The Lamar register., 1907-10-30

Mis- scllaneous.
On her last trip the turbine steamer
Lusitania made the run from New
York to Queenstown in four days, %
hours and 46 minutes.
Two men were killed and three Sc
riously injured in wreck on the Ohio
Central railroad at Pomeroy, Ohio.
The resolutions adopted by the Ma
tional Civic Federation at Chicago de-
clare for nonpartisan commission in
which the interests of capital. labor
ard the general public shall be repre-
scented.
President Schneider of the Chicago
school board wants to adopt the Japa-
nese imperial rescript on education as
the standard for moral and ethical
teaching in the public schools of that
city.
The British. steamer Pampico, from
Baltimore to Rotterdam, was aband-
oned in midocean. The crew were
President Roosevelt has been urged
to recommend a revenue tax on fire.
works to the next congress. the pro-
ceeds to be used in investigating te-
tanus and its treatment.
An attempt was made recently to
destroy the entire Muskogee, ]. T., Oil
field by fire.
The cannery men of southeastern
Alaska are demanding a revision of
the Chinese exclusion law. the scar
city of coolie labor is hurting their
business.
In an address before the National
Civic Federation at Chicago Charles
G.. Dawes. former comptroller of the
currency, defended the Wall street
financiers, and charged the federal de-
partment of justice with making
gallery plays"
At Ashland. Wis, a mixing mill of
the Atlantic Dynamite company's fac
tory exploded. killing four men.
The Oriental liner Empress of
China sank recently alongside its
dock in Vancouver. b. C.
The official air line measurements
of the two leading balloons in the Ben
nett cup race is romnern. S73.4 miles
and LTsle de France. SOFA miles.
chance to get their affair in shape.
More than 500 persons lost their
lives in the recent earthquake shocks
in Italy.
The net earnings of the Missouri
Pacific and Iron Mountain systems for
the fiscal year ending June &c were
$1o,1SS,272.49.
The Kansas board of control, which
has charge of nine state hospitals and
homes. wants hospital for the care
of the criminal insane.
Owing to the general feeling of I'M
rest in Nevada financial circles Gov.
Sparks declared three days legal holt
days in order to give the banks a
New York financiers believe the
worst of the furry in Wall street is
over now. The Trust Company of
America successfully withstood run
of large proportions and better feel
ing prevailed generally.
The first of the balloons entered
in the race for the James Gordon Ben
nett cup. which started from st. Louis
came down near Hamilton, Ont, about
700 miles in a straight line from the
starting point. The balloon was the
United States" in charge of Mai
Hersey.
Figures prepared upon the general
expenses of the delegates to The
Hague peace conference show the cost
to have been $3,76S,vo including din
ners and telegraph tolls.
The wheat acreage in Oklahoma is
25 per cent greater this year than
last.
Judge CARRIER of Oklahoma has or
dered the Western Union Telegraph
company to better its service in the
state or show reason for not doing So
Ivy, used in the decoration of a
Methodist church in the village of
New Haven, New York. poisoned near
ly half of the congregation.
The supreme court OIL the United
States has declined to grant the re-
quest of Kansas to reopen the Kansas
Colorado case.
The fetal number of pensioners
June 30, 1907. was 967.371 and the
value of the pension roll was $780,
s5O.SsO
Philadelphia clergymen have en-
tered a vigorous campaign to stop
Sunday baseball at League island
The federal grand jury in New
Mexico has returned 20 indictments
charging conspiracy to defraud the
United States Il connection with coal
land entries.
The secretary and treasurer of the
Telegraphers' union at Omaha have re-
turned to work.