The Lamar register., 1911-01-18
GEN e RAJ.

Passengers trains were suowbound
in heavy drifts in Michigan and traf-
fic suffered serious delays through
out the state.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, the Kansas tenn
perance worker and saloon smasher.
who suffered a nervous breakdown at
the home Of friend in Eureka
Springs. Ark. was taken to Kansas
City for treatment.
Turpentine is selling at world rec
ord price. quotations on the Savannah
board Of trade for several days hav-
ing set new high figures for that com.
modify. a new record was made with
the quotation OF So cents.
Boston.-If a bill introduced In the
Massachusetts Legislature becomes a
law. women who appear on a stage or
beach in fieshings. will be sent to
tal for six months. or pay a fine of
$50. Skirts must come six inches be-
low the knee.
Five men are dead. two probably IA
tally injured. and more than twenty
we're seriously hurt in the wreck of
he Western Express and the Boston
and Buffalo special. both westbound.
on the New York Central at Batavia,
N. Y.
James A. Patten, retired millionaire
grain broker Of Chicago. whose sue
cessful operations in the cotton mar
ket led recently to federal grand Jury
indictments. is being sued for 10000.
900 In the Superior Court. DIR. Paul
burmaster brings suit under an I'LL
rois statute whereby any person hay
ing knowledge Of a gambling transac-
ton may sue and recover to the
amount OF three times the total lost
by any of the victims.
When the special grand Jury which
for nearly month has been probing
the election frauds in Adams county,
Ohio. reconvenes. thirty witnesses
will be taken before it, most Of whom
have previously testified. The total
OF confessions up to date are 1,4O5.
Money. too. is coming in rapidly, in
checks and currency. which brings the
total collected to nearly $4,000 In
one district OF $50 voters, all except
one have been DISTINGUISHED.
Restitution OF sl,300.OOO and the
surrender OF warrants aggregating
100000 upon which payment had
been stopped. were made in tn.
Dauphin County Court by the men
convicted or otherwise implicated by
Pennsylvania in the capitol frauds.
Previously restitution of $l,595,74i
had been made by defendants. In
consideration the commonwealth
agreed to drop further criminal ac-
tion against the defendants indicted
Entailng loss of more than ST..
100000. the second great fire in Gin.
cinnati within three weeks destroyed
the Chamber of Commerce building
and damaged adjacent property and
injured dozen firemen. Several fire
men are unaccounted for.
The war department in Washing.
ton is receiving reports from those en-.
gagged in raising the sunken battleship
Maine from Havana harbor which
according to the engineers in charge
suggest that the disaster was due to
an internal explosion and not to an
external agency.
Speaker Cannon is desperate abou,
the great mass Of begging letters
which have been pouring in upon him
In Washington ever since the speaker
received fake letter announcing
that he had been made sole heir tc
S2.500,000 in South Africa.
Two persons were killed and TWEEN
ty-five injured when a passenger and
freight train on the st. Louis, Iron
Mountain & Southern railroad col
lided six miles south of Frederick
town. Mo. Among the dead was the
engineer OF the passenger. who was
the father of the freight engineer