The Lamar register., 1906-06-06
Miscellaneous,


at the Kubari colliery on the island Of
Hokkaido AIS buildings were destroyed
and nine miners perished.
DR.. j. l.. Force, former president of
the Northwestern Life Insurance COM
pany of Minneapolis, has been con-
victed of embezzlement.
The 1lSth Presbyterian general as
sembly has concluded its business ct
Des Moines; Ia, and adjourned to meet
next year at Columbus. o.
Lightning struck in crowd of spec
tators at the ball grounds at Mobile,
Ala. killed five people and injured
about 25 others.
A bench warrant has been issued
for Webb Covington. president of the
last state senate who is charged with
boodling during the last session of the
legislature of Arkansas.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is
again under fire. This time he is ac-
cused of an absolute disregard of the
law authorizing the construction of n
new building for his department
TAe level of Lake Michigan varied
as much as four feet in one day at
Chicago recently. The sudden change
,&,s thought to have been caused by
the wind.
Two bombs were recently thrown
into party of Cossacks escortins
Gen. Alikhanoff at Borjon. Transcau-
casia. The general and several men,
bers of the escort were seriously in
jured The Cossacks fired indiscrim-
inately into the crowd killing many
persons.
The Missouri supreme court has
affirmed the sentence of death in the
case of Lord" Darlington. convicted
of murder at st. Louis. He will lie
hung on July 26.
General Greedy has made arrange
ments TO the gradual withdrawal oi
troops from San Francisco.
A number of persons were injured
in Tulsa. l. T. and vicinity recently
during a wind storm which broke plate
glass fronts. uprooted trees and ieveled
small buildings.
John H. Tennent, Jr., formerly sec
retary of the Tennent Shoe company,
which failed recently at st. Louis.
committed suicide at his home in that
city recently.
The warden of the city prison at st.
Petersburg was shot and mortally
wounded by an 1S-year-old youth.
Memorial day ceremonies at Arling-
ton cemetery at Washington were on
an elaborate scale. Representative
Birdsall, of Iowa, delivered an address
The orator of the day was Rev d. j
Stafford, of the Roman Catholic
church.
In an address to Atlanta, Ga, bus
mess men recently Chairman Shonts,
of the Panama canal commission
took strong grounds in advocacy OF
the lock canal system.
The Guatamalan revolutionists, who
attacked Ocos, have been driven back
across the Mexican border.
The first permanent leper colony in
the Philippines has been established
on Culion island and 200 lepers have
been removed there from Cebu.
Armour G Co.'S elevator "a" in
Chicago was recently destroyed by
fire causing a loss of 100000.
The indictments recently found
against the officials of Oklahoma City
Ok, have been annulled by the district
court.
A ieweled decoration worn by King
Alfonso was shattered by a splinter OF
the bomb which killed 30 persons and
wounded GO others on his wedding day
After four days of the stormiest pol.
itical convention in the history of the
state, Congressman Malcolm r. Pat
terson has been nominated by the
democrats for governor of Tennessee
over the present incumbent, Gov. John
|. Cox.
Gov. Pardee, of California, has is
sued a proclamation convening the
state Legislature in special session on
June 8.
The joint convention of Illinois coal
miners and operators has signed the
scale of wages which holds until March
81. 1908.