The Lamar register., 1891-05-16
BY TELEGRAPH.
omaha has a case Of smallpox.

osophist, is dead.
A number OF prominent Englishmen
are laid up with the grippe
The Spring Garden National Bank
OF Philadelphia closed its doors on the
Ssh.
A very cold rain storm in Kansas
is believed to have destroyed the ehineh
bugs.
Rev. R. E. Field, pastor OF the Pres
byterian church at Cheyenne, died on the
18th.
The crater of the volcano Kilauea.
near Honolulu, has dropped down about
500 feet
A wholesale grocery establishment
burned at New York on the 9Th Loss,
s40o,oo0
A committee OF the New York Pres
bytery has reported that the Rev. DR.
Charles a. Briggs is guilty of heresy.
The authorities say that the NUM-
ber of men in orr navy is entirely too
small to man the vessels that we have.
The labor strikes in New York con
tinue without much change. few con-
tractors have conceded the eight-hour day.
A mail car on the Union Pacific
caught fire from sparks from the engine
the other day while near Borie, Wyoming.
A novel but terrible accident is re-
ported from Italy by which train load of
h1ra
river.
Steps have been taken TO expel Ed
ward DeCobain, conservative member Of
parliament from East Belfast for immoral
conduct
A train load of Cinnamon on their
way from Europe to China recently crossed
the United States '.in bondH with the
doors locked.
A number OF female White Caps
living in Tennessee recently whipped a
young bride SO severely that she died.
The reason is not apparent
The National Brotherhood OF Boiler
makers in convention in Indianapolis have
adopted a rule that one apprentice be al
lowed for every four boilermakers-
After a lockout of twenty-seven
weeks the potteries of Trenton, New Jer-
sey, have resumed operations. 1t was
accomplished by compromise and arbitra-
ticn.
The Master Builders OF St. Louis
have agreed to pay s75s cents per hour
This virtually ends the strike, the carpen-
ters having obtained about all they asked
for.
Several coal mines in the Sehuykill
region in Pennsylvania resumed work
yesterday, having been closed many
months. Over 5000 miners were given
work,
The strike of the employees of the
United States Rolling Stock Company, Of
Chicago, has ended. The men struck for
six weeks back pay, which has been paid
them.
Peru and Jamaica have officially
accepted the invitation TO exhibit at the
Worlds Fair. Those governments have
also made the necessary appropriations OF
money.
Charles Il. Bates, of Yankton. has
been awarded the contract OF marking the
boundary line between North and South
Dakota with stone monuments. Contract
price, $1,000.
The Moen-W Washburn Barbed Wire
Company claimed to have discovered a
process to make steel wire as strong as
Tt oh
er than copper wire.
William Wrightmau. near Middle
town, Ohio, while removing wheat from
his barn, found concealed in the grain
sll 500 in gold and paper. The owner oi
| the money is unknown.
The heir to the Russian throne who
is travelling through eastern Asia was
attacked by Japanese at Toxic the other
| day. and severely wounded. His injuries
| are not necessarily fatal.
A Michigan dispatch says that Tor.
est fires are burning in all parts OF the
peninsula At Ford River the damage is
estimated at SIZE, 200. Smaller fires are
reported at many other points.
William Price, colored. was hanged
at Marshall, Missouri, the other day fol-
criminally assaulting G white woman, this
being the first case in which the death
penalty was assessed for this crime.
At the interstate oratorical contest
held at Des Moines, Iowa, on the sth, ten
western states, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri
Nebraska, Minnesota, Colorado, Ohio and
Maine were represented. Mr.. Fetter, oi
| Indiana, won the first prize. The subject
of his Grafton was the "Heir Apparent
The military authorities of For,
| Walla Walls have arrested eight enlisted
men charged with being accessory to the
lynching OF the gambler, Hunt. When il
| became known that the arrests had been
made, six other men deserted A provost
| guard was sent in search of the deserters.
It is rumored that number of other SOL
diers, suspected of completely in the crime,
will soon be arrested.
The far-reaching effects of the strike
among the coke burners at Connellsville
is being seriously felt in Milwaukee
Eighteen out OF the nineteen furnaces OF
the Illinois Steel Works Company have
haan hloyu out as n reSult of the etrihya l.,