The Dolores star., 1907-03-08

closed by act OF congress. The pro
fits alone from the liquor sold ths
inmates was $4,000 annually.
The postal receipts OF the Kansss
CITY postoffice for the month Of Feb.
ruary were st29IA3.11. The receipts
for the same month last year weit
s1I5,774.9S showing an increase ol
S13, ,3Cs.13 or liz per cent
Arthur Brisbane editor OF the New
! York Journal has purchased a desert
| ed village in New Jersey which b;
proposes to convert into model farm
| The tract contains GOO acres and the
price was $125,O10.
| Lyman X. Lane. former financial
clerk In the cff.ce of the Indian agent
at Muskogee. 1. T., has been arrested
charged with the embezzlement of
1885 OF government funds.
BY vote of 20 to 40. Senator Jo-
seph w. Bailey has been exonerated
| by the lower house of the Texas legis.
lature of charges of irregular acts in
public life.
BY the carelessness OF porter who
threw a lighted match into a keg OF
"fireproof' paint an explosion was
caused at St. Joseph, Mo-. which re-
suited in a fire loss of $4,000.
The $4,000 employees Of the Cole
RADIO Fuel & Iron company ceased
work for two hours and half re-
Gently during the progress Of the
funeral of Frank J. Hearne, presi.
dent of the company.
The Y. NJ. C. A. building at Utica,
N. Y, was totally DESTROYED by fire
recently, causing loss of $150,050.
The supreme court Of Indiana has
declared unconstitutional the employ.
ers liability law except as regards
railroads.
A destructive tornado recently
struck the town of Washington, Ark.
and almost literally wiped 1t out OF
existence. Two negroes were killed
and many persons injured.
William J. Oliver. the Knoxville
Tenn, bidder on Panama canal work
declares he has been handed a
lemon" In exchange for $4,000 of his
money, by the government at Wash
ington.
The United States treasurer's re
port for February shows surplus fol-
the month of $8,205,000.
A suit has been filed at Concord
N. H., by relatives Of Mrs. Mary
Baker G. Eddy, head of the Christian
Science church, against the trustees
Of the institution to compel an ac
counting of the financial affairs ol
the church.
While wrokmen were tearing dow
a building in Kansas City recent!
the walls collapsed. killing one maj
and seriously injuring four others.
Out of 215 candidates for this year,
Rhodes scholarships 1873 passed thu
prescribed examination. OF these Al
will be chosen to go to OXFORD mex
October. The scholarships are wortl
800 a year.
| According to a recent census bull
letin out of only two fifths of the pop
ulation Of the United States more
than half million persons died il
1905. Consumption caused the great
est number of deaths.
By the explosion Of dynamite II
the home of Rev. ]. B. Title, Bap
tist minister of Carmi, ILL.,. Mr.. little
his father, wife and baby were kille,
outright, and two children of the fam
lily were fatally injured
| A party headed by Speaker Cannon
and Senator Curtis of Kansas will
spend month during March ant
April cruising in The West Indies
South America the Panama canal an
Cuba will be visited.
Harry X. Thaw, recently enlivenet
an extremely dull session of his tria
by issuing a brief statement in which
he charged District Attorney Jerom,
with unprofessional remarks in court
and in conclusion declared that hi
wife's natural real goodness wal
above the comprehension of the prose
cutting attorney.
Chief Engineer Stevens reports tina
during February G5O,0OO cubic yard
of dirt were removed from Culebr;
cut on the Panama canal
!. The George Washington universit.
has appointed a committee to rails,
100000 to purchase new site To-
the institution at the national cap
ital.
A woman and three children, wer
found dead at ST. Louis. Nearby la
nearly empty bottle of paten
medicine which had been recent.
purchased.
Recent advices from Nicaragua sa
. that the governorment forces hav
captured two towns in Honduras af
ter delivering a crushing defeat t
the Hondurean army.
Thomas Baldwin, a wealthy I'LL
nois farmer, recently shot and killet
four persons at Colfax. He had beel
arrested charged with criminal as
sault on a, 14-year old girl, and tn,
deed was done out OF revenge. Among
those killed was the victim Of hi
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