The Lamar register., 1901-01-09
TELEGRAPHIc BREViTIEs.

The gold production of Oregon for
the year 1900 amounted to $3,IIO,oOo.
The lumber output or Oregon for the
year 1900 amounted to sos, 100000 feet.
The members of the Cleveland city
council on trial for bribery were all
acquitted
Colonel A. e. Buck, United States
minister to Japan, sailed for home on
the 2Sth inst.
Queen Victoria has appointed the
Duke of York to be colonel-in-chief OF
the Royal Marines.
The Czar and Czarina will return to
Tarskaoe-Selo, near st. Petersburg,
about February 2nd.
Glasgow, Scotland, has established
an institution for the confinement ana
reformation of drunkards.
Michael Maloney lived to be 1OI
years old and died in Lenox township,
pennsylvania, few days ago.
Canadian soldiers returning from
South Africa We're given II grand ova-
ton ut Winnipeg, Manitoba, on the
eth ult.
Moses Soft Tyler, professor of Amer.
lean history in Cornell University, died
on the 2Sth ultimo, after an illness OF
three weeks.
An original picture of General Wash
ington has been discovered in England.
1t represents the father of his country
as wearing Il pigtail.
A Tacoma dispatch says that labor
is likely to be scarce in Washington
this year, where much railroad con-
struction is to be done.
Colonel Willicocks has cabled the
British government that the Ashanti
rebellion has ended, all of the rebel
chiefs having surrendered.
Miss Jessie Ackerman and Miss Ada
Mercutt have gone to Honolulu to IN
augurate II temperance crusade unuer
the auspices of the w. C. II. U.
The total output of Pacific coast sal
mon canneries in 1900 was 2,034.4S5
cases; British Columbia produced 52I,-
2S1 cases; Alaska, BOD, ,I45 cases.
The Holland Society of New York
received cablcgram from The Hague
saving that Queen Wilhelmina's mar
riage has been set for September TIN.
Secretary of the Navy Long has rec
commended thnt one of the new battle
ships whose construction Is to shortly
commence shall be christened Califor-
mia.
Two German tourists, Herren Lainer
and Kindlinger, ascended Mount
SchwartZbergen without guides recent
ly and fell into an abyss ana were
killed
Thirty-three families of Russian i'm
migrants in McHenry county, Nortn
Dakota, are in starving condition ana
will have to be supplied with food ana
fuel till spring.
More than 6,OO0 persons, four-fifths
of whom went to the United States,
emigrated from Christiania, Norway,
during the last twelve months, rs
against $500 in 1899.
A big wine trust was organized IN
San Francisco on New Years Day. 1t
expects to control seven-eighths or the
wine business of California and will
have SSOOO,O0O capital.
Miss Esther Stevenson, late of Den
yer. and graduate of the University
of Michigan, has made application FOR
admission to the bar of Seattle, to be-
come legal practitioner.
Captain Torkildsen has written n
strong article to the Norwegian pa-
pers, urging all parties in the Storth-
Ing to pass law compelling the King
to live six months yearly in Norway.
In imitation of the Omaha affair, a
would be kidnaper has written the Rev.
DIR. John +. Peters, the pastor OF a
fashionable New York church, demand
ing ransom or his daughter will be kid
naped.
Last wear the total imports and ex-
ports out of and into San Francisco
from the Philippines islands We're: I'm
ports, S43G293; exports, SGO1,704 In
1890 they We're: Imports, S2NOOO; ex-
ports, $325,OOO.
Estimates of pig iron production are
that the aggregate will be little below
100000 tons. and therefore slightly
in excess of 1890. Iron ore shipments
by lake route will run nearly 19,OOO,OOO
ton, the largest ever recorded.
Professor w. w. Campbell, at Lick
observatory, wires that the comet Gia-
Goblin was observed at Aitken, Decem-
ber 2Sth, 61.93 Greenwich mean time,
in right ascension 23h 23m 1S.5s, and
declination minus % degree I'm 2Is.
Replying to an address from the
American Boer committee. Mr.. kru-
ger EXPRESSED desire to visit the
United States. but said he must post
none the visit on account of the affec-
ton of the eyes from which he Is suf-
fering.
Dense fog of what is called the pea
SOUP variety. and the worst in several
wears, covered the whole of the London
district January 1st. seriously interfer-
ing with traffic of all kinds. Even pc
destrians had difficulty in finding their
destinations.
Mrs. Carrie Sinclair Hunton of Con-
cord, New Hampshire, the former So
ciety belle, who was arrested on a
charge of conspiracy to kill her d.
vorced husband. Walter G. Hunton,
bas been pronounced insane and taken
to an asylum.
The Luxembourg museum has pur-
chased several pictures displayed Mt the