The Lamar register., 1901-09-18
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Andrew CarHetI" mas Oucfed S2O,bO
to Riverside, California, for Il free pub
lie library.
The annual territorial fair of New
Mexico will be held at Albuquerque
October 18th.
The American Sugar Refining Com
pany has advanced prices on Nos. A. 3.
q, Z and refined sugar five points.
Senator Depew has been invited to
deliver the address at the opening of
the Charleston Exposition December
LIST.
The postmaster at Nome, Joseph II.
Wright, has been arrested and held
for trial on the charge of cmbezzling
5000.
A number of biz robbcries have been
carried on by thieves on the gold pro-
ducing creeks back of Dawson City
this month.
Clergy half-farc pcrfits are to be ex-
tended to cover the entire territory
between Chicago and the Pacific coast.
Charles II. Scrkes has secured con-
troll of the projected Brolupton-Picca-
dilly (tube) railroad, with Il capital of
f2,10O,O0O. moi V
The steamer Sierra, which sailed
from Sydney, n. $. W., September Sd,
for San Francisco, has on board f5OO,-
600 in gold. .r... .U.
The census bureau reports that in
1900 there Were produced 10.4S6, ,179
commercial bales of cotton, as against
0,645 974 bales in 1899. E..I.ll
At the Harlem race course, Chicago,
on the 9Th instant, Jiminez ran mile
and seventy yards in :i2 80, breaking
= N ,.annrJ for that distance
Ex-President Grover Cleveland has
consented to deliver the Grafton on
Founders Day of the Carnegie Insu-
tute, in Pittsburg, November Tth.
Henry Dickens. son of Charles Dick
ems, is in this country, with his two
daughters, Misses Elaine and Olive,
and is staying at Lake Champlain.
United States Ambassador General
Horace Porter has received instruc-
tions from Washington TO invite
France to participate in the st. Louis
exposition.
The Trades Union Congress at Swan
sea, Wales, has voted to accumulate a
fund with which to fight the House OF
Lords picketing decision "and other
legal WRONGS" ..uH#r
Kate Livingstone, cousin of DIR.
lllVluEStDut, Is INlHS III tht Aoic VI
Null, in the IIebrides, and has just
completed her 106th year. She ss,
however, very weak.
An assessment of fifty cents per cap
ita has been levied on the $1,000 cloak
makers of New York for the purpose
of fighting inJunctions against the
cloakmakers' strike pickcts.
Miss Stone, the missionary recently
- a. at,. NJ
of Salonica, Turkey, Is still n prisoner.
1t has not yet been stated what ran
som is demanded for her release.
Dartmouth College In New Hamp-
shire will celebrate Its Tooth ianniver-
sary September 2oth and 10th! one
thousand of the alumni will parade
dressed in revolutionary costumes.
Andrew Carnegie has donated a
large pipe organ to the Central Pres
byterIan Church of New Castle, Penn
sylvania. which city recently refused
Mr.. Carnegie's offer of Il library build
ing.
Fire started by spark from crossed
electric wires destroyed machinery In
the Hicks-Judd Printing establishment
of San Francisco worth 100000 and
did other damage estimated at $780,
600.
A. B! Hammond OF Portland, Oregon,
has bought for $JOO.OOO the largest un-
broken tract Of timber land still re
manning in first hands in Oregon. Fiji
ty Thousand acres We're involved in the
deal.
Vice President Roosevelt has written
a. B. Cummins. Republican nominee
| for governor, that he will make two
speeches in Iowa this campaign, one
| of them being In Dcs Moincs about
October eth.
The transport Mcclellan, from New
York, July 10th, with the congressional
party, has reached Manila. The Wis
itors will make n tour of the islands for
| the purpose of Investigating the con-
duct of affairs. ..|
Geo. Braunrnided, member of the
| Soldiers Home ut I.eavenwOrth.I was
| dishonorably discharged recently and
drummed out of camp for expressing
satisfaction ut the shooting of Presi-
dent Mckinley.
Robert II. Mumford, known through
out the Yukon country and the states
as "Polly Bob. committed suicide mt
Nome on August 22d. by swallowing
| twenty grains of morphine. in room
at the Gold Hill hotel. ....
The plant of the American Glucose
Sugar refining Company mt Peoria,
ILL.,. the largest OF the kind in the
United States, and the property of the
Glucose trust, has been closed down in.
definitely. The plant employed about
200 hands.
General S. d. Stanley. president of
the Society of the Army Of the Cum
berland, announces that the annual re-
union of that society and the veterans
of that army will be held at Louisville,
Kentucky, on Perryvlllc days, Octo-
ber Sth and 9th.
AnDlication was made in the Su-