The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-07-15


Right Rev. Alfred A. Curtis. Roman
Catholic bishop of Wilmington. Della
ware, died at Baltimore on the 18th
inst.
Fire at Grand Fork, British Column
bia, on he 10th inst. destroyed the
buildings on two blocks and caused a
loss of nearly 100000. Barnaby Malo,
guest of the Vanhalia hotel, was
burned to death.
H. G. d. Alexander. president of the
Continental Casualty company OF
Chicago, was reelected president of
the International Association of Acct
dent Underwriters at its closing ses-
sion at Atlantic City. Mr.. Alexander
has already served two terms.
A glass company at Pittsburg an
nounces that it has received several
orders and will begin at once to manu-
facture headstones of glass to mark
graves. A unique feature Of the new
tombstone will be that there can be
blown in the glass photograph of the
deceased person.
Two carriages followed to tile Mount
Prospect cemetery, Asbury Park, New
Jersey. Thursday, afternoon. all that
was left of Miss Edith Clark's pet bull
terrier. Monte .Cristo. In the car,
riages were Miss Clark, her sister and
four friends of Monte Cristo. who had
travelled from New York especially to
attend the remarkable funeral.
The swift Cunard liner Lusitania
has broken another speed record by
logging 643 nautical miles a day. ac-
cording to Information received by
the Cunard line officials in New York.
However, the LusitAnia has merely
moved her own record a couple of
notches higher as, she previously held
the speed record at GAL miles per day.
Four hours of heroic work on the
part OF a physician resulted Tuesday
in the resuscitation of Miss Isabel
Hannah, a pretty sixteen-Sear-old girl
who was apparently drowned while
bathing at Rochester beach, Maryland.
Hypodermic injections and massage OF
the body were continued by DR.. H. l..
Linsky of Baltimore after her friends
had given her up for dead.
Joseph Duff, Mount HanHlton's only
carpenter, became insane, routed the
astronomers, a large number of San
Jose state normal school students who
were there on an excursion and kept
control OF the. Lick observatory several
hours until H. f. Smith. a Stanford
student, .thad run down to Smiths
Creek and telephoned to the sheriffs
office at San Joe for officers who came
and arrested him.
Commander Peary was given a good
sendoff on starting on his North Pole
search Tuesday. the 9TH inst. His
steamer, the Roosevelt, was at anchor
near the presidents yacht, in Oyster
Bay harbor. and was inspected and
greatly admired by the man it was
named after. The president shook
hands with the exploring party and
Peary said: TITS North Pole or bust,
this time"
The physician Of James S: Sherman.
Republican nominee for vice president,
at Utica, New York, visits him twice
daily Mr.. Sherman is permitted TO
spend two hours each day in going ovt>
correspondence, and the rest of tt,
time his physician declares must be
spent in rest II is said that Mr.. Sher-
man has recuperated more slowly than
after my previous attack. While 1t Is
admitted that he will ultimately have
10 be operated on for the trouble. IL
will not be until he has gained his
strength.
John C. Pollock in the Federal
Court at Kansas City has ordered that
the property of the Great Western
Life Insurance Company be disposed
of and that the policies. amounting to
over $2O,000.O00. be re-insured in some
reliable company. II possible. The re-
port of the Missouri insurance depart
ment has now been made public. not
only showing that the .sentire capital
stock was wiped out. butthat Ahe an
nual statement of the company Janu-
ary list, the first made, had been fall
sified. The business written by the
company cost 1t over ss1Oo.00s more
thon the entire premium inSpme.