The Lamar register., 1905-11-08
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS

Monterey, Mexico, fell October 9th,
crushing the church, which was erect
ed in 1892.
1t is reported that n disease which
has attacked pine forests in various
parts of Mexico is likely to cause
heavy losses.
The Mexican Central railroad has
| 5000 men at work on the extension OF
it's line to Colima from Tuxpan, in the
state of Jalisco.
The Spanish armored cruiser Car
dinal Cisneros foundered off Villanova
October 2Sth, after striking a rock. All
on board were saved.
The Russian government Is slowly
| removing the mines placed by the Jap
anese around Vladivostok, which now
render access to that port dangerous.
| Secretary Hitchcock ordered the dis
missal from service of four clerks in
the Pension Bureau, accused of loan
| ing money at usurious rates of in
terest.
The convention of the supreme
lodge and the encampment of the Uni
form Rank, knights of Pythias, vii:
be held at New Orleans the third Tues
day in October next.
The Japanese Foreign Office, Octo-
ber 2Sth, accepted Emperor William 8
suggestion that the powers withdraw
| their troops from Peking, excepting
the legation guards.
An immense subterranean channel,
which promises to surpass in size and
beauty the famous Mammoth cave, has
been discovered near Glasgow juno.
ton, Barry county, Kentucky.
The Isthmian Canal Commission has
| ;,1 tnta ANT pf hn
ceipts and expenditures under the ap-
preparation of $40 100000 for canal
construction from June 2S, 1902, to
June 30, 1905. 1t shows balance at
that date of s6.Os3,415, making total
expenditure of $4,0O9,573.
Governor Pennypacker of Pennsyl
vania commuted to life imprisonment
the death sentence of Mrs. Catherine
| Danz, the Philadelphia woman who Is
! alleged to have poisoned ner husband
with powders procured from George p.
Hossey, a 'voodoo" doctor. Hossey Is
under sentence of death for u similar
offense.
Each of the church organizations OF
Lead, Central and Terraville, South
Dakota, has just received a check for
| $500 from Mrs. Phoebe Hearst. Mrs.
Hearst remembers every year these
churches and the amount of her an
nual contributions to them is over
$1,000. She has done this for a num-
Der of years.
One of New York City's most con.
| spicuous ventures in municipal own
ership was inaugurated few days
since, when the new ferry line be.
tween the Battery and Staten Island
was put into operation. 1t is owned
| hu ha nj
splendid ferry boats are the largest in
| New York harbor.
The Southern Cotton Association haa
issued statement compiled from the
reports of 1900 correspondents
throughout the cotton belt, estimating
| the present crop at 9,444,314 bales
| The statement estimates that 61.3 per
cent of the crop had been picked and
that 54.7 per cent ginned October 2lst.
The Santa Fe Railway company has
asked the court in Muskogee to ap
point an appraising board to condemn
a right of way from Tulsa. Indian Ter
ritory, to Shawnee, Oklahoma, 120
miles. This will connect the branch
between Independence, Kansas, and
Tulsa and the Oklahoma lines in
Shawnee.
An official denial has been made at
Berlin of the report originated in Lon
don that Germany proposed to Russia
| to partition Austria. The Associated
| Press is informed authoritatively also
that Germany has made no proposals
to Russia for an alliance in any form
nor has an interchange of views there
on taken place.
An overland march of more than
| 1000 miles has been planned for the
| Twenty-second battery of light artil'
lery, now at Fort Douglas, Salt Lake,
and the Nineteenth light .--ttery. now
at Fort Riley, Kansas, which have
been ordered to exchange stations.
The distance will be made in about
seventy days.
Having occasion to secure twenty
five additional officers for the Philip
pines constabulary, the places paying
s1,1OO to begin with. Captain McIn-
tyre, acting chief of the insular bu.
,reau, invited one hundred state mill
tary institutes and agricultural col
leges to name candidates for the
| places from among their graduates.
Less than twenty applications were
received.
| The Mexican government has ex-
| tended the time of the construction OF
| the Mexican Central's branch from
Colima TO Manzanillo, on the Pacific
| Coast, to October, 1909. There is al
ready a narrow gauge road between
| these two points, which belonged for
merly to the Mexican National Con
struction Company, but which was re-
Gently acquired by the Mexican Cen
trail. This road will be made standard
gauge.
The annual report of Gen. George
B. Davis, judge advocate general of
the army, shows that of the commits
stoned officers tried during the last
year by general court-martial, thirty
six were convicted and thirteen ac-
| quilted. Three cadets and 4.393 en-
listed men were convicted, while 1856
men were acquitted. The total mum.
| ber of trials before general court-mar-
| tial of 1900 cases shows an increase
of 551 cases over last year.
The Ninth Correctional Tribunal of
the Seine has sentenced Eliot Fitch
| Shepard, son of the late Colonel Eliot
F. Shepard, of New York, and a grand
son of the late w. H. Vanderbilt, to