The Lamar register., 1904-08-24
CONDENSED TELEGRAhs

inst.
Telephone lineman at work in Penn
! sylvania recently destroyed $50 rattle
snakes with dynamite.
The Republican state convention to
select candidates for the state ticket
will be held at Saratoga September
14th.
DR.. Dowie and his son rescued three
young women from drowning in Lake
Michigan the other day at the risk OF
their lives.
The British torpedo boat destroyer
Decoy sank off the Sicily islands as the
result of collision with another des-
| troyer. The crew was saved.
The governess of Thomas A. Edison's
| children recently committed suicide
| with poison, due to anxiety from fear
that the children would be kidnapped.
A supplementary report OF Admiral
Togo's casualties in the battle with the
Port Arthur squadron, August 10th, in
creases the total of killed and wound
ed to 225.
The supreme lodge. which is the bus
iness department of the Knights of Py-
thias, opened its sessions at Louisville
(Kentucky) on the 10th. The atten-
dance was large.
The farm house OF B. A. Bowling.
near Perth, Oklahoma, was struck by
lightning and burned on the 18th. Four
members of the family were burned to
death in the house.
An unknown Italian who attempted
to kidnap Helen White, a child five
years old, narrowly escaped lynching
in Allegheny, and was only saved from
serious injuries by the arrival of the
police.
According to the London Shipping
Gazette. Japan has just ordered two
large battleships of twenty-three knots
from Vickers, Maxim & Armstrong, in
addition to the battleship already build
ing there.
Sherman NJ. Booth one of the orig
inal abolitionists of the middle West
died at Chicago August 10th, aged nine
ty two years. Mr.. Booth conducted
several newspapers before and after the
Civil War.
Attaches of the immigrants free la
Dor bureau at New York estimate that
10000 domestic servants are needed in
this city and 1t is stated that the de-
mands Of housekeepers seeking help
are far in excess of the supply.
Former Gov Elihu Jackson has been
nominated for Congress by the Demo-
Gratis OF the First Maryland district.
Ex-Governor Jackson's opponent will
be his brother, William II. Jackson,
the present Republican representative.
The news that Gen. Rafael Reyes
had assumed the presidency of Colom-
bia was received with satisfaction in
all circles at Panama. 1t is believed
that diplomatic relations between Pan
anna and Colombia will be established
soon.
The American line announces that
the steerage rate to Philadelphia will be
$3.50 instead of $40. This reduction
caused CONSERVATION among the lines
not in the combine, but it is not like
ly that they will do anything at pres
ent to combat 1t.
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition
has entered upon the second half of its
entire period and the total attendance
up to date. in round numbers, is 7,000.-
900. 1t is believed that the second half
will even more than triple the attend
ance so far recorded.
1t is reported that Nine. Janauschek.
the aged actress, who has been Ill at
the Actors Fund home at Staten Island.
has suffered relapse and been re-
moved to a sanitarium at Amityville.
Long Island, for special treatment. She
is victim of paralysis.
In a ruling by Judge Fl. NJ. Somer-
vile the board of United States general
appraisers has decided that chickens
are not household effects. In SO doing
the board overruled a claim of Mrs. f..
Lamarre of Port Townsend. Washing
ton, for free entry of coop of chickens.
Disastrous conlagrations are occur
ring in Hungary in consequence of the
prolonged drouth. Hundreds of houses
tI,1 har daGf rpx nh
by fire in various villages during the
past week, in which from fifteen to
twenty persons have been burned to
death.
The supreme council of Catholic
knights of America in session at St.
Louis adopted new insurance rates, eff
fective November 1st, and decided that
saloonkeepers and liquor dealers could
be admitted to the order. with the pro-
viso that such members be placed in
the extra hazardous" class.
A special train from Cincinnati bound
for Coronado Beach, California. and
running as the second section of No.
5, on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railway. was ditched one miles east of
Scranton. Kansas, on the 18th. One
person was fatally injured, five were
hurt seriously and six others sustained
slight injuries.
Emperor William has given his Am
erican built yacht Meteor to the crown
prince. 1t is expected that the emper-
or's new yacht, to be built by the
Herreshoffs at Bristol, Rhode Island,
will be ready in time for the Kiel races
next June. The entire crew of this
yacht will be German, instead of part
German and part English, as is that
of the Meteor.
A spark from a locomotive falling on
dry leaves set forest on fire in west
ern Silesia and the flames spread to
the parched country, destroying a tim
ber district of nearly 1870 square miles,
belonging chiefly to Duke Ernst Gun
ther of Schleswig Holstein. brother of
the Empress, and to Count Won DONNA
KotZenau. The village of Neuverwork,
on the dukes estate was burned.
Afford w. Cooley civil service COM
missioner, left Washington on the 11th
inst. for an extended trip through the
West and Southwest, having for his OBJ
| i1ot Al 80 tIa L.. A.