The Lamar register., 1901-04-10
TELEoRAPHIc sREvlrIEs.

Three hundred metal polishers at San
Francisco struck for shorter hours
April 1st.
Five hundred factory girls went out
on n strike at st. Joseph, Missouri,
April 1st.
NJ. Waldeck- -Rosseau, French pre-
| mier, is suffering from an aDcess Of
the throat.
The bubonic plague continues its
ravages at Capetown and gives the Of
ficials much concern.
Oxford won the great annual boat
race between oxford and Cambridge
universities March 30th.
The entire wheat and oat crop of
northern Texas is threatened with de-
struction by the fly pest.
The United States Rubber Company
has reduced its prices twenty-eiGht
per cent from those of 1900.
The trial of James Callahan for CON-
! plicity in the abduction of young Cud-
any will begin April 22d at Omaha.
The published statement that Lord
Salisbury has symptoms of Brights
disease is denied by his private secre-
tary.
Five hundred and fifty journeymen
painters and decorators at Cincinnati
struck for an eight-hour day on the 1st
of April.
The Jefferson hotel at Richmond, Vir-
| ginia, burned on the night of March
18th. Its cost was Sl,0OO,OOO and 1t
was insured for S65O,OOO.
Medical Director William Il. Hord
died ut Washington April list at the
age of seventy. He had been in the
naval service for forty years.
| The capital of the United States Steel
Corporation has been increased to ST.
| 1OO,OOOOOO. The state of New Jersey
received fee of $22OO0O for the filing
of the papers.
! Sir Thomas Upton feels confident of
winning the All Americas cup this
! summer with his new yacht sham
rock ii. He expects to sail for Ameri-
ca about June 18th.
Governor Dietrich OF Nebraska, ex-
poets to resign at an early date 10 ac-
cept the office of United States senator
for the short term, to which he was re-
Gently elected.
Three expert biologists from the Un-
tied States survey have been detailed
to make geological and mineral recon-
nossance of the island of Cuba, whose
government will pay the expense.
Petroleum in large quantities is re-
ported to have been discovered at
Greenville, Clay county. Iowa, and
people are gathering in great num-
bers. This is the first oil discovered
in Iowa.
1t is believed at the Indian office in
Washington that the recent reported
trouble with Navajos in southern Utah
and northern Arizona was due to the
encroachment Of white miners on the
reservation.
Two tons of American flags have
been contracted for in Chicago to be
taken to Porto Rico and erected on the
school buildings. 1t is proposed TO
erect n flag over every school house on
the island before July 4th.
The official Gazette of the City of
Mexico has published denial Of the
announcement made in various Mexi-
cnn newspapers that President Diaz
has asked permission to go to Europe
for the benefit of his health.
The secretary of agriculture has sent
dairy experts to Japan and China for
the purpose of Introducing American
| dairy products in the markets Of the
| China sea- and another to the Carib-
bean sea for the same purpose.
Tom l.. johnson, the noted single-tax
advocate, who has Just been elected
mayor of Cleveland. Ohio, says that he
shall fight, without giving or accept
ing quarter" for municipal ownership
of street railways and IA 3-cent fare.
Alfred T. Patrick is again on trial
in New York charged with causing the
death of Millionaire Rice last Septem-
Der. Patrick is also alleged to have
forged will and other documents pur-
porting to have been signed by Rice.
Harry Adamson Lund, whose
strange disappearance from the steam
ship Eddy in New York two years ago
created n sensation. has turned up in
Nanaimo, British Columbia, where he
has been working in the mines for
some time.
Colonel A. X. Mcclure has an
nounced his retirement from the edi-
torial direction of the Philadelphia
Times. Colonel Mcclure began his
Journalistic work over tifty-five years
| ago. as the editor of n weekly paper
in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
r. L. Pease, vice president of the
Exchange National Bank at Atchison.
Kansas. died March Goth. He was one
of the operators of the Holiday stage
line between Atchison and Salt Lake
in the early days, and later was an
extensive star route contractor.
In North Carolina the attempt to i'm
peach Chief Justice Fuchs of the Su-
preme Court and Associate Judge
Douglas failed through inability to Sc
cure a two-thirds vote for impeach-
ment. 1here were twenty seven votes
for conviction and twenty-three for ac-
quittal.
A fire in the main building of the
Jacob Dodd Packing Company's plant
at Kansas City, March 30th, destroyed
! S2OO.O0O worth of property. The
building was burned in 1899 and i'm