The Lamar register., 1904-04-27
CONDENSED TELEGRAhS


London April 10th. aged ninety-two
years.
Rear Admiral Capps. chief construc-
tor of the navy, estimates that the cost
of repairing the Missouri will be about
$4,000.
The Occidental hotel at Indianapolis
was almost totally destroyed by fire
on the 18th inst, the loss being about
$4,000.
The government cold storage plant
q. Manila will be sold at auction June
27th. The property is appraised at
$1.000.000.
Four Civil war monitors. the Jason,
Nahant, Lehigh and Montauk, were
sold to private persons at Washington
a few days ago.
Prof Il. Vickroy. well known
among educators as an advocate OF
phonetic spelling died at st. Louis
April 18th at the age of seventy-one.
A letter from Port Arthur says: Il
would like to tell you of the condi.
tions existing here. but the censorship
is too severe to allow me to do so"
Two great waterspouts were wit
messed from the deck of the liner Gae-
lie March 81, soon after the vessel left
the coast of Japan for San Francisco.
The coal operators and miners of
Iowa have signed an agreement under
the terms of which Iowa mines Will
be operated for two years eating from
April /, last.
At two O'Clock on the morning or
April 18th the hamlet of Muehlback in
Switzerland was swept by an avalanche.
The inhabitants were asleep at the
TINA and thirtean were killed.
Japanese Worlds fair commission
ers, merchants and officers and direc-
tors of the St. Louis exposition on the
18th inst celebrated the completion or
the installation of the Japanese exhib-
Its in the palace of liberal arts. The
Japanese were the first to complete
their exhibit.
1t is reported from Buda Pest that
negotiations are proceeding between
prominent Hungarian financiers and
the Hamburg-American line looking to
the organization of an Independent
steamship company in Hungary to
compete with the Cunard line for tho
American traffic.
The Hawaiian Republican territorial
convention has instructed its delega-
tions for President Roosevelt. Gov
ernor Carter and Jonah X. Kalanian-
aol, delegate to Congress, are among
the delegates selected. and w. X.
Breckons, United States district attor-
ney. is an alternate.
A stick of dynamite inserted in an
iron tube was placed under the front
end of the Evening Lights church at
Blackburn, Indiana while the building
was filled with people, One end OF the
building was torn out. panic en-
sued and several persons were hurt.
No one was killed.
The Nyborg-Fuenen train conveying
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
from Copenhagen on their way to
London April 18th was derailed. The
last carriage but one left the rails.
Their majesties were in the last car
rage and sustained no damage. the
mishap only resulting in slight de-
lay.
The coroners jury in the invesuga-
tion in the Harwick, Pennsylvania,
mine disaster in which 17S men lost
their lives January 25th last, returned
a verdict holding State Mine Inspector
F. NJ. Cunningham and Superintendent
of Mines Milford Sowden responsible
for the explosion. Warrants were is
sued for their arrest, charging muir
der.
The fifty-frst annual conference OF
the Reorganized Church of Christ of
Latter Day Saints at Kirkland, Ohio.
ended April 10th. Among the twelve
apostles were w. H. Kelley, Rocky
Mountain district; C. T. Grifiiths.
Washington and Oregon districts; X.
u. White, Missouri and Kansas dis
trict; Joseph Luss, Colorado. Arizona
and Nevada districts.
Judge Benton, In the Circuit Court
at Richmond, Kentucky. has thrown
out on peremptory instructions of
mental ,ncapacity all the various wills
left by the late Gen. Cassius NJ. Clay.
This leaves the generals property to
his natural heirs and cuts off Dora
Clay Brock. who at ono time received
considerable notoriety as the youthful
wife of the statesman.
Snow slides are reported from almost
every point in the interior of British
Columbia The most serious occurred
at the Silver Cup mine, in the Lardue
district. A slide 1,200 feet wide came
down the mountain side, carried away
blacksmith shops. ore sheds, quanti-
ty of ore, 166 feet of tramway. and
killed a miner named John Marrable.
The total damage will be $65,000.
NJ. Balsan on the night of April 18th
and 18th made a sensational balloon
trip from Paris to Marseilles in his
rew balloon. the Aigle. He started at
5 O'Clock in the evening and was car
ried rapidly south. where a mistral
caught him and swept him down the
Rhine valley at rate of 125 miles an
hour, and landed at Farmaman, at the
edge of the state in the Mediterranean.
His time was ten hours and the dis.
tance 625 miles.
According to the reports of Russian
spies the Japanese troops in Korea