The Lamar register., 1903-08-19
SHORT TEIEGRaMS.

| xillionsire and philsnthroplst. died at
Ear Hsrbo-, Maine. August g.
Andrew Csrnegie has offered the city
| Of Dublin the sum Of $4,000 toward
J the erection Of a free public library
1 II In announced that John a Book
walter, Of Springfield. Ohio. Will be
candidate for United States senator to
succeed Senator Hanna
| Fifty lzdrones. who wee implicated
In the recent raids near Surigao. in the
province of Mindanao. have been SEN
terced TO long terms o. Imprisonment
Al KamIoopss British Columbia. on
the 10th inst, while playing with re-
yolyer. Willie Edmonds. aged six was
shot and killed by Charles Newman,
aged seven
The Treasury Department on the llth
| inst purchased 10000 ounces Of silver
for Philippine coinage at an average
price Of 55i4 cents, delivery 10 be made
in San Francisco.
The volcano Of Kilauea. On the isl
and Of Hawaii the movement Of which
was suspended few days ago by
lava slide into the crater. has resumed
its usual state Of activity.
The strike riots at Cracow. Austrian
Poland. have resulted. according to a
Il
since August through conflicts be-
tween the strikers and the troops
General Miles has accepted the Of.
/ hce Of president of the Thomas Jeier-
con Memorial Association. and the as
sociation announces that his election
/ is for the remainder Of its existence.
| The Cooperative Union laundry.
which was established by union laun-
dry workers during the big strike in
| ChIcaSo's warehouses last June, has
been declared failure and mas closed.
Eaton Stone. an old circus perform
er, who is said to have been the first
man to turn a some rsault on gallop-
ing horse. died at Nutley, New Jersey.
on the 10th inst. at the age of eighty
six.
The Italian m.rister of marine has
directed that squadron be kept in
readiness to sail for the East should
the complications in Macedonia make
1t necessary to protect Italian sub
jects.
Brfgadier General A E. Woodson.
u. S. A. retired, died at Paola, Kan
sas, August T., aged siaty-two years.
He was in the military service forty
one years He will be buried in the
national cemetery at Arlington. Viz
ginia.
1t is rumored at Constantinople that
the Turkish troops in Macedonia have
become SO demoralized by their failure
to receive pay that Hundreds of them
are deserving and selling their rifles to
insurgents, in order to obtain pro-
| visions.
The Kien, Russia. correspondent OF
the London Times says leading Rus
sian employer estimates that the strike
in Russia affected a half million men
and that the strength of the movement
Is increasing and the authorities are
nonplussed.
At Chicago on the 5th inst John AL
exander Dowie. general overseer OF the
Christian Catholic church. was made
4 citizen OF the United States upon re-
nouncing in the Superior Court his al
legiance to the sovereign OF Great
Britain and Ireland
An American firm has contracted to
furnish the Russian -four mills. at Pc
kin, with 100000 worth OF machinery.
The output of the mills will be in
creased within year to 1900 barrels
per day. superseding the supply OF
flour from America
violent earthquake shook Lisbon.
Portugal. at 10 o'clock on the night OF
August 9. The shock lasted but two
seconds and no fatalities are reported,
but 1t serves to recall the great earth
quake and succeeding fire in 1915,
when over 10000 lives were lost.
The President has rendered to Charles
p McClelland of Westchester county
New York a membership on the Board
of General Appraisers. Mr.. McClel-
land is a Democrat and member OF
the New York State Senate from the
Twenty-second district.
A dispatch from Pekin says 700 per-
sons were drowned in the disastrous
floods which occurred at Che Foo.
China. July 27. The bridges within
the city and many houses with their
occupants were swept away in the tor
rent. Two thousand of the Inhabitants
are left destitute
Three workmen were killed and
twenty-four wounded at Kieff. Russia.
August 6. when the Cossacks fired on
the strikers who were attempting to
interfere with railroad traffic. The
rioters numbered 1000. A magistrate.
an officer. and several soldiers were
injured by stones.
A Cape Town dispatch says that
Princess Radziwill. who was sentenced
to two years Imprisonment by the
| Supfeme Souit, hP'h Sv' ic"-' ioi
forgery in connection with notes pur-
porting to have been indorsed by Cecil
Rhodes. has been liberated from prison
and has started for England.
At Carthage, Missouri, August 8,
wind storm before daylight destroyed
thousands of dollars worth of fruits
and shade trees and caused more or less
damage to small buildings and mining
property in the town and at Jasper.
Lamar and Seneca. taking in three
counties along the Kansas line.
The Photographers national con-
vention. at Indianapolis. approved the
plan for buiiding national salon at
Winona. 1t will be the first undertak-
ing of its kind in the world. 1t was
decided to postpone for one year the
acceptance of Sheadman's new actinic
| light unit as a universal standard.
The contract for the magnificent
new terminal for all the steam rail-
roads now entering Washington has
been let and actual construction will
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