The state herald. (Holyoke, Logan County, Colo.) 1887-1921, 1903-10-02
SHORT TELEeRAMs.

Prince Henry of Prussia has taken
command of the Baltic naval station.
Topeka joint keepers are escaping
conviction owing to the laxness Of
, court methods.
The probating of Lord Salisbury's
will showed that he left an estate val
ued at 1851, $50.
Telegraphic communication by wire
was established with Nome and st. Mis-
chael's. Alaska, on September 21st.
Senator Redfied Proctor OF Vermont
has just paid fine of $3.50 in New
Hampshire for shooting a raccoon out
OF season.
st is reported at Sofia, Bulgaria, that
800 Turks We're killed with dynamite
while fighting against body of insur-
gents in the Kresna defile.
The women of Wellington. New
Jersey, have deted the painters and
decorators houses, and have formed
Il league to paint their own houses.
Richard Watson Glider, editor of the
Century Magazine, who was solicited to
run for alderman OF New York as q
Citizens Union candidate, has declined,
The SANDER suit brought against ex-
Postmaster General John Wanamaker
by former Public Printer Robinson, re-
Gently endcc in a victory for the de-
PENDANT.
The New York Wine, Liquor and
Beer Dealers Association has arrayed
itself against Governor Odell's admins
tration on account OF the license laws
enacted by the last Legislature.
The schooners Sadie and Lille of
Prospect, Maine, and the Mackeral
seiner George l.. Edwards. of Glouces-
ter. were wrecked recently on Pema-
quid point during the night and fifteen
lives were lost.
1t is stated that John ID. Rockefeller
has decided to erect no less than IF
teen large Office buildings and business
blocks in the downtown district OF
Cleveland at n cost aggregating more
than $50, 100000.
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 is
4 chattel, and next to man, is the most
important factor in the past and pres
ent history of the country"
At South Haven. Connecticut. Sep
TENDER 22d. Oliver 7. Sherwood, the
defaulting cashier OF the Southport
National Bank, was sentenced to ten
years in prison by Judge Plat in the
United States Court. Sherwood was
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 cutoff. and this work
will occupy several months. The sinks,
| which at first formed u serious obsta-
Gle. have ut last been practically over
| come.
A Dresden dispatch says that Herr
| Bcbel has re-established his authority
In the Socialist party by carrying his
resolution against the Revisionists by
several hundred votes against eleven
dissenting voices and having elected
IN executive committee of his own
choosing.
The Lackawanna Iron and Steel
! Company's five furnaces at Lebanon,
Pennsylvania; at Cornwall and North
Cornwall, and the coke plant In Leb-
anon. are to Mt 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 |. The immediate
cause is said to be lack of orders.
Joseph Mariconi. employed in n
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 +. skinner. the
American consul general at Marseilles
will penetrate the wilds of Abyssinla.
guarded by n detachment of American
marines from the European squadron.
lie goes to negotiate with the king OF
hbyssinia commercial treaty, which
II Is hoped will give important adrant-
ages to American trade.
Al Grand Rapids. Michigan. n 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
n cheap. implanted pine box. Professor
Wright believed expensive funerals To
be wrong and directed before death
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