The Lamar register., 1891-03-07
BY TELEGRAPH

Senator Hearst OF California died in
Washington on the 2Sth.
A number of Farmers Alliances
have been organized in Connecticut
Ex-senator Blair of New Hampshire
has been appointed minister to China.
Jay Gould was fined $3.50 the other
day because he refused to serve as jury
man
Nearly all the officers of TIE Worlds
Fair Exposition were sick with the grippe
last week.
The bill to create "a land court to
adiudicate land grant claims of the West
has passed Congress.
The Republicans OF the Senate have
decided to elect Senator Manderson as
President pro tcnpore.
President Harrison and u few friends
will start on Saturday for few days
hunting and fishing in Maryland.
Under the Australian ballot system
Burlington, Vermont, has elected the
first Democratic mayor in twenty years.
The Connecticut Assembly is squab-
bling about paying 800 for Governor
Bulkleys expenses at the Sherman fun
eral.
A contract has been made with
Lewis * Bros. of Pittsburg and Wales, to
establish $685. 900 tin plate mandatory
at Joliet, Illinois.
The Empress Frederick while visit
ing Paris was not treated very well and
the German Emperor is said to be very
indignant about it.
The Illinois Department OF Agricul-
ture reports that the wheat plant in
Illinois has not seriously suffered from
frost or dry weather.
Congress has at last passed the di-
rect tax bill, which returns to States the
tax of money levied upon them by the
| government during the rebellion.
The steamer Iowa sunk in mid-ocean
recently. Seventy nine men on board
were rescued, but the cargo OF live stock
was lost. The ship was damaged by
| collision with ice.
The first international convention
of students who have volunteered to be-
come foreign missionaries is in session at
Cleveland. About 500 delegates from all
parts of the world are present.
As result of the decline in the
price of silver nearly 100 bars of bullion
have been taken from the mint at Carson
| City and sent to China, where higher
price prevails for it than in America.
The typographical union of Seattle
has abolished piece work. Printers will
at -lnIninpsn wages OF 81 per day, aJ,zf.tsss
beginn ngon morning papers at $50 p. m.
David j. Bryan of indianapolis re-
ported to the Cincinnati police that he had
been robbed on the.street cars OF $4,000
in bills. Shortly afterwards his wife
| telegraphed him that he had left the
money on his dressing table.
The Brussels treaty for the sup
preston of the African slave trade and
traffic in spirits and firearms was defeated
| in the Senate in executive session, The
| opposition to its ratification was based
| upon a number of reasons, such fears
| of entangling alliances, interference with
| private business enterprises, etc, and the
majority in opposition to ratification was
decided
| An explosion OF gas took place at
the Pottstown, Pennsylvania, Iron Com
| pany's steel works. Several tons of hot
| iron fioated from the converter, in which
it was kept before it is turned into the
| moulds, and fell in regular shower over
the men, painfully burning some fifteen
men. George Towulier and Charles Rut-
| Ter were burned in a terrible manner
Their condition is serious.
At Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Frank
Rafus, a negro, came home drunk and at
once raised row in his family. He made
several Intellectual attempts to fire pistol
at his wife and daughter, when the latter
picked up an axe and chopped one Of his
arms and dealt him terrific blow in the
| breast Rafus left the house and his dead
body was found in the woods 4 short time
afterward.
The famous khedive diamonds, val
ued at Sl35, 900, which were presented tn
Miss Minnie Sherman by the chief ruler
| of Egypt in honor of her illustrious father
when she was married TO Lieutenant
Thomas w. Fitch in 1875, are to be sold
Mrs. Fitch stated that the death of her
father nullified an agreement that the
| jewels were never to be transferred from
the keeping of the family while General
Sherman lived.
i
The fireman, Sadler, who was ar
rested on February 13 last, the day the
woman named Francis Coleman. other
wise known as 'Carroty Nell, was mur-
dered in Whitechapel, and who was
charged with having murdered her. has
been discharged. The police could not
collect sufficient evidence to connect him
with the crime, which is now defniteIy
placed to the account of the nysterione
and unfndable murderer, whom the no
lice and public know only under the desip.
nation of "Jack the Ripper
A special from Arkansas Citv. Kan
sas, says: THE blizzard Friday Mich,
was the worst of the season here. and the
people in theCherokee strip who had been
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