The Lamar register., 1906-06-27
N1isceIln

professor Ol SySteIilutiC tHeoiOSy at
Yale, is dead.
miscellaneous.
In order to make a better campaign
against tuberculosis the Kansas state
board of health has ordered a cont
plete census of the cases in the state
Of which it is belived there are about
1000.
An Associated press correspondent
in describing events during the riot,
ing at Bialystok Russia. said children
were snatched from their mothers
arms and taken by the legs and
Drained on the pavement before TIE
eyes of their parents.
The Norwegian delegates from Am
erica to King Haakor's coronation.
have arrived at Christiania and were
enthusiastically received.
A. L. Harris, republican. has been
sworn in and has assumed the duties
of governor of Ohio in succession to
the late John NJ. Pattison, democrat
The editions of eight St. Petersburg
newspapers Were confiscated for pub
fishing circumstantial accounts of the
recent massacre of Jews at Bialystok
The president and Secretary Shaw
have agreed to deposit s12,000,000 Of
government money in San Francisco
banks, with bonds of the city as sc.
curity. The money is to remain with
the banks until such time as the gov
ernment shall call for it.
John Joseph Kean, who kidnapped
Frederick Muth, seven year old Phil
adelphia boy. was arrested, tried. con
victed and sentenced to 90 years in
the penetentiary a hard labor, all with
in "a hours.
A jury at Columbia. Mo-, recently
awarded Sam B. Cook, former secre-
tary of state $4,000 damages against
the St Louis Post Dispatch for alleged
libel.
Jacob II. Schiff, the New York
banker, has received messages from
reliable parties in Finland saying
that the messacre of Jews in Bialystok
was but the beginning of a series of
systematic massacres similar to those
of last October.
A band of 800 Pulajanes recently
raided the town of Burauen, island
of Leyte, p. l., Five policemen were
| killed, five wounded and the remainder
of the force captured. All the muni
cipal records were taken from the
tribunal and burned.
Owing to demonstrations by the
radical element of the Russian lower
house of parliament during the recent
ministerial explanations the presi-
dent of the body was compelled to
adjourn the session for time
After an extended session of the
cabinet recently Attorney General
Moody issued statement announcing
that the government was ready to
proceed against the Standard Oil COM
pany for violation of various laws
against combinations in restraint of
trade and for receiving rebates from
the railroads.
The federal grand jury at Cape
Girardeau has returned indictments
against the owners of the Smith farm
in Southeastern Missouri charging
! them with holding negroes in slavery
The Missouri supreme court has
set aside the recent order ousting the
Delmar Jockey club and imposing a
fine of $1,000 and has granted a mo-
tion for n rehearing of the case.
The sultan of Morocco has signed
the Algeciras treaty without any con-
ditons.
The heaviest rain and wind storm
of the year recently visited the central
portion of Kansas, damaging railroad
and telegraph communication.
The strike of the Ohio coal miners
has been settled and $4,000 men will
return to, work Immediately.
The Kansas postmasters have elected
J. Frank Smith. of Pleasanton. as pres
ident for the ensuming term. The
meeting next year will be at Salina.
Two men were killed and seven
others injured in an accident in the
Pennsylvania railroads tunnel at New
York recently.
A series of earthquake shocks were
felt throughout the Philippine islands
recently. No damage was reported.
The eighteenth annual convention of
the International Pressmen and AS
sistant's Union opened in Philadelphia
witt. $50 delegates present.
Employees of the Isthmian canal
commission have arranged for regular
old-fashioned Fourth of July celebra-
ton at Panama.
The cotton manufacturers of Fall
River, Mass, have granted the opera.
tives an increase in wages of IA per
cent.