The Lamar register., 1902-05-07
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1,1OO horses.
United States Consul General Will
liam Mckinley Osborne died in Lon
don April Goth. He was cousin Of
President Mckinley.
Philippine cholera statistics up to
April 10Th are as follows: Manila, COS
cases and 4S3 deaths; provinces, 1,164
cases and 1,2S1 deaths.
Sol Smith Russell, the noted actor,
died at Washington April 2Sth, at the
age of fifty-four. He is said to leave
an estate valued at $2,OO0,OOO.
The American Cigar Company and
the Continental Tobacco Company
have practically consolidated and are
said to aim at the control of the to-
bacco output of Cuba.
An explosion occurred April Goth on
the submarine boat Fulton, en- route
between Brooklyn and Norfolk, by
which half dozen of the officers and
crew were more or less injured.
The petition of lecture bureau for
an injunction to restrain Miss Ellen NJ
Stone, the missionary, from lecturing
under rival management, was denied
by Judge Richardson at Boston.
Emigration to America from the
west of Ireland is assuming what is
called in London alarming propor-
tions." Two special trains recently
carried 1,SU0 emigrants to embark at
Cork.
According to n dispatch received in
Hamburg from Mexican banker,
President DiaZ of Mexico intends to
ask the Mexican Congress for leave OF
absence to make Il trip to Europe this
spring.
The Pope has decided to hold n con-
sistory earlier than he previously IN
tended. 1t will now be held in the lat
ter half of May. No new cardinals
will be created and only n few bishops
will be appointed.
The great street railway strike at
San Francisco was won by the en-
ployes The company agrees to pay
fiat rate of % cents an hour, or 23E
cents an hour with bonus for long
service, as the employees may elect.
The "blue laws" wenH into effect in
Boston Sunday, April 9th. Even the
newsboys were driven from the street
at noon time. Fruit stands We're
closed, although it is reported that
few Illicit sales of fruit were made by
peddlers.
At n stormy sitting of the municipal
council it was decided that BARGE
Iona, Sicily, would hold no fetes in
honor of the approaching coronation OF
the King. Persons present at the sit
ting applaudeA this decision with ELI
thusiasm.
The battlcship Gaulois, which is to
brlng 10 the United States the French
mission which will represent France at
the unveiling of the Rochnmbenu mon
ument in Washington, May 2lth, Is
expected to arrive at her destination
May 21st.
The viceroy of India, Lord Curzon of
Kedleston, telegraphs that heavy ben
| eticial rains have fallen in Bengal and
| Assam and that there have been local
| showers in Burmah and parts of Mad
| ras The prices of grain are generally
| stationary.
| Orders have been given to make spe-
| cial arrangements for the RochamDeau
mission. which is to sail from Toulon
for the United States May 9th ON the
battleship Gaulois. The excellent band
of the Mediterranean fleet will accom-
pnny the mission.
The Dominion government has under
consideration a reduction of the roy
atty on Yukon gold from five per cent:
to either three per cent. or two and
one-haIf per cent. 1t will be collected
in the future by an export tax ana
| there will be no exemption.
Seven companies of the Third infan-
try. U. S. A., commanded by Colonei
]. III. Page, which sailed from Manila,
March 18th, and reached San Francis
| co April 18th, have arrived ut Fort
Thomas. near Cincinnati, Ohio, where
they will go into peace quarters.
The Omaha City Council has passed
| n resolution demanding that the Union
Pacific railroad retain its iron foundry
| in that city and that 1t be reopened at
| once in accordance with a contract in
which the railroad agreed to maintain
its shops perpetually in that city.
| The Merchants Trust Company of
New York has become the owner of the
leading electric light, railway and pow
er companies of Richmond, Virginia,
and n consolidation of all the COM
panies in that section will follow as
result. About $20,O00,8OO is involved.
The Chamber of Commerce of San
Francisco has arranged for the secur-
ing of supplies of food for the many
people rendered destitute by the re
cent earthquakes in Guatemala. All
steamship lines running to Guatemalan
ports will transmit goods free OF
charge.
The United States Supreme Court
has rendered an opinion in the case OF
the United States VS.. a. A. Green and
others, involving land grant in Pima
county, Arizona. The claim was for
10000 acres, but the court adjudged
the grant valid for only fraction of
that area.
The remains of the late Major Gen
eral w. S. Rosecrans. U. S. a., will be
disinterred at Los Angeles, California,
about May 10th, and conveyed for in
4erment in the national cemetery at