The Lamar register., 1903-11-04
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

The Santa Fe has made its California
limited train daily instead of tri-
weekly as heretofore.
The President has appointed Horace
w. Bailey United States marshal for
Vermont, to succeed Fred Field. dis
missed
The widow of the Rev. Charles Spur
geon, the noted preacher. who died
January 81. 1892, died at London Oc-
tober 22nd.
Mrs l.. @. C. Lamar, wife of the for
mer Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States, died at Macon, Georgia.
October 9th.
King Edward has approved the ap-
pointment of Sir Henry Mortimer Du7
rand as British ambassador to the
United States.
Now we are up against it. A New
York pie trust has put up the price
of pies and there is no telling wheH
they will enter the western field.
Orin Hickok, for many years one OF
the best known trainers and drivers of
famous horses. has been sent to the
Ohio State Hospital for the Insane.
The firm of Horace L. Shattuc &
Sons, hardware, bicycle and automo-
bile dealers of Lowell. Boston and
Providence, has assigned, with liabili-
ties of $500.000.
William ]. Bryan has postponed his
departure for Europe until after a de-
cision has been rendered in the Bennett
will case. in which he Is interested.
This may delay him for week or two:
1t is reported from Quito that q
dense column of fire is visible from
there. emerging from the crater of the
No. ,atr =, ri !.
villages have not sustained any dam
age.
The outbreak of cholera at Bethle-
hem, in the Holy Land, which was re-
ported October 18th, has been stamped
out and the Gordon OF troops which had
been drawn around the city has been
removed
Keokuk, aged eighty-five, the Oldest
Indian in the Sac and Fox tribes. died
at Guthrie, Oklahoma, October 27th-
Keokuk was an unusually intelligent
Indian and the son of the great Sac
and Fox chief after whom Keokuk.
Iowa, was named.
United States engineers are investi-
eating project for irrigating 2.0OO.00q
acres in central Washington, forming a
gigantic looop through the big Bend
country" Over three-fourth of the
vast territory will get its water supply
from the Spokane river.
A French military commission has
inspected Santos-Dumont's No. 10 dir
igible balloon. This and other balloons
are to be placed at the disposal of
/ France in case of war The commits
sioners expressed satisfaction with the
results of their inspection.
Mrs. William Tate, colored woman.
twenty-three years old, of GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, recently gave birth to four girl
babies all of normal sire and weigh
ing slightly more than six and one-half
pounds each. The woman is the mother
OF three other children. born singly.
Two Bulgarian missionaries are COM
ing from Vienna to New York for tho
purpose of making tour of the United
States to raise funds for destitute
Macedonisns. They are graduates of
American colleges. Furnajieff. having
studied at Princeton and Popoff at
Hamilton, New York.
A permanent anti-tuberculosis COM
mission, comprising hygienists, physi-
clans. members of ministries and vari-
Gus chambers. has been organized in
Paris under the presidency of Leon
Bourgeois. president of the Chamber
of Deputies. Its scope Is prevention
rather than remedial.
The Illinois Steel Company has laid
off 1000 laborers in its mills in South
Chicago. No notice of the contem-
plated action was given the men being
merely told that there would be no
more work for them for the present.
The men were employed in the slab
and plate mills and the open hearth
mill.
The Italian minister to Abyssinia.
Major Cicco di Cola, has been in
structed to assist United States Consul
Skinner of Marseilles. France. in car
rying out the latter's mission to King
Menelik, one CT the objects of which is
to invite the king to visit the st. Louis
Exposition and to provide for an Abys-
sinian exhibit.
Mrs. Angeline Jewett. convert to
the doctrines of John Alexander Dowie,
has sold her farm at Clifford. New
Hampshire, for 81 500 and of the pro-
ceeds has sent 81 400 to Dowie. Mrs.
Jewett says she believes in Dowie and
declares that God showed me that it
was best to dispose of the farm and
send him the money"
The new Omaha extension of the Chi
cago Great Western road for regular
passenger service between st. Paul and
Omaha is now ready for service. Two
trains will be run each way daily be-
tween the Twin Cities and Omaha, to
connect with trains for Colorado points.
The time between st. Paul and Den
yer will be twenty-four and one-half
hours
The War Department has issued a
statement showing the customs reve-
nues In the Philippines for the six
months of 1903 to be $4.449.424. For
the same period in 1902 the receipts
were $4.338, ,467. The statement says
| that each successive year of American
ocucpation has brought forth a core
| spending wealthy growth of these rev.
enues.
Emperor William sank to his knees
in a bog during his recent deer stalk
! ing at Rominten. The foresters in at
tendance pulled him out of the mire
and he continued to hunt. without
changing his clothes. till evening Later