The Lamar register., 1905-03-29
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS

Col. Allen Smith, Sixth cavalry. has
been retired with the rank OF briga-
dier general.
| Baron Won Hammerstein, Prussian
minister of the interior. died at Ber-
| lin, March goth.
Ex-Gev. Cyrus G. Luce of Michigan
died at Coldwater, Michigan. March
18th, at the age of eighty years.
The Mexican Gable Company is
| about to lay a new cable from Calves
! ton to Coatzacoalcos, about 500 miles.
Nan Patterson will be put on trial
once more in New York City to an
swer o Charge of numbering Caesar
Young, the wealthy bookmaker, April
10th.
The household property of Mrs. Cas-
sic l.. Chadwick was sold at auction at
Cleveland to A. ID. Nelson of New York
for $25,O00. There were twenty bid
ders.
Following the suggestion of the re-
cent convention of railway surgeons,
the Pullman company has decided to
use three sheets to a berth hereafter
instead of two.
The American steamer Tacoma was
seized by Japanese guardship March
18th. The Tacoma sailed from Seattle
January 9th with a cargo of barrel beef
for Vladivostok.
A decree has been issued ending the
state of martial law, which was pro-
claimed February 4th, throughout the
whole republic as result OF the IN
surrectionary movement in Brazil.
The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld
the constitutionality of the criminal
section of the Valentine antitrust law.
It'll 1V-.n Il
passed upon as constitutional some
time ago.
Two seats in the New York Stock
Exchange were sold on the 18th inst.
for $50, 900 each. This is new high
record price, exceeding the previous
highest price paid few days before
by $500.
Paul Lessar, Russian minister to
China, has transmitted to the foreign
office at st. Petersburg the most sol
emn assurances from the Chinese gov
ernment regarding its intention to pre-
serve neutrality.
1t is announced from Amiens, cables
the Herald's Paris correspondent, that
Jules Verne, the novelist, is dying. He
is seventy-seven years of age. He Is
pronounced by his physicians to be in
the last stages of diabetes.
The Earl of Rosslyn has been mar
ried to Miss Anna Robinson quietly.
The bride Is native of Minneapolis,
Minnesota, but has lived abroad for
some years. She once appeared on
the stage. but retired in 1901.
Emperor William has bestowed the
great gold medal for science upon Man
uel Garcia, the well-known professor
of singing who invented the laryngo-
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birthday in London March 18th.
The i'll health of John J. Hannahan,
grand master of the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Firemen. necessitates his
temporary retirement, says Peoria,
Illinois,, dispatch. Mr.. Hannahan has
an aggravated attack of rheumatism.
During last December new island
was thrown up in the sea of Japan.
three miles south OF Two. The island
has been named Nushima. 1t is nearly
two and three-fourths miles In circum-
ference and IS thirty feet above sea
level.
Private mail advices from the Cau-
casus received at st. Petersburg indi-
cate that the situation there has not
been exaggerated in earlier reports.
According to one letter the Armcnians
estimate the number of their dead at
1900.
The Rev. c. s. Roster. pastor of the
Dutch Reformed church at Orange
City, Iowa, was tried by board OF
ministers on the charge OF sharp prac-
tices in a horse trade and found guilty.
involving his dismissal from the min
istry.
The pen with which President
Roosevelt signed the bill providing for
l,..ss Is..ar .r#ag-
sentey to the city of FL Paso by Con
grcssman w. Il. Smith, with the sus-
gestion that it be placed in the public
library.
La Province, a splendid new ship of
the French line, was launched March
22d at st. Nazaire. She is the largest
French ship ailoat, being of 1850
tons. exceeding the tonnage of the
largest French battlcship, the Patrie,
by 500 tons.
The National Congress of Mothers
at Washington elected Mrs. Frederick
Schof of Philadelphia president. The
Congress discussed the advisability OF
establishing newspaper organ. and
empowered its board of managers TO
act in the matter.
The activity of Mount Vesuvius con
tlnueS. Inc utSlIe Vi W up-
proach the crater, Notwithstanding the
danger. is SO urgent that extra guards
have been stationed to prevent their
passage. Detonations from the vol
cano are heard long distance.
At Wallace. Idaho. March 10Th. w.
A. Middlekarf was killed and l.. NJ.
Odell dangerously injured by falling
200 feet from n balloon while giving
double ascensions. They were seated
in parachutes which failed to open
when an accident occurred to the bal
loon.
The Union Pacific railroad has start
ed "seed corn special" over its sys-
TEN in Nebraska. The train will spend
three days on the main line and
branches of the road in the state and
lectures will be delivered at all the
principal towns by professors of the
State University.
The bite of cat nine months before
caused the death by hydrophobia of
Henry Phasterer. aged nine, at St
Louis on the 18th inst. The first symp
he. n week