The Lamar register., 1891-04-04
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leave the stage after this week.
Ninety-two compositors on the Phil
adelphia Press struck on the a7th. y
Theodore Thomas has been APP
pointed musical director of the Worlds
Fair.
DR.. Howard Crosby, the eminent
Presbyterian preacher OF New York, died
on the 29th.
The price of sugar dropped on the
LIST in consequence of the operation of the
Mckinley law.
Prince Bismarck was seventy-siX
years old on the ist. He was honored by
great many of his countrymen.
The queen of the Hawaiian Islands
IS having great deal of trouble in secur-
ing a cabinet that suits the people
The Canadian Pacific railroad has
secured right of way into New York
City over the New York Central tracks.
Captain Galley. who has been court
martialed for dodging service during the
recent Indian outbreak, has been acquitted
OF the charge of eowardice, as it was
shown that he was sick.
The missionary schooner Chapman
was lost on the west coast OF Hayti,
November 1890. She was bound from
Honolulu to Pitcairn Island. The crew,
numbering sixteen, were drowned
Mr.. Romero, the Mexican minister
says that the United States department OF
state and the Mexican government were
in correspondence on the subject of
treaty of reciprocity between the two
countries.
A dispatch from JetfersouNille, In
diana, says: The hydrophobia scare in
the upper end of the county grows. A
flock of sheep belonging to George Bower,
whose horse went mad two days ago, has
been attacked with the malady and had to
be killed.
In eastern Kansas fine system OF
robbery has been brought to light 1t was
carried on by two farmers whose wives
acted as spies aud told their husbands
when their neighbors would be away from
home, so that raid on their property
might be safely Iaude.
The deaths reported from pneu-
monia and kindred ailments for the week
in Chicago will be about 900, probably the
largest number ever recorded in the city.
y careful estimate justifes the statement
that nearly quarter of u million people
in that city are under medical treatment
Every branch Of business. is crippled by
the prevailing sickness, and all the doc
tors are busy.
On five steamers that arrived at
New York Monday from European ports
there were 3, l43 immigrants. 1t will take
the immigration officers two whole days
10 pass this army of men, women and
children through the barge office, and be-
fore they are all sent their various ways
the chances are that more immigrants
will have arrived to keep them busy. 1t
is estimated that between 80, 600 and 40, 600
immigrants will arrive during the next
thirty days.
A dispatch from Hutchinson, Kans.,
says: John Cap!ieg, of Buffalo, N. Y,
passed through this city yesterday on his
way home from Beaver City in MOI MANS
Land, where it is proposed to locate Co
operative colony to be organized on
the Bellamy plan. He said that he ex-
pected the colony would be formed this
spring, in time to put in crops, if possible
The colony, he thinks, will comprise
about 500 people to start with, and is to be
strictly cooperative.
A small, fairly bright comet, with
a.
by Prof. Barnard Sunday night at the
Lick Observatory. At eight hours and
thirty-four minutes its position was right
ascension one hour and ten minutes and
ten seconds, north declination forty-seven
degrees and forty minutes. The comet is
moving rapidly southwark in the direction
of the sun, one degree day. Its present
motion will soon carry it out Of sight in
the neighborhood OF the sun.
Judge Mcconnell, of Chicago, sent
]. }. Hooper to the county Jail for ninety
days for contempt of court, and held him
in $, 600 bail on the charge of attempted
jury bribing. Martin C. Shannon was
held in g, coo bail for alleged completely
in the crime. The case in which it is
alleged that the two men conspired to
defeat the ends of Justice, was that Of j.
Cottingham, who was sueing the West
Chicago City Railway Company for SIS, ,oOO
damages for personal injuries.
A horrible accident at Gallup. a
coal mining town in New Mexico hap
pened in the Caledonia mine, Three men,
Cassiday, Lynch and Frenchnan name
not known, were in one of the entries, 500
feet from the surface, fixing the track
when rock weighing several tons broke
loose and fell on top of them. One Of the
men was taken out with his head down
between his legs and his back and head
crushed. Another had been caught as he
was lying on the ground and he was
mashed HAT The third was caught under
the rock from the chest down and crushed.
News has been received from Zan-
zioar of the outbreak OF a revolution in the
Comono Islands in the Mozambique chan
mel, about $50 miles north west of the Mad.
agascar coast. On the island Of Anjouan.
the natives, after the death Of Sultan
Adhabduilah, supplied themselves with
arms and spread over the country inassa
creing three hundred people, CARRYING
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