The Lamar register., 1904-08-17
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Inc IefEOCTatlC Cunuludte lol SoNel :
nor of Michigan is Woodbridge N. Ferris
of Big Rapids.
Chairman Cortelyou has opened ma
tional headquarters of the Republican
party in New York City.
Gen. Rafael Reyes assumed office
August Sth as president of Colombia.
succeeding Senior Marroquin.
During downfall of rain at Bialsys-
tok, Russia on August 3rd, there was a
regular shower of small fish.
The Aurora. Elgin & Chicago Rail-
road Company has built a trolley din
ing car to run between those cities.
The attendance at the Worlds Fair
in st. Louis for the week ending Aug
'ust 9Th averaged over 100000 day.
The White Star line has reduced its
steerage rates TO $40 by all steamers.
1t Is expected that the Cunard line will
make similar reduction.
The International Miners Congress.
at its session in Paris, passed a resolu-
ton In favor OF legislation limiting
work to eight hours per day.
Green McCurtain was reelected gov
ernor of the Choctaw nation at the
election August 3rd, defeating T. w.
Hunter. This Is the last tribal election.
A flood occasioned by cloudburst
did great damage at Bisbee. Arizona. on
the 9th inst. Horses, wagons and cab
ins were washed down the gulches in
the fearful whirlpool.
General Wade. commanding the Phil
ippine division. has cabled the War De-
partment that the newspaper reports
that fifty Filipinos were massacred at
Mallabang about May 18th was entirely
without foundation.
The first international boat race was
sailed August Sth from Calais to Dover.
and was won by the French boat Mer-
cedes ". in one hour and five minutes.
An English boat was second and one
from Belgium third. There were twen-
ty-two competitors.
Fred Winters. member of the West
Side Athletic Club of New York City.
has made a new worlds record at
weight lifting. With one hand he tossed
dumb bell weighing 141 pounds above
his head from the ground. beating by
three pounds the best previous record.
Almost recovered from a bullet hole
through the brain. Frederick Beck. who
tried to kill himself on July 11th. VIII
bs discharged from the city hospital at
Newark. New Jersey. in few days.
The bullet entered the right temple
and. passing through the brain, was
found Just under the skin.
Secretary Morton has received let
ter from Mr.. Berg, mayor of Dubuque.
Iowa. saying that he has been unable
to find lady in that city willing to
undertake the journey to New York to
christen the gunboat Dubuque. which
is to be launched at Morris Heights.
New York. within few weeks.
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of stock and to extensive repairs in
the mint at Philadelphia, the mints OF
the United States were almost entirely
idle so far as coinage was concerned in
July. There was no gold coined and no
coinage of minor pieces. The silver
coinage amounted to only $455,5l9.
The Navy Department is making ar
rangements to send wireless messages
2.1OO miles. The naval bureau Of equip
ment will establish and equip wire
less station at Farallon Islands. off San
Francisco, where the weather bureau
has been maintaining an inferior sta
ton. An attempt may be made to es-
tablish Honolulu and Farallon stations.
The Court of Appeals of New York
decided that Ismar s. Ellison. publisher
Of the United States Tobacco Journal.
violated the anti-lottery section OF the
penal code of New York In publishing
in his journal an advertisement fnvit-
Ing competition In contest to deter
mine the amount of revenue tax paid on
certain brands of cigars for cash prizes.
The President has approved report
OF the Civil Service Commission recon-
mending that Postmaster McMichael OF
Philadelphia be reprimanded as the re-
suit of the Investigation of the charges
laI hxyp Dol IA qaCrafQrv
the Civil Service Reform Association
of Philadelphia. alleging political dis
elimination In Postmaster McMichaePs s
selection of employees.
The general election in New South
Wales has resulted in a victory for the
opposition party, which advocated re-
form In extravaganza OF administration.
1t Is expected that the Cabinet will re-
sign. The features of the election were
the great exercise of the franchise by
women, to whom 1t was only recently
granted, and a large accession to the
strength of the Labor party.
Capt. Thomas Allnut Brassy. editor
of the British Naval Annual. speaking
at Catfield recently, said he was con-
vinced that within ten years the COM
mand of the seas would have passed
from Great Britain to the United States
Inc latter country, ne declared, Is Ho"
building more battleships than in Eng
land and its resources are greater than
are those of Great Britain.
Maj j. F. Case, city engineer Of Ma
nilla, has laid before the secretary of
war and Colonel Edwards, chief of the
bureau of insular affairs. plans for the
proposed water supply and sewerage
system for Manila. The new water
supply will be brought to the city by
gravity through pipe line from the
heights at the head of the Mariquina
valley. sixteen miles away. as cost OF
s2,000,000.
Clifford G. Baxter. a civil engineer,
and Capt. John Enright of the South
Beach life saving station. started on
swimming contest from Brooklyn
bridge to the iron pier at Coney Island
on the 7th inst. and both were taken
out of the water temporarily crazed af-
ter swimming for seven hours and
when within a mile of the goal. The
distance is estimated at thirteen and
one-half miles.
Forty-five persons were injured at
Winnipeg, Manitoba, August 4th. by