The Dolores star., 1908-03-06
Miscellaneous.

The Missouri Pacific shops at Sc
dalia. Mo-, employing 500 men, have
been closed until further notice.
A fire at Lexington. Mo-, destroyed
property estimated to be worth $780,
900.
A FIRE at Tampa, Fla. burned over
district covered by IS city blocks
and $50 buildings were destroyed.
An attempt was made in Teheran,
Persia, to assassinate the shah by
bomb. While the shah himself es-
capped injury. three of his out-riders
were killed and a score of bystanders
were wounded.
Two persons we're killed and several
others injured in Kansas City recently
by trolley cars jumping the track at
curves at the foot of steep grades.
The assets, OF the building and loan
associations of the United States now
amount to $72S. .00O. 900. an increase for
1907 of $55.000,000.
With the aid of four Democratic
votes and amid scenes of the widest
excitement, the Republicans Of tie
Kentucky legislature have succeeded
in electing ex-Gov. William Bradley
as United States senator.
During the hearing at Washington
before the interstate commerce COM
mission 1t developed that the Santa
Fe railroad officials had coerced the
telegraph operators on the line to sign
letters prepared in the general Offices,
order was not authorized to represent
them at the hearing.
The public school building in Hois-
ington, Kan. was recently destroyed
by fire. The 800 pupils in the building
at the time escaped without injury.
Frank A. Munsey of New York has
purchased the Baltimore Sun.
The Missouri supreme court has de-
cided that the law prohibiting the sale
of intoxicating liquors within five miles
of the state university is unconstitu.
tional,
The bank at Lincolnville. Kan. was
recently dynamited and robbed of $500
in currency.
Eighty-nine million pounds of Amer
lean copper was sold in Europe during
February.
In a fire which destroyed a car barn
of the New York City Railway com
pany T40 cars were destroyed and a
loss of $2.500.000 was sustained.
The village OF Rival. n. D., was re
Gently completely destroyed by fire.
The supreme court of Texas has sus
tanned the lower courts wherein they
rendered judgment of 81 SOC. 900 dam
ages and custer from the state of the
Waters-Pierce Oil company.
1 In preparing the body of the Catn
olic priest who was recently murdered
in his church at Denver, for burial, II
was discovered that he wore heav,
bands of steel chain about his bod,
and arms. To each link of the chair
was attached sharp hook SO arranged
! that every movement of the bod,
caused the hooks to penetrate hi.
flesh.
The Missouri supreme court has de
cided that a husband who slays hi.
wife can not inherit her property.
Daniel E. Naughton. assistant clerl
of the st. Louis house of delegates ha.
been convicted as being accessory ai
| ter the fact to the alleged bribery o
Delegates Priesmeyer and Warner.
One OF the French cars In the racs
from New York to Paris was robbed o
guns and Photographic outfit at We
waka, Ind. !.
| For the first time in the history o
the United States the gold coin ant
bullion in the treasury amounts t,
more than 81 .0o0. .o00. 900.
BY pressing an electric button a
the White House in Washington. Presi
dent Roosevelt started the first trail
through the tunnel under the Hudson
river connecting Hoboken and New
| York.
The Ohio legislature has passed tn
| county local option Law.