The La Jara chronicle., 1905-07-21


.f Sakhalin.
The population of Chicago is 2.272,-
$50, according to the city directory
for 1905, which has just been com
pleted.
Mrs. James Brown Potter, the Amer
ican actress, has gone into bankruptcy
and had receiver appointed on her
own petition in London.
The late Baron Alphonse De Roths-
child left 100000 to be expended in
charities of various kinds without dis
tinction of religion.
The 16000-ton battleship Kansas will
be launched at the yard OF the New
York Shipbuilding Company at Cam
ten, New Jersey, August Sth.
Among the officers elected by the
members OF the American Microscope
cal Society at Sandusky. was first vice
president, A. NJ. Holmes. Denver.
The 500 theatrical agencies In New
York City have been reduced to the
status of common employment bu-
reaus by the appellate division of the
Supreme Court, which ordered them to
take out licenses.
Lou Dillon and Major Delmar. the
only tNo-minute trotters in the world,
will be seen in a match race during
the Blue Ribbon meeting at Detroit,
the opening of the grand circuit. July
'ith to 2Sth.
Returns from the first month during
which the new stock transfer tax has
been in operation in New York indi.
cate an annual revenue of $5,000,000,
which is greater than even the most
sanguine advocates OF the law ex-
pected.
The house at Verona, in which Ju.
liet is said to have lived. and in which
She received Romeo. has been sold at
auction. The bidding began at $1,000,
and the house was finally bought in by
the city of Verona for s2.s00.
The Philippine commission has
passed an act granting to John.I. Sabin
and Louis Glass of San Francisco, Cali
fornia, a franchise to construct tele
phone and telegraph systems through
out the Philippine islands.
B. Hiosawa and T. Hayashi. repre-
sentatyes of the Japanese govern
ment. have purchased five highly bred
stations at Lexington. Kentucky, to
be sent to the royal stud. Three are
thoroughbreds and two are registered
trotters.
Now that the S1,0OO,0OO endowment
fund for the maintenance of the Amer
lean Academy of Fine Arts in Rome
has been practically completed by the
subscription of 500 900 by H. C. Frick
1t is proposed to raise 100000 more
Tor a library for the institution.
A St. Petersburg dispatch to the
New York World says that the Navy
Department having resolved to build
powerful new navy, las instructed
Charles NJ Schawb to make plans fos
new wharves, giving the exact time iu
which the work can be completed.
A protest has been filed with the
Canadian minister of marine by Cap
tain Simmons of the Canadian
schooner Acacia because the port col
lector, Duane Bump. compelled him tc
lower the British flag oil. his vessel in
the harbor at Charlotte on July 4th.
1t is stated that no more gambling
licenses will be issued in the City OF
Mexico after August 1st, when all eN
listing licenses expire. Governor Tands
of the Federal district announces thai
he is determined to extiipate gambling
in the city.
At Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, July
10th. the intense heat was responsible
within twenty-four hours for seven
by the high temperature. and the
others by drowning, the result of in
experienced swimmers seeking relief
In the rivers.
John Selby. a veteran Of the Mexi
can and Civil wars, died July 10th at
Tacoma, Washington. He was eighty.
seven years old. Mr.. Solby served un'
der Gen. Zachary Taylor in the battle
of Buena Vista and later was under
the United States troops operating in
northern Mexico.
Gen. Amassa Cobb. brigadier general
of tho volunteers during the Civil War.
veteran of the Mexican War, ex-eon'
gresham and ex-justice of the Su.
breme Court of Nebraska, died at Los
Angeles July 5th at the age of seventy
two years. Cobb was personal friend
of President Lincoln.
Twenty Victoria Chinese have ap-
piled for admission to the Fifth Regi'
ment Canadian artillery of Victoria,
British Columbia. AS the militia act
states that al British subjects over
eighteen years of age are eligible for
admission to the militia, the Chinese
insist they cannot be refused enroll
ment in the regiment.
The French Senate by vote of 243
against IA, passed the government bill
providing amnesty for those con-
demned by the high court IN connec-
tion with the revolutionary conspiracy
In 1899. Paul De Roulede, former
member of the chamber, who Is in po-
litical exile in Spain, will now be per
mitted to return to France.
The Venezuelan Congress has ac-
cepted the contract signed July 7th in
London by the representatives OF
Venezuela and the Disconto Geselle-
schaft. representing the German
bondholders. and the council of for
eign bondholders representing the
board of bondholders. for the settle
ment of the outstanding obligations of
Venezuela.
John Alexander Dowie has had all
bankruptcy proceedings against him
dismissed in the United States District
Court at Chicago by Judge Bethea, be-
cause none of the petitioning creditors
have complied with the courts order to
file amended petitions. According to
Dowie's attorneys all OF the claims
mentioned in the original petition,
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