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

orized to open branch at San Fran
cisco.
The Great Western Glass Manufac-
turing Company has been organized
at Ottawa, Illinois, with S1.000,0OO cap
ital to manufacture plate and window
glass.
A trolley car running out of May
wood, New Jersey. has established
what is 10 be new scedule record by
travelling one mile in / minute and 10
seconds.
Reports have reached st. Petersburg
that 200 lives were lost at Azoff, June
9th, as a result of the collapse OF
gangway there while a pleasure party
was landing from a steamer.
The International Printing Press
men and Assistants Union at their
meeting in Cincinnati elected Martin
p. Higgins, Boston. president. Among
the vice presidents is Il. j. Unger,
Denver.
Charles Dick of Akron has been Sc
lected by the Republican state central
committee to direct the campaign in
Ohio this year. General Dick was
elected chairman of the state execu-
tive committee.
The newspapers of Toxic say the
Manchurian convention. drawn up by
the Russian minister at Pekin, NJ. Les
sar. and Prince Ching, president of the
foreign board was signed by those Of
ficials June goth.
Fourteen men were killed and thir-
teen injured by an explosion in the
lyddite factory at the Woolwich ar
senal near London June 18th. Sew
eral of the victims were literally
blown to pieces.
On June Goth lightning struck a
house stored with 5000 pounds of dyn-
amitc at the mines of Senecaville.
twelve miles from Cambridge, Ohio
Six men were killed and more than a
score others injured.
The Nippon Yusen Kashai has pur-
chased the fleet of steamers on the
Yangtse of the McBain Navigation
Company for $1,5OO,OO0 and the Japa-
nese line will make this connection
of the American service.
George Howard Mcdonald. Boston
laborer. is said to have been positive
ly identified as the sole heir to $1,000
900 cash and gold mining claims valued
at many times more, left by an uncle,
William Mcdonald, who died recently
In California.
Reports from the west of Ireland,
Lancashire and other points. state that
thousands of acres of potatoes have
been ruined by the recent frost and
rain. 1t is feared that the failure OF
the Irish potato crop Will entail much
hardship on the peasants.
The ninety-second anniversary of the
battle of Tippecanoe was observed al
Lafayette, Indiana, June 21st Memoir
ial services were held on the battle
ground and the soldiers graves were
decorated An address was made by
Gen. John S. Black of Chicago.
The State Department, after con-
sidering the questions arising out OF
the seizing of the railroad between Por-
to Cortez and La Pimienta by the gov
ernment Of Honduras, has referred the
matter to Mr.. Combes, our minister,
who will request an explanation.
Mai. George B. Davis. chief commits.
sary, Department of Colorado, who will
be relieved by Mai. b. X West. assist.
ant commissary general, has been or
dered to the headquarters of the De.
partment of the District of Columbia
to become its chief commissary.
A statement has been given out In
New York as coming fromsNr. Schwah
that he has no intention of resigning
Steel Corporation. 1t was added that
Mr.. Schwab was in excellent health
and was at the Steel Corporations Of
fees daily.
The International League of Press
Clubs, at its recent meeting in Atlantic
City. New Jersey. denounced the Salus'
Grady libel law of Pennsylvania. Res
olutions attacking the law were adopt
ed by a unanimous vote. They called
upon all newspaper men to work FOL
the repeal of the act.
Secretary of Agriculture James Will
son delivered an address on agricul-
tural education at the dedication oi
Cunningham Hail. the Van Wormer II.
brary, the technical and engineering
hall and other new buildings OF thu
University of Cincinnati. and received
the degree of doctor Of laws.
When asked in the House of Com.
mons what steps were being taken tc
induce Germany to cease differentia-
ton against Canada, Colonial Secre-
tary Chamberlain replied: Il am not
aware that there are any effective
steps that can be taken under oui
present fiscal system"
Mai. James w. Pond. the we'll
known manager OF lecturers and sing
ers, died at his nome IN Jersey CITY,
New Jersey, June 21st. He had been
i'll for month, the trouble beginning
with slight wound which failed to
heal, and finally necessitated the am
putation of his right leg, resulting in
his death four days later.
Mai. w. II. Gibbes, who is said to
have fired the first shot of the Civil
war, upon Fort Sumpter, died here at
Charleston, South Carolina, this
month. Major Gibbes was a gunner
in Captain Grimes company. to whom
General Beauregard sent the order to
open fire upon Major Anderson. -He
served as postmaster of Columbia un-
der President Cleveland.
At Indianapolis, June Goth, Barney
Oldfield of Dayton, Ohio. broke the
worlds record for automobiles on an
elliptical mile track from one to five
miles by driving his machine mile in
So 3-5 seconds. Not satisfied with this
performance. he kept going and broke
every record from one to five miles,
clipping % 2-5 seconds off the five-mile
record held by Ewing by going the dis
tance in 5.05 3-5.
The state encampment of the G. A.