The Lamar register., 1904-05-04
CONDENSED TELECRAhS

There were heavy rains nearly all
over Kansas April 24th.
The town of Illig, Somaliland. has
been bombarder by The British. The
Sultan was captured.
Reports that the Car is in bad
health are strenuously denied by the
st. Petersburg dispatches.
Nearly three inches of rain is re-
ported to have fallen in n cloudburst
at Beatrice, Neb.. April gath.
Richard G. Greenough, the American
sculptor. died at Rome April 23d in the
eighty-fifth year of his age.
The bureau OF the parliament
ary peace conference has been called
to hold the next conference at st.
Louis August 9th.
Eleven houses were blown down by
L terrible tornado at Mount Vernon.
Texas. April cath. Several people
were severely injured.
1t is reported that the protest OF
the Pope against the presence of Pres
ident Loubet at the Quirinal will take
the form of a note to all the Catholic
powers.
DR. Lorenzo of Vienna says that little
Lolita Armour, whom he operated on
will soon be able to walk like any
normal child.
A Paris dispatch says that negotia-
tions for a new loan between Russia
and Paris financial syndicate are as
good as concluded The amount is
placed at sl60.0O0.000.
The stories to the effect that En-
peror Nicholas was about to withdraw
many millions of his private fortune.
deposited in England. as loan to the
war fund, is authoritatively denied.
The whole court of the British Co
lumbia supreme bench has declared
that an agreement previous TO mar
riage is legal consideration In the
making of contract The decision
carries with 1t the disposition of an
estate valued at 100000.
Tho sugar planters of Santo Domingo
have lodged protest with the ALefi-
can legation against the decree impos-
ing export duties on sugar. The pro-
| test is based on the decree OF December
last. prohibiting the imposition OF
such duties for term of twenty years
The recent railway strike at Buda
| Pest. Hungary has collapsed. The
strike leader, Carlay. was arrested on
| charges of melting disorder and treh-
son for adverse criticism of the royal
decree calling out the engineer re-
| serve men for service on the railroad.
Colonel Leutwein. governor OF Ger
man Southwest Africa, cables that ty-
phus has broken out in Major Won
| Glasenapp's column. Seven deaths
| from the disease were recorded up to
| April 22d. The column has marched
tc .he mission station at Otjihaena.
| tod int
! pital.
| Nincente Lichan, who was an
tive leader OF the insurgents on the
island of San1ar in 1900, and Cayetano
Luchan, his brother. formerly secre-
tary o. the Filipino revolutionary jun
ia at Hong Kong. have been sentenced
each to five years Imprisonment for
conspiracy to overthrow the govern
| nient.
Thomas Emerson. 6. negro whO,.
heart was pierced by peniuife nearly
two months ago. has recovered cfter
undergoing the operation Of having The
wound stitched and has been dis
charged from the hospital at P!iiladel-
| phia The operation vas a Ielio1ie
| cne and is fhe third succe-, ,fIl ease Of
the kind ever performed in this coun-
tiy.
The building OF the Victor Talking
Machine Company. at Camden. New
Jersey, was destroyed by fire April 9th
the loss being nearly s500,OOO. Up
ward of half million phonograph disc
records and %, 1000 talking machines In
various stages of completion w're des-
iIuyed. Thousands of oris.a1l records
which cannot be replaced we're also
ruined.
rour of the London and Northwest
ern Railroad Company's warehouses In
tho Minories district of London were
Quilted by fire few days ago. LOSS
100000 The historic church Of III"
| Holy Trinity famous for its connection
with the Washington family. was for
a time in considerable jeopardy, but
the firemen. from its roof. managed
to stem the approaching flames.
| A riot occurred between gatherings
of the Socialist and Independent par
ties at Elesd In Hungary. While or
| der was being restored by the gend
armes, Socialist fired revolver
killing the commander. The gend
armes therenpon fired volley, killing
twenty-three of the rioters and severe
iy wounding forty. The military were
summoned from Gross-Wardein.
| According to ruling by Judge
Moore of the District Court at Salt
Lake City, about hundred boys and
| girls now confined in the state indus~
trial school at Ogden, Utah, are lille
gally held, in that institution, and will
| either have to be tried before jury.
| or given their freedom. The point was
made in a case Of a boy committed for
burglary, that burglary being felony
| the boy was entitled to jury trial