The Lamar register., 1901-03-13
TELEGRAPHIC BREvlTIES.

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General A. S. Daggett. recently ap-
pointed brigadier general of the army,
has been retired.
The Queen regent of Spain has
signed decree appointing Rear Ad-
miral Cervera to be vice admiral
Russia and other powers have ad-
dressed remonstrances to the Sultan of
Turkey against the Macedonian disor-
ders.
The Germans expect to have an elec-
tric railway line between Berlin and
Hamburg with cars running every ten
minutes.
Roslyn Ferrell, the murderer of Ex-
press Messenger Charles Lane. was
"electrocuted" at Columbus. Ohio,
March 1st.
The fourth annual convention of the
Pacific Northwest Wool Growers As
sociation met at Pendleton, Oregon,
March 9Th.
While in Germany, King Edward
VII. visited the sanitarium Tor con-
sumptives at Cronberg and talked with
the patients.
IL 10 ltDOltcu lloh puVhob ~ 49,
that according to trustworthy data the
export of surplus maize will amount to
100000 tons.
An order has been issued by the War
Department placing General James IL.
Wilson and General Fitzhugh Lee on
the retired list.
The public library and high school
building at Grand Haven, Michigan,
has been destroyed by fire, entailing a
loss of 100000.
Smallpox is reported from nearly ev-
cry section of the country and radical
measures have been taken in many
places TO suppress it.
The influenza epidemic in Sweden is
becoming more severe. Prince Berna-
iotto. second son of King Oscar, Is
zmong the sufferers.
Thore is bill before the Arizona
Legislature to put the great United
Verde mine and the camp OF jerome IN
3 county by themselves.
Tho Interior Department has decided
against all claimants to the WIND cave,
near Rapid City, South Dakota, and II
will be held and probably soon opened
to the public by the government
Tie French foreign office gives
categorical denial to the statement,
published in an American newspaper
that Italy has Joined, or is arranging
to 1oin, the Franco-Russian alliance.
At Grlce village in Texas, twelve wo-
men, with hatchets, axes and rocks,
went to the postofiice and store run by
l. J. Grlce in which bltters were sold,
md. taking the bottles outside, broke
them nll.
Alfred Dreyfus has returned to Paris
from Switzerland after having correct
ed the proof of the book he has COM
p,eted, entitled "Five Years of My
Life" dealing with his imprisonment
on DEVILS island.
1t is believed the delay in payment OF
the first installment on the cruiser Or
dered by the Turkish government from
the Cramps of Philadelphia, Is caused
soiely by present poverty of the treas
ury, but will shortly be made.
Charles T. Yerlfes, the street railway
magnate, has sold all his interests In
the Chicago elevated roads and is con-
centrating his energies and capital on
the four and ne-half mile underground
road that he Is constructing In London.
On the occasion Of the Inauguration
ceremonies, Mrs. Mckinley wore Il
white satin gown and Mrs. Roosevelt
wore a white silk gown. Their respec-
tive husbands were attired In their or
fetal dignity us well as some kind OF
clothes.
Fifteen ex-insurgent leaders and 500
followers have taken the oath OF ale
giance to the United States Mt Concep-
cion, island of Panay, and 2OO more
promise soon to swear fealty. Thls
extinguishes the rebellion in that dis
trict.
An epidemic of smallpox among the
Cocopah Indians south of Yuma, Ari-
zona, Is spreading rapidly. Over fifty
Indians are infected and four deaths
have occurred The disease bids fair
to exterminate the tribe, which Is i'll
thy and degraded.
-Four thousand five hundred insur-
gent prisoners have been held Mt Ma
Mia. The new prison on Grande 1s-
land in Subig bay. sixty miles west
of Manila, has been completed and
thousand prisoners were to be sent
The lower house of the Wisconsin
Legislature has passed bill providing
that ON petition of ten per cent. of the
voters of any city in that state any
franchise which may have been grant
ed by the City Council shall be SUBJ
mitted to a vote Of the people.
The founding Of great cooperative
agricultural colony of old soldiers,
which Is expected to have a member
ship of upwards of 21,OOO and to oc-
cupy a large tract of land in OKLA
homa, is the object of an organization
at Wabash, Indiana, recently incorpo-
rated.
BY a vote of So to 30 the lower house
of the Indiana Legislature adopted
the Neal Joint resolution for n consu-
tutional amendment providing for
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