The state herald. (Holyoke, Logan County, Colo.) 1887-1921, 1903-08-21
SHORT TELEeRAms.

Millionaire and philanthropist, died at
Ear Harbor. Maine. August 9.
Andrew Carnegie has offered the city
OF Dublin the sum of $4,000 toward
the erection of free public library.
1t Is announced that John A. Book.
walter, Of Springfield, Ohio, will be a
candidate for United States senator to
succeed Senator Hanna.
Fifty ladrones, who were implicated
In the recent raids near Surigao, In the
province of Mindanao, have been sen.
fenced to long terms OF Imprisonment.
At Kamloops, British Columbia. on
the 10th inst, while playing with re-
volver, Willie Edmonds, aged six. was
shot and killed by Charles Newman,
aged seven. ',
The Treasury Department on the 18th
inst purchased 10000 ounces of silver
for Philippine coinage at an average
price OF ssh cents, delivery to be made
in San Francisco.
The volcano of Kilauea, on the isl.
and OF Hawaii the movement of which
was suspended a few days ago by a
lava slide into the crater, has resumed
its usual state of activity.
The strike riots at Cracow, Austrian
Poland, have resulted. according to a
Cracow newspaper, In sixty deaths
since August through conflicts be-
tween the strikers and the troops.
General Miles has accepted the of
fee of president of the Thomas Jeffer.
son Memorial Association, and the as
ISOLATION announces that his election
Is for the remainder of it's existence.
The Cooperative Union laundry.
which was established by Union laun-
dry workers during the big strike in
Chicago's warehouses last June. has
been declared failure and has closed.
Eaton Stone, an old circus perform
er, who is said to have been the first
man to turn a some rsault on gallop-
ing horse, died at Nutley, New Jersey,
on the 10th inst. at the age of eighty.
six.
The Italian munster OF marine has
directed that squadron be kept in
readiness to sail for the East should
the complications in Macedonia make
1t necessary to protect Italian sub
jects.
Brigadier General A. Z. Woodson.
u. S. A., retired, died at Paola, Kan
sas. August T.. aged sixty-two years.
He was In the military service forty
one years. He will be buried In the
national cemetery at Arlington, Vir-
ginia.
1t is rumored at Constantinople that
1 the Turkish troops in Macedonia haye
become SO demoralized by their failure
to receive pay that hundreds of them
are deserving and selling their rifles to
insurgents. In order to obtain pro-
visions.
The Kieif. Russia. correspondent Of
the London Times says leading Rus
sian employer estimates that the strike
in Russia affected a half million men
and thai the strength of the movement
is increasing and the authorities are
nonplussed.
At Chicago on the 9Th inst. John Al
exander Dowie. general overseer OF the
Christian Catholic church. was made
a citizen OF the United States upon re-
nouncing in the Superior Court his al
leglance to the sovereign Of Great
Britain and Ireland.
An American firm has contracted TO
furnish the Russian -four mills, at Pc
kin, with 100000 worth of machinery.
The output OF the mills will be In.
creased within n year TO 1900 barrels
per day. superseding the supply of
hour from America.
A violent earthquake shook Lisbon.
Portugal, at 10 o'clock on the night OF
August 3. The shock lasted but two
seconds and no fatalities are reported
l k,.e 10 - hs.. A,
quake and succeeding fire in 1775
when over 10000 lives were lost.
The President has rendered to Charles
p. McClelland OF westchester county
New York. = membership on the Board
of General Appraisers. Mr.. McClel-
land Is n Democrat and member OF
the New York State Senate from the
Twenty-second district
A dispatch from Pekin says 700 per
sons were drowned In the disastrous
floods which occurred at Che Foo
China. July 81. The bridges within
the city and many houses with their
occupants were swept away In the tor
rent. Two thousand OF the Inhabitants
are left destitute.
Three workmen were killed and
twenty.four wounded AZ KEN, Russia
August Q. when the Cossacks fired on
| the strikers who were attempting TO
interfere with railroad traffic. The
rioters numbered 1000. A magistrate.
an officer. and several soldiers were
injured by stones.
A Cape Town dispatch says tina,
Princess Radziwill. who was sentenced
TO two years Imprisonment by the
Supreme Court. April 30. 1902. for
forgeiy In connection with notes pur'
porting to have been Endorsed by Cecil
Rhodes. has been liberated from prison
and has stated for England.
At Carthage. Missouri. August s. n
wind storm before daylight destroyed
thousands OF dollars worth of fruits
and shade trees and caused more or less
damage TO small buildings and mining
property In the towr md at Jasper.
Lamar and Seneca. taking In three
counties along the Kansas line.
The Photographers national con
y,ntlon. 1T indianapolis. approved the
plan for building n national salon Mt
wlnona. II will be the first undertake,
ing of It's kind In the world. II was
decided to postpone for one year the
acceptance Of shcndman's new aeiinic
light unit Ms n universal standard.
The contract for the magnificent
new terminal for all the steam rail,
roads now entering Washington has
been let. and actual construction will
soon begin. The award represents mp.
ward OF $1,000. 900. and In for that part
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