The Lamar register., 1901-06-05
TELEeRAPHIc eREvITIEs.

England and Germany mas just peeh
put down.
1t Is reported that King Edward
VII. has become greatly Interested Ill
Christian Science.
1t Is estimated that the new Rus-
sian loan will be subscribed for at
least seven times.
Arab Pasha, the famous Egyptian
rebel, who was bapished to Ceyloh III
1882, has been pardoned.
New York is the only state in the
Union that has II greater population
than the city of London.
French agrlculturists intend to fight
frost and grasshOppers, as well rs hall
Smallpox on the transport Indiana,
at Taku, will delay the departure OF
the Ninth infantry for Manila.
The Iowa Prohibitionists have nomi.
mated A. N. Coates for governor anu
A. Wray for lieutenant governor.
Bresci, the assassin Of King Hum
bert, committed suicide Il few days
since i'll his cell in the San Stefnno
prison.
The graduating class of the Chicago
high school this year numbers over
LOO, less than thirty per cent. OF
whom are boys.
The new census returns gives the
popuation of Australasia at 4,o5O,65l.
This is an increase Of 74O,15 since the
last enumeration.
The Michigan House by unanimous
vote passed n bill taxing the Pullman
Palace Car Company three per cent.
on gross earnings.
The annual produce of currants IN
| Greece is about 100000 tons, but last
year, owing to the downy mildew, II
| fell to $4,000 tons.
The Aragon Bessemer ore mine nj
| Norway, Michigan, has been pur-
chased by the United States Steel cor
poration for $2,5OO,OOO.
In response to the protest of the Tor
eign embassies the Turkish order pro-
hibiting the entry of typewriters into
Turkey has been rescinded.
| Promoters Of the Charleston Exposi-
ton say they have ample resources
and that the display will be ready Tor
the opening in December.
Paul du Chaillu, the famous expior-
cr, hunter and writer, is planning a
thrce-ycnrs' tour of Russia TO gnther
material for new work on that coun-
try.
Major General Henry C. Corbin, ad-
|
for the Philippines June 25th, to make
n general inspection of military con-
ditions.
The volcano of Keloet, Java, is in
eruption, the lava consuming many
nntiye villages, endangering the city
of Blita and running large coffee plnn-
tations.
Movements are said to be on foot
to organize coal trusts in Ohio, In
diana and Illinois and the prospects
are that gigantic combination or all
three will be formed.
In the Irish championship games Mt
Dublin last month L. OConnor or
Waterford covered twenty-four feet
nine inches in the long jump, beating
all previous records.
A bill has been passed by the leg
islative bodies of Norway providing
for universal communal suffrage Tor
men and giving the suffrage to women
paying certain amount OF taxes.
The southern synod of the Presby-
tcrian church in Kentucky Will COM
municate with the northern synod to
formulate Il plan to endow Sayre col
lege with s., 100000 This is Il college
for women.
Peter Postcll of Hopkinsville. Ken.
lucky, probably the richest colored
man in the South, died recently, leav-
ing IL fortune estimated at SJOO,OOC,
which he had accumulated in the gro
Gerry business.
Pasteboard armor Is the lntest form
of defense Experiments Mt Copen-
hagen show that millboard three lnch-
es thick was impenetrable to carbine
bullets which pierced fve-inch wooded
planks.
Rev. Henry Warman, Methodist
clergyman at Glcndine, Montana, has
sued the members of n lodge OF the
Knights OF the Maccabees for $5O,OOO
damages because they initiated him too
roughly.
The Edison Storage Battery Com
pany has been Incorporated at Tren-
ton, New Jersey, with $1,OOO.OOO cap
i,al to manufacture storage batteries
under the new patent of Thomas A.
Edison.
At their next meeting the directors
of the Pullman Sleeping Car Company
will be asked to pass upon plans for
pensioning the 1900 or 1000 EN-
ployes of the company when retired
from service.
Excited citizens of Jefferson and st.
Charles parishes, opposite New Or
leans, have burned all the buildings
that the State Leper Board had erect
ed in Jefferson parish, in fulfillment of
the boards plans to establish there Il
| laZorettO.
DIR. Bryan of the University Of In
diana has accepted the presidency or
the Central Normal and Trade school
of Manila, and expects to take thither
with him twenty teachers, mostly
graduates of the University or lndi-
| ana.
Marthinus Vessels Pretorius, the