The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-01-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from All
parts of the World Condemned
Into Small Spns.e for tho
DencAt of Our Readers.


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The body of A j. Cassatt, presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania railroad
was buried with simple ceremonies at
Bryn Mawr, suburb OF Philadelphia.
Rev. Joshua Allan Lippincott. well
known in the east and middle west
as divine and educator. is dead in
Los Angeles. Cal.
]. r. Merritt, of Topeka, has been
named to fill the newly created office
of assistant freight agent of tht San
| ia Fe.
Wilbur Glenn voliva, general over
seer of Zion City, was recently de-
nounced by Dowieites at public
meeting there as Judas Iscariot'
"Devil' and "Robber."
Thomas NJ. Bowen, former United
States senator from Colorado. is dead
at Pueblo. aged II.
James McCrea, first vice president
of the Pennsylvania lines west of
Pittsburg, has been elected president
of the Pennsylvania Railroad COM
pany to succeed the late A. ]. Cas-
satt.
William H. Mackey, jr., has been
re-appointed to be United States mar
shall of Kansas.
Frederick McMasters. United States
consul at Zanzibar, has rendered his
resignation because Of the small sa:
airy attached to the office.
Prof. Otto Benndorf, the noted arch
aeologist. is dead in Vienna.
F. NJ. Robertson. of Wilson coun-
ty, Kansas, has been elected to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of
State Senator S. s. Benedict.
Maj. Gen. Won Der Launitz, pre-
feet of police of st. Petersburg was
s'.ot and instantly killed in the insti-
tute of experimental medicine. The
an officer.
DR.. Joseph A. Aldrich, former sur
geon in the United States army, is
dead at his home In Denver, aged
SO years.
Daniel Garman, who was engineer
of the train on which President Lin
coin made his famous midnight jour-
ney from Harrisburg 10 Wa shington,
recently died at Lebanon. Pa.
Rev. John C. Bro ks. youngest
bro Their of the lac Philips Brooks,
Is dead in Paris.
George A. Murphy, of Muskogee, l.
T.. is to be the chief speaker at the
Kansas Day banquet at Topeka on
January 20.
Z. w. Hastings, an actor Of New
York. was killed recently in a wreck
of the overland limited train on the
Union Pacific in Nebraska.
CONGREGATIONAL.
Prominent Cherok- e women have
prepared memorial to congress ask
ing that body to set aside. the decree
of the supreme court which abrogated
the rights of intermarried whites.
A bill has been introduced in the
senate to prohibit the sale of lands in
the government domain on which are
situated beds of coal and other miner
ais until such deposits are exhausted.
c~lInnenas.
BY the gift of 100000 to the Chi
cago University on New Years day,
John ID. Rockefeller has brought his
benefactions to the institution up to
s19,416,922.
In the custer suit of the state of
Missouri against the Delmar Jockey
club of ST. Louis. u writ of error to
the supreme court of the United States
has been granted by Chief Justice
CAN'T.
The southern portion of Indiana is
suffering from Hoods. Fifteen schools
in Glib on county alone we're COM
pe,lsd to close on account of the high
water
By direction OF the president. Sec
rotary Hitchcock has issued an order
notifying registers of local land Of
ficers to destroy all Illegal enclosures
on public lands after April 1, next.
Andrew Carnegie has notified Secre-
tary Root of his intention to contri-
butte $75O.O00 for the purpose of erect
ing building in Washington for the
use of the bureau of Am erican repub-
lies.
Judge Garland of the Uni ed States
district court at Sioux Falls, S. D..
has rendered a decision holding that
the state board of railroad commits
sioners has jurisdiction over express
companies.
Engineers on all the railroads west
OF Chicago, to the number of $1,000
have made demands on the compan-
les for an increase in wages.
Two hundred delegates representing
boards of trade and commercial or
CARNATIONS met recently in Chicago
| and formed the National Reciprocal
Demurrage Association.
George L. Sheldon has been inaugu-
rated as governor of Nebraska, sue
ceeding John II. Mickey.
l. The position of commissioner of
+ the general land office, which is to
become vacant on March 4 by the; re-
tirement of Commissioner Richards
has been offe.ed to Phillip G. Stew
art. of Colorado Springs.
| According to figures furnished by
the New York Word the powder trust
made a profit in sales to the govern.
ment during 1906 of $2,34S,364.
| Los Angeles, Cal. is the latest city