The Lamar register., 1903-09-23
SHORT TELEGRAMs.

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lowstone park on the 18th and 18th
, inst
Recent heavy rains have done great
' damage to the hay and grain crops In
eastern Washington.
The 15,OOO-ton armored cruiser
Maryland was launched at Newport
News. Va, September 18th.
! Otto Sarony. the famous portrait
| photographer, of New York city, died
| of lung disease on the 14th inst.
Rear Admiral o'Neil, chief of ord
nance will ask for $1S.0o0.000 for ord
nance In the navy for the next fiscal
year.
Count Tolstoi celebrated his seventy
| fifth birthday on September 11th. at
home among his children. He was In
excellent health.
The board of regents of the Nebras-
! .xa state university have decided to
tion at North Platte.
1t is reported at Deadwood that the
Rothschilds have offered $35 900 900 for
| the famous Homestake gold mine, own
ed by the Hearst estate.
The Rev. Robert Benson. son of the
late archbishop of Canterbury. who
uleQ III 1850, mas Deeu TecelNtu lutO Tue
Roman Catholic Church.
Four students of the technical high
school of Stuttgart, Germany. have
| been sentenced to three months deten-
tion in fortress for duelling.
Rear Admiral Francis A. Cook. who
| commanded the Brooklyn at Santiago,
was retired on his own application
September 18th after forty years ser
vice.
Two earthquake shocks were felt at
Portland. Ore, on the afternoon OF
September 11th. No damage was done.
although the largest brick buildings
were shaken quite severely.
Z The Anaconda group of mines at
Butte closed for two months pending
alterations in the big Washoe smelter
resumed operations September 18th.
The mines employ 5000 men.
Heroic work on the part OF nurses
, and attendants prevented a serious loss
of life In fire that started from q de-
fective fiue in the Keogh- Wright hos
pital at Salt Lake. The loss will not
, exceed $4,000.
Lieut.. Colonel Charles G. Treat.
, commandant of cadets at West Point.
and Capt. James X. Thompson. Fiji
umpires during the army maneuvers at
Fort Riley, Kansas.
Some time will probably elapse be-
, fore the meeting of the Venezuelan ar
bitration tribunal at The Hague. AS the
Associated Press is informed that the
Czar has asked for two months IN
which to select the arbitrators.
Augusta. Wis, was greatly damaged
by cloudbuIst September 18th. Alb
botsford. Medford. Chelsie, Merrill.
Mondova, Unity and Glenwood are
among the other points in Wisconsin
that suffered from heavy floods.
Ralph Mcbride. aged seventeen. died
at Bluffton. Iowa. on the 18th instant.
as the result of initiation into high
school secret society. The grand jury
returned indictments against nine stu.
dents in connection with the affair.
1t having been stated that President
Roosevelt had objected to meeting Sir
Thomas Upton at a dinner Of the Sea-
wanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club. the
president wrote a letter to the chair
man of the club trustees denying the
report.
Francis v. Benque. arrested on COM
plant of federal authorities on a
charge of having written threatening
letters to Secretary Hay, has been COM
mitted to the Manhattan state asylum,
Wards Island, having been found par
TALLY insane.
President Loubet recently paid an
unusual compliment to the wife of
Senator Lodge by placing his box at
the opera at her disposal. General
Brugere, commander-in-chief of the
army, sat with Senator Lodge and wife
in the box Throughout the evening.
The ivy on Massachusetts, and Harv-
ard halls at Harvard college. that on
the former dating probably from the
building of the hall, in 1920, has been
cut down to the roots for the purpose
of stimulating the growth. The dust
and dirt of almost two centuries had
to be scraped off diligently before the
bricks became visible.
Tho Board of Inquiry into the
charges of cruelty formulated against
Major Robert l.. Howse through Major
Hunter. las finished hearing testi7
mony at Manila. and adjourned. 1t Will
later consider the arguments offered on
both sides of the case. at the close of
which the records will be sent to
Washington for final adjudication.
At Cleveland. O., September 18th tho
trotting mare Lou Dillon. paced by two
running horses and driven by Willard
Sanders, lowered to 2:5 the high sulky
trotting record of 2:S% made by Maud
S. in 1885. The sulky used weighed
fifty-two pounds, eight pounds more
than the sulky used by Maud S. The
sulky was not ball bearing, but of the
old axle type.
The secret service has received
new counterfeit $50 National Bank
note on the Mechanics National Bank
of New Bedford, Mass. The series is of
1882, cheek letter b, charter No. T43.
Bruce. register. Wyman, treasurer of
the United States. 1t is n good photo
graph on plain paper; no fibres; num-
bcrs and seal and panel of back tinted
with thin colors.
Montague Hoibeiu. the English
swimmer, has failed in his fourth at
tempt to swim the English channel.
He left the water eight miles from Ca
lais. France. after swimming seventeen
hours and twenty minutes. He was
within four miles of the French co4st
at o'clock in The morning, when the
tide turned and gradually swept the