The Dolores star., 1903-05-15
SHORT TELEoRAMs.

| Battle OF Waterloo under Blucher.
Charles NJ. Schwab was reelected
president of the United States Steel
Corporation at a meeting of the board
Of directors held in New York on the
9th inst.
The Illinois Legislature has passed
the Mueller municipal bill, which gives
the city of Chicago the right to con-
struct own, operate and lease street
railways.
! General Baden-Powell. who has Just
returned TO England after a short visit
to this country denies that he criticised
the United States cavalry as has been
reported.
An explosion at the Cresson Powder
| Works in Pennsylvania April 30th. re-
suited in the death of nine employees.
Superintendent Harry Taggart OF
Pittsburg was fatally injured.
Secretary Shaw. accompanied by
Mrs. shaw. his two daughters and son,
will sail for Europe July 4th. The
secretary's trip will be brief. but his
family will remain abroad until au>
tumn.
Eighty-seven members of the Lon
don Stock Exchange started in walk
ing match of fifty-two and one-quarter
miles May LIST. +. f. Broad was the
winner in nine hours and thirty-fiye
minutes.
A serious fire was prevented by the
bravery of a soldier on the transport
Thomas at San Francisco few days
ago. He seized leaky drum of gaso-
line which had caught fire, and threw
it overheard.
Cornelius Hill chief of the Oneida
Indians, last survivors of the famous
Six Nations of New York State. will be
ordained as priest of the Episcopal
Church June oath on the reservation
near Green Bay, Wisconsin.
The Copenhagen correspondent of
the London Mail says that King Ed
ward will visit St Petersburg in July,
stopping three days in Berlin on his
return. The correspondent says that
his majesty will also visit Copenhagen.
The controversy between the opera
tiyes and cotton mill managers at
Lowell, Massachusetts,, involving 49,
600 hands. entered upon its sixth week
May 4th, with little prospects of an i'm
mediate change. An estimate places
the loss in wages at nearly 100000.
The Grand Trunk Pan-American
flyer from Chicago ran into a crowd
of 1000 people at Detroit May 3rd at
$3.50 p. m. killing at least seven men
and seriously injuring about thirty
more. The crowd was made up of
Polanders just returned from a holiday
excursion to Toledo.
With the danger block set against"
it. Panhandle train No. 81. bound for
Cincinnati, on the Little Miami diyis-
ion, struck the derail at the Baltimore
& Ohio crossing on the West Side at
Columbus, Ohio. and was ditched. The
Baltimore & Ohio passenger train
whizzed by moment later.
Judge A. E. Maxwell. who, except ex-
Senator Vest, was the last survivor of
the Confederate Senate, died at Chip
ley, Florida. May 9Th. Judge Maxwell
was member of Congress from 1858
to 1857; was Confederate States SEN
ator from 1862 till 1865, and was chief
justice of Florida from 1887 to 1891.
The Northern Securities Company on
May 4th issued a statement of its in
come account from November 13, 1901,
to December 81, 1902, showing divi-
dends received on stocks owned to be
SIS 1854 ,261, and a surplus after pay
ment of expenses, dividends, interest,
taxes, etc, of $15S,1l7.
Princess Louise of Saxony gave birth
to a daughter at Lindau, Bavaria. on
May 4th. The princess deserted her
family at Salzburg last December and
eloped with NJ. Giron. the tutor of her
children. Orders have been given by
the King of Saxony to bring the prin-
cess and child to Dresden three weeks
after its birth.
A strange fight took place in the
Sclavonic Roman Catholic Church on
Sunday May Bird. there being 1000 men,
women and children in the building
Church members fought with their
fists and pieces of furniture. Women
threw books. Bloody faces were nu-
merous. When the fight was over no
one could find out just how it started
or what it was about.
A Honolulu dispatch says that the
Pacific Gable Board is said to be con-
Quoting negotiations with Marconi for
series of wireless telegraphic expert
ments between Honolulu and the Fan
, ming island cable station, which is the
present southern terminus of the Brit
| ish Pacific cable that will eventually
be laid to Australia. The distance be-
tween Honolulu and Tanning island is
about 1000 miles.
Professor John A. Brashear, of Allie
| gheny, Pennsylvania. announces that
the astronomical instrument just COM
| pleted for the Smithsonian Institution
at Washington will shortly be sent to
st. Louis, where the government will
have it mounted for exhibition at the
big fair. 1t is the largest and most
perfect instrument of it's kind ever
constructed and will be used primarily
| for the study of solar phenomena.
At Jackson, Kentucky, on May
4th, just after he had finished
filing papers reopening the con-
tested election cases Of Breathitt
county James B. Marcum was shot
and killed by an unknown assassin. He
fell in his tracks at the front entrance
| of the court house. Marcum wan coun-
sci for the Fusionists who are contest