The Lamar register., 1904-05-18
CONDENSED TELEGRAhS

lsh advance OF Lhassa is now newt
able and that preparations are being
| made for 1t.
The National Association Of Retail
Grocers, at the close of its convention
in San Francisco, voted to meet next
year at Cincinnati.
The new government road from
Cody, Wyoming, to Yellowstone Ma
uonal park. which was completed late
last season. will be ready for tourist
travel by the first Of June.
The Venezuelan congress. after hav-
ing declared itself a constitutional as.
sembly, has conferred on General Cas-.
tro full dictatorial powers for year.
with the title of provisional president.
The sentence of Mr.. Cordelia Botkin.
convicted at San Francisco of the muir
der of Mrs. j. p Dunning, has been
postponed until May 23rd- If sentence
is pronounced it must be for life i'm
ptsonment.
Diamond importers have been ad
vised of another advance by the Eu-
ropean syndicate in the selling price
| Of stones. The change amounts to
five per cent and affects all grades OF
uncut diamonds.
Nine Janauschek, the actress. who is
Eow seventy-four years of age. has
gone to the Actors Fund Home at West
New Britain, Staten Island, New York.
| where she will probably pass the re-
| Dainder OF her life.
Orders have been placed by the Bur-
hngton road for fifty new locomotives,
| four dining cars and 1000 S0.000-pound
| capacity box cars. Most of the new
| equipment will be used on the western
| division of the system.
Queen Lilioukalani, the deposed ruler
OF Hawaii. accompanied by her adopt
| ed son. former Prince Cupid and his
wife, and a number of friends. have
/ taken up quarters inside the Exposi-
tion grounds at st. Louis.
A St. Petersburg dispatch says that
the statement that Russia is preparing
to make an elaborate exhibit at st.
Louis is incorrect. There will be no
Official participation by Russia, but
there will be a Russian art section and
some private exhibits.
The school board of New York City
has decided that hereafter women
teachers may marry without being de-
prived of their positions. AS con-
sequence of the decision the number
Of New York women eligible for mat
rirnony has been increased by 5000.
Joseph Stillwell Cain. known as the
father of the celebration of Mardi Gras
in this country, died at New York
May 5th, aged seventy-two years. In
1865. on the streets of Mobile. he pre-
sented the first Mardi Gras parade.
The celebration went from that city to
New Orleans.
Drew College, at Carmel, New York.
one of the pioneer educational institu-
tions for women in the country, was
destroyed by fire May Srd, entailing
financial loss of fully 100000 with
only $25. 900 insurance. ALI the stu
dents. members of the faculty and SER
wants escaped.
According to the report of the Off
GERS of the Western Federation of Min
ers. the eight-hour fund of the organi
zation is growing rapidly. The recent
quarterly report placed the fund at
see. 6.2S3.50 since the organization of the
strike. The addition to the fund dur
ing the last quarter has been $780,
1906. '
Fire at the indianapolis Union Stock
Yards May 3rd caused a loss of $780,
900 to the Belt Railroad and Union
Stock Yards Company. The insurance
is 100000. Thirty-five head of cattle
were burned and forty acres of cattle
destroyed together with about 500 tons
Of hay and 10000 bushels OF corn.
The company controlled by ]. Pier
pont Morgan was selected to act as
financial agents of the United States
in the payment of s40,000,000 to the
Panama Canal Company at Paris. The
contract specifies the Banque dc
, France as depository and also the pro-
portion of the payments going to the
old and new Panama companies re-
spectively.
1t is the intention to SOW a large
tract in the Yellowstone park near
Gardner in alfalfa for the purpose of
feeding the park elk and other wild
animals in that neighborhood during
the winter months because of the
scarcity of feed in the park. A large
irrigating canal for the irrigation OF
the tract will be taken out of the
Gardner river.
A feet of United States warships
left Pensacola May 9th for a cruise
across the Atlantic and into the Medi-
terranean. 1t includes four battle
ships of the North Atlantic fleet and
the newly organized European squad.
ron. Visits will be made to Vile
franche. France, and Trieste, Austria
and it is possible that the cruise may
be extended as far east as Piraeus, the
port of Athens, Greece.
The French government has decided
to reject, both in substance and form.
the note of protest against President
Loubet's visit to the Quirinal at Rome,
sent by the Vatican to all the Catho-
lie powers. The French ambassador
to the Holy See has been instructed
by Foreign Minister Delcasse to notify
the papal secretary of state to this
effect, and to decree that France con.