The Lamar register., 1904-02-10
SHORT TELEGRAMS.


Forty persons were killed February
| lst by an explosion of ten tons of gum
powder al Fort Bhatinda, in the Pun
jab, British India.
| Henry Phipps, the steel magnate. has
donated $4,000 to the Johns Hopkins
hospital to establish separate depart
ment for consumptives.
Tho anniversary of the execution of
King Charles l. January 80, 1646. was
observed by several Episcopal churches
| in Boston and vicinity.
The Southern Pacific company is pre-
| pairing TO install the block system in
signaling on the mountain division OF
| its northern overland route.
w. Bourke Cochran has been nomin-
ated as the Democratic candidate for
| Congress to succeed George B. McClei-
| Ian in the Twelfth New York dis
trict.
The Deutsche Tage Zeitung says that
| Emperor William will embark at Kiel
| March 9Th on his projected visit to the
south OF Europe, arriving at Palermo
| March 18th.
A Berlin dispatch says that Count
| Sephelin has begun the construction of
I Il new airship. His call for financial
assistance brought him subscriptions
amounting to Sll2,500.
Boston's death rate of II SO per 1000
| inhabitants last year was the lowest
| since 1913 when the first attempt to
keep reliable records was made. The
rate in 1902 was lS.7 10.
At Besscmer, in the copper district
| of northern Michigan. the temperature
on January 2Sth teh to forty-eisht de-
grees below zero and cattle were frozen
stiff in some OF the barns.
On February 1st Nine. Nordica. the
! prima donna who in private life is Mrs.
{ Lillian NJ. Doeme. was granted an in
terlocutory decree of divorce by Justice
Bischoff in the Supreme Court of New
I York.
The National Editorial Association,
in accordance with definite arrange
ments, completed by the executive com
mittee, will hold its nineteenth annual
/ convention in ST Louis May 10th. 18th,
/ 18th and 18th.
A pulpit made from wood brought
from the forests of Virginia is soon to
be placed in St Georges Church at
Gravesend England. in commemora-
ton OF Princess Pocahontas. who is
, buried in the chancel.
For four successive years Nine. AM
ynot, at Hyeres, in the south OF France.
has given birth to a boy on the 25th OF
January. The first was in 1900. and
on every January 18th since, she has
punctually repeated the feat.
: George Hermann. the eN-inspector
of constabulary, who robbed the gov
ernment and fled from Misamis. Minda-
nao and was subsequently captured al
Bayanan. has been convicted and sen
fenced to thirteen years imprison-
ment.
| The protected cruiser Charleston was
successfully launched at the yard of
the Newport News Shipbuildiug and
Dry Dock Company January 23d Miss
Helen w. Rhett. daughter OF Mayor X.
q. ,Rhett OF Charleston. christened the
vessel.
A dispatch received at Vienna from
Sofia, Bulgaria, says that the chiefs OF
the Macedonian revolutionary organic
alton in the Interior have sent ont cir
| culars to the members of the organiza-
tion ordering renewal OF the insur-
rection.
| The comptroller of the currency has
approved the application Of President
Francis and others for authority to or
game the Bankers Worlds Fair Ma
tional Bank. to be located on the
grounds of the Louisiana Purchase EX-
position.
| A Manila dispatch says that the act
for maintaining the parity Of the cur
rency has passed. 1t provides for the
purchase OF Mexican silver coin as bull
lion and imposes 4 tax on all contracts
made in deDased currency after Octo-
4 ber l, 1904.
Two years ago the body of a man
a.
d buried as that of james Pratt. Pratt
returned last month to learn that he
was mourned as dead. He left for the
, Pacific coast on the day of the supposed
drowning and failed to write home.
Professor Gussenbauer, one of the
leading surgeons OF Austria, has con-
Quoted successfully experiments with
radium for enlargement of the gullet
in cases of cancerous contraction of the
esophagus, thereby obyiating the
necessity of recourse TO artificial nour-
ishment.
The Supreme Court of Minnesota has
quashed the indictments against ok
| Mayor Ames of Minneapolis. who was
sentenced to six years Imprisonment
for receiving money for the protection
OF criminals. . The court held that he
was illegally convicted and he is
therefore set free.
II. d. Stevens of Seattle was frozen
in an Alaska blizzard near Barclay
Point, January 18th. His companion.
II. |. Frivold of Kayak. had both
hands frozen, and after Stevens death
managed to struggle to cabin two
miles distant. where he was found
three hours later.
James Walters alleged to be one of
the most successful diamond thieves in