The state herald., 1902-09-26
SHORT TELEeRAMs.

mate oil the length Oh lne WORLDS rail-
ways.
Nine vessels of the French cod feet
1oundered in the North sea during the
recent gales and fifty fishermen were
drowned.
The long-dlstance cowboy pony race
between Deadwood and Omaha was
abandoned on the request of President
Roosevelt.
Queen Wilhelmina opened the staats
general in person September 10th, ap-
pearlng to have completely recovered
from her illness.
1t is estimated that ms many as fifty
lives were lost in the recent great fires
in Clarke and Cowlitz counties in the
state of Washington.
The Frisco road has purchased the
Ozark & Cherokee Central railroad now
building from Fayetteville. Arkansas,
to Shawnee, Oklahoma.
The new route surveyed for the
Central Pacific through the Sierra Ne
vada mountains will require tunnel
nearly seven miles long.
George Lindhurst of Brooklyn, New
York, was bitten on the thumb by
fly and died of blood poisoning after
an illness of two weeks.
London journals advise people to
keep away from johannesburg, where
employment is scarce, rents enormous
and beer dollar bottle.
Naval Constructor Hobson will be
placed on duty at the Pensacola navy
yard, the command to which Rear Ad.
miral Wise was rect-ltly assigned.
A statement of British finances
shows that the gross liabilities March
31st were S3,2S2, ,2l6,o30 an Increase of
13,597 ,540, due 10 the South African
war
The Republican territorial convention
at Honolulu has nominated Prince Jo-
nah Kalauiauaole, popularity known rs
prince Cupid for delegate to Con-
gress.
Passengers on the Bertha, recently
arrived at Seattle from Alaska, saw
volcanoes In three mountains-Re-
doubt, lliamna and Augustine, in act
I've eruption.
A lone highwayman in Topeka, Kan
sas, recently held up ana robbed nine
separate persons of money and jewelry
In one night. after which he escaped
with his booty.
The United States Senate commits.
sion, appointed to Investigate and re-
port upon Hawaiian affairs generally,
has organized at Honolulu and begun
holding daily sessions.
Late Manila dispatches report cholera
light in Manila and bad In the prov
inces. The totals to date reported from
the islands are 59,519 cases and II SCI
deaths. These are unofficial estimates.
The vatican has definitely decided TO
send the Most Rev. Dlomedc Falconio
TO Washington as pnpal delegate in the
United States. Mgr. Falconlo Is now
an apostolic delegate FOR the Dominion
Of Canada.
Secretary of Stat, Hay has accepted
the invitation to be present at the dcdi-
cation OF Camp Roosevelt. which is to
be n feature of the coming G.. 4. X.
encampment in Washington, and to de
liver the Grafton.
The business men Of Manila are or
ganizlng for the purpose OF agitntlng
for limited Chinese Immigration 10 the
Philippines. They have planned TO
send memorial and possibly dele
CATION TO Washington.
At his reception to The people Of Mas
sau county nj Oyster Bay. President
Roosevelt told woman, who asked
him II he was getting tired, that II
took more than n trolley ear TO knock
him out or n crowd 10 tire him.
At Kansas City September 10th sew.
enteen head of native steers, averaging
1.266 pounds, sold nj SS1J. being the
highest price ever paid on that market.
On the same day over 10000 cattle
Were received at the stock yards.
Captain Windsor was retired on the
10th inst. with rank of reHS admiral.
His retirement Will result In the pro-
motion OF Lieutenant Commander Regl-
nald +. Nicholson. navigator on the
Oregon during the spanlsh-Amerlcan
war.
A nephew OF General De Wet, the
Boer commander. arrived III Berlin re-
Gently TO bc treated by Professor Berg
man for gunshot wound. II was err
roncously printed here that General De
Wet himself had bullet removed from
his body.
Eta IInnnlc Maddox OF Baltimore
has appeared before the Clerk OF the
Court OF Appeals In Annapolis, Mary.
land, qualified and taken the oath OF
admission to the bar. She Is the first
woman TO be admitted under the new
Maryland law.
Destructive storms ragged In many
parts OF Germany September 18th. In
Snxony the temperature sank to zero
and n hurricane'llke wind unroofcd n
number Of houses aud injured many
people. The damage is estimated ut
millions OF marks.
The San Francisco savings banks
have the largest per capita OF deposits
OF any banks In the United States.
They report nm aggregate OF 2o2.3Sl de-
posltors with si3s lD'i,i33 standing IN
their names, which amounts TO n per
capita deposl, OF S0j.
japanese papers received at Victoria
contain tclcgrams stating that 5000
persons lost their lives hy the over
flowing OF the West river In China.
There was also n heavy loss OF prop.
crty aud life In Fofmosa by Hoods, fol
lowed 10y tidal wave.
Marconl, In mn Interview published
nj Rome. declares that he has com.
pietely solved the problem OF sending
wireless messages over n distance OF
more than 1900 miles. aud TINT he N
confident communication between Eu.
rope and America VIII BE- established
soon.
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