiled a
monument 10 the late grand master.
General Albert Pike, at Washington,
October BIRD.
a. Il. Cuelmins, Republican candi-
date for governor of Iowa. is bedfast
at his home in Des Moines and COM
PEELED TO cancel speaking dates indeti-
nitely.
Joseph Shaffer. twice tried and twice
convicted of murder in the first degree
and twice sentenced 10 be hanged, has
been granted a new trial by the Su-
preme Court of Montana.
Captain W. w. Diehlenberg of the
Kosmos liner Rameses says that San
Diego and San Francisco are to be
made ports of call for the Hamburg
American line OF steamers.
The German press is discussing in
lively fashion the following utterance
attributed to Emperor William: If
no commercial treaties are negotiated,
l shall smash everything to pieces
The King Alfred, the largest cruiser
in the world. was successfully
launched at Barrow-in-Furness October
2sth. The King Alfred cost $505S,I95.
She will have IA speed of twenty-three
knots
Judge Wheeler of Iowa has declared
unconstitutional the law passed by the
twenty y-eighth General Assembly. pro
hibiting the sale of liquor shipped into
Iowa from other states in original
packages.
An Austrian paper reports serious
inundation mt Broussa. near the sea of
Marmora. The water rose with terri
BILE suddenness in the night time.
eighty persons being drowned and &c
houses destroyed.
The annual report of General James
A. Dumont, supervising inspector gen
eral of steam vessels, shows that the
total loss of life on steam vessels last
year was $40, an increase of 40 over
the previous year.
King Edward has purchased Benja-
min Constants portrait of the late
Queen Victoria. which was so promi-
nent at the last royal academy exhibit
ton. Ii will be hung in the royal din
ing room ut Windsor castle.
The total number of cases of typhus
officially reported in Belgium is 1,239
Thus far there have been twenty seven
deaths, while only 1872 have complete
ly recovered. The epidemic has spread
to Bachem and Ludenscheid.
P d. Scott, national worlds fair
commissioner at st. Louis, has re-
ceived n telegram from Miss Helen
Gould in which she accepts the ap-
pointment of lady manager Of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
Ernest Seton-Thompson, the writer
on wild animal life. will in future be
known as Ernest Thompson-Seton. A
petition recently filed for a change of
name has been granted by judge Of
the District Court in New York.
According 10 a dispatch to the Novoe
Nremya from Nladivostock the Russian
General Grodokoff, accompanied by
the Russian assistant minister of
finance, Nj. Romenoff. will soon open
the Mapchurian-Siber railway.
Lee Chop, perhaps the wealthiest
man in New York's chinatown" is
going back to China to live out his old
age in luxury which can be purchased
with the fortune of S150.0OO he has
amassed in merchandise in America.
Heavy SHOWS have been falling in
various parts of northern Arizona. Ten
inches has fallen at Williams and in
the extreme north it is even deeper
1t is of immense value in providing
water on dry sheep and cattle ranges.
The Supreme Court of Montana has
decided that it is not lawful to give
union firms the advantage over non.
in hn nf f,r
supplying furniture for the new state
capitol All citizens must be treated
alike.
Henry Wiseman, in Jackson, Michi
gan, prison, has confessed that he mur
dered Mrs. Ellen Huss in the woods
near Royal. Oklahoma, where her body
was found several weeks ago The
murder was committed in October
1900.
The Independent Home Rulers, a DO
litical party largely composed of ma
tives and half whites, have indorsed
Robert w. Wilcox for governor of Ha
waii, and sent resolutions to that eff
feet to President Roosevelt Wilcox is
Hawaiian delegate to Congress.
Henry Clay Hall. for thirty consec
utive years consul in Cuba and min
lister to Central America. died at his
home in Millbury October Goth, aget
eighty-one years. He was known as
the father of the Nicaraguan canal
| and drafted the first treaty for the
/ building of it.
The divorce proceedings by which
| Frederick NJ. Gebhard and Louise Geb
hard are legally separated, were con
cluded at Sioux Falls, South Dakota
by the order of the court that Mr.. Geb
hard pay his former wife SIS, 200 and
] make over to her his New York resi-
dence.
| Largest in the World.
Walter Baker & Co.. Ltd, Dorches-
ter, Mass, are the largest manufactur-
| erS of cocoa and chncnlatn in tho