The Lamar register., 1901-08-28
TELEGRAPHIc BREvlTIEs.

this year,
The Navy Department announces
that the European squadron of Ameri-
can war vessels will rendezvous at
Genoa, Italy.
Lieutenant Colonel Marchand of Fa-
shoda fame, has been promoted to the
chief command of brigade of French
troops in China.
A new trolley line between New
York and Connecticut promises rcsi-
lar run of sixty miles an hour outside
of the city limits.
President Linbrom of the Chicago
Civil Service Commission, announces
that the entire police force Of the city
is to be investigated.
Colonel G. w. Breckenridge Of San
Antonio, Texas, has given $4,000 for
the building of n school for the col
ored children of that city.
Advices from Liverpool state that an
alliance is contemplated between the
Leyland, the Atlantic Transport and
the American steamship lines.
The entire town of Landersville. In
diana, was burned August 10th. There
was no fire protection whatever. The
town had population of 300.
Plans for a combination Of the but
ton manufactures OF the United States,
taking in all the important concerns in
the country, are being perfected.
The Glucose company has increased
the price of glucose 10 cents per 100
pounds, making n total increase Of 40
cents since the advance in corn set In.
The War Department has been in
formed that the damages to the bat
teries mt Fort Morgan, below Mobile,
from the storm last week, are very ex-
tensive.
Phoenix, Arizona, once sage brush
desert, has 25,0OO inhabitants and IN
assessed valuation OF $1O,OOO,OOO. all
due to irrigation canals brought from
distant mountains.
The second of the new submarine
boats for the navy was launched ut
Elizabeth, New Jersey, August 10th,
and was named the Moccasin by Miss
Grace Day Of Virginia.
A commercial traveller who had
route covering / 300 miles in northern
Ohio, performed half the journey on
the trolley roads connecting many OF
the towns in that region.
Among the passengers who arrived
in New York recently, per steamer
Lain, from Bremen and Southampton,
were General Fred ID. Grant, his wife
and son Ulysses S. Grant.
There are now 1,1i2 different sub
marine cables, with n total length Of
1880 miles, owned by governments.
and 31S cables, altogether 100000 miles
long, in the hands Of companies.
According to William Redmond, who
recently had an interview with Presi-
dent Kruger in Holland. Dom Paul's
appearance bellies the idea that he Is
breaking up either mentally or physl-
cally.
It is estimated that 10000 negroes
have been graduated from colleges and
industrial schools In the South, ut q
cost of S1OO,OOO,O0O. Most of this
money has been contributed by north
erners.
The Board of Health OF Montclair,
New Jersey, has given the authorities
power to purchase oil to begin the
work of exterminating mosquitoes.
The stagnant pools and swamp land
will be attacked first.
@. NJ. Schwab of the United States
Steel corporation will In n few days
take charge of the Bethlehem Steel
Company. 1t is denied that the con-
Germ will be merged in the Cramp-
Vickers-Maxlm deal.
The Pacific Packing and Navigation
Company, the new combine of the
Northwest canneres, has opened for
business Mt Seattle. The company is
capitalized ut $50 100000 and embraces
about thirty canneries.
The work of the appraisers OF tho
estate of the late jacob s. Rogers of
Paterson, New Jersey, has been COM
pleted. The estimate made by Mr..
Rogers of lktle over $0,OOOOOO Is
close to the actual figures.
Andrew Carnegie has contributed
$1,000 to the fund being raised in New
Haven for the erection of n memorial
monument to Cornelius S. Bushnell,
who advanced the money for the build
ing of Ericsson's monitor.
1t is stated that 39,S72 persons per-
ished at the hands of homicides in the
United States during the five years
ending with 1900. The figures of pun
ishment for the crime are not made up,
but are known to be startlingly small.
Frank A. Mexican, ex-mayor OF
Nashua, New Hampshire, and former
cashier of the Indian Head National
Bank of that city, is dead In Para
quay. Mexican fled from Nashua in
1898 because of n shortage of about
$4,000.
In IN interview with a Journal of
Commerce reporter of New York,
President Baker of the Atlantic Trans
port line announced that plans have
been completed for providing new
docking facilities in London at cost
of $1O,0O0,OOO.
In round numbers S20OOO,OOO has
been disbursed at San Francisco In the
maintenance of the government trans
port service. The estimated cost Of
transporting soldier from San
Francisco to Manila is S136; cabin
passenger, $3.50.