The Lamar register., 1906-05-23

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| miscellaneous.
Vice Admiral Kuzmich commander
of the port at St. Petersburg has been
assassinated by workman because he
had refused to permit the workmen 10
make a May day demonstration.
Four magazines OF the Union Metallic
Cartridge company at bridgeport,
Conn, containing $4,000 sunds of
powder each exploded causfSg great
alarm amcng the residents who
thought an earthquake had occurred.
Pennsylvania fire insurance conf
| panies, nine in all, have submitted
statements of their condition and
showing an aggregate loss in San
Francisco of $7460,250.
| A police captain of Warsaw Russia
has been killed by the explosion of a
bomb thrown by a young man. Sol
diers Immediately shot the assassin.
The post Office department has been
notified that navigation on the Yukon
river in Alaska will open on or about
June 6.
C. s. drummer. of Republic county
has been elected chairman of the Kan
sas republican committee. Clyde
Miller. of Usage county, was elected
secretary.
Peter Becker of Enid. has been
chosen commander of the Oklahoma
&. A. K. The next encampment will
be held at Enid
Forest fires are sweeping northern
Wisconsin and Michigan Two hun
I.-x..l II
over and several lumber towns de
stroyed.
Recent statistics show that this
Standard Oil company has paid to
its stockholders s341 ,043.000 in divi-
dends since January l, 1898. This il
nearly 3l1 times its authorized capital
ization of $100.00O,0O0.
The Mutual Insurance company has
brought suit against former members
Of its committee of expenditures to re-
cover such sums of money as may
have been lost through negligence Of
the defendants.
The total deposits in the banks of
Kansas show that there is $500 in
cash on hand for every man, woman
and child in the state.
Mayor w. w. Rose, OF Kansas City,
Kan, has been cited to appear before
the state supreme court on June to
answer to the charge of contempt.
The assembly grounds of Mount
Eagle, Tenn. were recently damaged
by fire to the extent of $4,000.
A permanent organization of the
civil service commissions of the coun-
try was organized at a recent meet
) ing held at Washington. Charles s.
Fowler. of the New York city COM
mission was elected president.
| Mrs. A. F. Pearson, of Altoona Kan,
died recently on a railroad train while
on her way to Lincoln, Neb. from an
overdose of headache powders.
Restaurants throughout San Fran
cisco are now serving 10 cent meals.
zen. Greedy reports that the stories
Of shooting of a large number of peo-
pie during the San Francisco Ere by
the army are untrue.
The Standard Oil company has
issued an official statement denying
the charges in the recent special mes
sage to congress and in the Garfield
report. The statement declares the
prosperity of the trust is not due TO
reprehensible methods.
The Order of Eagles or Kansas in
state convention at L,,avenworth.
elected w. d. Hunt, of Emporia as
president The next convention will
be held at lola.
| The Standard Oil company has adj
vanced the price of all high grade
/ Gnsolipa ppa rapt n.1Iop
The Illinois Legislature fas passed
the Shurt!eff primary law and ad-
tourned.
Gov. Higgins, of New York, has
granted an additional respite of 80
| days to Albert Patrick under sentence
of death for the murder of William NJ.
Rice.
A dispatch from Pittsburg. Pa, says
that the steel trust has booked orders
for 100000 tons of steel rails for
delivery in 1907.
| The American executive assembly of
the Isle of Pines has sent delegate
TO Washington to work to defeat the
Isle of Pines treaty.
The Boone Cereal mills, at Boone,
Ia. were recently totally destroyed by
fire entailing n loss of 100000.
| Five men We're torn to pieces and IL
others badly burned by the accidental
explosion of dynamite in coal mine
at Shenandoah. Pa, recently.
Four men are dead as Il result of
riots at Crawford, Neb.. between white
men and negro soldiers from Fort
| Robinson.
The body recently found in a de-
serted villa in Finland has been posi-
lively identified as that of Father Gap
on, the Russian priest.