The Lamar register., 1905-01-04
CONDENSED TELEGRAns

can baseball ASSOClauOu Will po uSio
at Chicago January 18TH.
The long drouth at Pittsburg. Penn
sylvania. was broken December 23d by
heavy and continued rains.
Rev. Albion w. Knight of st. Phil
lips Episcopal cathedral, Atlanta, has
been consecrated bishop of Cuba.
Statisticians estimate that thc losses
by the recent uncommonly dense fog
in London amounted to 100000 q
day.
The Sultan OF Morocco has adopted
a vigorous anti-foreign policy and
French domination is likely to be re-
sisted to the extent of revolution.
A dispatch from Tangier. Morocco.
says that the German legation has
warned German subjects in Fee to
prepare to leave at a moments notice
Andrew Carnegie presented to the
Braddock Carnegie library and the
Homestead Carnegie library. Penn
sylvania, $4,000 each as a Christmas
gift.
The total gate receipts of the Britt
Nelson fight at San Francisco were
$26,900, of which Britt received $S,S17.
Nelson $5,91S and the Yosemite club
$12.1O5. 4'"'
vice AuIHlTdl I<oTu Shdlieo DSiSs'-
ford has been appointed to succeed
Admiral Domville in command OF the
British Mediterranean squadron, on
May 1st.
The Department OF Commerce and
Labor has purchased ground at Ell
Paso, Texas, and ordered the erection
of $4,000 building for the immigra-
tion service.
King Peter has signed the new press
law, which practically abolishes free
dom of the press in Servia, though
aimed principally at the anti-dynastic
and opposition papers.
For secreting -whiskey for holiday
entertainments large number of ma
val cadets at Annapolis were sent TO
the prison-ship Santee and three were
recommended for dismissal.
1t is estimated that it cost Chi
cago more than $4,000, 900 to celebrate
Christmas. Never before was money
expended so freely in celebrating hol-
iday in the history of the city.
A Hague dispatch says that the re-
port that Holland will place Sabang,
in the straits settlements, at the dis
posal of the Russian second Pacific
squadron, is devoid of. foundation.
w. C. Matthews, the negro football
and baseball player. has been elected
one of Harvard's senior class day off,
GERS. This is among the highest hon
ors in the gift of Crimson Undergrad
yates.
The Hamburg line steamer Patricia,
which arrived in New York on Christ
mas Day, brought over 2.435 steerage
passengers. most Of whom were Rus
SLAMS fleeing to avoid the army con-
scription.
The governor of Moscow has OFF,
cially condemned the resolution or the
Moscow town council December 18Th,
advocating popular control OF the gov
ernment and freedom of the press and
of meeting.
Henry Molyneux Paget Howard, earl
of Suffolk and Berkshire, was married
in Washington December 27th to Miss
Marguerite Hyde Letter. daughter of
Mrs. Levi z. Letter and a sister of
Lady Curzon.
After having been exhibited for more
than forty years, during which time
he has visited nearly all the principal
cities of the United States and Europe.
William Connery, known as The Irish
Giant" has been sent to the New York
| City almshouse. Connery is seven feet
one inch in height.
Work has begun on the last stage of
| a pine line which will convey oil from
the fields of Indian Territory to the
refineries in Long Island City and
i Green Point. Men are now preparing
| to lay pipes under the East river. The
line will be 1000 miles long and 1000
men will watch it to detect breaks.
Prussia is negotiating treaties with
/ the other German states for the col
| lective management of state lotteries
and will thus reduce the expenses and
| then share the proceeds on an equita-
BILE system of percentages, avoiding the
multiplication OF agents and advertis-
ing. and removing the necessity for
costly competition. ,a
Major Edward T.. Hardin OF the Sew
| enth infantry, u. S. A., has been tried
by court martial and acquitted of the
| charge of neglect of duty. Major Har-
din was charged with neglect of duty
I In not having a sufficient guard at Ma
late prison. from which thirty-three
native prisoners, escaped recently, after
killing three guards.
| Russia Is oil the eve OF abolishing
the passport system. The matter has
already been decided In principle by
| the commission which Is investigating
the passport question. A new law will
be promulgated by the Senate within
six weeks, as one of the solid reforms
resulting from the administration of
Interior Minister Sviatopolk Mirsky.
A statement of the extent of ship
ments Of exhibits from the Worlds
Fair has been made by the director
of exhibitors. Nearly half Of the do
mestic and twenty-five per cent. of the
foreign exhibits have been shipped and
twenty-five to thirty per cent of the
domestic and half of the foreign re-
naming are packed and ready for
shipment. an * tar
Barney oldfeld succeeded In lower
ing all automobile records from two to
nine miles at Agricultural park track.
Los Angeles, December 21st, The rec
ords as they now stand are as follows.
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