The Dolores star., 1908-03-20
Miscellaneous.

China has conceded all OF the Jap
anese demands in settlement OF the
Tatsu Maru incident including the pur-
chase of the arms aboard the steamer
and salute by Chinese warship to
the Japanese flag when 1t is re-hoisted
on the Tatsu.
The president has issued procla-
nation promulgating the terms of the
treaty Of arbitration recently agreed
upon by the United States and
France.
The surgeon general of the navy
states that there is much preventable
suffering in the navy and recommends
the organization of trained women
nurses in the hospital corps and the
appointment OF dental surgeons.
The jury in the first of the Pennsyl-
vania capitol graft cases returned
verdict finding the four defendants.
Sanlerson. Snyder. Mathues and Shu-
maker guilty of defrauding the state.
The trial lasted seven weeks and the
jury was out six hours. There are
ten other persons yet to be tried for
the same offense.
Kansas Populists recently held their
state convention at Topeka and elec-
ted delegates to the national conven-
tion at St. Louis. Resolutions indors-
| adopted.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw has begun pro-
ceedings for divorce from her hus-
band, Harry X. Thaw. Papers in
the case have been served on the de-
fendant in Matteawan asylum and Up
on his mother as next Of kin.
The school building at Napoleon.
Ohio. the largest of its kind in the
state, was totally destroyed by fire re-
Gently. Nobody was injured.
The target ranges have been estab-
lished at Magdalena Bay and the
world-girdling fleet is busy at target
practice with the big guns.
The minister of justice has asked
the Russian douma for $1,0OO,OO0 for
the enlargement of the Russian pris-
ons which are overcrowded.
Banker Charles w. Morse and Al
fred H. Curtis pleaded not guilty to
90 counts in an Indictment in the
federal court at New York They are
charged with conspiracy and false
entries. =
Giuseppe Ala. the Italian anarchist
who killed Catholic priest at the
altar in his church at Denver, has
been convicted of murder in the first
degree and sentenced TO hang.
The final reply from Washington re
garding the immigration question has
greatly pleased Japan.
The American battleship fleet ar
rived at Magdalena bay two days
ahead of schedule, after journey oi
$4,000 miles, with all the vessels ir
better shape than when they lef
Hampton Roads three months ago. Ii
his message announcing his arriva
Admiral Evans said the fleet was read,
for any emergency on one days notice
crank recently entered the Mer
chants National bank at Omaha ant
demanded $4,000. He threatened t.
blow up the building unless his de
mands were complied with. He wa
enticed outside by Vice Presiden
Drake where he was taken into Gus
tody by officers.
Fifteen thousand Filipinos wer,
made homeless by the destruction o
1000 native huts at Manila by fir
which swept through the district.
A disastrous prairie fire occurres
recently near Holton. Kan. The fir,
swept over 700 acres of land, destroy
ing everything in its path.
Five hundred persons were recent
ly poisoned at a church social at UI
per Sandusky, o.. by eating chicken
and waffles.
At New Albany. Ind. eight person
were injured when passenger trail
struck trolley car on grade cross
ing.