The Lamar register., 1902-06-18
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

has decided to lay another cable from
Germany to the United States.
King Alfonso has signed decree
authorizing the loan of 33O0O.0OO PEE
| setas, at three per cent, internal re-
deemable bonds.
A recent typhoon caused much dam
| age TO the Telegraph lines throughout
| the Island of LuZOn and many native
| boats We're wrecked.
President Palma has signed n bill
| nXlnS the salaries of members of the
Cuban senate and house of representa-
tives mt $1,000 n year.
a new direct steamship service is to
be lnaugurated between New York ana
northern Spanish ports, to be known
ns the Larrnaga steamship line.
\ rumor that Great Britain intends
to purchase the district of LourenZo
Marques, in Portuguese East Africa,
has caused great excitement in Portu-
| gal.
At the recent races in Baltimore.
| Howard Freeman rode Il bicycle ten
miles in Ii minutes and 4T$ seconds,
lowering the worlds record by nearly
| two minutes.
The degree of doctor of laws has
been conferred on Whitclaw Reid, spc-
| cial ambassador of the United States
to the coronation of King Edward, by
Cambridge University.
| Hon. Michael Henry Herbert re-
Gently appointed British ambassador
to the United States in succession to
Lord Pauncefote, will he made Il knight
commander of the Bath.
The British colonial secretary praises
the colonies which have, he says, fur
Il. !.
in South Africa larger than the British
army which fought at Waterloo.
Francis ]. Patton has resigned the
| presidency of Princeton University and
| Prof. Woodrow Wilson Mccormick,
professor of Jurisprudence and politics.
has been elected as his successor.
| General Enrique Collaso, the last
man of prominence to oppose the pres
idency of General Palma, has called on
the latter at Havana and pledged his
sincere support to the government.
A proclamation has ben issued at
Pretoria substituting tiX of ten per
cent. net on the profits OF mining op
erations, for the five per cent. tax that
was imposed by the late Nollisrand.
On June 9TH the whaleback steamer
Thomas Wilson was struck and cut al
| most in two by the steamer George
G. IIadley near Duluth. Nine men of
the Wilson's crew went down with the
vessel.
Governor Toole of Montana has ad-
| dressed n letter to the chief executive
of each state In the Union, asking him
to appoint delegates to the interna-
tional mining congress ut Butte next
September.
The fifty-first annual meeting of the
| American Association for the Advance
ment of Science and of several nflili-
ated scientific societies will be held in
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, from June
2S TO July 3, 1902.
The pope was highly delighted with
President Roosevelt's gift of com
piete set of the latter's work, and is
sued orders that mosaics of st. Peters
and the vatican be transmitted to the
president, with thanks.
During the months of January and
February there were 500 deaths from
typhoid fever In the British army.
Notwithstanding the regulation regard
Ing boiled water, the soldiers continue
to drink out of brooks and rivers.
Advices received at Cape Town from
Buenos Ayres say the Argentine gov
ernment has appointed n special agent
to visit the camps in South Africa and
offer free transportation to Beers de-
sirous of emlgrating to Argentina.
A tornado near Lake Park. Mime
sofa, on the 10th instant, swept over
a strip of land two miles wide and
three miles long. 1t destroyed nine
farm houses and killed ten persons.
The church at Spangle was destroyed.
Signor Riva, n professor in the Uni
yersity of Rome, and Count Cino Prin-
etti, Il cousin of the Italian minister of
foreign affairs, We're killed in a land
slide while ascending Mont Grigna,
near Lake Lecco, Switzerland, June
4th.
The President is said to have prom
lsed Representative Mclaughlin of
California and John f. Hughes Of Los
Angeles, the organizer of "I>!dys
Terrors," that he would visit Los An
geles some time during the spring of
1908.
Margaret Taylor, who was kidnapped
from Cincinnati over four years ago,
arrived there a few days ago, accom-
panied by her parents and her brother
Edward, aged three years, whom she
never had seen until they met in New
York.
Referring to the report that control
of the Cunard Steamship Company had,
been secured by the shipping combine,
J. p. Morgan stated that absolutely
no negotiations were on between the
shipping combine and the Cunard
company.
In restocking the farms Of burghers
Of the Transvaal the main difficulty is
to find wheat and cattle likely to thrive.
No great difficulty is experienced in re-
gard to the horses, as the government
is able to dispose of great numbers of
remOunts.