The Lamar register., 1901-11-20
TELEeRAPHrc sRevITrEs.

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:. Cuba.
= 1t has been decided to hold carnlva
IN Sydney. Nova Scotia. next summer
TO include aquatic sports, rowing ant
yacht racing.
st. John Dix, who wrecked foui
banks in the state of Washington last
year, has been arrested in London and
VIII be extradited.
King Edward has decided to have
the celebrated Koh-l-Noor diamond
mounted in the crown of Queen Alex
ahdfa Tor the coronation.
Laying the keel blocks for the con-
struction of n new fighting cruiser ror
the Turkish government has been be-
gun at Cramps shpyard.
President Roosevelt, who has been
looking for Il new team, is opposed to
docking the tails of horses and will not
consider any offers of bangtailed ami
mails.
| All the German naval officers are re-
ceivlng instructions in wireless telcg-
fapby, and all ships of the t9rman
navy Will be equipped with wireless
apparatus
| SIX thousand dollars has been given
| charles o. Baird of Philadelphia. the
income of which is to be used toward
prizes for Oratory in the senior class at
Princeton.
"A Constantinople dispatch says that
severe earthquake occurred on the
oth instant mt ErZeroum. Many houses
We're destroyed and the inhabitants
sought safety in the open.
The Commercial Pacific Gable Com
pany. recently Incorporated TO operate
u cable line between this country and
the Philippines has Increased its cap
ital from 100000 to $3,OO0.0OO.
Mother Bickerdyke of army fame
died at Bunker Hill, Kansas, Novem-
ber Sth. at the age of eighty-four years.
Her work among the Union soldiers
during the war is well known.
a dispatch TO the Herald from Paris
says: The municipal council of ST.
CLOUD has decided to give the name of
Santos-Dumont to n street leading TO
the balloon park in st. Cloud.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to pro-
vide $4,000 building for the Wood |
library of Canandaigua. New York. on
condition that the municipality shall |
guarantee $1,000 annually for its sup
port.
y deal is about to be consummnted
by which all the leading fruit canning
establishments of California outside of
the California Fruit Gamers Associa-
tion will pass into the hands of an
eastern syndicate.
The entire system of the Market
Street hallway Company at San Fran
cisco has practically been sold to
baltimore syndicate. which has for
several months been negotiating for Its
purchase, for S2G,o0O.0OO.
Resolutions strongly protesting
against the ratification of the reciproc-
ity treaties which will come before
Congress Mt its approaching session,
have been adopted by the Southern
California Fruit Exchanse.
There Is now bill pending In the
French chamber of deputies providing
Tor n graduated tax upon unmarried
persons. increasing rapidly in amount
upon both women and men between
twenty-one and forty years of age.
Berlin advices state that ground was
broken for the new American church
OH the 9th inst. \ large crowd of
Americans Were present. The United
States ambassador. Andrew ID. White.
will lay the corner stone Thanksgiving
Day.
Paul Revere. vice president and gen.
cral of the Sons of the American Rev
died on the 10th instant ut
New Jersey. aged 40 years
He was n son of General Joseph War
rem Revere. who fought in the Semi
mole and Civil wars. and n great grand
son of Paul Revere of Revolutionary
fame.
Andrew Carnegie has given twenty
three employees of the Edgar Thomson
steel works at the Braddock plant of
the Carnegie company enough five per
cent. bonds of the Carnegie Steel Com
pany to make the interest just equal
their salaries. The total amount of
bonds distributed is said to be about
81 100000
At reception of British pilgrims re-
Gently. the Pope forbade the reading
of their address publicly. because 1t ex-
pressed hope for the restoration of
the temporal power of the pontiff. ana
his holiness did not desire n renewal of
the trouble caused by the Duke of Nor
folk on the occasion of the previous pill
grimage.
The National Prison Association at
its recent meeting in Kansas City
passed resolutions urging upon Con-
gress the adoption of general parole
law and an indeterminate sentence
law for the benefit of federal prison.
ers. The next meeting of the associa-
tion will be held at Philadelphia in Oc-
tober, 1902.
Charles Miller and Mrs. y. C. Collins.
alias Grace Arnold. alias Grace ALI
son. formerly of Cleveland. St Louis
and San Francisco. convicted of hav-
ing used the mails to defraud in con-
ducting n matrimonial bureau. have
been sentenced to year and n day In
prison by the United States Court at
Kansas City.