The Lamar register., 1890-08-16
BY TELEGRAPH.

diana this year.
The cholera is rapidly spreading In
the south of Spain.
The President has approved the
original package bill
Emperor William left England Fri
day for Heligoland
A total failure of the potato crop is
! imminent in Ireland
About $50 new buildings are being
erected at Salt Lake City.
Three or four thousand machinists
are on a strike at Pittsburg.
An international congress OF med
ical men is in session in Berlin.
The National Association OF Letter
Carriers is in session at Boston
The island of Heligoland was turned
over to the Germans on Saturday,
The Kansas wheat yield has turned
out much better than was feared.
There is reported to be a scarcity
of seals in Behring's Sea this year.
Twenty miners were drowned the
other day by the flooding of Mexican
mine.
The backbone of the great strike on
the New York Central railroad has been
broken.
One hundred and seventeen persons
died from cholera in Mecca Tuesday. In
Jed dab 10 died.
The census supervisor reports the
population of Utah at 22s, $50, an Increase
over 1850 Of 81, as6, I'D =
First Assistant eostma ster General
GARRISON has rendered his resignation to
take effect Sept. /.
The &, a. r. parade in Boston was
big affair. More prominent men partici
pated in it than usual.
The original package saloons OF
Kansas and Iowa have been closed as sud
denly as they were started.
The State National Bank of yelling
ton, Kansas, closed its doors Friday. The
liabilities are about 100000.
John Boyle O'Rielly, editor of the
Boston Plot, died very suddenly at his
summer home at Nantasket Beach last
Sunday.
Mr.. Joseph R. Dunlop, editor of the
Chicago Tunes, was married las, week to
to Mrs Wilbur f. Storey widow OF the
former editor.
The steamship Teutonic has broken
all records, making the run from Roche,
Point to Sandy Hook in days, ls hours
and minutes
The Catholic archbishops OF the
country have united in petitioning the
Pope to make Archbishop Keurick, OF ST
Louis, cardinal
All the union printers employed on
the four daily papers OF Los Angeles, Cal,
are on a strike against a reduction OF 20
per cent in their wages.
A convention OF 900 negroes was
held at Salina, Kansas, last week, TO de-
eide upon oolorsd man as candidate for
State Auditor on the Republican ticket
There was an enormous socialist
demonstration in behalf of universal suf.
frage at Brussels last Sunday. Forty
thousand persons took part in the parade.
1t will be unlawful for boys under
sixteen years old to smoke in New York
after September LIST, and the police have
been instructed to arrest all violators of
the law.
| Three hundred sailors and marines
have deserted from The men-of-war Chi
csgo and Atlanta since they have been ly-
ing in New York harbor The police have
arrested fifty Of them.
The President has sent to Congress
letter from Gov. Steele, of Oklahoma,
representing that great distress prevails
among the residents of the Territory, and
requesting that the attention of Congress
be called to the fact.
The Democrats of Wyoming have
nominated George W. Baxter for Cover
nor and Georgia T. Beck for Congressman
The Republicans have nominated Francis
+. Warren for Governor and Clarence d.
Clark for Congressman.
Instructions have been issued to the
registers and receivers OF the land Offices
| recently established at Sundance, Lander
and Douglas, Wyo., to be prepared to open
their respective offices for business as soon
as the necessary record books and blanks
now in course of preparation have been re
ceived.
Senator Blair has reported favor
ably, from the committee on education
and labor, joint resolution Introduced by
him proposing an amendment to the Con-
stitution to forever prohibit in the United
States the manufacture, importation, ex-
portation, transportation and sale of all
alcoholic liquors used as beverages
Charles Cosgroye, an aeronaut, was
instantly killed Sunday afternoon while
making parachute descension at Port
land, Oregon. Cosgrove made success
full ascension in the afternoon TO a height
Of about 900 feet, at which distance the
parachute was loosened- When about POO
feet from the ground he lost his hold and
fell. landing on paved street He was
mangled almost beyond recognition.