The Lamar register., 1905-03-08
CONDENSED TELEGRAMs

races will be held at New London.
Conn, June 9th.
Science hall of the Virginia Poly
technic Institute. Vicks6urg, Virginia.
has been destroyed by hre.
The Indiana Senate has passed bill
appropriating $4,000 for a statute OF
Gen. Lew Wallace to be placed in the
capitol at Washington.
The maid servants of Kief, in south
western Russia, went on strike few
days ago and paraded the streets until
Cossacks were called out to dispense
them.
When the ice gorge In the Missis-
sippi went out it completely demol-
ished the new S250,0OO government
dyke and a 100000 water protection
in East st. Louis. Ill.
A bill introduced by Mr.. Hawthorne
| Thwaite, Socialist leader In the Brit
ish Columbia Legislature for an eight
| hour day in the British Columbia smelt-
ers, has been defeated.
| Mrs. Anne Weightman Walker has
added 81 to her fortune OF S6O,OOO,ooo
| by winning prizes for the best beans,
primroses and mushrooms displayed at
the annual meeting of the Pennsylva-
MIA Horticultural Society.
]. Pierpont Morgan added another
| old and valuable manuscript to his col
lection few days ago when for $4,Ooo
he purchased from Tristram Collin the
original of Oliver Wendell Holmes
| "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.
An Ell Paso dispatch says that Col.
| W. c. Green. who has started extend
| ing the Sierra Madra railroad into
Mexico, intends to build to the Pacific
coast without stop. giving straight
| line to the southern Mexican coast.
| 1t is reported from Suez that 10000
| Turkish troops of the Damascus army
corps, who had been ordered to Yemen
| to suppress the rebellion in that prov;
ince, refused to leave Akba because ar
rears of their wages had not been paid.
Henry c. Whitman, for years one OF
Chicago's leading lawyers and mem
ber of the Boston bar. died at Boston,
February 2Sth, aged seventy-iour. He
was at one time connected with Abra'
ham Lincolns law Office, in Springfield,
Illinois.
The betrothal is official-.' announced
| O, Princess Victoria of Connaught to
Prince Oscar. eldest son of the crown
| prince of Sweden and Norway. The
| announcement states that the engage
ment has the entire sanction OF King
! Edward.
Orders have been received at Colon,
on the isthmus. from Washington TO
resume the installation OF wireless
telegraph system with the station on
the spot originally selected II Is ex-
pecte a that the work will be completed
| in three months.
The pIant of the Ironclad Manufac-
| turing Company in Brooklyn was dam
aged 1000 by fire on the 2Sth ult.
The principal owner Of the property
| is Mrs. Robert Seaman, formerly
| known as a newspaper writer under
the name of Nelly BLY,.
A London dispatch says that Sir
| Henry Irving, who recently had Sc
we're chill, has suffered slight relapse
and has cancelled the remainder OF MS
provincial tour. His physicians have
| imperativeely ordered him not TO act
for at least two months.
The Economic Society of Central Eu
rope, of which Professor Wolff of Leip
zig University is president, has ap
pointed n committee to report on now
to readjust Germany's trade relations
| with the United States. The purpose
| seems to be to consider the possibility
of acommercial treaty with the United
| States.
| Over a million dollars damage was
done by big fire at Hot Springs. Ar
kansas, February 25th. Among the
| buildings destroyed were the Grand
Palace hotel, Lee house. Moody house
Plateau hotel, Columbia hotel, the
county court house. jail First Method
ist church, the Jewish church and 225
residences and stores.
Taotai Lang Sho III OF Tientsin has
been appointed Chinese minister to
London. He is at present IL Bot!a ne
| gotiating a convention for the adhe'
sion of China to the Anglo-Thibet
treaty. Lang Shao I'll was educated AT
Yale University and was formerly sec
retary to Yuan Shi Kai, progressive
viceroy of Pechili province.
Judge Kavanagh modified the In
| junction issued against the pickering
of tailoring establishments and shops
in Chicago by deciding that the strik
ers should not be prevented from
| peaceably speaking to the non-union
employees of the tailoring establish
ments, as long as there was no sem
blance of persecution.
| The transport Logan sailed from San
Francisco February 2Sth for Manila
] via Honolulu and Guam. She carried
2s5 enlisted men of the Second squad
ron of Eighth cavalry. SAG enlisted
men of the Sixth infantry, twenty-one
enlisted men of the marine corps, four
teen enlisted men of the hospital corps
and cargo OF army supplies.
The legislative committee which is
| investigating Irregularities in the
financial accounts of ltah's commits
sion to the Louisiana Purchase Exposi-
ton has appointed representatives Jo-
seph, Stookey and GaHdry as a commit
tee to go to st. Louis and turn over
every detail of the commissions work
| at the fair. Forged vouchers aggregat'
ing more than s2,10o already have been
| Identified.
Maxim Gorky. the Russian author.
| had but a short glimpsr of liberty on
the 9th ult Released on $4,000 bail,
| the noted author was Immediately re.
arrested and conveyed 10 place OF
confinement pending deportation to
some distant city or province where
his continued residence will not be so