The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1890-07-05
BY TELEGRAPH.

made full confession to the police
The bill admitting Idaho as State
has passed both houses of Congress-
Pattison has been nominated by the
Democrats of Pennsylvania for Governor
Ogden's Carnival opened on the
3oth 1t promised to be brilliant ana
successful affair
Excessive heat caused large num-
Der Of deaths in the cities of the Missis
sippi basin last Saturday,.
During the past tive weeks ia
cases of cholera aud thirty dsssns arc
reported from Gambia, Spain
Tom Todd, who killed Pat Desmond
at Ogden few months ago has been con-
vlcted of voluntary manslaughter-
Thomas w. Palmer of Michigan has
been elected President of the Worlu
Fair Commission, and J. I. Dickinson VI
Texas was made Secretary.
Rex IL. was crowned at Ogden on
the LIST amid the reioicings OF his Loyal
subjects. A number OF Dukes were also
created, and the wild west swarms WIZ
royalty.
A photographer at Minneapolis
MINI, was recently sued foz s5,ooo' WINS"
was recovered, because he mSae extra
copies OF young womau's photograph anu
disposed of them to other parties
A company of British capitalists has
been formed to acquire from the represer-
tatives OF the late John Roach, the ship
building yards and engine works at Ches-
ter, and the Morgan iron works in New
York City.
There came near being fire.
croker famine in New York on the Fourth
as vessel bringing Crackers from
China was lost The timely arrival of an
other ship, however, with 4,ooo, 900 punches
saved the country.
1t is estimated at the treasury de-
partment that there has been decrease
of about S2o,oOO.OOO in the public debt
since June l. The total decrease for the
! fiscal year was SS7, 10000 as against
STA, ooo, 900 for the previous fiscal year.
An announcement by the London
Times relative to the standing of a great
South American banking institution
caused serious break in the stock mar
ket Subsequently the statement was
found to have been INCORRECT, the cable
gram having been wrongly punctuated.
The bark Athens from Novia Scotia
reports the Norwegian bark Nordcap
burned at sea on the 9Th inst. OF crew
of twenty men six were killed by falling
yards while fighting the flames. The re
naming fourteen took to the boats and were
rescued after being adrift for four days. /
The striking employees at the Leeds
gas works had serious conflict the other
day with force of policemen, who were
endeavoring TO prevent disorder. The
strikers used stones. sticks and bottles as
weapons so the officers were indiscrimi-
nate in the use of their batons. :. Many on
both sides were injured.
The work Of smothering the fire in
Hill Firm mine at Dunbar, Pa, has COM
| ne.ced. The mine cannot be flooded. An
inquest over the bodies of the TWO men
brought ont of the slope began Monday
VIVA, IS most needed now is relief for the
tsyenty-one widows aud seventy-seven or
phans of the victims. There is much
suffering,
A row between the little Central
American States is reported. A special
states that Honduras will make common
cause with Guatemala against San Saliva
dor, and the latter is seeking an alliance
with Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Mexico
remains neutral for the present, though
appealed to. Guatemala has declared q
censorship over all kilograms.
Ministers Develle and Barley un-
yelled statue of Joan of Arc at Nancy,
France on the Doth The ceremonies were
of an impressive character. The town
was handsomely decorated in honor OF the
occasion. After the unwilling numerous
banquets were given in different parts of
town Among those present were thirty
descendants of the brothers OF Joan of Arc.
The staff of the Central telegraph
office at London, numbering 1000 persons
refused TO cheer for the Queen on the in
vitatiou of the officials in honor of the
Postal Jubilee. Instead of cheering they
groancd for the Queen. They also groan
ed for Postmaster General Raikes as a
protest against his treatment of their de-
mands for the amelioration of their con-
dition.
Advices from Erzeroum say that
fifty persons lost their lives in recent
riot in that city. When the news of the
fray between the Turkish soldiers and the
Armenians spread, the whole Moslem
population turned out and the widest dis
order prevailed. The windows of the
British and French consulates were
smashed by the Infatuated Musselmen.
and business Is now at standstilL
The committee sent from Paris to
Panama to investigate the condition of
the canal has made a further report on the
prospect of the enterprise. The commit
tee says the construction of the canal at
the calculated level would occupy twenty
years, and cost LBS, 600, 600 francs. In
| the opinion of the committee the worl,
could only be completed on the basis of an
international agreement, or a syndicate of
| the states interested.
Postmaster-General Wauamaker has