The Lamar register., 1903-09-30
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

| fTlQCe f1euTy III IluSSid has lahcA
command of the Baltic naval station
Topeka joint keepers are escaping
| conviction owing to the laxness OF
/, court methods.
The probating OF Lord Salisbury's
will showed that he left an estate val
ued at 81, 1,551 $50.
Telegraphic communication by wire
was established with Nome and St Nil
| chael's. Alaska. on September 2lst.
Senator Redfield Proctor OF Vermont.
has Just paid a fine of $3.50 In New
| Hampshire for shooting raccoon out
OIL season.
It is reported at Sofia. Bulgaria. that
500 Turks were killed with dynamite
while fighting against a body of insur-
gents in the kresna defile.
The women of Wellington. New
Jersey. have defied the painters and
| decorators houses. and have formed
| a league to paint their own houses.
Richard Watson Glider, editor of the
| Century Magazine. who was solicited to
run for alderman of New York as a
| Citizens Union candidate, has declined,
The slander suit brought against ex-
| Postmaster lie leral John Wanamaker
| by former Public Printer Robinson, re-
Gently ende.. in victory for the de-
fendant.
The New York Wine, Liquor and
Beer Dealers Association has arrayed
itself against Governor Odell's adminis-
tration on account of the license laws
enacted by the last Legislature.
The schooners Sadie and Lille of
| Prospect, Maine, and the Mackeral
seiner George l.. Edwards. of 0louces-
ter. were wrecked recently on Pema-
quid point during the night and fifteen
| lives were lost.
1t is stated that John d. Rockefeller
has decided to erect no less than ff-
teen large Office buildings and business
blocks in the downtown district of
| Cleveland at cost aggregating more
than $30,O0O,000-
The United States Court of Appeals
at San Francisco has sustained SEN
| tence for larceny for stealing dog in
| Alaska. The decision says: "A dog is
| G chattel, and next to man, is the most
important factor in the past and pres
ent history OF the country"
At South Haven, Connecticut, Sep
| tember 22d, Oliver 7. Sherwood, the
defaulting cashier of the Southport
| National Bank, was sentenced to ten
years in prison by Judge Platt in the
United States Court Sherwood was
| convicted OF misappropriation OF $780,
600.
There remains less than two miles of
| the trestle work to be completed in
| crossing the Great Salt Lake on the
| Southern Pacific cutoff, and this work
will occupy several months. The sinks.
which at first formed serious obsta-
| Gle, have at last been practically over
| come.
A Dresden dispatch says that Herr
Bcbel has re-established his authority
in the Socialist party by carrying his
resolution against the Reyisionists by
several hundred votes against eleven
dissenting voices and having elected
an executive committee OF his own
choosing.
The Lackawanna Iron and Steel
| Company's five furnaces at Lebanon,
PENNSYLVANIA; at Cornwall and North
(, Cornwall, and the coke plant in Leb-
anon, are to at once suspend operations
for an indefinite time. No reason is
given for the suspension. Two thou
| sand men are affected.
More than 5000 men employed II
the Pencoyd iron works in Philadel-
phia, will be thrown out of work with
in two weeks. All departments of the
plant with the possible exception of the
bridge building shops. will remain idle
until January /. The immediate
cause is said to be lack of orders
Joseph Mariconi. employed in
power plant at Spier Falls. New York.
twas recently subjected to an electric
current of 10000 volts by falling against
two wires, and still lives to tell the
story. He was knocked unconscious
and badly burned where the current
| entered and left Ordinarily 1000 volts
will cause instant death
Under instructions from the state de-
partment, Robert p. Skinner. the
American consul general at Marseilles.
| will penetrate the wilds OF Abyssinia.
guarded by a detachment of American
marines from the European squadron.
He goes to negotiate with the king OF
| Abyssinia n commercial treaty. which
| 1t Is hoped will give important advant-
ages to American trade.
At Grand Rapids, Michigan. a few
days ago. the body of Prof. Max
| Wright, Instructor in modern languages
in Leland Stanford University. and the
son of wealthy parents, was buried in
a cheap, unpainted pine box. Professor
| Wright believed expensive funerals to
be wrong and directed before death
that the 5000 of his money that ordi-
| narily would be spent for a funeral be
used for public fountain.
The National irrigation Congress at
Ogden, elected the following officers:
President. w. A. Clark. Montana; first
| vice president, L. w. Shurtliff. Utah;
second vice president, w. c. Johnson.
Denver; third vice president, John
Hall. Texas; secretary, H. B. Maxson.
Reno, Nevada: and twenty executive
committeeman, including Colorado.
Gilbert McClurg; New Mexico, c. A.
Richardson, Wyoming, Fenimore
| Chatterton.
| Word has been received announcing
| the itinerary and personnel of the COM
mission of English educational experts
who are to be brought to the United
States by Alfred Mosely. millionaire
merchant of London. The commission
will arrive about October 18th, from
Southampton. and their itinerary Will
! include visits to the public schools.
technical schools. colleges and univer-
stiles all over the country, including