The Lamar register., 1891-09-19
BY TELEGRAPH.

Leavenworth, Kansas.
1t is stated in Paris that the Credit
Foneier has taken up the new Russian
loan.
The Paris Temps says Stanley is
planning new Congo expedition for King
Leopold
The Duke of Genoa has been ap-
pointed honorary president of the Italian
Worlds Fair committee.
A party Of railway officials were
wrecked by collision in Connection las
week Nobody killed.
The reported seizure and fortifying
of the Island of Mitylene by England has
been offio.ally denied.
Terrible floods in the south Of Spain
have caused large number Of deaths, and
left hundreds Of families destitute.
The steamship Arizona collided
with sailing vessel in mid ocean. 1t -
thought that the latter sank with all on
board.
The village OF Refel. in the Tyrol,
was destroyed by fire Sunday during the
absence of the inhabitants at a religious
festivity.
Some young men raidAS a vineyard
on the premise.- of Catholic school in
,, Troy, New York, and one of them was
T; fatally shot.
The long talked of amalgamation
OF the Brotherhood of Tele-.-.s.-s and
! re oraer OF Railway Telegraphers has
been accomplished.
Robert Garrett of Baltimore has
donated valuable American historical
library to the historical department of the
Hopkins University.
Frenchmen propose holding an ex-
hioItion OF Messonier's paintings in Paris
next spring. They want American owners
oil his pictures to loan them.
immigrants confined in the pen at
the New York barge office are mys-
terlously making their escape. The offi-
cials pretend to be surprised.
herailroads have announced rate
oil one fare for the round trip to St Louis
on the occasion of the meeting of the Sow
ereign Grand Lodge, Sept. 2lst.
Pennsylvania will expend $75, 900
In Worlds Fair building 10 cover 5000
teet. Prizes of $1,000, 500 and $500 are
offered for the best architectural designs.
The formal opening of the tunnel
under the st. Glare river between Canada
and the United Stated will be celebrated
on September 18th at Sarnia and Port
Huron.
An Austrian spy named kransikf
has been. sentenced to be transported to
Siberia, and his three accomplices have
each been sentenced to eight years. penal
servitude.
1he government of India has chosen
a5year old relative of the ex maharaiahIas
the new raiah of Manipur. A British
officer will administer affairs during his
minority.
-Four turner societies OF Chicago
have withdrawn from the North American
Turner Bund because it was not strong
enough in its opposition to socialism and
anarchists.
The Chickasaw legislature convened
at Ardmore on the 1lth. The cattle per-
nit law is to be amended and the price
rails ed from s. to $40 per head for grazing
privileges.
A steam yacht, having on board 100
women and children, collided with a
steamer in Boston harbor OF the 18th, and
had u narrow escape from being sunk No
lives were lost.
A dispatch from Atchison, Kansas,
says: The fair, which has been running
here a week, closed in disgrace The
gate receipts have been stolen. by one or
more members OF the association, and the
employees, exhibitors and others cannot get
their money.
Orth Stein, a well-known crook and
newspaper man, is in jail at Atlanta
awaiting requisition from about twenty
states where he has operated. Stein at
one time buncoed William H. Vanderbilt
out of about $4,000, but the the matter
was hushed up.
An earthquake OF great violence
and accompanied by terrible results was
felt in Central America last week. Full
details of it have not yet been received,
but it is known to nave caused the death
of many persons and to have done immense
damage to property.
Letters from Jedda state that the
death rate from cholera among the pill
grims to Mecca is unprecedented. The
authorities at that time estimated that
1000 pilgrims had died during the season.
At the time the letters were sent all signs
of the epidemic had disappeared.
Official information has been re-
ceiyed from the scene OF tho terrible
floods now devastating the province of
Toledo, Spain. According to the news
received 2, 900 people have already persisted
and an immense amount of damage has
been done by the swollen waters At
present it is utterly impossible to send as
sistance to the survivors, as all roads and
railway communications with the scene of
the disaster has been cut Off.
A dispatch has been received from
To-ar, On the west aide Of &ha