The Dolores star., 1904-11-25
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The French postal department has
decided to replace its mail coaches by
electric motor cars.
Mrs. VIII Carleton. wife Of the poet
author. died suddenly on the 11th inst,
at her home In Brooklyn.
The Santa Fe railway IL estimated
to have lost $1,000.0 900 by the recent
foods In New Mexico and Arizona
The bill to abolish capital punish
lnent In Vermont passed the house OF
representatives by vote Of 163 to So.
William Mayer OF Mount Carroll, II.
linois. lost his hors by betting on Par
ker and committed suicide by hanging.
The St. Louis Worlds Fair ofacials
have repaid to the United States sub
treasury the entire government loan OF
34.600.000.
Thomas Richardson, magistrate of
Henry county. Virginia. was found fro
zen to death on the public highway =
few days ago.
Nine scouts Of the constabulary and
one American attached to the hospital
corps have been killed In an ambush
on the east coast of Samar.
Serious anti-vaccination riots have
take place In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Troops we're called out and seven ger.
sons killed and thirty wounded.
A bronze statue Of Robert Treat
Paine, one Of the signers Of the Dec
laration of Independence, was un-
veiled at Taunton, Massachusetts,, on
the 18th inst
1t is ofhcially announced that the
Seoul-Fusan railway was completed.
Traffic will begin December LIST. The
time between Toxic and Seoul will
then be fifty hours.
William L. Douglas. the newly
elected shoemaker-governor Of Aassa-
chusetts, gave the Democratic state
committee $34, 800 for campaign ex-
penses and thinks he got Oh easy.
The Kansas City. Mexico & Orient
railway into Wichita, Kansas, opened
for business November 18th. Contracts
have been let for the construction OF
522 miles OF road from Wichita toward
Kansas City.
President Roosevelt will recommend
to Congress that authority be given
/ the Philippine commission to revise
the tariff now in force in those Islands
Since 1t has been in effect many
changes have become necessary for
the development of the islands.
Rev. Dr. Herbert Welch. pastor of
the First Methodist Episcopal Church
at Mt. Vernon, New York. has been
chosen by the trustees a. the new
president of Ohio Wesleyan university.
f, succeeding Rev. ]. w. Bashford. who
last spring was elected bishop.
The Chinese government has under.
fQkan IN rntnrn fnr NQrtafn NnncQQ-
sions as to remission and calculation
Of interest, to pay the whole OF the
national indemnity of 1901 on a gold
basis. The powers are certain to &C.
| cept the proposals. which arc unex-
pectedly favorable.
! The missionary committee Of the
Methodist Episcopal convention at
4 Boston voted unanimously to appro-
pirate $1,220.000 for missionary work
during the coming year. and that this
sum be SO divided as to give SOL 500
| for work in the foreign field. and $685.
500 for domestic work.
I The American consul at Kharput, DR..
Thomas H. Norton, has been instructed
to proceed to the Turko-Persian from
tier and watch the operations Of the
Turkish and Persian authorities who
have undertaken to arrest the murder
ers of the American missionary, Rev.
b. w. IIabara, who was killed In April
/, last.
/ The str vote IN the American
colony Of Mexico City, which was par
tseipated in by many Of the colony,
demonstrated conclusively the choice
supposed that the colony would go
rvyho a Int in u1y nounnCxattn Tho vn.
I suit was: Roosevelt, 355, Parker 1l5,
| Swallow 10. Debs 10. Watson 4.
| A Vancouver, B. c., newspaper says
| that DR.. Neil s. Phelps. of Battle
Creek, Michigan, the scientist and for
mer millionaire, who mysteriously dis
appeared year ago, has been quietly
living in Vancouver nearly the whole
of that time under the name of Dr.
Fields. His identity was discovered
by q photograph published in Chi
cago paper and he suddenly disap-
| peared.
The following are among the appro-
priations made by the Methodist Mis-
sionary committee at the conference
| in Boston: For colored work, mostly
(, in the South, $27.5OO; for work
among whites in Alaska, $4,000; in
California, $500. During the week q
+, total of nearly $1.537,000 was appro-
priated to mission work carried on in
thirty foreign countries and In sixteen
languages in the United States.
At Pekin, November 18th the Ameri-
can, Austrian, German, Russian and
/ Belgian ministers were received in
audience In the forbidden city, and
presented the dawager empress with
+, autograph letters from their respec-
tive rulers, congratulating her on her
birthday. The other ministers will
/ present letters later. The dowager
empress will send her portrait to the
rulers who noticed her birthday
Gabriel Syveton, the Nationalist dep
uty who struck War Minister Andre in
| the face during the debate of Noyem-
! ie Ath In IL, IH6ssa<sl