The Lamar register., 1902-07-09
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

The Populists and Democrats have
| united on a fusion ticket in South Da
kota.
The mounted police will be with
| drawn from Dawson and Il local fofce
substituted.
The degre of LID. has been con-
| ferred on General Leonard Wood by
Williams College.
The pension list for the fiscal year
ending June Both shows decrease of
$95O,OO0 from that of the previous
| year.
| 1t is reported that all the big coal
mines of Missouri are to be absorbed
| by syndicate controlled by j. Pier
| pont Morgan.
About 1900 Canadian troops sailed
| from Durham for home June 9th. Two
thousand additional Canadians will
start for home July IL.
A contract for the building of sugar
mill by the state of Arkansas has been
signed and ratified by the state penl-
tentiary board and the governor.
The permanent census act, operative
July 1st, leaves n census force of I50
clerks. Twenty, who have been ell
gagged on special work, are dropped.
Robinson Crusoe's island, Juan Fer.
nandez, lying 600 miles west of Val
paraiso, is to be given a civil govern.
ment by Chilli on account of its lobster
canning industry.
Pneumatic postal tubes were ordered
put in service again July 1st in New
York, Brooklyn, Boston and Philadel-
phia. Their construction is authorized
in six other cities.
1t is said in st. Petersburg thar the
Russian troops have already been
Nx-f1h n ntt.t, frnt a nph in
The Manchuriun railroad guards will
number 10000 men.
The Missouri Republican State Con-
vention strongly endorsed President
Roosevelt, whom Congressman Joy
designated as the Little Rough Rider
Of the White House."
The Minnesota Democratic conven-
tlon nominated L. A. Rosing for gov
ernor and passed resolutions approving
the Kansas City platform and eulogiZ-
ing William ]. Bryan.
For the third time in twenty years
Ex-Governor Robert Pattson of Phila-
delphia was nominated for governor of
Pennsylvania by the recent Demo-
cratic State Co. 'ention.
The Canadian government has appro-
priated $4,000 to build a barbed wire
fence along the boundary between
-hohluhii anu llc
from st. Marys Lake to the Sweet
Grass Hills.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt has de-
clined the peerage offered him by King
Edward. He says that after thirty
four years spent in the House of Com
mons, he is reluctant to change his
sphere of work.
Three Victoria crosses, ten distin-
rtc1, u1
tions to commissioned rank and four
mentions in dispatches have fallen to
the lot of reform school lads in South
Africa, says Lord Leigh.
1t Is announced that the Ozark and
Cherokee Central, now building from
Fayetteville. Ark, through Indian Ter
ritory, has decided to secure coast con-
nectiOn by constructing the line to
Guthrie, thence west to Denver line.
Advices from Ads Abeda. capital of
Abyssinia. announce the safe arrival
there of Fitzhugh WhitehOuse of New
port, Rhode Island, and Lord Hindlip.
who started from England February
1st. on an exploring trip to the upper
Nile.
The International Sunday School
Convention, which closed its session III
Denver June Both, voted to recommend
Jerusalem as the place for the next
Worlds Sunday School Convention in
1904. The International meets next at
Toronto in 1905.
]. G. w. Cowles of Cleveland has
been elected chairman of the board of
trustees of Oberlin College. The cleo
tion means that Mr.. Cowles will be
president of Oberlin College until n
permanent successor to the late Presi-
dent Barrows is made.
The net earnings of the United States
Steel Corporation for the quarter end
ing June Both amounted to $37. .G91 ,696.
as against S2G,362.OOO for the same
period last year. This statement
shows an increase of net earnings for
the quarter of S11 ,329, ,G96.
The idea prevails in London that Mi
chael Henry Herbert will not long oc-
cupy the post of British ambassador
to the United States. but that he will
be transferred to Paris when Sir Ed
mund j. Monson, the present British
ambassador there retires.
Lord Warwick, in proposing vote
of sympathy for the king before the
Warwick town council. said that he
was authoritatively Informed that his
majesty's first words on recovering
consciousness after the operation were:
"Wili my people ever forgive meY'
Hundreds of INDECENT Americans
now in Cuba are petitioning the min
lister for aid. This prompted Minister
Squlres to call a meeting of the Amer-
cans in the legation, when liberal sub
scriptions were made to send the
needy Americans to the United States.