The Lamar register., 1901-06-19
rELEGRAPHIc BREviTlEs.


at Manila.
General Macarthur cables that all
the volunteers have left the Philip
pines en- route for the United States.
The New Jersey Supreme Court has
decided that all street railway fran.
chises in the state are taxable us real
estate.
Judge Waterman of the Illinois Cir.
cult Court has decided that the black.
listing of girls by stock yards firms
was legal.
The Railway Porters' Association
will soon establish a private hospital
Mt Chicago for colored men in the rail
way service.
The Kansas crop report shows the
condition of wheat in the state to be
SIS, as compared with an average OF
09S for May.
More than twenty hotels, including
several of the largest size, are going
up in New York city at an estimated
cost of $4,000.
On the 9Th inst. Governor Heber NJ.
Wells, of Utah, was married to Miss
Emily Katz, formerly society editor
of the Salt Lake Herald.
Milan, in Italy, will soon have a
"Rowton house in which 600 persons
can get clean beds in well-ventilated
rooIHs for I cents n night.
Edwin V. Morgan of the United
States Korean legation declares the
American gold mines are the most pros
porous enterprises in Korea.
The San Francisco labor council VIII
ask aid from all labor organizations
to help sustain the striking iron work
crs. About $4,000 Is needed.
The selection of Count Won Walder-
sees successor as commander OF the
international forces In China Will be
left to the commanders now there.
President Harper of the University
of Chicago, announces that the Uni
vcrsity has begun TO establish afiili-
ated preparatory schools in different
parts of Europe.
"A general boycott of American
goods will be started in switzerland"
says the correspondent of the London
Daily Mail, 'if the threatened watch
trust Is to be formed"
The Texas quarantine which has
been maintained for several months
against San Francisco ON account of
the bubonic plague, has been raised
by Governor Sayres.
Manila's population is found to be
244,7S2, which gives it place next be-
low that of Newark, New Jersey, or
seventeenth from the top in the list of
cities of the United States.
At Pekin recently lightning struck
building inside the gate of the Amer
lean end of the Forbidden City, caus-
ing fire. Three buildings containing
valuable documents We're burned.
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international convention of the Chris
tan Endeavor organization, to be held
in Cincinnati July 9th to 10th, will
be n choir of 1900 trained voices.
British sportsmen were greatly sur
prised when William c. Whitney's
brown colt Volodyovski won the
Derby on the 9th inst. The victory
carried with it a purse of $4,000.
San Francisco's largest suburb, Oak
innd, obtains It's electric force from u
| stream 100 miles away. Experience
proves that long distance transmission
| of electric power Is IL success in every
way.
Chemical analysis having shown that
Father f. S. Phillips OF HaZelton.
Pennsylvania, did not die of poison,
DIR. Stanley, who was suspected Of
numbering the priest, has been re-
leased.
Elder Demster & Co., of London,
offer to pay the travelling expenses
of the official delegates of any British
trades unions willing TO go to the
United States to study American trade
methods.
Joseph Brucker of the Chicago
Staats Zeitung has gone to Berlin to
establish weekly trade journal which
will be devoted exclusively to the pro-
motion of American-German CONNER
cial relations.
Captain Howard Blackburn left
Gloucester, Massachusetts on the 9th
inst. In his twenty-iivefoOt sloop the
Great Republic to sail to Lisbon,
Spain, which port lie hopes to make in
forty-five days.
In the fiscal year 1900 and in the
nine months of the fiscal year 1901 the
exports from New Orleans were $122,-
234, 500, making that city rank second
in the list of Americas export cities
instead of Boston.
Articles of incorporation for the Peo-
ple's Church of America have been
granted at Springfield, Illinois, this ac-
tion being taken to extend the scope
of the Peoples church of Chicago into
a national organization.
The incoming Junior and senior
classes of the Wesleyan University
at Salina, Kansas, still declare they
will leave the institution il DR.. Frank
d. Tubbs, recently dismissed for al
legged heresy is not reinstated.
A special meeting of the London Dis.
trict railway has sanctioned Charles Il.
Yerkes' plan for the Introduction of
electricity as the nNtive power of the
road. J. S. Forbes, the president, said
the work would occupy two years.