The Lamar register., 1906-07-25

notihed the war department u! cdpi'
of the receipt of S1,750,000 in gold for
warded to the Philippine treasury from
| San Francisco by the army transport
Thomas.
West Indian negroes have proved u
be unsatisfactory as canal laDorers
Spaniards having been found more de
sirable, and it is thought that it may
yet be found necessary to bring Chi
nese TO the isthmus before the commits
sion solves the labor problem.
A powder mill near Ashland, Wis.
blew up, killing three men and injur'
ing 90.
An imperial Turkish trade calls II.
900 recruits to the colors for service
at Yemen.
The Chicago & Alton Railway com
pany, John N. Faithorn and F. A
Wann, former officials of the road
have been granted a stay of execution
pending an appeal to the United States
court of appeals in the case in which
they were recently find an aggregate
sum of 100000.
The New York Central Railroad
company is reported to have made /
bid of $lS,000,OO for the two indiana
railroads owned by John II. Walsh
former president of the dcfunct Chi
cago National bank.
The federal grand jury at Cleve
land o., which has been Investigating
the relations of the Standard Oil com
pany with the railroads has adjourned
without returning indictments. The
government attorneys discovered thai
the acts charged had been committed
in another jurisdiction.
William Stryker. former state SUI
perintendent of public instruction in
Kansas and now editor of the Tulsa
|. T., Daily Democrat, was assaulted
in that city by Woodson Norvell, a
candidate for attorney general.
Eastern Cherokee Indians have ap-
piled to the District of Columbia SUI
preme court for an injunction to pre-
nt-the United States treasurer from
paying a 0,00O fee to st. Louis and
Vinita attorneys.
| The Paris journal declares that the
emperors of Austria, Germany and
Russia have entered into an alliance
regarding Poland whereby each is to
protect the interests of the ether in
case of revolution in that country
The agrarian outrages continue IL
the province of VeroneZh, Russia. The
PEASANTS have risen as one man -ant
in one night recently burned more
than 20 estates and killed several o
the proprietors.,
Martin Flynn, president of the
Peoples Savings bank of Des Moines
Ia, recently committed suicide in
that city by shooting. He was wei
known throughout the west as 6
breeder of shorthorn cattle.
A statement issued by the depart
ment of commerce and labor says the
foreign commerce of the United State
for the fiscal year just ended aggre
gated s2,27O.000, 900. ..
At the instance of Secretary Taft
the president has directed that Off
GERS in charge of public work mus
detect and punish violations of the
eight hour law.
By the explosion of n 2O-gallon tanl
of carbide at Greenwood, Ind, Rev
d. l. Lewis and George McNeenu
were killed and Harry Lewis was seri
ously injured. The men were pre-
pairing for stereopticon exhibition
Socorro, New Mexico, has recent,
suffered considerable damage from
earthquake shocks. so being recorded
in less than three days. The pc
cuniary loss will not be large owint
to the fact that most of the structure.
in the town are of adobe.
. n. t. Il.
the Elks as the convention .ity fol
next year.
An investigation of the accounts o
the late Mai. George A. Bartlett, dis
bursting officer of the treasury depart
ment at Washington, show a shorteg
of s33.OOO.
In the final battles of the Centra
American war Salvador was the vic
tor, the Guatemalan army retreatint
in disorder and leaving arms and am.
munition in it's camp.
A remarkable instance of the feelin,
of Japanese Buddhists and Shintoist
towards Christians is furnished by tn
action of their leaders who hav,
decided to contribute voluntaril,
toward the cost of rebuilding tn,
Christian church which was destroyed
during the disturbances in Toxic las
September.
Fire in Yokohama recently de,
stroyed 1000 Japanese houses.
An application has been filed ir
the district court at Des Moines. Ia.
for a receiver for the Brotherhood o
American Yeomen, fraternal insur.
ance order operating in the western
! states
| A treaty of peace was signed or
board the United States cruiser Mar
blehead between commissioners rep
resenting Salvador, Guatemala ant
Honduras which ends the Centra
American war Resolutions were
adopted thanking the president of the
| United States AMI Mexico for theil
Intervention.
August Rosenberg, the alleged Seat
tie, Wash. anarchist who was ar.
rested recently in Altoona. Prussia
charged with having designs on the
life of Emperor William, has been re-
leased from custody,