The Lamar register., 1903-06-10
SHORT TELEGRAMs.

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system to cover Texas.
Alfred Shrubb ran two miles at IL
ford. England. May Both. in minutes.
IL seconds. beating all records for both
grass and cinder tracks.
Lady Henry Somerset has resigned
from the presidency of the National
British Women's Temperance Associa-
tion on account OF her health.
Out of the eighteen judicial candi-
dates voted for in Chicago Cook coun-
ty) June 1st. the Democrats elected
fourteen and the Republicans four.
An explosion at Elmira, New York,
June list. destroyed the plant where
jovite. high explosive, was manufac-
tured. Three men were killed and
several injured.
The American subscription for the
relief of the sufferers at Kishineff are
gratefully acknowledged by the Jewish
community at St. Petersburg. which
recognizes that the United States has
easily taken the lead both In material
and moral sympathy.
A Salt Lake dispatch says that Ma
jor James Mclaughlin, representing
the government. has closed a treaty
with the Uintah Indians. as a result of
which 1.25O,000 acres Of reservation
land will be thrown open for settle
ment In October, 1904.
The Japanese Cabinet has ignored
the resolutions passed by the Diet May
29th. demanding the fixing of the min
isterial responsibility in connection
with the scandals resulting from the
alleged acceptance of bribes by educa-
tional officials from textbook publish
ers.
Following the investigation OF the
disappearance of Louise Diviniero.
young girl. the New York police an
nounced that they had discovered in
Little Italy" band of men who were
making a business Of kidnapping
young girls and holding them for ran
som.
The British admiralty is inquiring at
st. Johns. Newfoundland. for a seal
ing steamer suitable to be sent to the
Antarctic regions for the relief Of the
British scientific expedition now jeop-
ardized in that locality, where German
and Swedish expeditions also are i'm
periled.
A London dispatch says that Lady
| Henry Somerset, who has been dan
gerously i'll from rupture of the bow
els, has undergone an operation SO as
to be able to attend the convention of
the Worlds Women's Christian Tenn
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June 9th.
Five years in the penitentiary. was
the verdict returned by the jury in the
bribery case of ]. J. Hannigan.
former member of the Missouri House
of Delegates. Hannigan was found
guilty of accepting a bribe in connec-
| ton with the passage of the suburban
railway bill.
The president of the Montana Board
of Sheep Commissioners states the re-
ported losses by the recent storms in
that state are greatly exaggerated. In
stead Of $3,750. 900. the losses will not
amount to one-tenth that sum, and the
benefit. to the range by SO much snow
and rain will fully Offset the loss.
The total coinage executed at the
mints of the United States during May
was $1,7S0, ,4s6. as follows: Gold, $685.
600; silver, $1.5s4.0O0; minor coins.
$127,4S6. These amounts are exclusive
of the coinage for the Philippine ISL
ands. which aggregated for the months
of April and May. 7.S12.396 pesos.
General Superintendent Potter of
the Wisconsin Central road has Off
cially announced that beginning June
all the trainmen employed on that sys-
tenn will receive a raise Of from twelve
to fifteen per cent. in wages. The
larger increase applies to the freight
men and the smaller to the passenger
| employees.
To guard against the spread of con-
sumption, the school board of Ell Paso,
Texas, has decided that all teachers
hereafter be required to pass rigid
physical examination to qualify them
for positions. For the same reason the
board decided that all teachers must
wear short skirts to prevent contagion
from the germs on the streets.
Regarding the announcement from
| Professor Percival Lowell of the Low
| ell Observatory at Flagstaff. Arizona.
that brilliant projection has been dis
covered on the planet Mars, the gen.
eral belief in Cambridge is that Profess
sor Lowell saw a cloud. If this were
true it would indicate an atmosphere,
and this, in turn. would make 1t possi-
BILE for Mars to be inhabited.
A son of the late DR.. Charcot, of
world wide fame, is organizing an
Antarctic expedition in France. DR..
Jean Charcot has applied to the Matin
and La Francois for pecuniary support
and subscriptions have been opened
by these papers, which already amount
to $4,000. The expeditions snip is
called La Francois and Is entirely
built in France. 1t will sail In July.
The secretary of war has disap-
proved the charges by Major G. K.
Hunter against Major Robert l..
Howe for alleged cruelties in the
Philippines and will appoint board
of officers in the Philippines to make a
further inquiry and to ascertain the
sources Of the testimony adduced. and
inquire whether any malice was shown
in the action of Major Hunter against
Howe.
The Ferris wheel, the massive struc-
ture which was one of the main at
fractions during the Worlds Fair in
1893, was sold at public auction in Chi
cago June End. A junk dealer bid in
the wheel, and the sum paid for build
ings. boilers, ETC., was $1,000. The
wheel cost. originally. 1852 .O00 Out