The Lamar register., 1905-10-04
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term as mayor.
The Losses in the recent big fire at
Butte are now estimated at 100000.
! with insurance of $535, 900
The Russian battleship Retvizan,
wass sunk at Port Arthur, has
been refoated by Japanese engineers.
The California Supreme Court has
decided that the anti-trading stamp
law passed in 1904 is unconstitutional.
The board of review has fixed the
total cash value of real estate and per
sonal property in Cook county. which
contains Chicago, at $2,0l49l9,425.
1t is stated that while the visit of
King Alfonso of, Spain TO Berlin has
been fixed for November 9Th the date
will be changed should cholera spread
in Germany. ~ Asf II
In his annual report Brig Gen. Will
lam S. McCaskey, commanding the De-
partment Of Colorado. recommends the
re-establishment of the canteen fea-
ture oflthe exchange: .s.tf
A Copenhagen dispatch SAYS that
Mylius Erickson is preparing Danish
ship and sledge party foE an expedition
to the hitherto uneXplcred regions oil
the northwest coast of Greenland.
The work OF the civilian physicians
in examining recruits of the army has
proved so unsatisfactory that their ser
vices Will be entirely dispensed with in
that capacity after September S0th.
Reports from the famine districts in
Spain show that the worlImen threaten
to burn and sack If they are not fur
nished with food. Appeals have been
sent to the government TO distribute
rations.
The sixth game of the chess match
of eight games at Nuremburg was be-
gun by. Tarrasch and after seventy
moves was declared II draw. The
score: q. Tarrasch, 2; Marshall, o;
drawn, 4.
The students Of the St. Petersburg
University have decided by large ma
jority to resume their studies "be-
cause an open university will be more
dangerous TO Imperialism than uni
versity on strike
The Mexican branch of the Y. NJ. C.
A. has peen inaugurated at the City of
Mexico with Vice President Corrall- as
honorary president of the association.
Ther, Is also branch for English
speaking young men. -,- 4
United States Senator ]. r. Burton $
trial has again been postponed. Wit
nesses tor the. government have been
notified that the case will be called
October cath. The first subpoenas is
sued in the re-trial were for October
Sd. 4
, Within a year from now the Rock
Island system will have the entire
length of its main line 10 Colorado
laid with S5-pound steel and heavily
ballasted. That means that il will
have to relay probably about $50 miles
'of STEEL. ..S..ls -'..sl.s
The census bureau has issued bul-
letin on 'central light and power sta
tions for the year ending June 30,
1902, showing there were in the United
States $500 such stations, with a ccht
OF construction and equipment of $780,
740,S52. ..r .s..f.
The control of the National Car
Wheel Company at Pittsburg has
passed into the hands of James d.
Rhodes of ,Pittsburg and William Bon.
nell of Cieteland This company owns
four plants, and is capitalized at nearly
$2,9Qo,ooo. aa "a .-s ~
Fifty Filipino students arrived in
Chicago from Washington few days
dgo, preparatory 10 registering in va
rious iwest.rn colleges and universi-
ties. The students were in charge OF
W. A. Sutherland, an at,ache of the
pepartme Bt of the Interior.
Is; On Beatty's ridge, in Switzerland
county, Indiana, on September Goth.
George Ford, who is believed TO be
insane. 'cremated his wife and three
children BY setting fire TO the house in
which they were asleep. All four per-
ished in. the flames.
The London Daily Telegraphs To
kio correspondent says the British far
Eastern squadron will assemble in To-
kio bay early in October after the rati-
fication of -the Russe-Japanese peace
treaty, and that the Japanese feet will
also assemble at the same place.
Much damage was done to the bust
ness section of Spokane, Washington
September 2Gth by a fire which de-
stroyed 100000 worth of property,
the heaviest losers. being the Booth
McClinctoclt company. wholesale gro
ceries. two-story building and contents,
100000; the Cudahy Packing Com
pany, stock, 100000.
The next great ship that is to come |
from the Mecllenhnrs.yards.w where the
North German Lloyd keels are laid.
will be named. after Washington in
stead OF sonfe German prince, as has
been. the. invariable rule of the com
pany. berelafore.. The Washington is
TO be 17,0QOton ship, one of the larg-
est affoat and will be completed in the
fall ofr190E. 1t is declared that some
of The interior plans win startle the
world. ~ /
cdffmanaing officers of. the Catholic
Knights of America and of the Knights
of st. John are perfecting arrange
ments for che amalgamatiop of all the
Catbaic military orders in the coun-
try under the general name of the
Cath6lT Military Federation, Of Amer
lea, .The federation represents mem.
bership of 10000 men, 10000 of whom
wefe members of the knights of ST
JohD,i and the -renaindey members of
the Catholic Knights of'America, 1t
will hold its' national encanipment at
Buffalo next June. ft w Pr
'Col. Francis William Rhodes. retired,