The Lamar register., 1903-05-13
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by numerous smaller slides.
Louis Reep, of West Bay City. Mich
igan. died May 4th at the age OF l07
years. 1t is said that he was in the
Battle of Waterloo under Blucher.
Charles NJ. Schwab was reelected
president of the United States Steel
Corporation at meeting of the board
! of directors held in New York on the
9th inst.
The Illinois Legislature has passed
the Mueller municipal bill, which gives
the city of Chicago the right to con-
struct, own, operate and lease street
railways.
General Baden-Powell who has just
returned to England after short visit
to this country denies that he criticised
the United States cavalry as has been
reported.
| An explosion at the Cresson Powder
Works in Pennsylvania April Both, re-
suited in the death of nine employees.
Superintendent Harry Taggart Of
Pittsburg was fatally injured.
Secretary Shaw. accompanied by
Mrs. Shaw, his two daughters and son,
will sail for Europe July 4th. The
secretary's trip will be brief, but his
family will remain abroad until au-
tumn.
Eighty-seven members of the Lon
| don Stock Exchange started in walk
ing match of fifty-two and one-quarter
miles May 1st. +. F. Broad was the
winner in nine hours and thirty-five
| minutes.
serious fire was prevented by the
| bravery of n soldier on the transport
| Thomas at San Francisco few days
| ago. He seized leaky drum of gaso-
| line which had caught fire, and threw
| it overheard
Cornelius HILL chief of the Oneida
| Indians. last survivors of the famous
| Six Nations of New York State, Will be
! ordained as priest of the Episcopal
| Church June Gath on the reservation
| near Green Bay, Wisconsin.
The Copenhagen correspondent of
| the London Mail says that King Ed
| ward will visit St. Petersburg in July,
| stopping three days in Berlin on his
| return. The correspondent says that
| his majesty will also visit Copenhagen.
The controversy between the opera
| tives and cotton mill managers at
Lowell, Massachusetts, involving 49,
900 hands, entered upon its sixth week
! May 4th. with little prospects of an I'M
| mediate change. An estimate places
The Grand Trunk Pan-American
| flyer from Chicago ran into n crowd
of 1000 people at Detroit May 3rd.. at
$3.50 p. m. killing at least seven men
and seriously injuring about thirty
more. The crowd was made up of
| Polanders Just returned from holiday
excursion to Toledo.
With the danger block set against
Int, Panhandle train No. 81. bound for
Cincinnati. on the Little Miami divis-
| ion. struck the derail at the Baltimore
| & Ohio crossing on the West Side at
| Columbus. Ohio. and was ditched. The
Baltimore & Ohio passenger train
whizzed by moment later.
Judge A. L. Maxwell, who. except ex-
| Senator Vest, was the last survivor of
the Confederate Senate. died at Chip
Iey, Florida May 9th. Judge Maxwell
was n member of Congress from 1858
to 1857; was Confederate States SEN
ator from 1862 till 1865. and was chief
justice of Florida from 1887 to 1891.
The Northern secr,fities Company on
| May 4th issued a statement of its in
come account from November 13. 1901.
to December 81. 1902. showing divi-
dends received on stocks owned to be
| Sic, 1864 .261, and a surplus after pay
ment of expenses. dividends, interest,
taxes, etc, of $75S,1l7.
Princess Louise of Saxony gave birth
| to a daughter at Lindau. Bavaria, on
| May 4th. The princess deserted her
| family at Salzburg last December and
| eloped with NJ. Giron. the tutor of her
children. Orders have been given by
| the King of Saxony to bring the prin-
| cess and child to Dresden three weeks
| after its birth.
A strange fight took place in the
| Sclavonic Roman Catholic Church on
| Sunday May 3rd, there being 1000 men,
women and children in the building.
Church members fought with their
fists and pieces of furniture. Women
| threw books Bloody faces were nu-
merous. When the fight was over no
one could find out Just how it started
| or what it was about.
| A Honolulu dispatch says that the
Pacific Gable Board is said to be con-
ducting negotiations with Marconi for
a series of wireless telegraphic expert
ments between Honolulu and the Fan
| ming island cable station, which is the
| present southern terminus of the Brit
| ish Pacific cable that will eventually
| be laid to Australia. The distance be-
tween Honolulu and Tanning island is
about / 900 miles.
| Professor John A. Brashear, of Allie
gheny. Pennsylvania. announces that
| the astronomical instrument Just COM
| pleted for the Smithsonian Institution
| at Washington will shortly be sent to
st. Louis, where the government will
have it mounted for exhibition at the
big fair. 1t is the largest and most
perfect instrument of its kind ever
constructed, and will be used primarily
for the study of solar phenomena.
At Jackson, Kentucky, on May
4th, just after he had finished
filing papers reopening the con-
i tested election cases of Breathitt
county, James B. Marcum was shot
and killed by an unknown assassin. He
fell in his tracks at the front entrance
of the court house. Marcum was coun-
sci for the Fusionists who are contest
ing for the offices of county judge
sheriff. and other places, now held by
Democrats.