The Lamar register., 1902-06-25
SHORT TELEGRAMs.

10 South Africa.
President Palma Indignantly denies
that General Gomez was bribed not to
run for the presidency of Cuba.
1t is announced at Madrid that the
Spanish government has decided to ap-
Joint minister to the Cuban Repub-
lie.
The government printers at Manila
have petitioned that their salaries shall
be paid in gold instead Of Mexican sill
YER.
The official count of the vote in the
Oregon election shows that Chamber
lain, Democrat, for governor has Il ma
jority of 256.
Naval Constructor Hobson has been
given three months leave Of absence
on account of eye trouble and is likely
to be retired.
Unprecedented cold weather for June
is reported from Germany and Aus
tria and cold rains are damaging crops
In many localities.
Alexander City, Ala, a place of 1.5OO
inhabitants, was entirely destroyed by
fire on the 18th inst, the loss being es-
timated at ST50,O0O.
The Cuban Senate has approved the
bill fixing President Palma's salary
Mt $4,000 n year, and that OF Senor
Estevez, the vice president, at $4,000.
The degree of doctor of Jurisprudence
will be conferred upon Grover Cleve-
land by the Augustinan College of st.
Thomas at Villa Nova, Pennsylvania.
There is no truth in the statement
published in the United States that an
anarchist plot to assassinate Emperor
Francis Joseph was discovered in VI
enna.
Two sharp earthquake shocks were
held at Newport, Ore, on the night of
the 14th inst. one at S p. m. and an
other at ! n. m, but no damage is re-
ported.
BY recent agreement all disputes
that may arise between the team own
crs and employees of Chicago and the
tcamsters will De submitted to arbi-
tratiOn.
The Prince of Wales held a unique
coronation review on the Horse Guards
parade recently of 1900 boys gathered
from all parts of the Kingdom. belong
ing to the boys brigade connected with
the various churches.
A recent dispatch from Cape Town.
South Africa, says: Unprecedented
snowstorms have swept over the mid
lands. Trains are blockaded by six
foot drift at Maauwpoort. The telc-
graph wires are down.
Mary Custis Lee, daughter OF the
late General Robert Il. Lee, was re-
Gently arrested and mulctcd in the sum
of So for riding in the car set apart
for negroes on the train between WASH
ington and Alexandria.
The Manila Chamber of Commerce
has presented to General Chaffce set
of resolutions expressing the regard
with which General Chaffee and the
army in the Philippines are held by the
business men of Manila.
1t is said that John Wanamaker,
| OF Philadelphia. is trying to buy the
| Palmer House property in Chicago with
n view to erecting n twcnty-story build
ing and establishing the largest depart
ment store in the world.
Farms of Nevada on June /, 1900, ac-
cording to census bulletin on agricul.
ture in that state. numbered 2.1Si, and
were valued at S15.Gl5,71O. The gross
farm income in 1899 was SJ,1SJ, 1GI and
the gross income on Investment IS per
cent.
The tax rcformors of Pennsylvania
have organized tax reform league
and have started propaganda work to
!
| stitution along the lines of the Austria
lasian tax amendment soon 10 be voted
on in Colorado.
New York to Chicago in nineteen
hours ard fifty-seven minutcs-that is
| the record time made by the new fast
trains put into service by the Lake
Shore and Pennsylvania railroads June
| 18th. The twenty-hour schedules over
both We're more than equaled.
| The Democratic convention in ILL.,
nois adopted n platform that hedges on
| the silver question. The resolutions
dcplore the death of William Mckin-
ley. our "much-lovcd, mourned Prcsi-
dent" and of John r. Altgeld, who
died fighting for human freedom"
Prince Henry of Prussia has made
glad the hearts of Mr.. and Mrs Chris
| topher Blum of New York by consent
| ing to act as godfather by proxy of
their twins, who were born the day
Emperor Williams yacht was
launched and named William and
Henry.
According to a census bureau report
| Just issued on the agriculture of the In
| dian Territory. 4J,5O5 farms were
enumerated there on June ], 1900, and
were valued at SIG,SG3,I4O. The gross
| farm income in 1899 was S23 23T .992.
and the gross income on Investment 25
| per cent.
In the course of n recent lecture he.
| fore the Royal Institution of Great
| Britain, William Marconi announced
| that he had invented n highly sensitive
| magnetic dctecter of electric waves, by
| which il was possible to read about
| thirty words per minute in wireless
| telegraphy.
1t is suggested in Paris that, in order
| to commemorate the sympathy shown
| by President Roosevelt and the United