The Lamar register., 1900-10-17
rELEoRAPHIc sREviTlEs.

increase Of 1,7OS, or Ala per cent.
The population Of the District Of
Columbia just announced, is 2IS,71S, rs
against 230,302 ten years ago; an in
crease of 4s,32G, or 200 per cent.
Butte, Montana. is having a smallpox
scare. In eight days twenty-eight VIC
tins were sent to the pesthouse. Com
pulsory vaccination will be enforced.
Minister Wu's salary has not been
cut since the Chinese troubles began,
and the business of the legation has
been running with perfect smoothness.
The census bureau announces the
population of the state of Delaware as
1S4,735 in 1900, against 16S, ,403 in 1880.
This Is an increase of 1G,242, or 0.G per
cent.
The strike at the Buckingham &
Hecht shoe factory in San Francisco is
ended. The strikers won every point
contended for. over 500 workmen were
involved.
1t is officially announced by the CEN
sus bureau that the population of New
Hampshire is All ,5SS In 1890 the pop
ulation was 37G,53O, the increase being
5,O5S, or 9.30 per cent.
In the English Parliamentary cleo
tions the ministerialists and the opposi-
ton have now gained twenty-scven
seats each. The former now hold 357
seats and the latter 2O5.
The twenty eighth convention of the
American Travelling Passenger Agents
closed at Old Point Comfort October
9th. The next meeting will be at Los
Angeles, California, in October, 1901.
The twenty plants of the American
Tin company have resumed operations.
The mills. which employ 1900 men,
were closed for more than three months
pending n settlement of the wage scale.
Since its inception five months ago,
the Speyer, Germany. automobile stage
line has carried 10000 passengers.
Each coach carries twenty-eight pas
sengers and the route is ten miles long.
A st. Johns, Newfoundland, dispatch
says that seventeen fishing vessels OPP
| Grating on the Grand Banks during the
gale of September 10Th are still miss
ing, with crews aggregating over 200
men.
Eminent judges have selected the
names of Emerson, LOngfellow, Haw-
thorne and Irving to represent authors
in the names of famous Americans for
the New York University Temple Of
Fame.
Chief Constructor Philip Hichborn,
U. S. N, has been awarded n diploma
| and gold medal for the Franklin life
buoy, Hichborn turret and models of
war vessels exhibited at the Paris ex-
position for 1900.
The census makes many changes.
| When it comes to counting noses Uncle
| Sam is no respcctcr of persons or or
cities. Memphis is now the first city Of
| Tennessee and Nashville is in MOURN
| ing, and demands a recount.
| A. p. Deer, an aeronaut of Chicago
| fell to his death at Gays Mills, Wis
consin, from balloon, in which he
| asccnded to n height of 200 feet. The
ascension was made at fair and was
witnessed by 5000 persons.
Mr.. Krugers grandson, Eloff, sailed
from Lorenzo Marques October 10th
| to prepare Il residence in Brussels FOR
| tie former president of the Transvaal.
The latter will sail on the Dutch
cruiser Gelderland few days later.
The Anti-IIorse Thief Association,
covering Kansas and Indian territory,
met in Wichita on the 10th instant,
with 300 delegates. Last year the or
| ganiZation recovered sixteen or elsh-
teen horses stolen from its members.
Major Edward Goldberg, United
States Indian agent, died at Senaca.
| Missouri. on the Sth instant, of mush-
| room poisoning, after an illness of lit
tie more than one day. Mrs. Goldberg
| is also very Ill from the same cause.
The Treasury Department has given
notice of the discovery of new coun-
| terfcit $40 silver certificate, series of
1891, with portrait of Hendricks. The
counterfeit is described as photo
| pronhic Drint without the silk fibre,
and of inferior workmanship.
Isaiah II. Montgomery, who was in
youth n slave to Jefferson Davis, found
ed after the war n colony of negroes In
che Yazoo river valley, in Mississippi.
He Is now mayor of the town of Mount
Bayou, the center of the colony, where
| the negroes own 1900 acres.
Richard ]. Carroll, for number of
years chief money order clerk in branch
postofIice T., New York city, has been
| arrested for forging and raising money
orders. The amount of the alleged for
geries is not yet known, but is believed
| to be large. Carroll was efficient and
had been employed in the postoffice
! sixteen years.
A contract has been made which will
give Denver another railway connec-
ton with El Paso, Texas. The Ell Paso
& Northern will build to Texline, New
Mexico. The ChOctaw, Oklahoma IL
Gulf will build to the same place from