The Lamar register., 1890-07-12
BY TELEGRAPH.

The bill admitting Idaho as State
was signed by President Harrion on the
3D.
The Salt Lake opera hou:e burned
last Wednesday night causing loss of
slsl, 900.
The Louisiana House of Represen-
tatives has passed the lottery bill over the
Governors veto.
a line of steamers has been started
on the Missouri River, to run between
Kansas City and St. Louis.
The German rifle meeting began
last Sunday with great parade which
was headed by the American delegation
About 10, 900 school teachers met in
St. Paul on the sth, In attendance upon
the National Educational Association con
vention.
A irumcr is current that Prince
Ferdinand of Bulgaria has notified Prince
Minister Stambuloff OF his intention to
abdicate
The new minister from China to the
United States says that his government
will retaliate upon US by excluding all
Americans
The Central American States are
reported to be ordering large quantities OF
arms and ammunition, with which TO fight
each other.
A Union Pacific brakeman in Wyom-
ing was thrown from the cars by q tramp
with whom he was fighting and the train
ran over him.
A New York paper claims that
great frauds have been committed in fur
ishing coal to the government at the Mare
island ship yard.
Lake Michigan was visited by
very severe wind storm on July and 4,
which did much damage TO shipping and
caused the loss of liyes.
Emin Pasha in letter to DR.. Hart
laub, who is preparing Emin's geological
collection, says: III return in safety, /
will not tempt God By further eKplOra-
tons
The electric street car lines of Fort
Worth are tied up by strike. The com
pany will onl hire one man to each car,
and the employees think that conductor
is needed,
1t is expected that the Belgian car
dinal will propose an Immediate advance
of 81 ,OOO,O Oc to the Congo State and an ad-
vance Of s4Oo, 900 annually for ten years,
the Congo State to be mortgaged 10 Bel
GUM.
An Aeronaut named Black lost his
life near Beardstown, Illinois, on the
| Fourth. He was to have fallen with
parachute, but Il caught fire in some way
and collapsed, and he fell from great dis
lance.
Queen Victoria has presented to
Miss Dorothy Tennet, MIR Stanley's fan
Gee, a miniature Of her majesty The por
trait is inclosed in case set with bril-
liauts, which also contains lock of the
| queens hair.
The first election for the House Of
Peers under the new Japanese constitu-
ton took place June %, some forty four
members being returned. Twenty-Five Of
these arc farmers by occupation, fifteen
are merchants. and one a noble
A man named Joseph Tribble was
arrested at wathena, Kansas, last week
| Tor murder which he committed at that
/ place in 1851. rribble went South and
served in the Confederate army, and has
lived in the southern States ever since
1t has been decided to hold the
formal statehood celebration in Cheyenne
on July % Committees will at once be
set activeIy to work to make the occasion
4 grand success. There will be an impos-
ing street parade in the day. balloon as
eension and big pail at the capitol in the
evening.
New York was the scene of riot
Gus demonstration last Thursday. large
number of striking cloakmakers whose
| places have been taken by new men.
gathered at several OF the large cloak
making establishments and attacked the
new workmen as they tried to enter the
buildings Several men were badly hurt
before the police iuterfered
On the Fourth of July, Joel Smith.
living at Point Hope, Ontario, hoisted the
stars and stripes over his residence in
honor of the Fourth. a deputatlon Of
neighboring farmers requested its remov-
al, but he declined, whereupon the flag
was riddled with bullets and divided
among the crowd. A second flag raised
by Smith met similar fate.
Prof. Brooks comet is now in II
favorable position for telescope observa-
ton in the evening. Its discoverer states
that the comet now forms triangle with
the stars Zeta and Tan in Ursa Major fthe
| big dipper), is moving westward, and on
| July Ii will be midway between the above
stars The comet has a bright nucleus
and short tail remains above the horizon
the entire night.
An attempt was made to rob the
Wells Fargo express car while the train
was standing at Goshen, Gala, July srd.
The door of the car was opened TO deliver
express matter, when q man reached into
the car and seized a package and attempted
to make of with it. The messenger
jumped from the car, drew a pistol and
compelled the thief to get into the car.
The messenger'then sent for the conductor