The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1905-09-01
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The japanese government IL nego
tiating with the Krupps for fresh o.
defs Of axmor plate and guns.
/ Adolphe William Borgereau. the f.
nous French painter. died 1t Ia
Rochelle August goth Of heart diseass.
The present number Of old-age pen
sioners now ON the list and receiving
aid from the Belgian government u
something over 100000.
The third annual session OF the Ma
tiOnal Trades and Labor Congress Of
Canada will be held in Montreal from
September 18th to 18th. inclusive.
Eleven wreckers were injured 1t St
Louis by the collapse Of the roof Of the
educational building At the Worlds
ishing.
1t il stated that the Standard Oh
Company Is about to absorb the San
Francisco Gas and Electric Company
and the San Francisco Coke and Gas
Company.
The Rock Island Railroad Company
II in need OF nearly 5000 workmen to
work on the roadbed through Kansas
and Nebraska. 1t is being ballasted
with disintegrated granite.
The Norwegian Storthing by a vote
Of 104 to IL adopted the proposals Of
ing Of negotiations with Sweden for
the dissolution of the union.
James Hazen Hyde Of Equitable Life
Insurance and, French ball fame has
sold HE famous Long Island country
estate for $4,000 and is preparing to
60 to Paris to live permanently.
The secretary of the interior has Or
dered the withdrawal from entry OF
160. 00e acres Of land In the La Grande.
Oregon, land district, on account OF
the Umatilla irrigation project.
The Navy Department has approved
recomme ndations made by the naval
board OF construction with view to
safeguarding the crews of the subma.
rine torpedo boats while practicing.
The Detroit Tribune and Detroit
Evening News have consolidated un-
der the title of the Detroit News. The
Sunday edition will continue to be
known as the Detroit News-Tribune.
| Hon. David Wark, the Oldest legis-
lator in the world, died at his home
in Fredericton, N. B., August goth.
aged 101 years and months. Mr..
Wark was Q member of the Canadian
senate.
Samuel L. Clemens mark Twain)
Ii recovering from q severe attack Of
govt at Edgewood, . cottage In Nor
folk, Connecticut, rented by Miss
Clara Clemens. his daughter, for the
season.
Petitions are being circulated in San
Diego. California, addressed to Presf-
dent Diaz Of Mexico, asking his Co
operation in preventing bull fights at
Tiajuana, just across the border from
San Diego.
Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, poet, edi.
tor Of st. Nicholas magazine and
author of several stories for children,
died at her summer cottage in On
teora park, Tannersville, New York,
August 21st.
An appraisal of the estate Of the
late Meyer Guggenheim. who organ.
lied the American Smelling and REIN.
Ing Company. shows that he left In the
state Of New York alone property Ia
the value Of $2,256.2S0.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, former
chancellor of the excheQuer, was a pas
senger on the Cunard line steamer
Umbria, which sailed from Queens
town August goth. He Is en- route fol
Singapore by way of the United States
According to bulletin issued by the
Census Bureau, the aggregate financial
transactions OF the 175 cities of the
United States having a population Of
over $4,000 equal In magnitude those
Of the national government, excluding
the postal service.
The International Typographical
| TInfnn convention OF Tnrnntr. nntu ri
closed with a determination for an
eighthour day. The executive com
mittee was authorized to arrange fol
the conference with the American
Newspaper Association.
It has been ordered by the State
Health Department that ali persons en-
tering Texas by northern gatewayf
must furnish health certificates signed
by legal health officers and properly at
tested. Identifications of persons mus
also be given in certificates.
Chicago hotel men, wholesale butch
ers and restaurant keepers, have
formed q combination against thu
beef trust" Two plants. one costing
$150,000, and the other 5000, 900, arr
in course of erection. and third, tt
cost $500. 900, is contemplated.
:. Secretary Taft and Hiss Alice Roose
welt were presented with many Mort
presents by the Sultan of Sulu, who of
fered his hand in marriage to Mis-!
Roosevelt, and would make her sui
tana of the Sulu archipelago, saying
that his people desired her to remain
among them.
Lightning which struck the house o.
William Bowers in Ranchtown, Penn
sylvania, played some remarkable
pranks. Not only did it upset tablei
and chairs, but 1t stripped the cloth
ing without injuring her from Mis-
Campbell Of Philadelphia, who was Wis
iting the Bowers and was sitting neal
the stove on the ground floor. TIT
clothing was burned to ashes.
During the month Of July 2s3 Chi