The Lamar register., 1902-01-08
-ELEGRAPHIc RREvlTIEs,

1t Is estimated that the trades unions
of Great Britain now have n member
ship of 2OOO,OOO of whom Id 900 are
females.
The Algoma Tube Works has been
incorporated in Ontario, Canada, with
u capital of S30,OOO,0OO The plant will
be located at Sault Ste Marie.
Three Finnish newspapers have been
permanently suppressed and seven 9TH
ers have been suspended temporarily
on account OF the ltussophobism Of the
papers.
The London Standard hears that an
important feature of the coronation
ceremonies will be Il naval review ut
Spithead on an unprecedentedly large
scale, to which foreign warships will
be invited.
Nearly all the local freight agents Of
the railways of the Mississippi River
Rocky Mountain region have received
instructions from headquarters to stop
all freight rate cutting, commencing
January lst.
Mrs. Eliza Pinkham died Mt Mill
bridge, Maine, December 2Sth, at the
age of nearly 104 years. She was
born January Tth, 1893. Five children
survive her, one of whom. Paul Pink
ham, is Il well known shipbuilder.
Alexander II. Revell, chairman Of the
Illinois auxiliary of the Mckinley Me-
mortal Association, reports that the
monument fund for the state Is fast ap-
preaching the $4,000 mark. The total
amount subscribed to date Is S20019.
The epidemic of smallpox in Boston
is assuming a serious phase, and the
Board of Health has issued n compul-
sorry order that 10000 Bostonians be
vaccinated as rapidly as n large force
of physicians can perform the work.
Chief Wilkic Of the secret service has
issued n circular stating that n counter
felt $50 gold certificate Is in circula.
ton. He says 1t is an untinted photo
graph AMI would not deceive any one
who is accustomed to handling money.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to give
Kalispell. Montana, $4,000 for IL
brary provided the city furnishes
site and $1,000 yearly for mainte-
nance. The city already eXpends thnt
amount each year for library support.
All news agents on the trains Of the
Northern Pacific are to be discontinued
after the LIST of January. Daily papers
will be kept on the dining cars and
supplied by one of the walters. This
A New York dispatch Of December
Goth says: A new record price for
seat on the New York Stock Exchange
was Established to-day by sale at
$4,000. Last Saturday seat sold for
$4,000, which was the record up to
that time.
The receipts from stamps. postal
cards and envelopes Mt the New York
tnA
in less than thirty years. For 1901
they will aggregate about S13.OOOOOO.
In 1873 they aggregated S3,OOO.OOO in
round numbers.
AS the result of conferences between
Clergyman, Rev. Mr.. Broelihuysen.
and the BOer leaders at Amsterdam, IT
has been decided TO send G. NJ Vessels
to the United States in January bear
ing letter from Mr.. Kruger to Presi-
dent Roosevelt
John Pinover. young wholesale
liquor dealer OF Mid/etown, New
York, wanted to find out If he could
survive n jump from Brooklyn bridge.
He did. but after being picked up by
government tug he WIS unconscious
for three hours.
Homing pigeons are to give way to
wireless telegraphy ut the brooklyn
navy yard. The pigeons are to be sold
and the department will commence at
once /; series of experiments then with
wireless telegraphy ns Il means of COM
munication between warshipa.
well-known Scottish artist. John
Dalrymple, died of starvation at Bel
fast, Ireland, Christmas night. His
body WIS found in miserably s4ualid
surroundings. Dalrymple exhibited at
the Royal Academy and took three
first prizes for designs at the Paris ex-
hibition.
The Elks of Birmingham, Alabama,
presented to the poor people of that
city Christmas tree loaded with gifts
and 1000 children took part in the fes-
tivities. Every poor child or woman
who went to the theater, where the
celebration took place, was given a SIX
yer quarter as present.
William f. Cochran, a director In
several southern railroads. the Western
Union Telegraph Company, and other
corporations, died in New York Decem-
ber 9th. Mr.. Cochran's wealth is est-
mated at S10.OOO,0O0. His gifts to va
rious Institutions and church endow-
ments aggregated over S1,OO0,OOO.
Augustus L. Allen. one of the origi-
nal trustees Of Vassar College, died at
Poughkeepsie, New York, December
9th, aged ninety-two. In 1850 he was
chairman of the committee appointed
to welcome home the late Professor 3.
II. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph,
after his return from his protracted
trip to Europe.
d. 2. Wheeler, cashier of the Cid-
Eens' National bank at Akron, Ohio,
was found dead In front of the vault
in the bank on the afternoon Of Christ
mas. He had been killed by IN cleo
tric shock through handling a socket
of an incandescent lamp and opening
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