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lecture on "California" -- 200 colored stereopticon views of California scenery, towns, cities, mines, etc -- under auspices of State University -- Patriotic music, singing etc -- admittance 25 & 35 cts -- full house -- The SF Examiner publishes the following special telegram, dated Washington May 1: The State Department learned today through secret agents that the wreck of the battleship Maine now lying in Havana harbor, has been destroyed by Spanish authorities, it is suppoed to prevent the raising of the wreck after the capture of Havana.

White Frost -- Cavalry Enlistment at Carson -- 1898
Manila War News -- Martial Law in Madrid
Chas M Shortridge -- Shortridge

Wednesday May 4

Clear & pleasant -- White frost last night -- not sufficient to do material damage -- Bowels checked and improving -- Enlistment of cavalrymen going on lively at Carson, from here and the Comstock, etc -- The Pacific Mail steamship, City of Peking has been purchased or chartered by Gov't, to take 1,000 troops and military supplies to Manila as soon as possible -- 5,000 to be sent -- other ships being negotiated for -- The 30,000 insurgents at Manila put themselves under Commodore Dewey's command and at his service -- Devil to pay to Madrid, Spaniards terribly excited over the Manila defeat, and quarreling with each other -- riot and revolution threatened -- Martial law proclaimed -- Charles M Shortridge of the San Jose Mercury,