The Lamar register., 1907-07-03

Tn. wisconsin assembly by vote
of 90 to 10 passed the senate resolu-
tion fayoring the election of United
States senators by direct vote.
The president has instructed the
secretary of commerce and labor 10
have the census bureau make spec
ial enumeration of the inhabitants of
the proposed state of Oklahoma.
Harry e. Kicker. formerly business
manager of the Metropolitan Opera
house at St. Paul, Mimi. has been
convicted of having stolen $; 900 of
the funds of the theatre.
Subpoenas have been issued by the
federal court at Chicago for tire
chief officials of the Standard Oil
company. Judge Lands insists on
knowing the financial condition OF
the concern before assessing fines for
relating.
A monument in memory of the deeds
of valor of Terry's Texas rangers, has
been unveiled On the capitol grounds
at Austin.
Three people were killed, several
others injured and at least sl,OOO,O0o
worth of property destroyed by tor
nado which recently passed over Tul-
sa, l. T., and vicinity. One hundred
derricks were blown down in the
Glenn pool alone.
In the Haywood trial at Boise. Ida
no. Judge Wood made a ruling that
INestimony showing conspiracy on
the part of the mine owners against
the federation could not be introduced
by the defense.
The collections in the Kansas in
srrance department for the first SIX
months OF this yeag are greater thah
the total collections of the depart
ment for 1906 by $4,000.
The strike of the garbage drivers
in New York has caused vast pies
OF refuse to collect in the tenement
district ,ndangering the health OF the
people.
Filipinos carried off two of the
three honors at Yale this year.
The Oklahoma supreme court has
dissolved the injunction issued by
Judge Pancoast restraining the con-
stitutional convention from submit
ting to q vote of the people the COLI
stitution of the new state. A new
date for the election will be set.
The official text of the Franco
Spanish agreement has been pub
lished. 1t amounts practically TO a
military convention for the mutual
guarantee of their possessions in the
| Mediterranean.
Seven persons, six of them mem
| beers of one Italian family were kille1
in New York recently by the collapse
of the tenement in which they lived
The French government is greatly
concerned over the characterization
manifested among the troops of the
army.
Secretary Metcalf is authority for
the statement that it would cost frcm
| $3.50 On0 to 100000 more to hnild
one of the new 10000 ton battleships
at the Brooklyn navy yard than to
let it to the lowest responsible bid
der.
The letter carriers of San Francisco
are said to be preparing to strike
July l
President Faliieres of France has
|
Japan with the order of the Chrysan-
themum in celebration of the signing
of the Franco-Japanese agreement.
The treasury department has COM
pleted the purchase of $4,000, 600
four per cent bonds, provided for in
an order issued in April.
| Richard Crocker's Orby. winner of
the English derby. also won the lrisl
derby at Dublin.
One whole block Immediately ad-
joining the exposition grounds at
jamestown, Va, was swept by fire
recently and number of frame no.
tells and restaurants destroyed. The
loss was estimated at 100000.
Fourteen inches of snow fell at
Butte. s'ont., recently.