The Dolores star., 1902-01-31
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| ne TtCeHt llliu VI ulIuiouus III niuh-
tana turns out to be sapphires OF an
excellent quality.
Governor Taft says thta with the
help OF 5000 native constabulary. To-
600 soldiers will be sufficient to rule
the Philippines by the end of this year.
A disastrous and fatal fire is report
ed from Canton. where several hum
dred houses have been destroyed and
n large number of lives lost. Some re-
b ports say 200.
| A wall of the Smithfield flax mills
collapsed on the Goth, burying the op-
erativcs who included many women.
As this dispatch is sent ten bodies
/ have been extricated from the ruins.
Capt ]. NJ. Hartshorne, Jr.. Seventh
infantry, was shot from ambush and
killed January =, in the eastern part
D of the island OF Samar. Capt. HIrts-
1 horne was recently transferred from
/ the Ninth TO the Seventh infantry.
All of the eleven criminals who es-
! capped from the United States peniten-
\ tiary ON McNeIrs Island. Washington.
/ Sunday. have been captured. The cap
ture was effected without shot being
fired.
The total OF 10 fatalities in the
Swiss Alps constitutes the record for
the year 1901, and is double the num-
ber of fatalities of 1900. ChamouniX
is the principal center from which the
deaths of mountain climbers have
been announced.
Adyices by the steamship Tacoma
state that the insurrection movement
in Fomosa is much more serious than
at first supposed. Twenty-Five hum
dred natives in southern Fcrmosa
have taken up arms against the Japan
ese authorities.
Blanks are now being sent the rail-
road companies by the Montana State
I Board of Equalization, asking for Il
report of improvements and extensions
made during the year. 1t is under
stood that the board of equalization
contemplates making an increase in
the valuation of railroads paying taxes
in that state.
The transcontinental bureau has is
sued n call to the seventeen lines it in
cludes for 4 session in Portland, Feb
IS, at which more than 1000 ques-
tions will be taken up. There is
strong probability that transcontinen-
tai rates as whole will be discussed.
and possibility that the bureau may
decide upon important reductions.
The executive committee of the Kan
sas G. A r. has ordered Martin Nor
ton. the department commander, to va
cate his Office at once. The committee
has been in session all day investiga-
ting charges of incompetency, drunk
enness and looseness in money matters
that had been placed against Norton,
and sustained them in every particu-
lar.
William F. Hoffmeister of st. Louis,
ex-supreme recorder of the Legion of
Honor, committed suicide at the Plant
ers' hotel by shooting himself with
revolver. Hoffmeister had just been
defeated for reelection as supreme
recorder of the Legion of Hon
or by G. X. T. White and an entirely
new supreme council was elected after
a sensational contest.
At the annual meeting of the Miami
Cycle company statistics We're pre-
sented showing that while January l,
1900, there were 2SS factories in the
United States employed in the manu-
facture of bicycles. by January /, 1901.
this number was reduced to 60, and on
the 1st of January this year there We're
only "a bicycle factories in operation,
a decrease of over 80 per cent. in two
years.
The international sugar conference at
Brussels is practically certain to end
in disagreement between the powers
concerned therein, with the result that
France and Great Britain will take
active steps against the Austrian and
German bounty systems. The "kartels"
organizations of sugar refiners) in the
n pTl
which delegates to the convention will
split.
Upon the recommendation of Immi-
grafton Commissioner Fitchey of New
York, Supervising Inspector Frank
Saxton, on duty at New York City,
has been dismissed from the service.
He has been on duty as supervising
inspector at New York for the past
for dismissal is given as neglect of
duty. Saxton Is nephew of Mrs.
Mckinley.
The frequency of explosions 10 coal
mines has led to favorable action by
the house committee on mines and min
ing on the bill of Representative
Lacey of Iowa, requiring 5000 cubic
! feet of pure air ventilation per minute
loi SNCiy hlly utptIlS vi oNeE
100 feet in coal mines. The present
requirement Is $500 cubic feet. The
change is made at the request of the
mining organizations.
The gift of Emperor William to Har-
ward university will be much larger
than was at first supposed. The Emper-
or's gift consists of casts and some
bronzes, illustrating every phase Of the
German plastic arts from the Roman
esque period to the Renaissance. The
casts number several thousand. The
| entire cost Of the collection will be de-
| frayed from the Emperor's private
| purse, and is estimated at about half q
I million marks.
| The La Strain hotel, seven-story
apartment hotel at Chicago, was prac-
tically destroyed by fire Saturday.
Sixty women and children were In the
building when the flames were dis
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