The Lamar register., 1907-09-25

nave auJOuTucu. hS htAt COuNChlioh
will be held in Denver in 1909.
The st. Louis shoe workers in II
plants, to the number of 1900 have
struck for shorter hours and more pay.
In the New York Oil trust hearing
evidence was brought out to show that
John d. Rockefeller owns more than
one-fourth of the stock Of the Standard
Oil company. His income for the past
eight years has been sl25O00,000
Definite arrangements have been
made for President Roosevelt to camp
out for II days in the canebrakes of
Louisiana, from October to October
81.
In a premature explosion of q shell
on board the Japanese battleship Kas-
hima, seven officers and 81 men were
killed. and eight Others wounded.
The federal grand jury at Bartles-
vile. l. T.. is investigating alleged
election.
A school for the instruction of con
suls has been established at the state
department in Washington. Each new
ly appointed consul is required to at
tend for 80 days before leaving for his
post of duty.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge OF Odd
Fellows, in session at ST. Paul, has
chosen Denver. Col. as the next meet
ing place.
The strike of the cutters in the shoe
factories of St Louis has extended to
all the workers and is plants employ
ing 10000 persons are idle.
A cage containing is men plunged
down $50 feet in a mine shaft at
Negaunee, Mich. Eleven men were
killed outright and seven fatally in
jured.
Judge Loctren, in the federal court
at St Paul, has issued an order re-
straining the state of Minnesota from
enforcing the rate laws passed by the
last legislature. In his opinion the
Judge savagely attacked the states
law making body.
Five members of the sect known
as the Parhamites have been arrested
at Zion City. ILL.,. charged with tortur-
ing to death an aged woman for 20
years a cripple from rheumatism. The
accused, among whom are the son
and daughter of the victim, claim they
were trying to cast out Il devil.
In a wreck on the Mexican Central
railroad recently 40 passengers were
killed and "a injured.
Based on the present market value
of Standard Oil shares. the holdings
of John ID. Rockefeller in the company
amount to O9.0O0.0O0.
Federal officials recently raidcd the
liquor joints about Tulsa. |. T.. and
confiscated $500 barrels of substitutes
Arkansas river.
The Nebraska supreme court has de-
dided that a person cannot devise an
interest in timber claim unless a
patent has been issued
The Missouri law fixing eight hours
as the work day for railroad tele-
graphers has been declared unconsti-
Higginsville.
From later reports Il appears that
the democrats have made n clean
sweep in Oklahoma. the only excep-
ton being In the First congressional
district where Bird s. Mcclure. re-
publican was elected by good ma
jority. .
The profits of the Standard Oil com
pany of Indiana for 1906 were more
than $10.OOO,OOO on a capital stock Of
81 10000 or over 1000 per cent a
year. These figures were brought out
in the evidence at the New York hear
ing of the suit of the government to
dissolve the trust.
The diplomatic representatives of
the five Central American republics
have signed a protocol accepting the
invitation of the United States and
Mexico for a meeting at Washington
at an early date.
The United States navy department
has contracted with Welsh firms for
100. 900 tons of the best steam coal.
The long distance balloon race from
Brussels was won by the German bal
loon Pommern which came down at
Bayonne, France. distance OF GIL
miles from Brussels.
Four Men were killed and four 9TH
ers seriously injured in the wreck of
an automobile on one of the streets
of Colorado Springs recently. They
were driving the machine down grade
at co miles an hour when the accident
occurred.
The body OF the late l.. II. Perkins
of Lawrence. Kan, has been exhumed
by order OF Judge Mcpherson to as
certain as to whether he committed
suicide or not.
The Michigan conference OF the NJ.
f church adopted a resolution asking
Michigan senators to introduce in the
United States senate an amendment
to the constitution to prohibit po-
lygamy.
The record price for whisky was
reached in Cincinnati when the quo
tations reached $1.34.
Secretary Hester's annual report of
the cotton crop places the yield at
13,51O,982 bales. an increase of 1854
1874 over last year.
Two brothers named johnson. OF
Sioux City Iowa, were recently drown
ed at St Joseph, Mo, by the overturn-
ing of their boat.
In n game at Montreal a baseball