The Lamar register., 1905-02-22
CONDENSED. TELEGRAMs

the 18th inst, occasioned q loss of
100000.
There are said to be signs OF another
revolution against President Castro in
Venezuela.
Italy has experienced extreme cold
weather. Mount Vesuvius being cov-
cred with snow.
Japan has placed an urgent order
with Glasgow manufacturer for fifty
powerful locomotives.
]. Pierpont Morgan has arranged to
make another cruise in foreign waters
in his steam yacht. the Corsair.
The Montana House of Representa-
tives defeated the woman suffrage bill
Dy vote of 80 for to 3S against.
Lady Curzon, wife of the viceroy of
India, and her three children sailed
from London for India February 10th.
1t is estimated that there are AS
100000 eggs in cold storage in Chi
cago, while the price is 80 cents Il
dozen.
The bill giving women the right to
vote for presidential electors was
killed by the Kansas Senate by vote
of to 20.
The trial of Mrs Cassie l.. Chadwick
Cleveland. has been set for March 9th
before Judge II. w. Taylor.
At the bench show of the West
minister Kennel Club In Madison
Square Garden. New York. there were
200 dogs on exhibition.
Anderw Carnegie has announced that
he will go to Cleveland to testify
against Mrs. Cassie l.. Chadwick.
whose trial begins March 9Th.
The London Times says the Ham.
burg-American liners Deutschland and
Hamburg are to be sold to Russia for
sa.500.0OO and s2.000.OOO respectively.
Both branches of the Missouri Legis-
lature have passed the bill repeating
the present law which prohibits the
use of alum in the manufacture Of
baking powder.
Rear Admiral Frank c. Crosby. u.
S. N. retired. died at Washington on
the Sth inst. from paralysis. aged 65
years. He served during the Civil War
and was retired in 1902.
A dispatch from Kobe, Japan. reports
that the small steamer Natorigaw col
lided with the harbor works at Osaka
on Sunday and sank. and that ninety
four persons wera drowned.
official school of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church South at Winchester. Ken
lucky. was burned February 1ith. the
loss being estimated at $4,000.
Rear Admiral George F. Wilde, COM
mandant of the Boston navy yard.
has requested Secretary Morton to
place him on the retired list. He has
been In the navy for forty-three years.
At Havana, Cuba, on the Hth inst.
II. w. Fletcher lowered the worlds au-
tomobile one-mile record one second
by driving the eighty horse power ma
chine of o. f. Thomas that distance
in forty-five seconds.
According to Minneapolis elevator
men who operate strings of elevators
throughout the Dakotas. over 100000
bushels of oats have just been bought
up by agents of the Japanese govern
ment.
Before the National Promotion of
Health Club, Mrs. Il. Cornela Clafiin
| has announced that the club has been
| offered 100 acres of land in the Ozark
| mountains as a place of recreation for
Sick shop girls.
Two photographs OF lHoch the "Chi.
cago Bluebeard" sent to Germany by
the police officials have been returned
with the information that they are pic
| lures of Jacob Scmidt, who formerly
lived at Bingen. Germany.
The management of the Chicago &
| Northwestern railway has practically
decided to electrify all OF the suburban
divisions at Chicago with view to
competing with the trolley lines. The
work may be spread over five years.
Three Russian captains and ten lieu
| tenants who surrendered at Port Ar
thur and who gave their parole to the
japanese, arrived at Honolulu on the
18th inst. on the steamer Siberia en-
route to San Francisco, from whence
they will go to Russia via New York.
The Indictment charging Manager
| Will Q. Davis of the froquois theater
in Chicago, with manslaughter on ac-
count OF loss of life in the theater fire
has been quashed on the ground that
the document fails to show any omis-
sion of duty on the part OF Davis.
Socialists held twenty-one monster
meetings in Berlin and its suburbs on
the night of the 9th inst. to express
flaming Indignation at the butcheries
and massacres which the Russian gov
ernment has perpetrated on defense
less men. women and children in st.
petersburg.
Emperor William has given his sup
port to officers who prefer to drink
toasts in water or non-alcoholic bever-
ages A recent order reads: mo COM
pulsion exists to partake of toasts in
alcoholic drinks. and 1t may be left to
the movement now in progress to ad-
vance this idea in all circles"
General Stoessel. seen on the steam
ship Arabian on his way to Russia,
said Port Arthur could only have held
out eight days longer at the utmost.
He said there were 10000 men. $4,000
of whom were in the hospital. and A.
900 non-combatants. The remaining
5000 nearly all had scurvy.
A French officer is credited with the
statement that two fast English yachts
we're engaged as scouts for the Rus
sian squadron passing through the
Mediterranean and Red seas, keeping
a lookout for Japanese vessels sup
posed to be cruising in those waters.
The yachts kept in communication
with the aagships.
The date of the visit to American