The Lamar register., 1904-04-13
CONDENSED TELEGRAhS


Port Arthur.
Under the will of Mrs. Anna Sophia
Farnam, widow of Henry Farnam. for
merly Il professor in Yale. the uni
versity is given $4,000.
Some women at party in Wichita
discussed the Reed Smoot affair and
varied their function by hanging the
| Utah senator in etfigy.
Nearly all of the schools and churches
| of Des Moines, Iowa, have been closed
| for several days on account of the coal
| famine caused by the strikes.
| The steamer Alliance arrived at Co
| lon, April 5th, with the United States
| Panama Canal Commission on board.
| The arrival caused much enthusiasm.
Five lives have been lost and prob
| ably more than $1,000, 900 damage to
property has been done by the flood
| which has recently devastated many
| parts of Michigan.
Joseph w. Folk of St. Louis Doodle
prosecution fame, has stated that he
would not accept the Democratic nom
| ination for vice president of the United
| States if it were offered to him.
The state of Utah has ordered a
general health day-namely, the first
Monday in October. On this day all
! theaters, churches public halls, hotels.
boarding houses, etc, must be thor
oughly disinfected.
An inventory of the personal proper
ty OF the late Millionaire w. j. Lemp
/ of St Louis shows a total valuation of
| S4.44S 900. 1t is believed that the real
estate is worth 100000. The widow
| inherlts nearly the whole estate.
The Capitol National Bank of Guth-
1 viz rloh
| in the hands of the comptroller of the
| currency The directors claim that the
| depositors will be paid in full. although
| the stockholders may lose heavily.
| The Illinois coal mine operators
| have signed the state agreement, ef-
J fective for two years. When the JOINT
convention met April Sd there was not
| one dissenting vote against the agree
ment reached by the joint scale com
mittee.
| -Four young Polishmen who were
| about to be convicted of murder In
| Chicago were saved few days ago
! by the action of little girl in chang
| ing her testimony. In explanation oil
| the remarkable change of front the
| child declared that she had been in
| structed how to testify by the widow
| of the murdered man.
James C. Colgate. member of the
| New York stock exchange, has taken
| out an insurance policy for Sl,5oo,ooo.
! 1t is said to be the largest single risk
| ever accepted on a human life. The
| company which wrote the policy. upon
which premiums of about S45,OOO will
| fall due annually. has reinsured ali but
| $3.50, 200 in other concerns.
A compilation by the New York Jour
| nal of Commerce of dividends so far
announced by industrial corporations
payable in April shows an increase OF
more than $2,300.O00 over the same
month in 1903, and of about $2,1OO,OOO
over April two years ago. Next
months total based on the returns so
far foot up about s22 100000.
dispatch to the Amsterdam Teie-
gram from Kota Raja. island of Sum
| atra. announces that a column of
Dutch troops operating in Ackin en-
garsd a strong entrenched body Of
Achinese In the Gajocoleas district,
with the result that 541 Achinese
were killed The Dutch lost three
men killed and twenty five wounded.
Two worlds automobile records
have been broken, according to a dis
patch from Nice. NJ. Rigolly, driving
a 1OO-horse power car, built for the in
ternational cup race, covered mile.
standing start, in SO 3-5 seconds. In
the kilometer (3,2SO feet race for the
Rothschild cup, with flying start. Ri
| golly covered the distance in 20 "a
seconds.
Albert Kirby Fairfax eldest son of
| the late DR.. John Conte Fairfax. OF
| Prince Georges county, Maryland, and
, inheritor of his titles Of Lord Fairfax
and Baron Cameron in the peerage OF
! Scotland is reported to have assumed
! his titles and taken his seat in the
| House of Lords. Being without prep
erty to support the title, it is said that
he has been adopted by wealthy
| man.
At a meeting of Americans and Jap
| anese held in Toxic in commemora-
ton Of the fiftieth anniversary of the
signing of the Perry treaty between
! Japan and the United States. an Amer
lean war charity, called the Perry
| memorial relief fund, was organized
with much enthusiasm. The sum OF
! s37 500 was subscribed at once. and
it was decided to organize committees
I'm all the larger cities OF the United
States.
Resolutions requesting Governor
| Beckham of Kentucky to interfere
in the case of Caleb Powers, convict
ed and sentenced to die for the mur-
/ der Of the late Governor Goebel. have
been passed at a meeting of evangel-
lists and Christian workers in Chica-
go under the auspices OF the Presby-
terian Church. The resolutions re
! quest Governor Beckham to make use
of the pardoning power. either setting
Powers free or securing him a new
trial.
A compilation of the total author
lied capitalization of new companies
formed in the eastern states during
March with a capitalization OF $1,000
nnn ~. moro tngnther with increases