The Lamar register., 1903-10-21
SHORT TELEoRAMs.


9th inst No damage was done.
Professor Langley and his assistants
have not lost faith in his air ship. but
will try, try again" They say it did
not fail for want Of power.
The order to reduce the force of shop
men on the Vanderbilt system has
caused the discharge of about 500 en-
ployes at Buffalo and DepeW.
Paris is all worked up over new
ratsbane that is harmless to dogs and
larger animals, yet kills rats by the
thousands. 1t is furnished by the Pas
teur Institute.
William Beals, an aeronaut, was
killed at San Francisco on the 11th
inst. by falling from the trapeze OF
parachute when he was only forty feet
from the ground.
The Uruguayan gunboat General RI
vera has been sunk at Santa Barbara;
as the result of an explosion. Her
commander was burned to death and
many of the crew were killed.
1t is stated at Rome that the Russian
ambassador to Italy has assured Sig
nor Malvence, acting foreign minister,
that the czar will come to Rome to vis-
1t the King early in November.
Peter Moller of New York has been
decorated by the King Of Greece with
the Order of the Savior. Mr.. Moller
accompanied King George on many of
his excursions about AK Les Bains.
The new British cabinet ministers
have assumed their duties. the seals OF
Office having been exchanged at pri-
Wy council meeting held by King Ed
ward at Buckingham palace October
9th.
/ 30 tovV
was unveiled at North Adams, Massa-
chusetts, on the 10th inst. Among the
speakers was John ID. Long. who was
secretary of the navy in Mckinley's
cabinet.
A decision has been handed down by
the New York Court of Appeals in the
case of the people VS.. Pierson. declar-
ing dependence upon faith healing in
the case of sickness to be criminal
negligence.
The last transfer of stock exchange
seat at New York was $52, 800, which Is
| $500 below the last previous recorded
sailed and about 1000 below the high
| record price at which seats sold year
or more ago.
| A Socialist demonstration of 10000
| workmen took place at Bilboa, Spain,
on the 11th inst, during which seri-
GUS collision occurred with the Cleric-
| ais Four persons were killed and
twenty-nine injured.
Collector of the Port Stranahan o:
New York City has recently received
| from Boston contribution OF $2O6.I0
to the conscience fund.- it being the
largest single payment to this fund
ever received at this port.
Mrs Tree. wife of Judge Lambert
| i,,,i,t Of fnp
and formerly United States minister to
Belgium and Russia, died on the 10th
inst, aboard the steamer Campania, on
her way home from Europe.
1t is proposed to reserve national
park near the eastern coast of Porto
Rico. A representative of the United
States Bureau of Forestry visited Porto
Rico and finds great forest, preserv-
ing a natural water supply.
The body of Wilson S. Bissell, for
mer postmaster general, was cremated
at Buffalo, New York, October 9th. The
list of honorary pail bearers at the fu-
neral included Grover Cleveland, John
G. Carlisle and Hoke Smith.
An agreement was reached at Chi
cago between the sheep butchers and
the packers by which the men Will
receive an increase of 25 cents a day.
About 5000 men in the packing CEN
ters of the country are benefited.
The monument erected to the men,
ory of both Union and Confederate SOL
diers of Maryland, who participated In
the battles around Chattanooga, was
dedicated at Orchard Knob. near the
| location of Grants headquarters, on
the 9Th inst.
Paymaster General A. E. Bates OF
the army reports that for the fiscal
| year ended June 30, 1903, the total
amount of funds handled by his de-
partment was $43 ,645 ,959. OF this sum
$32 599.5Q6 was expended on account
of pay for the army.
A hose company of the Fort Worth
fire department has lowered the worlds
speed record for going into action. The
contest was run $50 feet, lay 100 feet
of hose, total run of $50 feet, make
plug connections and get water. The
time was 23 AS seconds.
| "A magistrate has seized the books of
the Franco-American Oil Company at
| Paris. The manager of the concern re-
Gently lett Paris for America, but the
shareholders, who complained that
they had received no dividends, asked
for an investigation.
DR.. ]. c. Brownfield, who figured in
the Jessie Morrison case at Eldorado,
Kansas, as witness for the defendant,
and was afterwards prosecuted on the
charge of having perjured himself, will
have to go to the penitentiary. The
Supreme Court of Kansas has affirmed
the decision of the court below, which
sentenced Brownfield to the state pris-
| on for seven years.
AS a result of we'll organized and
partly successful attempt at whole
sale delivery of prisoners from the
Utah State Penitentiary on the night
of October 9th, one prisoner was killed,
one guard was shot and wounded. and
another man was beaten almost into
insensibility, three prisoners were
wounded and two others under the
death sentence escaped.
The Argentine gunboat Uruguay, $50
tons, started from Buenos Ayres on the
| Sth instant for the Antartic regions
to search for the Swedish expedition
headed by DR.. Otto Nordenskjold. The
Nordenskjold expedition left Gothen-