The Lamar register., 1902-03-26
Snort TELEGRAM 8.

Signor Marconi has left Ottawa for
Cape Breton, where he will locate his
station for Transatlantic wireless tel
egraph business.
In Servia the Cabinet has rendered
its resignation, owing to the adoption
by the National Assembly Of civil
service reform measure.
1t is practically settled that the
Twenty-ninth infantry, now at San
Francisco, will sail for the Philippines
| on the transport Sheridan about April
| 1st
Fire at Marissa, Illinois, Tuesday
| night, destroyed two blocks of build
| ings, causing a loss of $4,000, with
| only n small amount of insurance to
| offset 1t.
John Woodward, the negro murderer
of Leonard Calvitt, n white planter of
| Union Point, Concordia parish, Louis
lana, was lynched within 300 yards of
the parish prison in Vidalia, Louisiana.
The Senate, in executive session,
confirmed the nomination of Captain
A. S. Crowninshield to be rear ad-
miral. There was no comment upon
| the nomination.
Secretary Root has notified Acting
Governor Wright that taxes and duties
collected in the Philippines under the
recent tariff act for the Islands shall
be converted directly into the Philip
pine treasury.
Lord Kimberley, the Liberal leader
| of the British House of Lords, who has
been Ill for some time past, suffered n
relapse yesterday evening and is In y
semi-unconscious. condition.
James II. Faarchild, president of
Oberlin College and who was connect
ed with the college in various capaci-
ties for sixty-three years, died on the
10th, aged eighty-tive years.
When the great blizzard which ragged
over the DakOtas and Manitoba subsid-.
ed the weather was fair, but Intense
ly cold, the thermometer ranging from
ten to sixteen degrees below zero.
The Turkish government has fatty
refused the demand Of the United
States for the repayment of the SI2,ooo
paid to the brigands as ransom for
Miss Ellen NJ. Stone and her COM
panion, Madame Tsilka.
Reports from all sections of Califor-
mia Indicate that spring is well ad-
vanccd. The weather prevailing dur
ing the last week or ten days has been
remarkable, the fruit trees all over the
state have commenced to blossom.
Chicago has experienced severe win
ter weather. There was n drop in the
temperature of fifty degrees. AT .
o'clock Monday the mercury regis
tered four degrees below zero, while
n strong wind added to the general
discomfort.
King Edward has notified the may
ors of the county of London that the
sum of $50 is placed at their disposal
and he invited them to make the neccs-
sary arrangements to entertain the
very poor To the number of JDOOOO at
n dinner in celebration of his corona
tion.
The News says that the Colorado N
Southern railroad has been sold to n
syndicate headed by John w. Gates and
Edwin Hawlcy, formerly the eastern
traffic manager of the Southern Pa
cific. but whether the syndicate bought
for itself or for the Gould interests Is
not known.
Suit has been instituted at Butte by
James a. Boyer to recover from the
Washoc Copper Mining Company the
sum of SlJO,UOO which II Is claimed Is
the value Of ore alleged to have been
Illegally extracted by the Washoe com
pany from beneath n lot belonging 10
Boyer.
At the sp,,ng session of the Insttu-
tion of Naval Architects In London 1t
was announC ed that the admiralty had
decided to create II new class of war
vessels to be known as the scout class,
somewhat after the type of torpedo
boat destroycrs, but CT greater sea
power
The Supreme Court of California, in
decision, declares the trust clause in
the will of the late Senator james G..
Fair invalid and the property will at
once Lc distributed among the chill
drcn of the deceased senator. 1t Is cs-
tlmatcd that the estate IL worth up
wards of S200000oO.
The woman's suffrage amendment
was given its final death blow by the
Iowa Legislature when the House by
n vote of 5G to Is adopted the report
of the committee recommending it for
indefinite pOstpODcment. After 1t had
passed the Senate the suffrngists be
lieved the most serious obstacle had
been passed.
The legal officers who have been cN-
amining the question presented by the
flight of Gaynor and Green from Sa-
vannah to Canada have practically
reached the conclusion that they can
be reached under the extradition
treaty. A prolonged struggle in the
Canadian courts is expected before the
fugitivcs can be secured.
One of the largest single orders for
horses ever given in the country has
been closed with a buyer at the South
st. Joseph horse and mule market. The
contract calls for 12.OpO horses. to be
delivered AT the rate of 800 per month
for twenty-four months. While the
contract includes many varieties of
animals, 1t is the general belief that