The Lamar register., 1908-04-08

/ GeOrge HackeuSClulut, the R0SSlan
Lion.'' in a wrestling match for the
worlds championship at Chicago re-
Gently. The men worked for one hour
and SO minutes without fall. when
i the Russian cried enough and the
championship was awarded to Gotch,
| Thirty-six men. including one Of
ficer. lost their lives OF the Isle of
Wight recently when the British tor
pedo boat destroyer Tiger was sunk
by the cruiser Berwick during night
maneuvers by the fleet
The Indiana Republican state con-
vention instructed their delegates for
C. w. Fairbanks for president and
nominated a full state ticket with
James E. Watson as their candidate
for governor.
A disastrous prairie fire ragged in
the country about Paxton, Neb.. re-
Gently. One man was burned to death.
many houses were destroyed and hun
dreds of head of live stock were lost
A blank Whitehead torpedo fired
from the tubes of the torpedo boat
Blakeley swerved from its course came
back and striking the Blakeley below
the water line made a large jagged
hole in her port side sending her to
the navy yard for repairs.
w. J. Bryan was the guest Of honor
and principal speaker at the banquet
of the Democratic Club of Missouri
at Kansas City and at the close stated
that SO far as he knew 1t was the
biggest banquet ever assembled in any
city on American soil.
II sol NJ
Hardin. is disturbing Russia and Japan
by insisting on Chinese sovereignty
in Manchuria. He is acting under Or
ders from Washington and is execut-
ing a well considered plan of preserv-
ing the open door" in that country.
The corporation commission of Okla
homa has ordered a reduction of so
per cent in freight rates on crude Pc
troleum and 40 per cent on refined
oils.
Seventy members of the Nebraska
Democratic Editorial association were
entertained recently by w. ]. Bryan
at banquet at Lincoln.
The trial of the four land fraud
cases transferred from California to
Washington has begun. Two hundred
WllHtSStS StstttS piCSCht
-. the 1850 delegates to the Repub-
lican state convention elected at the
Massachusetts primaries. 901 are for
Taft for president.
Seven men from southeast Missouri
convicted in the federal court of peon-
age. have been taken to the prison
at Leavenworth, Kan, to begin serv-
ing their terms.
Marie Lehman. &c years old, took
her own life in st. Louis. in order that
her invalid sister might have the
81 600 insurance on her life
The Missouri supreme court has de-
the appointment of a commissioner to
take testimony in the custer suits
against various railroads and other
corporations for alleged violation of
the state antitrust law.
The Parker Grain company of Nc
Pherson. Kan, has been declared
bankrupt with liabilities of 100000.
David H. Grant of Mcpherson, was
appointed receiver
A verdict against the government
was recently rendered at Portland.
Me-, in a suit for $4,000 for the loss
of brigantine which was sunk by a
United States gunboat on the Nova
Scotia coast AZ years ago.
Friends of the commission plan of
city government recently adopted at
city election.
Andrew Carnegie has added $1,000
900 to his foundation fund in order to
provide pensions for eligible profess
ors of state universities.
The Indiana railroad commission az
| ter an investigation lasting several
months has ordered express rates re-
duced on an average of between 10
! and IL per cent.
The government will not prosecute
railroads for failure to comply with
the commodity clause" of the railroad
rate law pending decision of the su
preme court.
At conference of the general So
held at St Louis, it was decided to
renew the fight on the two-cent far,
law in Missouri.
| During target practice at Magdalena
bay 40 inches of the muzzle of one
of the six-inch guns of the Missouri
blew OF. No one was injured.
1t is estimated by an officer of the
fleet that $40 tons of ammunition will
be shot away during the target prac-
tice at Magdalena bay and that the
cost for the first eight ships will be
s136.oO0 and slightly less for the third
and fourth divisions.
The American car in the New York.
to-Paris race will not make the trip
/ through Alaska but will be shipped
! from Seattle to Vladivostok and take
the southern Siberian route.
Personal.
Paul Morton. president of the
Equitable Life Assurance society. is
i'll in Seattle, Wash, with ptomaine
poisoning.
Rear Admiral Evans has gone to
the hot springs at San Luis Obispo.
Cal. for treatment for rheumatism. He
hopes to rejoin the fleet at San Fran
cisco.
John Mitchell former nreSidapt ~