The Dolores star., 1903-04-03
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The London Globe says Harvard
Yale Oxford Cambridge field meeting
has been arranged for this summer.
1t is officially announced that the
King. accompanied by Queen Alexan-
dra, will make a visit to Scotland in
May.
1t is stated that ]. Pierpont Morgan
is planning to build a splendid art mu-
scum and present it to the American
Nation.
The annual report of the Cunard
Steamship Company shows a profit OF
s1.116,Se5 A dividend of per cent. is
declared.
Governor Pardee of California has
approved bill appropriating $l30.000
for a California exhibit at the St. Louis
Exposition.
Cablegrams from European brokers
announce that five per cent has been
added to the price of all grades of un-
cut diamonds.
Money contributions have been re-
ceived by the Socialist party managers
in Berlin from the Cigarmakers' I'm
ion in New York.
Final arrangements are being made
at Glasgow to amalgamate thirteen
Scotch malleable iron firms, with
capital of s6,cOo,00O.
James N. Tyner, assistant attorney
general for the Postoffice Department,
has resigned to take effect on the ap-
pointment of his successor.
BY reason of the strike ordered by
the Textile Labor council. seven of the
largest cotton mills in Lowell, Mass,
were shut down March Goth
N. X. Fairbanks. millionaire manu-
facturer, the foundation of whose large
business was made in the soap Dusi-
ness, died in Chicago March 27th.
Sealing steamers recently arrived at
st. Johns, New Foundland, report large
catches. This years catch in the east
ern ice fields is likely to reach 100000.
The National Educational Associa-
ton meets at Boston July 9th to 10th
and the railroads have granted
round trip rate of one fare plus 81
membership fee.
William H. Mexican, who for near
ly thirty years was editor-in-chief of
the Public Ledger. died at his home
here in Philadelphia March 29th, at
the age of eighty-three.
Noah Raby celebrated his 13lst
birthday April 1st in the poorhouse of
Middlesex county. New Jersey. in
which he has lived for fifty years, 60
ing there at the age of eighty.
The National Council of Women at
New Orleans elected Mrs. Mary Wood
Swift of San Francisco. president for
til. ensuing year and adjourned to meet
at Indianapolis in February, 1904.
successful test of wireless teleg-
raphy between Fort Wadsworth and
Fort Hancock. New York. was made
March 2Sth. Messages were eX-
changed rapidly and without breaks.
The new armored cruiser West Vir-
ginia will be launched at Newport
News April 18th. Miss Katherine v.
White. daughter of Governor Albert B.
White of West Virginia will name the
vessel.
President Lowry of the 500 railroad
recently announced that his company
would build 200-mile extension this
summer north from Glenwood, Mime
sofa. into the White Earth reservation
country.
VIII Dorsey, colored. was hanged at
Birmingham. Alabama, March 9th,
for highway robbery. This is the first
instance in the states history where
the death penalty has been imposed
for this crime.
Senior Ojeda, the Spanish minister,
has accepted the invitation of the St
Louis Fair Commission to deliver a
formal address at the dedication of the
exposition. The French ambassador
already had accepted similar invita-
ton.
parliamentary group has been
formed in the French Chamber of Dep
uties, whose aim is the advancement of
the cause of international arbitration.
More than 100 deputies, irrespective of
party, have given their adhesion to the
group.
1t is said that there is every pcssibil-
ity that Admiral Sir Henry Keppel,
known as the father of the British
navy and who is now at Singapore.
will be married before he returns to
England. Admiral Keppel is in his
ninety-third year.
The Gar has received Sir Thomas
w. Cridler, the representative Of the
st. Louis exposition, at the imperial
residence at Tsarskoye Selo and ex-
pressed his personal interest and sym
pathy with the objects of the ST. Louis
exposition.
telegram from Helsingfors, Fin
land, announces that forty-three
clergymen have simultaneously been
deprived of their living because they
refused to cooperate with the authori-
ties in carrying out the new military
service law.
DR.. John P. Wood of Coffeyville.
Kansas, one of the Oldest physicians
in the United States, died at Thomas,
Oklahoma Territory, aged 101 years.
DIR. Woods had been engaged in active
practice for seventy-five years. He was
a pioneer of Kansas.
The official Gazette at Tihis an
nounces that rioting took place recent
ly at Batoum and Baku, the center of
the petroleum industry in Russia, and
was suppressed by the troops During
the riots the vice governor of Baku
was slightly injured