The Dolores star., 1903-10-02
SHORT TELEGRAMS.


will showed tnat he lelt al estate VAL
led at 81 .55l $50.
Telegraphic communication by wire
was established with Nome and St Mi
chael's. Alaska, on September 2lst.
Senator Redfield Proctor of Vermont.
has Just paid nne OF Sl1.5o in New
Hampshire Tor shooting raccoon out
OF season.
1t is reported at Sofia, Bulgaria. that
500 Turks were killed with dynamite
while fighting against body OF insur-
gents in the kresna deiile.
The women OF wallington. New
Jersey, have defed the painters ana
decorators houses. and have formed
league to paint their own houses.
Richard Watson Glider. editor OF n.
Century Magazine. who was solicited ic
run for alderman OF New YORK as !
| Citizens Union candidate, has declined-
The slander suit brought agains; eX-
Postmaster General John ManamaSes
by former Public Printer Robinson. Tsa'
Gently ended in a victory Tor the Ge-
fendant
The New York Wine. Liquor ani
Beer Dealers Association has arraye4
llStlt dSdiASl NruNf4 l4AiA NNltAA GHs-------7-
tration on account OF the license l2ws
enacted by the last Legislature
The schooners Sadie and Lille cs
Prospect. Maine. and the Nackerat
seiner George l.. Edwards, of Gloucs-S-
ter, were wrecked recently on PeEna-
quid point during the night and nftsea
lives were lost.
1t is stated that John D. Rockefeller
has decided to erect no less Than nt-
teen large Office buildings and business
blocks in the downtown district c,
Cleveland at cost aggTegating moro
than S30,000.000.
The United States Court of Appeals
at San Francisco has sustained sen
tence for larceny for stealing dog in
Alaska The decision says: "A dog i,
chattel. and next to man. is the mos
important factor in the past and pres
ent history of the country"
At South Haven. Connecticut, Sep
tember 22d, Oliver T. Sherwood. tins
defaulting cashier OF the Southport
National Bank, was sentenced to ten
years in prison by Judge Platt in thS
United States Court Sherwood wal
convicted OF misappropriation OF $780,
900.
There remains less than two miles OF
the trestle work to be completed in
crossing the Great Salt Lake on the
Southern Pacific cut-DIf, and this work
will occupy several months. The sinks,
which at first formed = serious obsta-
Gle. have at last been practically over
come.
a Dresden dispatch says that Herr
pphaI hos Sfah liSb Nd fy-
in the Socialist party by carrying his
resolution against the Revisionists by
several hundred votes against eleven
dissenting voices and having elected
an executive committee of his own
choosing.
The Lackawanna Iron and Steel
CompaIy's five furnaces at Lebanon,
Pennsylvania: at Cornwall and North
Cornwall. and the coke plant in Leb-
anon. are to at once suspend operations
for an indefinite time No reason is
given for the suspension. Two thou
sand men are affected.
More than 5000 men employed at
the Pencoyd iron works in Philadel-
phia will be thrown out of work with
in two weeks. All departments of the
plant with the possible exception of the
bridge building shops, will remain idle
until January l. The immediate
cause is said to be lack of orders.
Joseph Mariconi. employed in a
power plant at Spier Falls, New York,
was recently subjected to an electric
current of 10000 volts by falling against
two wires, and still lives to tell the
story. He was knocked unconscious
and badly burned where the current
entered and left. Ordinarily 1000 volts
will cause instant death.
Under instructions from the state de-
partment. Robert p. Skinner, the
American consul general at Marseilles,
will penetrate the wilds OF Abyssinia,
guarded by detachment of American
marines from the European squadron.
He goes to negotiate with the king of
Abyssinia a commercial treaty. which
1t is hoped will give important advant-
ages to American trade.
At Grand Rapids. Michigan, few
days ago. the body of Prof. Max
Wright. instructor in modern languages
in Leland Stanford University. and the
son of wealthy parents, was buried in
a cheap, unpainted pine box. Professor
Wright believed expensive funerals to
be wrong and directed before death
that the 5000 of his money that ordi-
narily would be spent for funeral be
used for a public fountain.
The National Irrigation Congress at
Ogden. elected the following officers:
President, w. A. Clark, Montana, first
vice president. l.. w. Shurtliff. Utah
second vice president, w. C Johnson,
Denver; third vice president, John
Hall. Texas; secretary, H. b. Maxson.
Reno, Nevada; and twenty executive
committeeman, including Colorado.
Gilbert McClurg; New Mexico. c. A.
Richardson, Wyoming, Fenimore
Chatterton.
Word has been received announcing
the itinerary and personnel of the com
mission of English educational experts
who are to be brought to the United
States by Alfred Mosely. millionaire
merchant of London. The commission
will arrive about October 18th, from
Southampton, and their itinerary will