The Lamar register., 1905-02-08
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Fire at Oberlin College January 31st
destroyed Baldwin cottage; the prin-
cipal ladies' dormitory, valued at $40,-
900.
The Missouri State Senate has
passed bill repeating the law prohib-
iting the use of alum in baking pow
ders.
A cablegram from Santiago. Chill.
says that the first automobile has Just
crossed the Andes at an elevation OF
$4,000 feet.
Postmaster James NJ. Hobson OF
Greensboro, Alabama. father of Capt
Richmond P. Hobson. died January
3lst, aged sixty-eight.
The Japanese recently captured on
Hokkaido island. northern Japan. the
British steamer Wyfield. loaded with
contraband for Vladivostok.
The directors of the Lewis & Clark
Exposition Company have decided to
open the fair to the public Sundays.
The Oregon Trail" shows will be
closed.
Lady Curzon, wife OF the vlceroy OF
India. has completely recovered from
her long Illness. and is preparing to
join her husband in India with their
children.
A bill granting to women the right
to vote for presidential electors has
been favorably reported to the Kansas
House of Representatives. 1t is ex-
pected the bill will pass.
The police committee of the San
Francisco grand jury Is unearthing a
regularly organized system of gross
police corruption in Chinatown and
numerous indictments are expected.
The Montana legislature has memor-
lalized Congress to submit to the peo-
pie constitutional amendment pro-
viding for the election of United States
senators by direct vote of the people.
Gadsden and Attala, Alabama, expe-
rienced an earthquake shock during
the night of January eth. Many citi-
Zens were awakened. In some in
stances glassware was thrown from the
tables.
1t is announced that there is to be
r. combination of the forty-three lead
ing telephone companies of the United
States and Canada under the tutelage
of the American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company, the capitalization to
be $250.0O0.000.
A st. Petersburg dispath says tho
iVPol tHdJ hhSlll ool tHt t'ltbl az
ed novelist, may be hanged for high
treason is without the slightest foun-
dation. Even his friends declare the
rumor absurd. The expectation is that
he will be released In a few weeks.
The government shipped 55s boxes
of Philippine coins to Manila on the
transport Sherman February 1st.
These were old Spanish coins. re-
claimed by the government and re-
coined. amounting to 1886 900 pesos.
and also 10000 pesos in 2O-cehtayos
pieces.
After twenty years service as
United States commissioner of labor,
Carroll ID. Wright retired from that of
fee January 31st. leaving for Worces-
ter, Massachusetts,, to assume the pres
idency of Clark College. His sue
cessor. DR.. C. r. Neill. has taken
charge of the office.
Spencer Eddy, secretary Of the
American embassy at st. Petersburg.
was nearly ridden down by cavalry,
having gotten between half squad
ron of Cossacks charging crowd, and
the crowd itself. He ran three blocks,
me- the sleigh OF an acquaintance,
jul. ped on the sootboard behind and
escaped.
Suits for damages aggregating at.
most $2,500,000 have been brought
against the Pennsylvania Railr .)ad
Company in the United States Cir ut
Court by the Pennsylvania Coal and
Coke Company and the Webster Coaa
and Coke Company on account of al
legged discrimination against the plain
tiff companies.
II is stated at San Francisco that
the actual construction work of the
Western Pacific railroad will begin
within two months and that n Gould
road to San Francisco promises to be
an accomplished fact soon. Rights OF
way and a San Francisco terminal aru
said to have been finally secured with
out fear of interference.
Fifty miles In thirtyeight minutes
fifty-one seconds was made in the Day
tona handicap in Florida January 3lst
by w. II. Fletcher in Il. II. Thomas
eighty horsepower automobile. The
race was in ten-mile stretches. with
two minutes control at each turn. w.
II. Bowden made a mile in thirty-two
and fo,Ir-fifths seconds.
President Beckwith of the defun OF
Citizens National Bank at Oberhn.
Ohio. is reported in a serious condt
tion. Beckwith has been i'll with heart
trouble ever since the close of the
bank on account of the Chadwick
loans and has gradually grown weaker.
1t is believed he will not live to be
tried on the charges against him.
A statue has been erected in Fuller
ton Memorial hall at the art institute
at Chicago in honor of DR.. Mary Harris
Thompson. DIR. Thompson was the
founder In 1866 of the Mary Thomp-
son hospital for women and children.
and was the pioneer woman physician
of the Northwest. The memorial cost
s2.250, and is the work Of Daniel q
French.
The house of the Arkansas General
Assembly. by vote Of "a ayes to 20
noes, has Indefinitely postponed the
Burgess bill providing for separation
of school taxes on racial lines. The
object of the bill was to make negro
public schools depend on taxes paid
by negroes. In his message to the as
sembly. Governor Davis urged the pas.
sage of such bill.
The United States steel corporation