The Lamar register., 1906-02-28
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS

18th at the age of seventy-six years.
The centenary of the birth of Mrs.
Browning March 6th) will he cele-
brated by the Pioneer Club of London.
bill has passed the Senate prohib-
iting the unlawful wearing of the in
sigma of the G. A. X. and other soldier
organizations.
1t is reported that Dowager Queen
Margaret of Italy is planning to start
in May for an automobile tour of the
United States.
John B. Stetson, the millionaire hat
manufacturer of Philadelphia. died at
his winter home at Glen, near Deland,
Florida, February 18th.
The American colony at Havana on
February 18th observed the eighth an
niversary of the destruction of the
Maine Flags and wreaths We're placed
on the masts of this battleship.
A St Petersburg dispatch says that
General Kuropatllin and General Bat
jenoff, commanders respectively OF the
First and Third Munchurian armies,
have been recalled.
Paul Knapp, aged nineteen half
breed Indian, whose mother was
daughter of Chief Peter Pokagon OF
the Pottawotomie tribe, has received
an appointment to enter West Point.
The town of Lovelocis, in Nevada,
ran so short of fuel the other day that
residents had to pull down some OF
their buildings and burn the materials.
The mercury was thirty degrees below
zero.
The instruments of the imperial me-
neurological department at Vienna on
February 18th recorded an earthquake
center which was 1900 miles Off. The
movement lasted from 1922 Il. IN. 10
s: 80 a. NJ.
The Hungarian Parliament. in scs'
sion at Budapest. was dissolved Fen
ruary 18th by the use of an ARMED
force of police. The members of the
coalition party declare that the disso'
luton was Illegal.
| Cambridge defeated oxford this
month by three goals to one in the an
nual association football match played
| In London. Out of thirty-three matches
| Cambridge has won II and oxford 10.
The odd match was drawn.
A son has been born to Prince Chun,
the Chinese Empress brother. 1t is
believed that the child is the most
likely to be designated as successor to
the throne. An imperial decree be
slows upon him the name of Pu.
The May Festival Association OF
Cincinnati will erect memorial to the
late Theodore Thomas in that city. to-
ward which A. Howard Hinklc, forirer
president of the association, has
started a subscription fund with $1,000.
Lord Ashburton was married at
Paris February 18th to Frances Don
nelly, an American actress whose
. Let ic Rplmnut
merly of New York, and one of the
original "Florodora sextette" of 1901.
The directors of the National Fra
tternal Sanitarium Association met at
Chicago and formally took over tract
of 5000 acres of land and a large ho-
tel blilding at Las Vegas, New Mexico.
The entire property. 1t is said, is val
ued at s1,OOO,O00 1t is planned 10
to open the sanitarium July lst.
The sincerest gratitude is ex
pressed in Toxic on all sides at Pre- 81
dent Roosevelt's appeal to the Amer
lean nation for assistance for the sur
ferers from famine in Japan. His ac-
tion is appreciated as the timeiiest
mark of Americas unvarying friend
ship.
The German Emperor has surprised
the German people, and especially
strict constructionists of the lese ma
jeste laws, By authorizing the circua-
ton of French collection of carica-
lures of himself which Jealous customs
officers on the French frontier had
seized.
A remarkable discovery has been
made by Dr. p. Il, Shaw. one OF the
physical science leaders at the Uniyer-
sity College, Nottingham, England.
whereby measurements up to one
seventy .millionth part OF an inch can
be taken. This is likely to lead to
some vitally important developments
In scientific investigation.
DIR. Gunsaulus, who breaches every
Sunday at the Chicago auditorium, re-
Gently forbade the housing of eight
lions in the cellar under the stage on
Sundays. They were kept there by the
managers of a spectacular play ana
their roars frightened the audience,
who feared that the animals might
get loose and find their way upstairs.
The magazine of the Hercules Tor
pedo Company, one mile from Geneva,
Indiana, was destroyed by an explo-
sion February 18th. Edward Gates
| and Lee Toward, who were engaged in
/ unloading 1,oOU quarts OF nllTo-BIycei'
Inc from wagons at the time, were
blown to pieces. Nothing is left OF
the magazine but a big hole in the
ground.
Richard Randall Terry. who ten
years ago founded the New York free
circulating library for the blind. died
February 10th, aged seventy-one. In
1894 he became blind and interested
himself in books printed with raised
letters and with the assistance of a
group of prominent New York men
founded the circulating library for the
blind.
Although b; cteriologists from Des
Moines and Chicago declared the wells
of the Northwestern railroad were not
polluted and that the road was not re
sponsible for the epidemic of typhoid
fever of the last few months at Clin
ton, Iowa, the railroad company has
paid ffty-five of its employees amornts
aggregating $1,000 for time lost while
they were ill. In all, 112 persons sui
fered from the disease, and two died.
Frederick w. Seward. seventy years