The Lamar register., 1891-05-30
BY TELEGRAPH.

passed . Dill proNlulnk ioi S
stitutional convention.
Steady-going Maine is excited by
recent atternpt to rob a train. The ban
dts were unsuccessful
The St. Louis police have Caught
several very clever thieves, one Of when
they believe 20 be tho roboer Of Monatl
at Dense-.
The striking stage drivers OF Paris
have won their fight, the government haF-
ing used It's influence to bring the eonpA-
hies to terms.
Clark W Hatch who has had SO
much trouble of late, has beea accs1tied u
Worcester, Massachusetts, Of the ehaESs
OF passing forged check
An attempt was made in CincinnAu
to play baseball last Sunday despite the
orders OF the mayor 10 the country, and
the two mines were promptly arrested
A bicycle race from Bordeaux TO
Paris, distance Of SIS miles, was won by
the Englishman. Mills, in Vi hours and
S. minutes. The E'renchmen were no
where.
The win of the late millionaire
Johr T. Parish has been fled for probate
in New York. IL doiates s2>o.uoo 70
missions, hospitals and other charitable
purposes.
An additional $500, 600 is to be
raised by subscription among wealthy peo-
pie in Chicago for the Worlds Fair. The
ways and means committee wants sS,0oo,-
ooo more money raised.
Grover Cleveland rs referee in a
suit agaius, New York City has rendered
q second decision awarding 500 per foot
damages. His first award was sloo PeT
foot Both sides will appeal
Seventeen Florida senators hid in
the woods to preyeat Senator Calls re-
election, but hfty-o1o out OF 100 mem oers
were present and elected Call The anti
Call men threaten to contest
The Michigan Senate, by a two
thirds vote, has passed the House ball aP-
| Propriaiing sSU,oO1 TO entertain the G. a
L. al Detroit The governor has announced
that he viii veto the bill
/ The city OF Ogden, Utah. is stirred
up because Of charges Of various kinds
made against ii aad the new Methodist
university by Sam Small who has oecn
president of the university.
The General Assembly OF the Pres
byterian Church met in Detroit last
week. The revision Of the creed was
presented and the Assembly referred Il 10
the presby,eries for acceptance or re.ee
tion.
A dissipated Austrian baron fought
q duel in jackson Park, Chicago, vita =
Son,hener the other day. The cause was
an opera singer, the weapons ranicrs, aud
the result serious wound in the 5aron's
neck
At Washington. Indiana, 100 Ger
man miners abandoned the strikers and
went to work last Monday. A fight
ensued between them and the Irish miners
and a German named stou was fatally
injured.
The intercollegiate running broad
Jump record was broken at the intereol-
legiate contests az s. Louis, when c. 5.
Reber jumped - feet - inches, thus
smashing the - foot C-ineh Of A Sherman
OF Yale.
They are very strict in Boston \
man kissed his wife the other evening
while on the street and being seen by a
policeman. they were promptly arrested
and put in jail on the charge Of drunk and
disorderly.
Elbogen. a theatrical agent of New
York City, has been convicted o; sending
girls to immoral dives in New Orleans
under false pretenses- He has been sen
fenced 10 i've years and nine months tc The
peniteutiary.
= The cruiser Charleston has reached
Peruvian port and is reported not to have
seen the Itata II will join the chilian
squadron, and II is believed that the Iiata
will be surrendered 70 the United State.
without fight
The first official act of r. W.
McLaughrey, the new Chicago chief oi
police, was to dismiss 400 policemen in
order to keep the expenditures OF the de-
partment within the appropriation. for II
for the current fiscal year.
Yale students have been notified
that Harvard faculty has voted to discon-
tinue athletic contests with other colleges
and coniine athletic sports TO inter-class
contests. This puts an end 10 boat and
football contests with Yale.
During April past S5.O0l immi-
grants arrived in this country, against
o., ,al2 in April, 1890. OF the immigrants
arriving last month Germany furnished
22,755, Italy ls, I26, ireland 9,e02. England
and Wales 5,l2S, Austria s,7o7, Rassls
4,2o2.
The Nashville & Chattanooga rail-
road, which was seized by the goyernmen
during the war and redeemed by the com
pany for sl,0oO,0OO, payable in twent,
years, announces its readiness to pay it
last payment OF s5oo,OoO TO the govern
ment on June !.
The Newfoundland Legislature hai
passed q coercion bill on Saturday night
with closed doors. The people disregar,
the governors proclamation of the queen
h,r,hJay The british fac haIvarde ,ya.