The Lamar register., 1890-10-04
BY TELEGRAPH.
silxer. which was down 10 si.lO. 8

rising again.
The national debt was decreased
81. .5as, COS during September.
The business of the large Australian
ports is seriously embarrassed OF late by
strikes.
The Count of Paris, who served IN
the Union army duriag the Rebellion, h
making visit TO his old friends In TINS
country.
The morning service in st. Paul :
Cathedral at London was interrupted last
| Sunday in a horrible way BY man shoot
ing himself fatally with a revolver
A remarkable deadlock in Il Demo
cratic convention at Memphis was broken
Tuesday after three weeks contest
Col. Josiah Patterson was nomin ated ioi
Congress on the 5,o5lst ballot
1.-THE firm OF John V. Farwell X Co.,
Chicago, will Incorporate the first oil tiie
| year with a capital of s5.ooo,oOO. Nostoek
will be offered to the public. The hrm
does business OF s29, 600, ,ooo year.
Colonel George Davis. director gem
eral of the Worlds Columbian Exposition.
has promptly purSed himself OF politics IN
| connection with the management OF the
| great fair by resigning his position as
member of the Republican National Com
mittee.
The appropriations made by the
session OF the Fifty-hrst Congress were
s36i 81 500. The permanent appropria-
tions for the year ls9O-9l amount TO slol,-
6aS, ,45s, making the grand total for The
year si62, 93a, $50. Increase over the tii-
tieth Congress, sio,slAdia
Eight massive and handsome brass
tablets are being put into position In var
ious portions Of New York City TO conf
memorate historical eyeats connected
with the cary history OF Manhattan Is
land. The work is being done at the eS-
pense of the Holland Society.
a married daughter OF General Bar
rundia, who made an attempt on Minister
| Miners life, has arrived in the city oi
OaSace, TO sec her mother and family be
fore leaving for this country with large
bundle of documents concerning her faith
ers murder TO present to the i'rcsideut-
A dispatch from Rome says: The
Rev. y. l. Chappellc, ID. D., pastor Of St
Matthew'S church, Washinrioa, d. CIVIL
be elevated to the Catholic cpiscopaey at
the December convocation, and win be
assigned to the archdiocese OF Santa Fe,
New Mexico. as eoadiutor to the Most Rev.
J. b. Salpointe, archbishop Of that prov
ince.
Thomas Heinen. Sr.. agca IS years,
was killed near ST. Joseph, Minnesota, by
a passing freight train. The manner Of
his death was rather peculiar The old
man had tied q COW by rops to one Of tho
rails OF the track, and in attempting 10 re-
lease her 10 save her, was struck by tho
cowcatcher and instantly killed The en-
gine severed the rope. The COW escaped
uniniured.
The Canadian law providing tina,
every family of twelve or more childrcu
shall be entitled to leo acres Of government
land, is being largely taken advantage Of.
So far 100, 900 acres have been claimed by
families OF twelve or more children. This
brings up the population thus connected
with the members OF twelve or more chill
ren to 1900 Some OF the claimants
families are blessed with twenty two
members a farmer from Iberyillc states
that his father lived TO sec his seventh
generation and died at the age ofg u.
Charles, Mix County, South Dakota,
claims the honor OF having one OF tho
most honest young men west OF the Nils
sissippi River, Some years ago the young
man stole large quantity OF wood from
the Yankton Indian reservation. He re
| Gently experienced change OF heart and
was anxious to pay for the wood. In an
swer TO letter from him 10 the Interior
department officials Offering 20 pay for I,
If they would accept the money, special
agent was sent to him and has Just re
turned after arranging the matter.
\ dispatch from Erzeroum says the
situation in Armenia has become serious.
| The Russian government has rnassed -,
900 troops on the Armenian frontier. The
Turks are expecting an attack and ar,
rapidly supplying tue kurds with arms
and ammunition and making other prep
arations TO resist the Russian forces
Russia is also increasing the frontier
guards on the boundaries Of Austria. Tur-
key and Persia, The alleged object Of
this increase is to provide for the more cf
feetive suppression OF smuggling.
On September 20 a party OF Aqui
Indians well armed attacked Wagon
train near Cumerica, Mexico. and captured
it after killing one Of the teamsters
Twenty-Five men Of the Eleventh regular
went in pursuit Of the Indians, whom the,
succeeded in overtaking last Tuesday. A
fight ensued, in which a corporal and on,
other Of the pursuers were killed and two
Of their number were wounded. The
wagon train booty was recovered from tn.
Indians, who fed toward the United State.
boundary. They did not cross it. however
but took refuge in some mountains in IN.
State Of Sonora.
Among the important measure.
passed by Congress this year are the fol
lowing; The bill providing for the month
lypurchase of 100000 ounces Of silver
the customs administrative bill; the de
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