The Lamar register., 1890-10-18
BY TELEGRAPH.

Mexico City.
Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia has
become insane.
The population oil Kansas is given
as !, ,4as, ASS, an increase of 4o7, $50.
The people of Dallas. Texas. have
strnck artesian water, with big flow.
Joseph Pulitzer has retired from the
active management of the New York
World.
President Ezeta of Salvador is said
to be very mild in his treatment of polin-
cal enemies.
Judge Ryland, of Lexington. Mis-
souri,, charged the grand Jury to look after
progressive euchre parties.
Information has reached Cheyenne
that five-foot vein of asbestos has been
discovered near Casper, Wyoming.
New Workers are very much inter
ested in baby hippopotamus that was
born at Central Park the other day.
The Governor OF Ohio has called
special session of the Legislature to pro-
vide better government for Cincinnati
President Harrison has returned TO
Washington after his Western tour during
which he was received with the greatest
cordiality.
In trottiug race at Lexington,
Kentucky, last week, horse dropped dead
at the half mile post caused by the burst
ing OF blood vessel.
The Indians of North Dakota are
charged with firing the prairies to assist
in killing game, and the farmers and stock
men complain Of their losses.
A carrier-pigeon returned TO Its
home in New Jersey last week after an
absence OF fifteen months. 1t had been
released on the Atlantic, 100 miles from
land.
General w. w. Belknap. secretary
of war during President Grants first
term, was found dead In bed in Washing
ton last Monday morning. He died OF ap-
poplexy.
Very few of the buildings of London
are provided with fire escapes, and loss OF
life is the result Five women were killed
the other day by jumping from the WIZ
dows of burning factory.
The tariff act is" says Gladstone,
sin my eyes, deplorable error, at
tended with severe and cruel consequences
to itinerant persons. 1 shall certainly de-
sire to find AN opportunity Of Offering re-
marks upon it in Midlothian"
A terrible explosion occurred at
Bourges, France, on the 10th The bodies
of ten persons were blown to atoms, and
from the latest details at least forty were
injured. The disaster was caused by the
carelessness OF a workman who was alling
shell with dynamite.
Papers say that the Russian govern
ment will Immediately begin the construc-
ton of Siberian railway, and comments
on the strategic and commercial i'm
portance of the new railway, which will
induce closer relations between Russia
and America by the Pacific route.
H. c. Angel, a saddler Of Weather
ford Texas, died Monday night at his resi-
dence. he stated to his wife Sunday last
that he would die Monday night, and Sun
day he put in the day at the shop as usual
He had his will written and all Of his bus
mess matters arranged during the day
yesterday, and on going home, dressed in
his best suit of clothes, laid down and
died as formerly predicted
A dispatch from Prague. Austria,
says; Another frightful calamity visited
the city Monday morning when the wall
Of the karist bridge, which was partly
destroyed during the last great tUod, col
lapsed and forty laborers were thrown into
the river. Twenty-three Of them were
drowned and though the rest were rescued
many of them were badly hurt, and Cap
tain Rauch, the superintendent Of the
works, lost both legs.
Lord Caher was arrested at Cory
don, in Surrey, England, on complaint of
one of his neighbors whom he had threat
eued with bodily harm. He was locked
up in cell in the police station over night
and was arraigned in court In the morn
ing When his case was called he took
seat at the table devoted to the use OF
solicitors and swore freely al the magis-
trate anu OlneT"lse acLsI IN llsofLerly
manner The magistrate committed him
TO the work house. II is believed he is
insane.
The new Supreme Court justices of
Wyoming have drawn lots for their terms
of office, with the result that vandevanter
got four years, or the short term, thus
making him the chief justice, Groesbeck
the six year term, thus succeeding To the
chief iusticeship, and Conaway the eight
year or long term, and thus following
Groesbeck as chief justice. Hereafter all
of the justices of the supreme bench will
be elected for eight years, the holding over
justice having the shortest term being the
chief justice. r. H. Repoth was appointed
clerk of the Supreme Court and Major
Talbot, an old soldier. as bailif.
The November number of Subjects
of the Day, an English publication, CON
tains an appeal from Mr.. Gladstone to the
Tory house-holders, in which he expresses
a strong desire that the Tory party under
take 10 pass home rule bill, because he
SAYS, that party can do il more easily and