The Lamar register., 1905-02-01
CONDENSED TELEGRAhS

The Cleveland Electric Railway
Company has inaugurated a test of 3.
cent fares within limited zone.
Recent earthquakes in Greece de-
stroyed a village in Thessaly and
floods did great deal of damage in
Sparta.
King Victor Emmanuel has signed a
decree comforting the Grand Coruon Of
tbs Crown Of Italy on Whitelaw Reid
OF New York.
Three distinct shocks of earthquake
at Santiago. Cuba, January 22d. caused
much excitement. though no serious
damage WAS done.
The Russian government has or
dered the Ludwig Loewe arms factory
in Germany to supply, as soon as pos
sible. 500 machine guns.
S. R. Beckwith. who was President
Garfield's family physician at the time
of his assassination. died few days
ago at Atlantic City. New Jersey.
Thomas A. Edison is recovering
from an operation performed for a
mastoid abscess behind his left ear.
He had similar trouble few years
ago.
John Randolph Bull, who died Jan
uary Goth at Bayonne. New Jersey. was
a veteran of two wars and an init
mate friend of General Lafayette and
Henry Clay.
A few cases of yellow fever are re-
ported to exist in the Panama canal
zone and there Is some fear expressed
| that q panic may result in an exodus
OF the canal builders.
A Greek band January 31st defeated
eighty Bulgarians near Chesgeli, kill
ing or wounding thirty. Bulgarian VII
layers of the same district are fieeins
to the mountains in fear of the Greeks
The national House of Representa-
tives has appointed Friday. February
17th next, as the date for holding ap-
propriate exercises in statuary hall, ac'
cepting the statue of Frances Il. Will
lard.
The main building. which includes
the dormitory, of the Roger Williams
University for Negroes at Nashville.
Tennessee. was destroyed by fire on
the night of January cath. Loss,
100000.
The national convention of the
United Mine Workers of America at
Indianapolis to-day adopted a resolu
ton forbidding membership to all sa
loonkeepers. owners of saloons or bar
keepers.
On the night of January 21st Charles
Tuxhorn. farmer living near Nc
Pherson, Kansas, killed his two sons
young boys aged six and ten years,
burned his house and barn with all OF
their contents. and then shot and
killed himself.
1t has been decided by the executive
committee of the National Amateur
cyt.u hnt all oh tf,v-s
who enter events under the rules or
direction Of the association must be
registered the same as in the ranks OF
the Amateur Athletic Union.
The suicide of Charles II. House,
man. cashier of the East Side Savings
Bank at Columbus. Ohio. precipitated
q run on the bank and a receiver was
appointed. The assets are given at
$3.50 900; liabilities $423.s0O. of which
1884, 400 are individual deposits.
DR.. Livingston Farrand, professor OF
anthropology at Columbia University
has been named as head of the Ma
tional Association for the Study and
Prevention of Tuberculosis, organized
less than n year ago at meeting OF
the National Medical Association.
Campbell Russell, one of the best
known stockmen of the Southwest, has
filed petition in bankruptcy. His liza
bilities are placed at S113,1G6 and as
sets at $S9,747. He is leading breeder
of Hereford cattle and founded the
town of Russell. Indian Territory.
At the Santa Fe meeting In Topeka
practically no opposition was mani
tested by the stockholders to the prop
osition of increasing the common
stock of the company and issuing $50.
600, 900 convertible bonds. The com
mon stock is increased from s102. 900.
600 to sl52. 100000.
George Foster Peabody. banker ani
treasurer OF the Democratic nationa
committee. is reported.to have broker
down physically and is now at his
farm home in northern New York. H'
is not seriously ill. but the physi
clans have ordered him to take a lont
rest and a change of scene.
Henry Phipps, business associate o
Andrew Carnegie and one of the di
rectors Of the United States Stee
!. Corporation. has decided to make hi
model tenement house" philanthrop,
a triangular enterprise by including il
1t the cities of Philadelphia and ALE
cheney, as well as New York.
At a meeting of the paper and woot
pulp manufacturers of Canada, 1t wa:
unanimously resolved that, in the in
terests of the Dominion, and espe
cially of the province of Quebec, ev
cry effort should be made to secure
the enactment of legislation to pro
hibit the export of logs and pull
wood.
The trustees of the Peabody educa
ton fund, at their meeting in Wash
ington January 24th, voted to dissolve
their trust. A vote also was taken OIL
the proposition to appropriate 81 900,
900 for the George Peabody School fol
Teachers at Nashville, Tennessee. th'
appropriation for that purpose bein,
made unanimously.
Pope Plus X. has received the stu
dents of the American College at Rom,
who were presented by Rector KeH
nedy. The Pope congratulated his Wis
itors upon the splendid results of thei
EXAMINATIONS, saying that American
took the palms among the colleges o
Rome and are an honor to their coun
try. He gave each student silve
medal.
, The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion has issued a report on railroad af