The Lamar register., 1905-03-01
CONDENSED 1ELEeRAMs

mines.
Andrew Carnegie has given Fair
mount College at Wichita, Kansas,
100000 to erect library building.
The Cleveland Leader says it is be-
lieved that Mrs. Cassie l.. Chadwick
has a million dollars safely hidden.
Rear Admiral F. G. Wild, United
States navy. has been retired from act
i've duty after forty-three years SER
vice.
A rate of one cent a mile will be
made by all the railroads in the coun-
try to the national encampment OF the
G. A. r. in Denver next September.
The legislature of Washington has
passed bill providing for a submis-
sion of the question of the removal of
the state capital from Olympia to
Tacoma.
The government has appointed
commission of military men to make
report on a new explosive invented by
New York man who has offered the
exclusive use thereof to Mexico.
Major Darlington of Manila, who
was convicted of falsifying vouchers
of the civil government to the amount
of 81 500, has been sentenced to total
of sixty years and five days imprtson-
ment.
The validity of the antitrust law is
upheld by the Supreme Court of the
United States in an opinion by Justice
Brewer in the case of Edmund ]. Smi-
ley. Plaintiff in error. VS.. the State OF
Kansas.
In the Oriel college sports at Ok
ford. Young, OF South Dakota won
three events, the long jump. 20 feet.
.l,
seconds, and the high jump, five feet
two inches.
A message sent by President Roose-
welt to Emperor Nicholas contains
strong expression of the abhorrence
with which both the American govern
ment and people view the crime per
petrated at Moscow on Friday.
Because his white stepfather. Eli
Pettyjohn, was abusing his squaw
wife, the latter's son. Harry. killed
Pettyjohn and then rode over 100 miles
over rough country in most inclement
weather to give himself up to the In
dian agent at Miles, Washington.
Sir Chentung LANG Cheng. Chinese
minister. recently presented to Presi'
dent Roosevelt an oil painting OF the
dowager empress of China. The pres
ertation was attended by the formal
exchange Of felicitous address by the
Chinese minister and the President.
The one -hundredth anniversary of
the beginning of the public school sys-
TEN in New York City was celebrated
February Goth in a., the schools Of the
city. New York. at the present time.
has SAG school buildings and other
school property va.aed at $s0.O00.oOO.
At Rochester. New York. February
14th. Miss Susan b. Anthony celebrat-
ed her S5th birthday. She received
greetings from political equality clubs
in Finland. Switzerland. Holland. Aus
tria, Germany. South America and
from all quarters OF America and Mex
leo.
In the trial OF Charles KratZ. for
mer member of the st. Louis Munich
pal Assembly, charged with accepting
a bribe, Judge Denton issued an order
to compel the st. Louis Trust Com
pany to produce in court the 100000
bribery fund which the state has i'm
pounded.
Information has been received at Es-
quimalt, British Columbia. that the de-
fenses there and at Halifax Will be
taken over without delay from the i'm
perial government by the Dominion OF
Canada. 1t is estimated that $2.OOO,-
900 a year will be expended on the de-
fense works.
The Montana House Of Representa-
tiyes, by vote OF &C to 22. today
passed railroad commission bill
which provides for three commission
ers and a secretary. The commission
is vested with authority TO fix rates
and compel adequate service. and for
failure to comply with its orders fines
are provided.
In order to increase the cavalry rep
resentation in the inaugural parade
and at the same time recognize the col
ored troops of the regular army, Lieu
tenant General Chaffee, chief of staff,
has directed that the first squadron of
the Ninth cavalry at Fort Riley, Kan
sas. proceed to Washington to take
part in the parade.
Henry Victor McClelland, the Eng
lish lecturer in the Commercial Col
lege at,Moscow, who was assassinated
February 5th by student, met his
death because he did not give the lat
ter high enough marks. IL was claimed
that McClelland imposed in this fash
ion upon boys who declined to make
him presents of money.
After a trial consuming seventeen
days Prof r. /. Clifford. accused of the
crime of murder at Decorah, Iowa, was
pronounced by the jury not guilty, but
insane. Prof Clifford killed his neigh
Dor. s. A. Bigelow. on Nov. 3, 1904.
He was prominent educator of Deco
rah and "A leading member of the Meth
odist church. He was sent to an asy-
lum.
Senator Shidlovski, president of the
commission appointed by Emperor
Nicholas to ascertain the causes of dis
content among the working classes OF
St. Petersburg, has invited the en-
ployers and workmen to elect repre-
sentatives to sit on the commission.
The note of Senator Shidlovsh guaran-
tees the personal safety of the dele
ates.
The Supreme Court of the United 4
States has overruled the decision of
the United States District Court of
Montana in the case of the United
States VS.. the Montana Lumber and
Manufacturing Company and the
Northern Pacific Railway Company, in
which it was held the government
could not enforce penalties for timber
cut on unsurveyed public land.