The Lamar register., 1900-11-14
TELeGRAPHiC eREviTiEs.

orders during the coming year for five
battleships with American shlpbuild-
ers.
Inc population of Indiana, as official
ly announced by the census bureau, Is
2,o1G,4G2, as against 2,192,40i in 1880.
This is an increase of 1924, ,O5S, or 14.7
per cent.
Frank FroOman of Cutler, Mimi,
was buried under thirty feet of earth
while cleaning well. After thirteen
hours confinement he was rescued and
will live.
Horace Lee Washington, ut present
consul mt Valencia, Spain. has been ap-
pointed consul at Geneva, Switzerland.
exchanging place with Richard NJ.
Bartleman.
The census shows that the City of
Mexico has over 100000 population.
The population of the federal district,
including the capital city. is in excess
of half million.
Official reports show the grain has
been completely burned up In the
drouth in portions of Siberia. The
fields have not been harvested and are
used for pasturage.
The result Of the election to the Aus
tralian legislature assembly of Victoria
is the return of forty-tive Ministerial
lists, forty-cight members of the oppo-
sition and two independents.
The October customs receipts at Ma
nila were Sl.SSS,O00 Mexican, an in
crease over the previous month of
$15O,OOO. The total revenue was S.
POO. 900. which breaks all records.
The North German Lloyd Steamship
Company has ordered more than lOOo
tons of structural iron from the United
States for its work shops and foundry.
as against Wcstphalian competition.
Don Carlos. the Spanish pretcnder,
is said to have declared that the pres
ent rising in Spain is contrary to his
orders and will retard, instead of pro-
mote his efforts to secure his rights.
Frank Williams of Johnstown. Penn
sylvania. has bcqucathed his fortune OF
5000. 900 TO Lehigh university. where he
had been II student. The income OF
the fund is to be loaned to poor and
deserving students.
The elections to the Icelandic althing
have resulted in n great majority for
the proposition of Professor Gudmund-
son to create n special Icelandic min
istry and give Iceland. virtually, an au-
tonomous government.
Negotiations are under way for plac-
Ing portion of the Swiss railway loan
in his country. The bonds are Of the
Chemin de Fer Central. guaranteed by
the gov, nment. and will aggregate An
| $S.OOO.OOO issue.
Amid considerable excitement the
lord mayor. at n meeting of the Dublin
corporation. ruled out of order II resolu-
ton to confer the freedom OF the city
on former President Kruger Of the
| South African republic.
The Paris exposition authorities have
| closed the Trnnsvaal pavilion. because
mr.. Pierson. the Transvaal emissary
general. refused to remove the inscrip-
tions insulting to England, with which
the walls were covered.
The Naval Department has directed
| Admiral Remey at Cavitc to convene a
court of inquiry to inquire into the
charge of cowardice against Captain
Hall. United States marines. preferred
by Minister Conger at Pekin.
The poor farm Of Marion county,
Kansas. is more than self supporting.
Last year the institution realized
enough on its crops to pay for the
maintenance of its ten Inmates and
leave balance OF 5000 clear profit
At Bow Street Police court. London,
/
Arnold. who had been extradited from
California. was remanded on the
charge of misappropriating f14.OOO Of
trust funds. He denied the charges.
A Bremen cable says: "The indus
trial and agricultural protectionists
have combined now to urge higher Ger
man grain duties and have appeared
before the committee drafting n new
tariff in favor of such an advance"
william r. Seward and his wife, of
Scranton township. near Urbana, ILL.,,
have given their 6OOacre farm, valued
at $4,000, for the founding of an insti-
tuition devoted to the education of col
ored people in the "black belt" of the
south.
The funeral OF Professor Max Muller.
who died at oxford, October %. was
largely attended. those present includ-
ing representatives of Queen Victoria,
and Emperor William of Germany. The
latter sent wreath inscribed ",ro My
Dear Friend"
Lord Roberts has cabled to the war
office that Former President Steyn. in
dispatch to Dclary's Burghers. Octo-
ber 90. said Mr.. Kruger had gone to
Europe to get interviewed" and that
If he failed. "the 1'ransvaal will be
auctioned off to the highest bidder"
Under the firm name OF the Buffalo
Union Furnace Company three of the
largest iron smelling plants in South
Buffalo have been consolidated. The