The Dolores star., 1904-09-30
CONDENSED rELEcRAl1s

Paul lawrence Dunbar, the Negro
poet. II critically sick with consump
tion at Dayton. Ohio.
The interment Of the late President
Kruger's remains viii take pace At
Pretoria about December 10Th.
The admissions to the ST. Loais Ex-
po;ition during the week ending Sep
tember 18th exceeded . million.
The next session OF tht International
geographical congress will be held at
Geneva, Switzerland. some time be
tween 1907 and 1909.
The Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Firemen ut its recent biennial conven.
tion voted &2 900 in aid Of the Western
Federation Of Miners.
A floating pipe line Of steel construc.
tion will be used at the mouth of the
Mississippi river to carry mud from
the dredges out into the gulf.
The Socialist agitation is on the in
crease in Italy. especially In the north
ern part. In some places it is assum-
ing the character Of rebellion.
Queen Helena Of Italy was safely de.
livered Of q son ON the night of Sep
tember 18th. The infant has received
tue u1uc VI f1umOOlOI SuQ kQc tlll6
Of Prince of Piedmont
According to the New York Herald,
despite the fact that 4 presidential year
usually masks q period OF trade depres-
sion, the outlook for fall business in
most parts of the country is reassuring.
Commander r. e. Peary. the Arctic
explorer. recently announced that con-
tract had been signed for . new Arctic
ship which he 10 to use in another at
tempt to reach the North Pole and he
expects to start north again next sum
mer.
The district tax Administrations OF
Breslau. Prussia. have decided that the
crown prince. Frederick William. must
pay taxes on his estate at Oels. holding
that only the sovereign. and not MEM
bers Of his family. is exempt from tax
stion.
The municipal council of the Hague
has rejected the measure providing for
utilizing part Of The Hague woods for
the Carnegie palace OF peace. The
council. however, is willing to provide
another site for the arbitration head
quarters-
1t IL stated that preparations for the
autumn tour of the veteran actor, Jo-
seph Jefferson, have been abandoned
and all engagements for the season can
celled on account Of Ill health, Mr.
Jefferson having suffered from a seri-
ous attack OF indigestion.
1t is announced from vladivostols
that an English seal poacher named
| Thomson, who took advantage Of the
war to make the Prib-'cf islands his
I huufinO wrn,nd hoo hoou cop ptured nd
his schooner sunk Thomson has been
imprisDned at Nikclaievsk.
| George Washington Bradley of
Houston, Texas. aged ninety-seven
years. said to have been the Oldest
Confederate veteran. died at st. Louis.
while on q visit to the Worlds Fair.
He served in q Missouri infantry regi-
msat during the Civil War.
Tho steamer Celtic. which sailed on
the 18th inst. from Queenstown for New
tsYork, had $500 souls. believed to be
4 the largest number ever taken in one
vessel from a British port. Nine hun
drsd and nifty Of them embarked from
Queenstown and about 100 steerage
| passengers were left behind on account
Of lack OF accommodations.
Sworn to put an end to the existence
of gangs OF street hoodlums, lawless
organizations Of foreigners, stop the
| carrying of concealed weapons, and to
protect women from insult and annoy.
ance by rowdies. seventy-four business
men of Brooklyn, New York, have be.
come incorporated as the Citizens Pro.
tective League for Law and Order.
Robert M. Mcwade. United States
| ut hoc
been removed from office by President
Roosevelt. Charges made against him
recently were investigated and sus-
tained by Assistant Secretary Peirce.
who went to the Orient to make an in
vesIigation of several of the United
States consulates in China and Japan.
A committee of fifty young ladies OF
Portland, Oregon. has taken up the
work of disposing of the Lewis-C Clark
| centennial coins made by the govern
ment as a part of the governments
appropriation to the Exposition, the
| coins to be sold for twice their face
value. AS token Of esteem the corn-
mittee has sent the first coin turned out
by the mint to Miss Alice Roosevelt.
A pneumatic tube eighteen inches in
diameter between Chicago and Milwau-
kee, that will transport packages and
mail between the two cities in forty
minutes-at the rate of more than two
miles a minute-and give lightning
express service to all the towns along
the route. Is proposed by a concern
which has installed pneumatic tube
systems in some of the largest Chicago
! business houses.
The cotton report Of the Census Bu-
reau shows a total of 390.414 CONNER
cial bales pressed at the ginneries.
ginned from the growth Of 1904 prior
to September 1st. against a total of
1857 commercial bales in the cores
ponding perior last year. The report
shows 1857 ginneries operated this sea-
son prior to September 1st. while the
number operated to the corresponding
date in 1903 was 2,176.