The Dolores star., 1902-09-26
SHORT reLeoaAms.

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houndered In the North sea during the
recent gales and fifty fishermen were
drowned.
The long-distance 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-
pearing to have completely recovered
from her illness.
1t is estimated that as many as fifty
hves were lost In the recent great fires
IN clarke ana Cowlitz counties In the
state of Washington.
The Frisco road has purchased the
Ozark e. 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 a tunnel
nearly seven miles long.
George Lindhurst of Brooklyn, New
York, was bitten on the thumb by a
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 a bottle.
Naval Constructor Hobson will be
placed on duty at the Pensacola navy
yard. the command to which Rear Ad-
miral Wise was recently assigned.
A statement of British finances
shows that the gross liabilities March
31st were So, 49,, ,216, 800, an Increase of
$3l3,591 $40, due to the South African
war.
The Republican territorial convention
at Honolulu has nominated Prince Jo-
nah Kalauiauaole. popularity known as
Prince Cupid" for delegate to Con-
gress.
Passengers on the Bertha, recently
arrived ut Seattle from Alaska, saw
volcanoes in three mountains-Re-
doubt, Iliamna and Augustine, in act
i've eruption.
A lone highwayman in Topeka, Kan
sas, recently held up and 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,
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 $3.50 cases and Al ,SO4
deaths. These are unofficial estimates.
The vatican has definitely decided to
send the Most Rev. Diomede Falconio
to Washington as papal delegate in the
United States. Mgr. Falconio is now
an apostolic delegate for the Dominion
| of Canada.
Secretary of State Hay has accepted
the invitation to be present at the dedi-
cation of Camp Roosevelt, which is to
be feature Of the coming G. A. r.
encampment in Washington, and to de-
liver the Grafton.
The business men of Manila are or
ganizing for the purpose of agitating
for limited Chinese immigration to the
Philippines. They have planned to
send u memorial and possibly dele
CATION to Washington.
At his reception to the people of Mas
sau county at Oyster Bay, President
Roosevelt told woman, who asked
him IL he was getting tired, that it
took more than trolley car to knock
him out or crowd to tire him.
At Kansas City September 10th sew.
enteen head of native steers, averaging
1.266 pounds, sold at $S.75, being the
highest price ever paid on that market.
On the same day over 10000 cattle
We're received at the stock yards.
Captain Windsor was retired on the
10th inst. with rank of rear admiral
His retirement will result in the pro-
motion of Lieutenant Commander Regi-
nald Il. Nicholson, navigator ON the
Oregon during the Spanish-American
war.
A nephew of General De Wet, the
Boer commander, arrived in Berlin re-
Gently to be treated by Professor Berg
man for gunshot wound. 1t was er-
roneously printed here that General De
Wet himself had bullet removed from
his body.
Eta Hannie 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
Saxony the temperature sank to zero
and hurricane-like wind unroofed a
number of houses and injured many
people. The damage Is estimated at
millions of marks.
The San Francisco savings banks
have the largest per capita of deposits
of any banks in the United States.
They report an aggregate Of 2O2, ,3S1 de-
positors with $13S, 103, ,433 standing ln
their names, which amounts to a per
capita deposit Of $632.
japanese papers received at'Victoria
contain kilograms stating that 5000
persons lost their lives by the over
flowing of the West river in China.
There was also heavy loss Of prop
erty and life in Formosa By floods, fol-
lowed by tidal wave.
Marconi, in an interview published
at Rome, declares that he has COM
pletely solved the problem of sending
wireless messages over distance of
more than 1,50O miles, and that he IL
confident communication between Eu-