The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-02-15
GEN ERAL

Right Rev OH w. Whitaker. bishop
of the Protestant Episcopal diocese OF
Pennsylvania. died in Philadelphia
The bodies of the ten negroes VIII,
met death in a caisson at the bottom
OF the Passaic river at Newark, y. j.,
have been recovered
The United States Steel Corpora.
ton Of New York announced an in.
crease OF the price of tin plate FROM
$500 to $40 per 100 pounds.
The United States Steel Corpora
ton announced In New York that the
untitled steel tonnage on the books Jan
81 last amounted to 3.1lO.9l9:. against
2,G7i.751 tons on the books OF the com
pany Dec. 81.
II was given out at the states at.
torney's office at Danyille. Ill, that
the grand jury would return a iargs
number of indictments. The investi.
CATION is only half finished and ove-
300 indictments have been drawn.
The deadlock over the election of a
United States senator continues I'M
broken In New York. There was no
change in the relatives strength OF
any OF the candidates on the seven
teenth joint ballot
Helen vivien. second daughter of
George J. Gould. was married at St.
Bartholomew Episcopal church In
Madison avenue in New York to Lord
Decies. an English army officer. She
is eighteen and he is forty-four.
Congress passed the Senate bill pro.
yiding for commission to secure
plans and designs for a suitable monu
ment of memorial to Abraham Lincoln
in Washington. II is estimated this
memorial will cost 100000.
That James Whitcomb Riley. the In
diana poet. has been i'll since last sum.
rier. the public is aware. but the real
seriousness of his illness has not been
known except to his close friends in
Indianapolis. His condition is critical.
The board OF trustees of the new
postal savings system in Washington
is receiving complaints from almost
every state because the postal banks
refuse to receive deposits except thos,
made in person by patrons of the Of.
flee.
Rear Admiral Silas Wright Terry.
retired, who was identified with the
naval operations of the Civil War.
died in Washington. ID. c., of pneu-
monia. He was a native of WallonIa.
KY, where he was born sixty-eight
years ago. Admiral Terry was pres
ent at the fall of Richmond and ac.
companied President Lincoln when he
entered the Confederate capitol. He
had a distinguished record in the Civil
War
Within less than ten months after
the initiation by President Taft of ne
gotiations with the Canadian govern
ment. there was laid simultaneously
before the American Congress at
Washington and the Canadian Parlia-
ment at Ottawa. reciprocity arrange
ment which. II approved. will do
much. in the opinion of the negotia-
tors. TO enlarge trade between the
United States and Canada.
Charles II. Markham of Chicago.
president of the Illinois Central. was
elected president of the Central of
Georgia.
The grand jury of Danville, ILL.,, re-
turned ZIG true bills and adjourned. A
large number of subpoenas were is
sued returnable next week, when it is
I haliarnA IA,
charges of political corruption will be
commenced.
In one of the most disastrous explo-
sions ever recorded in Upper Michi-
gan, ten men met instant death at the
plant of the Pluto Powder Company on
the outskirts of Ishpeming. The ex-
plosion took place in the gelatine
powder house. Every man in this
building was blown to pieces.