The Lamar register., 1909-12-01

A tornado that struck Dexter. NO..
November 22d. demolished fifteen
houses and wrecked the Stoddard
county fair buildings. including the
amphitheater. Two women and two
children were injured.
Bradham hall. the girls dormitory
of the South Carolina State Agricultu-
raj and Mechanical College for ne
groes, together with the dining hall
and kitchen, was burned q few days
since. Loss. $4,000: insurance. $780,
Had It not been for the recent
trouble in Spain. King Alfonso would
have been a challenger next year for
the Americas cup. according to a re-
port published In New York. The
threatening troubles at home prevent
ed the issuance OF a challenge for the
international yacht race.
Of the Marquis do Polignac at Berru.
In France. Hubert Latham flew in his
monoplane from Chalons. a distance
OF nineteen niiles. in thirty minutes.
He killed q goodly number Of pfeas-
ants and psrtridges. and at sunset
boarded his monoplane again and re-
turned to Chalons.
Negotiations have practically been
concluded at Paris whereby NJ. Paul
han. the French aviator. will come to
America to participate in the exhibit
ton flights during aviation week at
Los Angeles. Later he will give exhi-
billions at the Mardi Gras at New Or
leans and at other places in the South.
NJ. Paulhan will receive 100000 q
month.
Three hundred Americans were
present at . Thanksgiving dinner in
Exposition Park. Berlin. where the
American Exposition will be held next
year Consul General Thackara pre-
sided and Prof Benjamin Ide Wheeler
president Of the University of Cali
fornia. made the principal address.
The gathering sent an address of
greeting to President Taft at Wash
ington.
Scion Chase. a celebrated figure in
the days Of the greenback agitation. 30
toi abos oitd Vi htdIl uioCabC . low
days since at his home at Chases
Mills. in Maine. He was ca years old.
During the height of the greenback
Chase stumped the country
as far as the Middle West. driving q
pair Of steers hitched to a hayrack.
from the rear end Of which he deliv-
cred his speeches.
Reports were received at Nairobi
November ed that all the members
Of the American hunting expedition
were well and would return TO Lon
dianai November both. During the
hunting on the Guas Ingisu plateau
Colonel Roosevelt and Kermit Roose-
welt. in company with the Chicagoan.
Carl F. Akeley. killed four elephants
for the American Museum of Natural
in New York.
The Wright Company OF New York
has been Incorporated. with $1,000
900 capital. ito manufacture. sell.
operate and otherwise use at any
place on the North American CONT
nent and the islands adjacent thereto
ships or other mechanical
for aerial navigation
Tho directors are Wilbur Wright. Or
vile Wright. Of Dayton. Ohio; George
A. Stevens. Henry =. Hooker and A.
F. Barnes. Of New York.
The widespread allegations of de-
plorable conditions in Portuguese
East Africa. particularly in the islands
Of San Thome and Principe. credited
by recent English and American writ
ers to the existence of cruel slave
trade in African negroes among the
planters. are denounced as unwarrant-
ed fabrications by Col. J. A. wylie.
Fellow of the Royal Geographical So
ciety of England. who has Just re-
turned from a tour of investigation in
that region.