The Lamar register., 1906-08-29


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The Chilean consul at Berlin has
cablcd dispatch from lquique an
nouncing that the nitrate region mas
not been affected by the earthquake.
The IL japanese arrested for raid
ing the seal fisheries on Paufs is
land have been indicted at Valdez,
| Alaska, for violating United States
laws.
Fire insurance companies having
their home offices in Connecticut are
not losers by the earthquakes IN
Chile as none has written risks there.
Michael f. Dwyer, long one of the
most prominent figures of the Amer
lean turf, died at his home in Brook
lyn.
Voluntarily the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe Railway company has given
the 1000 telegraph operators on their
system an increase of wages averaS-
ing about 81 month.
The war department ordered the ne
gro troops stationed at Fort Brown,
Tex, where serious trouble between
citizens and soldiers had occurred,
transferred to Fort Ringgold, Tex.
Armed manifestations against the
Cuban government nave occurred in
the provinces of Pinar Del Rio and
Havana
The heaviest rain in nine years fell
at El Paso, Tex, recently.
Martial law has been proclaimed
at Valparaiso, Chile, pending rehabil-
itation of the city.
N ritizsu named Gin
son has been expelled from Odessa,
Russia, and taken to the western
border under police escort, the charge
being that he was a political pro
vocative agent.
By a vote of ! ,O3S to $40 the Illi-
nois state democratic convention laid
upon the table the request of William
J. Bryan for the resignation, of Roger
c. Sullivan as national committeeman
from that state. The convention, how
ever, unanimously indorsed- Mr.. Bry-
ans candidacy for president in 1908.
A call has been issued for farmers
cooperative congress, composed of
delegates from the Mississippi valley
to meet October % The purpose Of
the congress will be to unite the
organization to control farm products.
The congress will probably meet in
Topeka.
The Ohio democratic state conven-
tion at Columbus adopted platform
indorsing William j. Bryan for pres
ident and favoring the initiative and
referendum and the election of sem
ators by direct vote of the people.
The plank of the Anti-Saloon league
favoring the local option for counties
was defeated.
Nebraska republicans in state con-
vention nominated George l.. Sheldon
for governor and selected Norris
Brown for United States senator over
Edward Rosewater, the Omaha editor.
The prosecuting attorney of Ma
rion county. Indiana, has caused ac-
tions to be instituted against three
prominent express companies to oust
them from doing business in the
state for alleged failure to obey the
state law.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw has
taken steps to increase the deposits
of public moneys in national deposition
les in various parts of die country
to s50.OOe each, the amount authorized
by law.
The medical department of the Ger
man government. after an invesuEa-
tion, reports many bakeries and
slaughter houses in that country in
an extremely filthy and unsanitary
condition.
a unionist party has been formed
in Salvador to form Central Amer
lean republic which is 20 include all
the Central American republics as
now constituted.
The Cuban insurgent forces under
Pine Guerra have captured San Juan
de Maritime. the terminus of the west
ern railroad, and have occupied the
town and the railroad station.
Nine members of the negro regi-
ment believed to be responsible for
the recent trouble at Brownsville have
been arrested by the Texas authorities
and will be held on a charge OF muir
der.
a new comet has been discovered
by Prof. Kopff, of Heidelberg, univer-
sity. 1t can be seen through a small
telescope.
President Roosevelt has ordered
that hereafter all messages and other
documents emanating from the White
house shall be printed in accordance
with the recommendations of the spell
ing reform committee headed by
Brander Matthews. professor of En-
glish at Columbia university.
At a bacon broil" held at Jeher-
son City. recently Gov. Folk, Senator
Stone. Attorney General Hadley and
other speakers pledged themselves to
use their best efforts to secure new
s5,O0G,0Oo capitol building for the
state.
Complete returns from the Alabama
democratic primaries show that Hoke
Smith, former member of Clevelands
cabinet. carried 1lS counties of tn,
state. This practically insures his
o.ection as governor.
The jury in the case of Doss Gal
braith. the alleged leader of the
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