The Lamar register., 1903-01-07
SHORT TELEGRAMs.

many funerals.
A severe earthquake shock was ex-
perienced at Syracuse. Sicily, on the
| night of December 27th.
The Maine cattle commission has is
sued a statement that the state is free
from the foot and mouth disease.
There are 44.4O7 depositors in the
Connecticut savings banks and the
amount of their. deposits is $203, ,522,-
225.
The new battleship Maine has been
placed in commission at the League
Island navy yard. Her full compile
ment of men will be $50.
Contracts have been made for zoe, 900
tons of coal for shipment from English.
Scotch and Welsh ports to eastern
ports of the United States.
Andrew Carnegie has given $25, 900
library to the mountain branch of the
National Soldiers Home at Johnson
City, Tennessee, which is to be opened
April LIST.
The Red Cross Society is sending
representatives to Andijan, Russian
Asia, to organize relief for the earth
quake sufferers and has contributed
1880 to the relief fund.
Berlin papers say that Prince Henry
of Prussia is coming to the United
States in 1904 to visit the st. Louis
Exposition and unveil the veterans
monument in Philadelphia.
The Michigan Sugar Manufacturers
Association has adopted resolutions
protesting against the ratification OF
any treaty with Cuba which reduces
the present tariff on sugar.
Count Tolstoi has sent a personal
alki hn N
his advanced age and illness. not to
publish any further reports of his con-
dition, as they cause him pain.
The government has purchased four
more buffalo from private herd in
Idaho for stocking the Yellowstone Ma
tional Park. The herd in the park
now numbers about forty-five.
The Rome Tribuna says that the
Pope has ordered the Archbishop of
Manila to excommunicate all persons
who endeavor to promote the creation
of national church in the Philippines
Gen. Leonard Wood has accepted an
invitation of the Kansas Day Club to
respond to toast at the banquet jan
uary 29th. General Funston and Ga
lusha Grow will also probably be pres
ent.
1t is rumored that the Intercollegiate
football rules committee is likely to
take some action that will abolish mass
plays. which are strongly objected to
by college authorities as brutal and
dangerous.
A report comes from st. Petersburg
that story is current there to the
effect that the Car was induced to
call The Hague peace conference by
reason of advice received at a spiritual
istic seance.
At meeting in Brussels of the In
ternational Socialist Bureau resolutions
were passed in relation to the possible
results of the economic war with which
1t Is claimed the United States are
threatening Europe.
Employees of the Buffalo, Rochester &
Pittsburg railroad have been granted
seven per cent. increase in wages. eff
fective December 1st The company
employs about 1900 men, almost all
of whom will benefit by the raise.
General Davis at Manila cables that
Capt. Robert McGregor. engineer
corps, died December 23d of acute ap-
pendicitis. Captain McGregor was a
native of Michigan and was graduated
at the military academy in June, 1883.
President Roosevelt sent private
telegram to Lord Minto, governor gen.
eral OF Canada, conveying best wishes
for the New Year to him and Lady
Minto and expressing earnest hope
for the welfare and prosperity OF Can
ada"
Marconi has for some time been
sending two or three messages daily
by wireless telegraphy from Glace Bay,
Nova Scotia to Cornwall, England.
Some of these dispatches ore lengthy.
One was directed to ex-Empress Eu-
genie.
William Waldorf Astor has given
$250,000 to build a new out-patient de-
partment for the hospital for sick chill
dren in Great Ormond street, London.
1t will be dedicated to the memory of
his daughter Gwendoline, who died re-
Gently.
Five hundred million dollars in gold
is the amount of American capital in
vested in Mexico by 1,117 American
companies, firms and individuals, ac-
cording to estimates carefully prepared
by Consul General A. D. Barlow at
Mexico City.
The Lackawanna Steel Company of
Buffalo, New York, the largest inde-
pendent steel manufacturing concern
in the world, recently received its first
consignment of ores. The Lackawan-
ma company has capital stock of $40,-
000,0n0 and will employ $4,000 men.
Nate Salisbury, one of the country's
best known showmen, principal owner
of Buffalo Bills" Wild West Show.
and a heavy stockholder in the Barnum
& Bailey Company, died at Long Branch
New Jersey on December Gath. after
weeks sickness, of stomach trouble.
DR.. Frederick l.. Brady, who was a
member of Roosevelt's Rough Riders
in the Spanish-American war, died in
New York City December 26th. He