The Lamar register., 1902-01-01
TELEGRAPHIc sREv,TlEs.


1000 men to South Africa.
A seat on the New York Stock Ex-
change was sold n few days ago for
$4,000. This is the highest price ever
paid.
A deal has been practically closed for
the sale of the Topeka street railway
system to St Louis syndicate for
$5OO.OO0.
Cecil Rhodes has suffered from heat
stroke and has abandoned his trip to
Khartoum. lie is now hurrying back
to Cairo.
The American Tobacco combination
has made an incursion into Germany,
and it proposes later to carry the war
into Russia.
William ElIery Charming, the noted
poet and essayist, died at Concord.
Massachusetts, December 23rd, aged
eighty-three years.
Judge David McAdam, of the Su-
preme Court Of New York, died in
New York City December 22nd, of
cancer of the tongue.
Professor W. ]. Spillman of Pullman,
Washington, will succeed Professor +.
LatsOn Scribner as aErostologist of the
Department Of Agriculture.
Papers Incorporating the American
Lumber Company, capital SS,OO0,OOO,
have been filed with the county clerk
of Essex county, New Jersey.
President Roosevelt has sent to Con-
gress n letter strongly commencing the
plan for Il national forest reservation
in the southern Appalachian region.
The Swedish Antarctic expedition un-
der DIR. Otto Nordcnskjol has arrived
Mt Buenos Ayres. DIR. Nordenskjol ex-
poets to return to Sweden in May, 1908.
DIR. Samuel Smiles, author of the
Self-Helf series. and well known to
American readers, celebrated his
ninetieth birthday December 23rd in
London.
A st. Petersburg capitalist has prom
ised to supply 10000 roubles for the
expense of n north polar exploring
| party which plans to leave next year
in the ship Pantcleimon.
The National Broom Manufacturers
! Association of the United States and
Canada decided December 18th to ad-
vance the price of brooms and are con-
sidering further advance.
1t Is officially announced at Berlin
| that in consequence of the murder of
| German near Pcking, August 9th, fif-
teen members of the band found guilty
of the crime have been executed.
Emil L. Boas, general agent of the
Hamburg American line, who returned
from Europe recently, says his COM
pany claims no rights in Nicaragua
through the purchase of the Atlas line.
General Horace w. Carpenter, a
| wealthy retired merchant OF the Pacific
coast, is the donor of the 100000 to
Columbia university for the endow-
ment of n chair of Chinese language
and literature.
BY the collapse of the city market
house N Zacntecas, Mexico, December
22nd, fully forty-five lives were lost
md over Il score of persons seriously
injured, some of them SO badly that
| they cannot recover.
The safe in the county treasurer's
office at Atwood. Kansas was blown
open on the morning of the 22nd and
1900 taken. Officers were on the
scene in few moments, but the
cracksmen had escaped.
Physicians of the University OF Mich
ignn think they have discovered an
nntisepic for all intestinal diseases.
such as cholera, typhoid fever and
dysentcry. 1t has already been sue
, cessfully tried on small animals.
Colonel James Forney of the marine
corps, who is now in command. of the
marines at the League Island navy
yard. Philadelphia, has been ordered
to Cavite, Philippine Islands, to as
sumo command of the first brigade Of
marines.
A feature of the winter cruise Of the
North Atlantic squadron in West
Indian and gulf waters will be drills in
landing and launching boats crews of
sailors and other nAneuvers, in which
conditions of actual warfare Will be
simulated.
The treasury Department has issued
circular extending the prohibition
against the importation of meat cattle
from Australia and New Zealand into
the United States, so as to include
Hawaii, 1t being n territory of the
United States.
The municipal council of Dublin
voted TO bestow the freedom of the
city of Dublin on John Redmond, the
Nationalist leader in the House Of
Commons, who returned to ireland
few days ngo from a visit to the
United States.
Great naval activity of every de-
scripton prevails at Sebastopol. A
Russian naval officer recently declared
that if Sebastopol had to play an
active role it would be in n position
to give n better account of itself than
fifty years ago.
Cherokee Indians are reported starv-
ing in the hills near Tallequa, in the
Going Snake district, as n result Of
the loss of their crops and the blizzard.
They are members of the Netoowah
tribe, and are said to be the LATEST
people on earth.
The British war office has issued an
Of hnr long disnatch received from Lord |