The Lamar register., 1898-12-21
TELEoRAPHic BREvITIEs.

The body of General Garcia is to be
buried In Cuba.
Formosa rebels are reported to be
committing atrocities.
Brigadier General Wood has been
made major general
Active preparations TO send transports
10 Manila are being made at San Fran
cisco.
Madame Barrios, widow of the late
president Of Guatemala, is coming to
San Francisco.
The Pope has decided that tbespanish
policy OF the Vatican shall be anti
Cariist and not neutral.
A New York diamond smuggler has
been let on from going to jail by pay
Ing the government s3S 900.
Spanish officials and the Spanish
press express Indignation at President
McKinley's allusIon to the Maine in his
message.
Spanish soldiers. unrestrained by
their officers, looted the towns Of Santo
Domingo and Batabauo, Cuba, before
they withdrew.
II Is reported at Madrid that Ger
many wishes to buy the Spanish Is
lands OF Fernando Po and Annobom, In
the Gulf OF Guinea.
Professor Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen.
discoyerer of the N-rays, has declined
the professorshIp recently offered him
In the University of I,eipsic.
General Lee and stan sailed for Cuba
on the 1lth on the transport Panama.
General Lee will remain outside OF Ha-
vana until January LIST, when he VIII
enter the city.
1t Is reported that the Spaniards, upon
eyacuatiug Morro aud Crcga de Avila
in Cuba. poisoned the wells. Scores OF
Of the poisoning.
Count Itsu. young Japanese recent
iy came TO Lincoln and announced his
purpose OF adopting William Jennings
Bryan as his father, according TO the
Japanese custom.
The Farmers National Congress
which met at Fort Worth last week
viii hold the next meeting at Boston.
A socialist has been elected mayor OF
Haverhill, Massachusetts,.
william T. Stead proposes that pill
grimage In favor OF the Cars peace
proposal be started from San Francis
co to journey TO ST. Petersburg, gather
ing delegates from all countries as 1t
proceeds
Adyiecs from Samoa say that the
supporters OF Mataafa having elected
a king, certain chiefs lodged caveat.
which the chief justice decided In their
favor II Il now understood that Ia
masese will be nominated.
A German chamber of commerce is
about TO be established Mt Constanti-
nople with a view TO conserving and
extending the benefits 10 German trGde
which II Is expected will accrue from
his majesty's recent oriental trip.
A dispatch from Madrid says the po-
sitiou OF the Cabinet Is most critical
and thlt the resignation OF the minis
try Is expected as soon as the treaty of
peace Is signed In commercial circles,
il Is added. the fall Of the Cabinet has
been discounted. as shown by the dull
state OF business and the heavy taxa
ton
Secretary Alger has designated Cen
eral Ludlow to act as first military
governor OF Havana City, with full
powers to deal with all local questions.
He will leave for his post shortly. Gen
eral Greene. AZ Havana, will remain
there until relieved by General Lud-
low, when he Will come home to be re-
tired.
The Canadian Steamship Company
has bought from the North German
LLOYD Steamship Company the express
steamers Werra and Fulda. The yes
sells are to be delivered In January, af-
ter the expiration of their lease to the
Compania Tnnsatlantlca for the trans
portatlon Of Spanish soldiers from Cuba
TO Spain.
Forty-one Pullman sleeping cars have
been engaged to carry the First Ken
tucky volunteers from Newport News
to Louisville. Kentucky. Half the men
in the regiment have never travelled in
a Pullman car In their lives, but their
friends will doubtless appreciate the
consideration Of the War Department
in looking after their comfort.
An imperial rescript just issued SEN
tences TO death Chinese literatus who
wrote threatening letters to a foreign
missionary in Kiang-Si and confers
high Chinese honors on the missionary
for his tact and forebearance in the
matter. The edlct astonished the Chi
nese, and the action of the Empress