The La Jara chronicle., 1905-04-07
CONDENSED TELEGaAMS


900 for u library at Pomona College,
California.
James Frazer has been elected to
the United States Senate by the Leg
islature OF Tennessee.
DIR. ]. B. Whiting, surgeon general OF
the Grand Army of the Republic. died
at Janesville, Wisconsin, March 21th.
The Chicago Bureau of Identified
tion has adopted the thumb print
method of identifying criminals as an
adjunct to the BertiliioE measurement
system.
The Illinois Appellate Court affirmed
ruling of a lower court upholding the
validity OF an ordinance of the city OF
Chicago prohibiting the giving away
of cigarette papers with tobacco.
A benefit at the Metropolitan Opera
house, New York, for Joseph Holland,
the actor. who, on account of illness.
probably will never be able to appear
on the stage again, netted $4,000.
Miss Mildred Lee, youngest daugh-
ter of Gen. Robert E. Lee, died at New
Orleans March 27th at the residence
of Mrs. William Preston Johnson.
while on a visit. Her death was due to
apoplexy.
The adjutant general of Texas
shipped carload of tents, iron bed
steads and other camping outfit to Burl,
Texas, near San Antonio, to be used by
President Roosevelt and party on their
big hunt.
Many thousands of ordinary letters.
all of the second-class mail matter, and
all of the registered mail matter was
destroyed by fire and water in the
Great Northern train wreck in Idaho
March oath.
A great landslide occurred at Sem
lin. Hungary, March Goth. A squadron
of soldiers, who went to the rescue Of
a buried woman, suffered severely,
eight of their number being killed and
nineteen injured.
The Fore River Shipbuilding Com
pany of Quincy, Massachusetts, has
signed contract to construct in eight
cen months four submarine torpedo
boats Of the Holland type for the
United States government
Governor General Wright has issued
a proclamation announcing that the
census of the Philippine islands had
been completed, and that in two years,
provided peace prevails, an election
would he called for a general assembly.
In the United States Court at Phila-
delphia a receiver has been appointed
for the Provident Investment Com
pany. which made an assignment
March 21st, with estimated liabilities
of S1,GO0,0O0 and practically no assets.
Governor Koch of Kansas intends
to have the battleship Kansas. which
will be launched next July, christened
by breaking bottle of Kansas crude
oil over the prov, thus casting oil on
the troubled waters of prohibition pro-
test.
The Vatican has been informed that
the Russian government has communi-
Gated to the Roman Catholic bishops
in that country that 1t will require
three months in which to consider
their memorial concerning liberty of
religion.
The jury in the second trial of
Henry Lundberg, former assistant in
spector of steamboat hulls, charged
with criminal neglect of duty leading
to manslaughter in the General Slo-
} cum disaster, failed to agree and were
dismissed.
son has been born to Mrs. Ian
Malcolm. wife of a well-known mem
ber Of Parliament from Scotland and
daughter of Mrs. Lily Langtry. 1t is
said that Mrs. Langtry and her daugh-
| ter have been estranged since the lat
ter's marriage.
While working over a washtub Mrs.
Anne Ellsworth Werner. wife Of a
| Cincinnati contractor. dropped dead
| from heart trouble, and in preparing
the body for burial $4,000 in bonds and
| $151 in cash were found in the hustle
| she wore at the time.
Senior Don Manuel De Azpiroz, Mex
ico's first ambassador to the United
States, died at Washington March oath.
Senior De AZpiroz suffered from gas
tritis. which was aggravated by ex-
posure on Inauguration day. He was
sixty-nine years of age.
The Manchester ship canal, after a
| long period of discouragement, is at
length beginning to see prosperous
days. its traffic increases largely each
year and earnings suffice to meet fixed
charges and leave surplus for repay
mcnt to the city of Manchester.
The spring rush of immigration has
almost swamped the government off,
cials at Ellis island. Reports received
from abroad indicate that the rush
will continue to increase in April and
May, and it is feared that Ellis island
will be taxed beyond its capacity.
The splendid New York mansion
built by Governor Tilden in Twentieth
street, overlooking Gramercy park, is
soon to become the home of the Ma
tional Arts Club. The house is per-
fectiy adapted to the use of the 1900
artists holding membership in the club.
Hospital ships for habitual drunk
ards, to be anchored in a safely iso-
lated part of the harbor is the scheme
proposed by DIR. C. l.. Mix, expert in
the treatment of alcoholic patients, in
a lecture before the social science
class in the Fine Arts building at Chi
cago.
A gilt of s25O,O00 has been made to
Northwestern University by Milton H.
Wilson, a resident of Evanston and one
IF the trustees of the institution. 1t
is said that this is the first of a series
If gifts to the university to be an
nouncei soon, which will aggregate
100000.
A movement has been started in
New York to erect an art building at
cost of 100000 in which will be