The Lamar register., 1902-09-17
SHORT TEL EeRAMs.

| our SamouH possessiohs.
1t is now said that the fatal accident
to the Fairs In France was due to de-
fective steering wheel instead of a col
/ lapscd tire.
| Lord CurZon at Simla recently said
| that he had no Intention of rcsigning
until the full term of his vice royalty
had expired.
| Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender,
has sent n letter to the Carlist deputy,
vigorously deprccating any attempt 1t
a rising in tile interests of Carlists.
1t is proposed to make the dinner to
be given to President Roosevelt at the
Mercantile club In st. Louis next Octo-
| Der the finest ever served in that city.
| A remarkable scene has been wit
messed at Holborn viaduct station, In
London, when 1S0 Roman Catholic pill
grims left by special train for Lourdes.
During his visit at Chattanooga, Sep
itember 7th, President Roosevelt went
over the battlefields of Chickamauga,
Mission Ridge and Lookout Mountain.
A runaway engine at Oakland, Cali
| fornia, on the 9th instant, was side
| tracked and made n thirty-foot leap in
to the sea in the presence of thousands
| of people.
Dispatches from Bueno Ayres an
nounce the destruction of the town of
Bolivar. Argentine Republic, by tor
nado. Fourteen were killed and fifty
were injured.
The foreign minister, NJ. Delcasse,
cabled to the French embassy at Wash
ington, directing that official to ex-
press his congratulations on President
Roosevelt's escape from death.
springs that recently broke out near
Mapiami, Mexico, is said to have &C.
casioned the death of thirty persons
and the serious illness of over 400
more.
At Shelbyville, Kentucky, Fisher
Million, n negro. tried in the County
Court, was found guilty of vagrancy
and sentenced to be sold into servitude
for period of twelve months, the
highest penalty.
Information has been received at the
British admiralty of a sharp fight in
the Persian gulf between n boats crews
of the British gunboat Lapwing and
slave schooner. A bluejacket was killed
and several were wounded.
On account of the impossiblity of Sc
curing berths for Manila at an earlier
date, Mgr. Guldi, the apostolic delegate
to the Philippines, will sail from Mar
seilles, October LIST, and is due to ar
rive at Manila on November 14th.
During the recent maneuvcrs near
Tivoli, Italy, n military balloon burst
and sixteen soldiers were badly injured
in consequence. Two of the men We're
fatally hurt. The explosion of the bal
loon is attributed to intense heat.
The White Star line has ordered an
other steamer to be built by Harland "
Wolff of Belfast, which Is to be twenty
feet longer and few feet wider than
the same compnny's steamer Cedric,
now the largest liner in the world.
General Cronje has stated that dur
ing the war he had lost. from wounds
and disease, twenty relatives. He ex-
pressed himself as prepared, however.
not only to forgive, but as far rs God
had given him the power, to forget.
A new claimant has arisen for the
honor of being selected as the British
terminal port proposed for the new
Canadian service. Active steps are
being taken to lay the claims of Holly
Head before the proper authorities.
A dispatch from Calcutta says that
an earthquake shock has been felt
throughout the province of Assam and
inhabitants We're panic-stricken. Terri
BILE convulsions of nature are prophe-
sled.
The Boer generals have issued a
statement declaring there is no truth
In the reports of differences between
themselves and Mr.. Kruger, DIR. Leyds,
and the Boer delegates in Europe, add
ing that their relations with them con-
tinue to be most harmonious.
Dispatches from Rome say the Ital-
ian minister of posts and telegraphs,
Signor Galimberti, is negotiating for
the use of wireless telegraphy, when
this system becomes practicable, be-
tween Italy, England. and the United
States.
While President Roosevelt was at
Ellsworth, Maine, A. l.. New of the Pa
cific Wireless Telegraph Company at
Catalina Island, California, sent him n
message of congratulation which pass
ed through the air without wire to the
mainland.
AS first step toward the construc-
ton of New York Chicago boulevard.
William B. Dickinson, treasurer of the
New Automobile club, recently started
on an automobile trip to Chicago. He
will report to the association after a
close inspection of the roads.
At the close of the naval maneuvers
at Pola, Austria, Emperor Francis Jo-
seph appointed Archduke Francis Fer
dinand, the heir presumptive, to be an
admiral. This nomination is believed
to Indicate the emperor's intention to
strengthen tile Austrian navy.
Excavations now in progress on the
college campus at Princetown, New
Jersey, have disclosed the old pump
which, in the early COS, was the instru-
ment with which the sophomores duck
ed the freshmen, The pump is still in