The Lamar register., 1890-05-10
BY TELEGRAPH.

huc IVlaSod nay question 70 hroid"ti"H.
2 The Laramie Boomerang. Bill Nye's
old paper, has been sold to c, L. Rannar.
1t is estimated that 10000 men
joined in the labor parade in London last
Sunday.
A large number of men throughout
the country struck for shorter hours on
May LIST.
| Ex-President Cleveland has been
admitted to practice before the United
States Supreme Court.
At Hamburg, Germany, nine thous-
and men were discharged for participating
in the May day demonstration.
A delegation of determined New
Mexicans is at Washington urging the
claims of their territory to statehood.
Parts of the great Singer Sewing
Machine factory at Elizabeth, y. J., were
burned on the 18th, causing immense loss.
A new torpedo boat. the Gushing
is said TO be very fast, having broken the
record between Newport and New York
The mining town OF Lehigh, Indian
| Territory, is under control OF crowd of
lawless men who run everything TO suit
themselves, and drive out peaceable citi-
| Gems
general strike. involving $4,000
coke workers in CoRnellsville region, Scot
land, is threatened unless the Friok Com
pany resumes operations a. the Valley
works.
\ contract has been signed for
building ], $50 miles of the Mexican Inter
national railway from Demins, New Mex
leo, TO Topolobampo Bay on the Pacific
Coast The amount involved is sci, $50, 600,
Mem bers OF labor unions at, Bris-
bane, Australia, threaten TO strike TO pre-
vent the shipment of woods sheared by
non-union men. They have oabled to Eng
land asking for the support of British labor
/ unions.
New York at last has ballot re-
form bill for which the people have been
J fighting for several years, but which Gov
ernor Hill has as firmly opposed. a com
promise measure finally received his
approval.
The seventeenth annual contest OF
the Interstate Oratoricsl Association was
held in Lincoln, Nebraska, May LIST Ora
tors were present from Ohio, Indiana, Mi,
\ nois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas
and Colorado. First prize was awarded 70
| $. w. Naylor Of Topeka, Kas., and second
10 A. Douglas of Monmouth, Ill
The New York papers charge that
the bill recently passed At Albany abolish
| ing capital punishment was aided through
brides The electric companies are much
| opposed to the use OF electricity for esecr-
tions as they claim that II will create
prejudice against its use in other ways
| Orders have been issued at Wash.
ington for the squadron of evolution to
proceed TO Brazil for duty the South
Atlantic station. While no explanation OF
the transfer is given it is generally &C
| cepted to mean a desire on the part OF the
| administration to foster and cement
friendly relations with the South Ameri-
/ can republics.
A dispatch from Willis Point, Tex
as, says that hurricane struck that
town on the 3rd. Two persons were killed
outright and several injured, one fatally.
The Methodist church and public school
building were completely demolished
while a number Of store. and residence
were blown down and nearly all business
! houses were unrcofed.
J. X Hudson. editor Of the Topeka
Capital, the leading prohibition daily OF
hahsas, mas oeeh ihaIoeeu oy grand Jury
ior ehoezz'emeh'r 'ne charge Deing that
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ro,Ice. than the f.darsi Ia,vs ai,on 80.
Foster. who is supposed to have ins,iga,s6
l the prosecution is an old enemy NJ a,,I.,,,
and IL is believed that the lat,er canra, h.