The Lamar register., 1891-08-22
BY TELEGRAPH.


smelter strike being soon ended
The strike of smelter hands at
Omaha is ended, the men having given In
Drouth in Michigan and Wisconsin
is doing great damage TO corn and pota-
toes.
Queen Victoria has telegraphed
her sorrow at James Russell Lowell's
death
The United States warship Charles
ton has left San Francisco for the Asiaae
station.
Six thousand. two hundred and
thirty-f four aliens landed at New York
last week
Three aeronauts were killed In dh-
ferent parts of the country last Satu rday
and Sunday.
At Troy, New York, the Rev. John
Henry Hopkins of the Episcopal church is
dead, aged 81.
Winnepeg crop reports say the
wheat crop in the British territory was
never better or larger.
President Harrison left Cape May
on the 18th to attend the celebration at
Bennington, Vermont
Heavy storms OF rain and hail
swept over Minnesota on Thursday and
serious damage was done.
King Alexander Of Servia and his
father, ex-King Milan, are guests Of Pres
ident Carnot at Fontainebleu-
The Infectious Disease Institute at
Berlin has been formally opened in the
presence of Professor Koch.
Ten Chinese were arrested on
islands in Puget Sound as contrabands,
and were ordered returned to China
At Huntington, West Virginia, Fri
day, powder mill exploded, and three
men were killed and seven wounded
Archbishop Corrigan will appoint
a new vicar general in place of Vicar Gen
eral Preston of New YORK, who is serious
ly ill
Strike of the brakemen on the Lake
Erie & Western railroad began on the l7sh
at Lafayette, Indiana The whole road is
tied up.
Near Clayton, Minnesota, Michael
Mihon, a farmer, was killed by lightning
while harnessing horse which was also
killed
Nels Larsen and his nine-months-
old babe were fatally trampled and kicked
while he was feeding his horses in his
barn at Omaha.
Colored Mems National Cong ress
in Red Oak, Iowa, elected J. c. Fremont
president and appointed a national e1ecu'
tive committee
Secretary George Mueller, author
of the Alliance circular, announces the
wheat holding scheme a success. AL the
Alliances are in it.
The Moscow police have received
secret orders which will have the effect OF
expelling every Jew from the district
within two months.
Commander-in-Ch Chief Palmer has
appointed Assistant Adiutant General
Fred. Posterer, of New York, as sdiutani
general OF the G. A. r.
President Harrison has instructed
officials to remove the cattle from The
Cherokee lands except those proven to be
long to Cherokee Indians.
Z Thomas McCreery. Canadian
member of Parliament has resigned hi.
seat rather than answer questions beforC
an investigation committee,
In Chicago the national board oi
control of the Worlds Fair has voted tc
double the membership Of the board. Th'
alternates are made full members.
The lockout OF window glass fac,
tories at Pittsburg continues. The man.
ufacturers refuse the scale and the meg
feel confident Of forcing them to it.
Farmers of Northwestern Iowa are
besieged by Eastern grain dealers TO sell
at last years prices. The farmers are
mostly holding OF and declining to sell
Baron Hirsch has signed a docu-
ment empowering DIR. Lowenthal and
other gentlemen 10 purchase lands in the
Argentine Republic to the value of ten
million pesos
The immense crop Of oats in Iowa
is causing the railroads to purchase more
cars. The crop runs from sixty TO one
hundred bushels to the acre and IS pounds
to the busheL
The Very Rev. Gilbert Ellcott, D.
D., the well known English churchmau, is
dead. He was born in 1900 and was ap-
pointed dean of Bristol in 1850, and had
held the office ever since.
State Board of Prison Inspectors of
Tennessee has ordered all couvicts in
mines back 10 the penitentiary. Here
after convicts must be employed only in
branch prisons in Tennessee.
DR.. and Mrs. Baldwin, of Norfolk,
Conn, were married July 6. They are
taking their wedding tour travelling on
bicycles, and have passed through ST
Paul, St. Louis and Chicago.
In Haverhill, Massachusetts, J. NJ.
winchel & Co., shoe manufacturers, en-
ploying 600 hands, announce that they
will run non n-union shop and refuse to be
regulated By trades unions hereafter.