The Lamar register., 1900-09-05
TELEGRAPH ITEMS.


to choose what property shall be cx
empt If the total value does not exceed
the amount which is legally exempt in
any state.
The Crucible Steel Company OF Amer
lea has advanced the price of all kinds
of open hearth steel 81 Il ton. This ap-
plies to all products except fine tool
steel which remains at cents per
pound and upward, according to quail
itiy.
The census bureau announces the
population of Wilmington, Delaware.
is 1G.50S. against 81 .431 in 1880. This
Is an increase of 15,OII, or 24.54 per
cent; Paterson, New Jersey, has 1O5,-
Ill, as against 7S,347. This is an in
crease of 26,S24, or 34.24 per cent.
The population of st. Louis accord
ing to the official count of the returns
of the Twelfth census, is 5IJ,23S in
1900. against 451.77O in 1890. These
figures show for the city as y whole. an
increase in population of 123. 4GS, or
27.33 per cent. from 1890 to 1900.
All the persons accused of completely
in the Havana custom house frauds
have been acquitted. The president of
the court inserted in the decision Il
clause to the effect that he thinks four
of the accused are guilty, and these
may be taken before the Supreme
Court.
The wireless telegraph system ~
Hawaii has been interrupted in being
finally made ready for public use by
difficulties in construction of the sta
tions. Manager Cross announces that
within three weeks the whole system
will be in operation for the general
public.
For nearly two weeks the 1000 resi-
dents of Council City according to
Nome advices, have fought II fierce fire
which threat tened the whole town. and
during eight days had scarcely a mo
ment's rest from Telling timber, setting
back fires and dousing water upon
threatened houses.
The German government has ordered
four new battlcships to be built by Ber-
lin firms All will be of the same type
and will be 393 feet long and 11.SGO
tons displacement. A speed of nine
teen knots is expected. They will he
completed i'll three years at total cost
for the four vessels of SJ,GoO,OOO.
The anarchist. Brcsci. the assassin OF
King Humbert. Intellectually attempted
to commit suicide Sunday, according
to n dispatch from Rome. He now re-
fuses food saying that he has 10 in
tention to give the bourgooisc the salts
faction of seeing him condemned. He
shows no signs of alteration of intel
lect.
The Duke of Manchester has been
adjudicated Il bankrupt. entailing his
resignation from all his clubs. The pc
titon to the bankruptcy court includ-
ed one of the young nobleman himself.
whose acceptances are 50 widely dis
tribued in unknown hands that his
friends for some time have strongly
urged this radical course.
The German naval commander at
Taku telcgraphs that the followiI2
troops had been landed up 10 August
18th: American. 155 officers and 4.41O
men; British. 1S9 officers and 5,942
men; French. 115 officers and 2,9o3
men: Italian. IL officers and 21T men:
japanese. JT3 officers and 10.5OS men;
Russian. 275 officers and 800 men.
The fivcmile bicycle race between
G. A. X. veterans was run ut Chicago
on the Goth. J. Patterson. aged sixty
one. of Greenfield. Indiana. was first
NJ Hammert. aged siXty-fvc, of Chi
cago, second; L. II. Rarllg, aged fifty
five. of Chicago. third. j. l.. Smith OF
Cleveland. aged tifty-six, won the time
prize. Pattcrson's time WAS 1898;
Smiths time was 1923.
Passengers on the Lehigh Valley
newspapers. fruit. candy, etc, on trains
after September 1st as 1t has been de
cided to abolish the custom of carry
ing ncwsboys on trains. Many com
plants have been made about the man.
ner in which the boys peddle their
goods, and il is believed that they are
more of a nuisance than an advantage
to passengers.
Gales S. Jackson, Il negro lawyer of
Richmond, West Virginia. acting for
the National Council of the Constitu-
tional Rights Association. has en-
ployed counsel in proceedings which
will be instituted for the purpose of
bringing before the United States Su-
preme Court the question of the legal
ity of the recently enacted statutes.
laws and constitutional amendments
in some of the southern states which.
it is claimed tend toward the disfran-
chiscmcnt of the negro.
The total population of the stain
will not be given out for at least eight
or ten weeks. The returns from all the
cities having Il population of 25,OOO or
more will be published first. When this
list has been exhausted attention will
be turned to the population of the
states. Work on the smaller cities, vii
lagos and townships then will be TAX
en- up. An effort will be made to have
the entire count completed by the lat
ter part of October Or the middle OF