The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-12-04

| III UNIV Japan
r. Meade Shumway. convicted OF
numbering his aunt, Mrs. Sarah Mar
tin, near Adams. Neb.. has been SEN
fenced to hang March 13.
A marble fountain, the gift of Philo
s. Bennett to Haven, Conn, was dedi-
Gated recently by William ]. Bryan.
executor of the estate.
Kansas is to have an Alfalfa Day
on December IA. At $50 farmers In
stitutes held on that day alfalfa will
be the sole topic discussed.
Attorney General Jackson has filed
in the Kansas supreme court formal
accusations against 23 city officials
and employees of Pittsburg for re-
ceiving money from joints in viola
ton of the courts order.
Seven business blocks in Cody,
Wyo., were recently destroyed by a
fire presumably of incendiary origin.
At Waterbury. Conn. Ave factory
employees were killed and six others
seriously injured by the collision OF
trolley car and freight train on a
grade crossing.
The municipal debt of Boston is
$111 ,s4S,735, or $50 per capita. an in
crease in the past IL years of Ill per
cent.
Germany is upon the verge of an
industrial crisis. There are said to
be 10000 unemployed in Berlin alone.
Senator Long has sent letters to
Kansas bankers and business men
asking for expressions as to needed
legislation touching upon the finan-
cial situation.
Two men charged with the recent
hoId-up of the bank at Clinton, ILL.,,
pleaded guilty and were given indie
terminate sentences in the peniten.
tiary.
The work of securing jury for the
trial of George A. Pettibone. for COM
plicity in the murder OF former Gov.
Steunenberg, has begun at Boise.
Idaho.
A copper plate engraving made by
Paul Revere was recently sold to
Harvard university for 1925.
The premium on currency in New
York has almost disappeared.
Ollie Reed, prominent insurance
agent, fell dead while attending a
Thanksgiving dance at Wheeling. W.
Va.
In an attempted holdup OF Greek la
borers at Kansas City one of the for
eigners was killed and the leader Of
the robbers was fatally wounded.
The United States Fidelity and
Guarantee company, of Baltimore, has
Withdrawn from business in Okla
homa.
The banks OF Ardmore. Ok. have
begun the use of cashiers checks.
A jury to try Caleb Powers for the
murder OF Gov. Goebel, of Ken
lucky. has been secured. 1t is COM
posed of eight democrats and four re-
publicans.
The Kansas university football
team defeated the Missouri university
team at st. Joseph in the annual
Thanksgiving day game by score of
4 to 0.
Owing to the large amount OF APP
plications received Secretary Cortel-
you has closed the subscription for
per cent certificates of indebted
ness.
Seven persons were burned to
death in a cheap lodging house near
the Union depot at Kansas City re-
Gently. The origin OF the fire is un-
known.
The Sacramento Bar association
has passed n resolution declaring
that the laws passed by the recent
special session of the legislature are
vicious. dangerous and unconstitu-
tional.
Gen. Davis. judge advocate gen.
eral of the army. has decided that the
use of United States soldiers at the
recent balloon contest at St. Louis
was not warranted by law.
An interesting fact brought out in
the hearing of the governments suit
against the tobacco trust was that the
consumption of tobacco in the United
States was not keeping pace with the
increase in the population.
Eleanor and Leroy Chestnut, of
Mexico. Mo-. have received $4,000
from the Chinese government as dam
ages for the death of their aunt Miss
Eleanor Chestnut, who was killed in
the Boxer uprising at Lien Chow in
1905.
The national convention of the peo-
pies party has been called to meet in
st. Louis on April next.
The supreme court of New York
has refused to make permanent the
injunction granted against the Inter
national Pressmen's union to compel
them to live up to the agreement
made last January.
Attorneys for II. H. Tucker. Jr..
and the Uncle Sam Oil company has
filed formal charges with Judge
Hazen. referee in bankruptcy, charg.
ing Receiver Morse with having sold
products of the company for less
than he was offered and conducting
the receivership extravagantly.
Trial of the Colorado land fraud
cases will begin before the United
States district court ut Denver De.
cember 16.
Two men locked officers of Clin-
ton. Ill. bank in the vault took. the
money from the counter and escaped.
The grand jury at New York has
returned indictments against three
officials of the Jenkins Trust com
pany of Brooklyn.