The Dolores star., 1902-01-03
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The federal government OF Austria
liza has decided to send contingent of
1000 men TO South Africa.
A seat on the New York Stock Ex-
change was sold n few days ago for
S75,OU0 This is the highest price ever
paid.
A deal has been practically closed for
the sale of the Topeka street railway
system to St Louis syndicate for
SJOO,OOO.
Cecil Rhodes has suffer from a heat
stroke and has abandoned his trip to
Khartoum. He is now hurrying back
to Cairo.
The American Tobacco combination
has made an incursion into Germany.
and it proposes later to carry the war
into Russia.
William Ellery Claiming. the noted
poet and essayist. died AT Concord.
Massachusetts, December 23rd, aged
eighty-three years.
Judge David McAdnm. of the Su-
preme Court Of New York, died In
New York City December 22nd. OF
cancer of the tongue.
Professor w J. Spillman of Pullman,
Washington, VIII succeed Professor f.
Latson ScTibner as agroStoloSist of the
Department of Agriculture.
Papers Incorporating the American
Lumber Company. capital SS,OOO.O0O,
have been filed with the county clerk
of Essex county. New Jersey.
President Roosevelt has sent to Con-
gress n letter strongly commencing the
plan for n national forest reservation
In the southern Appalachian region.
The Swedish Antarctic expedition un-
der Dr. Otto Nordenskjol has arrived
NJ Buenos Ayres. DIR. Nordenskj jol ex-
poets to return to Sweden in May, 1903
DR. Samuel Smiles. author of the
Self-Helf series. and well known to
American readers, celebrated his
nlnetieth birthday December 23rd in
London.
A st. Petersburg capitalist mas prom
ised to supply 10000 roubles for the
expense of IL north polar exploring
party which plans to leave next year
in the ship Panteleimon.
The National Broom Manufacturers
Association of the United States and
Canada decided December 18th to ad-
vance the price of brooms and are con-
sidering n further advance.
Tt is officially announced at Berlin
that in consequence of the murder OF
a German near Pekinc. August 9th. IF
teen members of the band found guilty
Of the crime have been executed.
Emil l.. Boas. general agent of the
HaiEburg-American line, who returned
fro.a Europe recently. says his COM
pany claims no rights in Nicaragua
through the purchase of the Atlas line.
General Horace w. Carpenter,
wealthy retired merchant of the Pacific
coast. is the donor # the 100000 to
Columbia university for the endow-
lnent ofAa chair of Chinese language
and literature.
BY the collapse of the city market
house nj Zacatecas. Mexico, December
end, fully forty FIVE lives were lost
and over n score of persons seriously
injured, some of them SO badly that
they cannot recover.
The safe In the county treasurer's
office at Atwood. Kansas. was blown
open on the morning of the 22nd and
S1,50O taken. Officers were on the
scene in n few moments, but the
cracksmen had escaped.
Physicians of the University of Mich
igan think they have discovered an
antiseptic for all intestinal diseases.
such as cholera. typhoid fever and
dysentery. 1t has already been sue
cessfully tried on small animals.
Colonel James Forney of the marine
corps, who is now in command of the
marines at the League Island navy
yard, Philadelphia. has been ordered
to Cavite. Philippine Islands, to as
| sumo command of the first brigade of
marines.
A feature of the winter cruise of the
| North Atlantic squadron in West
Indian and gulf waters will be drills in
landing and launching boats crews of
sailors and other maneuvers, in which
conditions of actual warfare will be
| simulated.
The Treasury Department has issued
a circular extending the prohibition
| against the Importation Of meat cattle
from Australia and New Zealand into
the United States, so as to include
Hawaii, 1t being a territory of the
United States.
The municipal council of Dublin
voted to bestow the freedom of the
city OF Dublin on John Redmond, the
Nationalist leader in the House Of
Commons, who returned to Ireland n
LeW Gays ago from Visit TO the
United States.
| Great naval activity Of every de-
scripion prevails at Sebastopol. A
/ Russian naval officer recently declared
that IL Sebastopol had to play an
active role it would be in position
to give better account of itself than
fifty years ago.
Cherokee Indians are reported starv-
Ing in the hills near Tallequa, in the
Going Snake district, as result Of
the loss Of their crops and the blizzard.
They are members of the Netoowah
tribe, and are said to be the LATEST
| people on earth.
The British war office has issued an
other long dispatch received from Lord
Kitchener. detailing the murders of
natives by the Beers. One case is given
Of wagon driver VINO was captured
| from a British convoy in the end of