The Lamar register., 1891-03-21
BY TELEGRAPH.


aes the slaughter of the Italians at New
Orleans.
An Insane asylum in Tennessee was
burned the other night and six patients
cremated.
The railroad managers have about
decided to do away with unlimited tickets
and thus shut of scalpers.
A law has been passed in Arizona
which exempts all railroads built inside
OF three years from taxation for twenty
years,
Two men at New Orleans connected
with the Hennessey trial fought duel on
the street. One is dead and the other
dying.
The italians charged with murder
ing Hennessy of New Orleans have been
| acquitted. There is great indignation be-
cause of it.
General Manager Clarke of :Ao
Union Pacific hes Tsscinded his order that
the telegraphers must withdraw from the
railway operators order.
p tmaster General Wauamaker
has removed four letter carriers and sus-
pended fourteen others in Washington
because of general ineAiciency.
Syracuse, New York, was visited
! by great fire on the morning of the 18th.
1t destroyed property to the value of a
million dollars, and one or two lives We're
lost.
So great is the excitement in Italy
because Of the killing OF the Italians in
New Orleans that many Americans deem
it wise to leave that country for tue south
OF France.
The buildings of Alfred Benjamin
& Co, wholesale clothiers of New Yerk.
We're destroyed by fire the other day. The
loss was 81, 600, ,o00 and $50 employees are
out OF work.
A saloon keeper OF Marseilles named
Mountet has been arrested on the charge
of poisoning with arsenic his wife, mother
in-law, grandmother, infant and T. friend
who had lent him money.
oyertures recently made by the
government of Canada TO the government
of British Guinea for reciprocity treaty
were rejected by the latter on the ground
that an arrangement of this kind with the
United States is preferred.
\ terrible disaster occurred Monday
at the arseual of Omdurman, Egypt.
| From the reports received it appears that
about 100 dervishes were killed by an ex
plosiou there which destroyed immense
stores of ammunition and shattered the
arsenal building and everything in the
| Immediate vicinity.
The British steamship Ardancorrah,
| Captain Anderson, from Mobile, February
| Q, for Liverpool, mas arrived at Queens
town. Her bows are stove in and her
| fore hold is full of water. On February
~, in latitude 45 north and longitude As
west. she ran into an iceberg and was so
seri, Isly crippled that she had narrow
escape from laundering.
News has been received of the cap
ture Tuesday last of the noted bandit
leader. Gerardo Nevraumout, who some
time ago entered iewelry store in
| chihuahua, Mexico, and after killing the
proprietor, robbed the store of a large
| quantity of diamonds and gold and silver
articles. The arrest was made ten miles
west of chihuahua, by custom officers, who
had photograph Of the robber
| In answer to note from the World 5
Fair Auxiliary Association rendering him
an honorary membership and suggesting
that song from his pen. to be sung at
the opening of the fair, would be appre-
ciated, Lord Alfred Tennyson said: al
accept your offer of honorary membership
not without gratitude. But as for song
| Il am an old man, verging on 81, and |
cannot promise"
An American lady has bought in a
iewelry store at Madrid the necklace
| which was presented to the then Empress
Eugene of France by the KhediYe Ismail
Pasha of Egypt on the occasion of the
opening of the Suez canal The necklace
which is worth over 500, 900, was sold a,
public auction some years ago, together
| with the remainder of the Jewels of the
FrensI crown. The American lady paid
s7s, coo for the necklace.
Fire in building four miles from
Ottawa, Canada, in which there were
1900 pounds Of dauline, $50 pounds o,
nitro-glycerine and 800 of nitre soda,
caused an explosion which completely
destroyed three other buildings in the
neighborhood. Three men who were
working in the building escaped. The
shock was felt for thirty miles and many
windows in the city were demolished The
Joss will amount to 10000.
A dispatch from Madrid says that
the Spanish cabinets project for reciproc.
| ity with the United States contemplates
| admitting into the Spanish Antilles United
| States Industrial and agricultural products
ut lower rates than those of any other
nation in exchange for the admittance
| into the United States free of duty of
sugar and molasses from the Antilles.
| lower tariff on tobacco imported from the
same islands imported into the United
| States is also asked for in return for the
privileges Spain proposes TO grant.
Eleven Italians connected with the
assassination of IJave Hennessy of New
Orleans, were killed by mob last Satur
day. The raid on the Jail was Irresistible