The Dolores star., 1903-10-09
SHORT reLEeRAMs.

tember 29th. travelled five miles in
4:49 2-5. The worlds record was 4:64.
Emile Berliner. well-known for his
MISREPRESENTATION transmitter, the
gramophone, and other inventions. an
nounces that he has devised an aero
plane.
The Treasury Department on Sep
tember 18th purchased 100000 ounces
OF silver at 59% cents per ounce. The
purchase was made for the Philippine
coinage.
G. C. Cary Of Wichita was burned to
death and five others were injured In
fire that destroyed the private sani-
tarium of DR.. b. b. Ralph at Kansas
City, September 29th.
Tho Holland ministry for foreign af-
fairs has appointed commission to
take preparatory steps for the construc-
tion of the permanent arbitration court
building at The Hague.
The British Board of Agriculture has
issued an order withdrawing the pro-
hibition on the landing of animals 9TH
er than swine brought to Great Britain
from the New England states.
Curtis Jett. convicted at Cynthiana,
Kentucwy, on the third trial, OF the
murder of James Cockrill at Jackson.
Kentucky, July 21st, 1902, has been
sentenced to be hanged December 18th.
John Hays Hammond. the famous
mining expert. who is professor OF
mining engineering at Yale, will pre-
sent TO that institution metallurgical
laboratory to cost between S35,0OO and
$4,000.
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Times. writing from Beirut. says moth
ing but the presence of the American
squadron prevented the recent riot there
from becoming general massacre OIL
Christians.
Twelve hundred schools in Porto
Rico were opened September 2Sth and
$4,000 pupils were received. Three
times that number of children were en-
rolled and the struggle for preference
was great
An increase in wages of 5000 en-
ployes of the. twenty car and locomo-
tive repair shops of the Chicago d
Northwestern railway has been grant
ed at an annual expense of $500 900 to
the company.
The Danish immigration Society or
St Paul, Minnesota, has bought 10000
acres of land ten miles from Sidney,
Nebraska, and will place 200 families
of Danish immigrants on it to engage
in the dairy business.
While officiating in post season
game between the American Associa-
ton and Western League teams at
Kansas City, September 27th, Umpire
Kelley of the Western League had his
lnJa hrn An, ly n fnul hall
W. A. Smith, one of the most promi-
nent men OF Butte. Montana, was al
most instantly killed September 26th
by the overturning of tally-ho in
which he was riding. The other mem-
bers of the party escaped serious in
jury.
Both the plague and cholera are rag
ing at Pei Tang. seaport fifty miles
east of Tien Tsin, China, where 1000
deaths have occurred during the past
two months. The towns of Nueher,
Taku and Tien Tsin are not yet af-
fected.
Shamrock l., the old Americas cup
challenger, just sold by Sir Thomas
Lipton, after being remodeled by the
American purchaser. will be turned in
to schooner to carry scrap metal be-
tween New York and South American
ports.
Rev. McLughley. missionary, who
left Bear river. Lake Winnipeg. with
five Indian children in sailboat en-
route to the Bradon Indian Industrial
School several days ago, is missing and
it is believed the party has been
drowned.
At the Empire City track. New York
September 18th, the champion geldfng
Major Delmar, tied the worlds trot-
ting record of Lou Dillon by trottine
a mile in two minutes. Only week
before Major Delmar changed owners
tor $4,000.
At a meeting of the aldermen in the
Guild hall September 29th, Alderman
Sir John Thomson Ritchie, brother OF
the late chancellor of the eXcheQuer
was elected lord mayor of London fol
the ensuing year, in succession to Sill
Marcus Samuel.
A Southern Railway fast mail trair
jumped from a seventy-foot trestle
near Danville. Virginia, September
9th. OF the crew of sixteen men, in
Guiding mail clerk. nine were killed
| and seven injured, all OF them danger
ously, if not fatally.
Another speed trial of electric trac
ton was made September 23rd on thu
| Zossen military road in Germany
when 10sa4 miles were covered in on
hour On the previous trial, Septem
ber 10th. an electric car attained I
speed of JOG 40 miles
Charles Becker, considered the clev
crest forger in America, is once NOR
at liberty. Becker left San Quentin
| California, September 2Sth, after serv
ing seven years for raising $12 draf
to $22, 900 on the Crocker-W -Woolworu
Bank of San Francisco.
At Plainville, Connecticut. few day
ago, Owen Conlon, eighty-six years ol,
and helpless. was saved from burn
ing building by his wife. aged seventy
nine, who let him down from sec
ond-story window by means of rope
Firemen arrived in time for her rescue