The Lamar register., 1891-11-28
The WORLD AT LARGE.

A hali-druuken man jumped from
he Brooklyn bridge last Sunday and
vas killed
Almy the New Hampshire murder
.r, has been convicted and sentenced
% be hanged.
Syracuse. New York. had s s20O,-
300 IRE last week. The Standard thea
ser was burned
James Landers. aged 90, was burned
20 death in his cabin near Montague,
Mich. He was a hermit.
The eastern part OF the country was
swept by s terrific storm on the 2Srd-
Much damage was done in the large
cities
a hotel at jamestown, New York,
burned down on the 2Srd and three
women employees were burned TO
death or suffoeated-
MiddIeburg. Vermont, was damaged
on Main street on Sunday night TO the
extent of $3.50, 600. Several stores
ana two bridges were burned.
Al meeting of the Republican
national committee at Washington on
the 2Srd it was decided to hold the
national convention next year at Min
neapolIs
Schooner White Cloud, sixty-six
days from Chicago, has arrived in
New York loaded with lumber. She
is the first vessel TO sail from Chicago
to New York
The longest drouth for twenty
. azf
been ended at Dennison, Texas, By q
heavy rain. Great damage has been
done by fires
Commander-iu-Chief Palmer of the
G. A R, in general order, recon-
mends the remittance Of arrears Of
suspended members and If worthy the
delinqueuts be restored
Sensational story from New Brigh-
ton and St Paul relative to bloody
work by wolves and big wolf hunt,
was fake, written by a saloOnkeeper
to advertise his business.
a fine Of 81 head Is to be levied
on all cattle in the Cherokee Strip
Half goes to the informant Cattle
owners are alarmed and the boomers
are pushing the new Law.
Two steamers collided on Lake Su-
perior on the 22nd during heavy
fog, and one OF them, the Samuel
Mather, sank in 500 feet of water. Ii
was loaded with iron ore
The first steel derrick made in the
| United Statss was raised in Barre, Yer
mont, last week. 1t is niuety-nine
feet high, the highest unsuppor ted
metal column in the world.
Near St Mary's, Ohio. burglars
shot and killed a son of Frederick
Fremering while he was opposing
their robbery of his fathers house.
The thieves will be lyuched if caught.
The lumber season has closed in
Minnesota. The cut is the largest
ever known. 1t exceeds that OF 1896
| by $50, IS6, $50 feet of lumber, ,43,
0O3, 800 shi- qles and Il, 900, 600 lath.
Immenpe iron mine discoveries
have been made in the Mesaba noun
tains west of Duluth. Several pits are
down eighteen feet in clear iron. A
railroad viii be built to the new min
ing region.
1t is stated that the Supreme Council
of the Alliance in secret session de.
cliued to hear the plea of the anti.
sub-treasury element, and that the ad
vocates of an Independent party ruled
the council.
Farmers Alliance State Convention
at Dayton, Washington. overruled its
president and appropriated money TO
send delegates to a third party stats
convention. President Sutton seeded
from the Alliance.
The Melbourne Rain Making com,
pany has organized in Goodland Kan.
sas, with capital of 500, 600 Il
went secretly out to the Texas Pan.
handle last week and created flood Of
rain in the arid lands.
The State Farmers Alliance of Ohio
met in Dayton on the goth. 1t in
dorsed the sub-treasury scheme, un.
limited coinage. Peoples party, tariff
for revenue and election of president
and senators by the direct vote of the
people.
The legislature of the state of Du.
range, Mexico, has passed law au,
thorizing the governor to purchase
corn and establish places for its salt
in all parts of the state where people
are oppressed by high prices caused
by the failure Of crops.
A dispatch from Manila, fhe CAPT
tai OF the PHILIPPINES, announce tina
a disastrous tornado has passed ovel
the islands. A large number Of yes
sells were wrecked and much damage
was done. The Spanish cruiser Gas
tilla was driven ashore, but she after
wards got of
Three hundred pounds of dynamit,
exploded in the powder house OF tbs
North Tamarack copper mine, half
mile north of Red Jacket, Minnesota
Sticks of powder were left standing
against the steam heater and got hot
Glass was shattered in several hun.
dred houses and the shock was felt
five miles away, but fortunately nc
lives were lost.
Ignatius Donnelly, the politicia-
and author, has been sued by 2 .
Peal & Co, publishers. of Chicago, or
claim of Sc, 900. The complainant.
hold a promissory mole for $1,000
made by Donnelly in 1887, for money
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