The Dolores star., 1908-08-21

Silver touched SIN Tueodny.. The
lowest since April, 1903.
Kermit Roosevelt IL to be the off,
cial photographer with the Presidents
party on the African hunting trip.
A race OF $50 miles by the fastest
automobiles In the country wfll be the
attraction at Lowell, Massachusetts,
ON Labor Day.
A slight earthquake shock was felt
by q number of the cities and towns
south OF Boston at $3.50 o'clock Satur-
day night. No damage was done.
Boston and eastern Massachusetts,
is undergoing a 'crime wave" Half
a dozen murder mysteries are still I'M
solved by the police. The undeniable
wave OF crime is credited to the fact
that many foreigners are out Of work
and are attempting to adopt the meth
ods Of European banditti
An American car has been the first
to cross the famous st. Gothard pass,
In Switzerland. the feat being accom-
plished by Percy ]. Walker, . well
known amateur motorist Of San Fran
cisco. There is lots Of snow" he
wrote Of the trip. "but our car ate the
mountains up"
The new era of freedom in Turkey
brought about by the PRONUNCIATION Of
a constitution by the Sultan is produc-
ing symptoms OF agitation among the
working classes. Strikes for increased
pay have already broken out among
the dock 1aborers, tramway men and
employees Of the tobacco factories.
The British Motor Club has decided
to try to arrange to have Wilbur
Wright, the aeroplanist Of Dayton.
Ohio, who is now making a series Of
trial flights In Lemans, France, bring
his aeroplane over to England and
demonstrate its capacities In the
Brooklands racing track in Wrey
bridge.
James Kier Hardy, Socialist member
OF the House Of Commons, sailed from
Glasgow Saturday on the steamer Yes
perian for Canada and the United
States. The object of MIR. Hardy's
tour is to amalgamate the American
and Canadian trades unions and So
cialists into one political organization
like the British Labor party.
The fifth session of the Pan-Amer-
lean Medical congress was held at
Guatemala City, Guatemala, August
9Th to 18th. President Cabrera. in an
address to the delegates called the
work OF the congress a scientific tri-
umph for the republics of the Ameri-
can continent. The next congress will
be held in Lima. Peru, in August. 1911.
At Bayside. Long Island. Saturday.
Capt. Peter Conover Haines, Jr., United
States army, retired, fired seven bul.
lets from a revolver into William e.
Annis OF New York, owner and pub
Usher of Burr McIntoshs monthly and
other magazines, who had been ac-
cused Of being Improperly attentive
to the captains wife. Annis died a
few minutes later.
The four hundredth anniversary OF
the conquest of the Island of Porto
Rico by Ponce de Leon was celebrated
at San Juan on the 18th and 14th inst.
The remains of Ponce de Leon were
carried through the streets of the city
at the head of a spectacular procession
from the Church Of San Jose to the
where they were deposited
In crypt constructed with money
subscribed by the Spanish residents
Of the island.
The executive committee for the
national encampment,
Grand Army of the Republic, at Toledo
has authorized premiums for best elec-
trio display on the Maumee river by
any yacht or launch on Wednesday
and Thursday nights, Sept. and ..
The display will cover a distance Of
four miles. The committee also au-
thorized the pyrotechnic display Of
Sheridan's ride on Wednesday and
Thursday evenings. 1t will require 200
troops to produce the spectacle.
The Republican party in Tennessee
is divided into two factions, each Of
which has nominated a candidate for
governor Hon. T. Asbury Wright
was nominated by the "home-rule"
faction at Chattanooga Monday. State
wide prohibition is the keynote of the
platform. At Nashville on Wednes-
day the Evans faction named George
N. Tillman of Davidson county for
governor and adopted a platform con.
tanning plank providing for state
wide prohibition of the liquor traffic
through extension Of what is known
as the four-mile law.
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