The Lamar register., 1901-10-23
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.

The Irving Terry theatrical COM
pany, sixty-dght strong. has reached
New York.
John d. Rockefeller has pledged
| $500, 900 toward the endowment fund
| of Barnard college.
Smuggling of Chinese is still active
along Puget Sound and revenue Off
GERS are making fresh efforts to stop it.
OF 425 reindeer imported from Sibe-
/ ria by the American government. sew
enty-one died on the voyage to Alaska.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Compa.
ny has brought in fifty Japanese min.
| ers to work in its mines at Gallup, Ari-
| zona.
Cornelius Vanderbilt has. since last
| July, received three patents for inven-
tions of his, all having to do with rail-
way cars.
1t is reported in Honolulu that the
North German Lloyd steamship Com
pany is about to extend its lines to
Honolulu.
Indian bureau officials estimate that
| the number OF cases of smallpox on the
reservations through the West is be-
tween 100 and $50.
The New Jersey state entomologist
warns farmers that the seventeen-year
locust is due to sweep down over the
orchards next year.
Roland b. Molineaux. who was con-
victed of the murder of Catherine j.
Adams, has been granted new trial
by the New York Court of Appeals.
Mrs. E. d. Gillespie, the great grand
daughert of Benjamin Franklin and
one of Philadephila's most prominent
women, died October 18th, aged eighty.
Francis Murphy. the well-known
Temperance advocate, has arrived at
San Francisco after long tour Of
Australia and the islands of the Pa.
cific.
| President Roosevelt will make an
address at New York on Thanksgiving
day at the dedication of the Soldiers
and Sailors monument on Riverside
drive.
Marconi has succeeded in transmit
ting messages through the air for
nearly $50 miles, which is far greater
than the maximum distance hitherto
reported.
Crushed stone companies of the Mid
dle-West have decided to combine un-
der the name of the Western Consoli.
dated Stone Company, capitalized at
$6,000,0OO.
Arthur j. NanKuran has been SEN
fenced to two and half years in the
Utah penitentiary for embeZZling SS,-
900 from the Oregon Short Line while
its local treasurer.
Armour e Co. have completed the
purchase of a tract of land at the Ma
tional stock yards East st. Louis, and
will soon begin the erection OF pack
ing plant to cost $1,00O.O00.
Carrie Nation has given bond to
keep the peace and appeals the case
against her at Wheeling. West Virgin
| ia, so that she can sue the city for
false arrest. She has left the city.
The Earl of Fingal and Captain
Cooper of the East Lancashire regi.
ment have come to this country for
the purpose OF buying remounts for
the British cavalry in South Africa.
All southern California cities look
forward to be supplied with electric
power from Kern river. where at first
| $1,000 and later $4,000 horsepower
will be obtained from an S0O-foot fall.
The directors of the Santa Fe rail-
road have declared semi-annual divi-
dend of two per cent. on the common
stock an increase of onehalf OF one
per cent. ovey the previous declara-
ton.
Postal Statistics show that since in.
ternatonal money orders were inaug-
urated in 1885, the United States sent
to Sweden $1.373,232 more than was
received in the United States from
Sweden.
August Paulons cashier of the First
National Bank. Albert Lea. Minnesota,
was accidentally shot by a younger
brother Sunday. The top of his head
was blown away, death resulting in.
stantly.
The motor car has been introduced
successfully Dor transport in the up
per Congo region in Africa. One such
car conveyed a load of three tons over
a road too hilly to admit of any other
method of conveyance.
The Rock River, Illinois, Methodist
conference voted that the Rev. A. B.
Smart was unfit for pastoral work"
He was accused of making slurring re-
marks about President Mckinley fol
lowing the assassination.
Seventy-seven tribes are repre-
scented in the ! 1,O07 pupils in the Indian
training cchool at Carlisle, Pennsyl-
vania, the Senacas leading in number.
Last year the work of the pupils
brought a return of $2S,715.
II Novimento an Italian paper, pub
lished at Paterson. New Jersey. says
scores of Italians have been discharg-
ed from the silk mills in that city
since the assassination of the Presi-
! dent, because of their nationality.
DR.. Joseph Parker. chairman of the
| Congressional Union of England and
Wales, proposed the establishment of
federation of Congregationalism
| throughout the world, under the title
of the United Congregational Church.
| IL NJ S Amnhinn the second larg-