The Lamar register., 1905-10-25
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS

queror of Greece, is alive and in good
health. The report of his death arose
from the demise of namesake.
Yankee Consul, noted thorough
bred, died at Lexington, Kentucky, on
the 11th inst. He was valued at $780,
900, and belonged to Paul Raines of
Cleveland.
Herr Moller, Prussian minister of
commerce and industry, has resigned
He will be succeeded by Herr Del
bruck, president of the province of
West Prussia.
The Berlin Chess Club'has accepted
the challenge of the Manhattan Chess
Club of New York for a match of six
boards to be played by cable. at the
end of November.
The President has accepted the resis-
nation of Eugene Tucker as associate
justice of the Supreme Court OF Ari-
zona. To succeed him the President
has appointed Paul Jessen ofNebraska.
A meeting of the Carnegie trustees
to consider the disposition of the $lO,-
100000 fund to pension retired teach
ers has been called at the New York
home of Andrew Carnegie November
18th.
Isaac Taylor, Indian fighter, scout.
stage coach driver. and one of the first
men to make the trip overland from
Kansas TO the Pacific coast, died at
Kansas City, October 9th, at the age
of eighty-four years.
The police of Barcelona, Spain, have
found number of packages of dyna-
mite concealed in flowers. lnvestiga-
tions indicate that there was a plot to
use dynamite during President Lou
bets visit to King Alfonso.
The tenth anniversary of the found
ing of the prison volunteer league was
celebrated at the Joliet, Illinois, pen
itentiary on the 18th inst. Mrs. MauG
Ballington Booth founded the league
She made an address to 1.4O0 convicts
The British torpedo boat destroyer
Cherwell reports that while anchored
between Ceuta and Ceres, she was fired
at by Moors, whose bullets pierced her
funnel. The Cherwell threw her
searchlight on the assailanJs. There
We're no casualties.
The Santa Fe announces that COM
mencing November 18th, the daily ser
vice for the eleventh season of the
california Limited" will be resumed
between Chicago, Los Angeles, San Dl-
ego and San Francisco. This train
now runs semi-weekly.
General Bates. acting chief of staff,
has detailed Mai. Gen. John f. Weston.
formerly commissary general of sub
sistence, to the command of the north
ern military division, with headquar-
ters at ST. Louis. to succeed Maj. Gen
George NJ. Randall, retired.
1t is understood in manufacturing
circles in Massachusetts that within
short time the Fall River Cotton
Manufacturers Association Will grant
an advance in wages to the operatives,
numbering upwards of 25,0OO now em-
ployed in association mills.
The Arizona Association of Consre-
gational ministers adopted resolution
urging Congress to incorporate in the
Arizona statehood bill Il prohibition
against the licensing of gambling. lot
teries and the sale of intoxicating liq-
uors in the state OF Arizona.
Gen. A. L. Mills, superintendent OF
the military academy at West Point,
in his annual report pictures very sat
isfactory conditions as to discipline,
military bearing and soldierly conduct
OF the cadets. and says that hazing In
any form has shown no symptom of re-
appearing.
The discontinuance of racing reports
caused a decrease of $215,755 in the
gross earnings of the Western Union
Telegraph Company for the year ended
June 3Oth last The decrease, President
Clowry reports, resulted in spite OF Il
large increase of revenue from mes
sage business.
Secretary of War Taft is a very big
man physically. In order to furnish
him with n comfortable place to sleep
.l.... lat I'll. tn
Panama it became necessary to make
q special bunk, which was placed
where there would be the least jar
from the machinery.
According to the report of the naval
board of inspection and survey the
final forty-eight-ho trial of the
cruiser Galveston was satisfactory in
every way. The average speed for
four-hour run under forced draft was
1856 knots an hour. the speed which
the vessel was designed to make being
1G:5 knots.
Five tons of molten metal exploded
at the Joliet plant of the Illinois Steel
Company, falling in shower of death
on a band of workmen about the con-
verter. One man is dead, three are
fatally burned and a half dozen in
iured so badly that they may die.
Many others suffered severe burns on
their feet and hands.
The American Hawaiian Steamship
Company expects to ship at least 3OO,-
900 tons of Hawaiian sugar annually
across the Mexican isthmus under the
contract recently entered into with the
National Railroad of Tehuantepec
pending the completion of the Panama
canal Two new steamers are being
built for the company at California
yards.
Valuable gifts were received by the
board of regents for the California
State University at its last monthly
meeting, Mrs. Hearst's donation alone
amounting to nearly 100000. For
seven years she has been collecting
from all parts of the world archaeolog-
ical and anthropological material, and
this collection she has given TO the uni
versity.
The work of the Sinaloa Land Com
pany, which was organized at Los An
geles to survey the public lands of Sin
aloa. Mexico. under government con
cegsion. is nearing completion. The