The Lamar register., 1891-11-07
THE WORLD AT LARGE

ready to meet Frank Slavin, and will
fight at $4,000 as a side bet on the
match.
A dispatch from Rio de Jauiero says
that the Brazilian government pro-
poses to impose tax OF so per cent on
all European products.
The Fulda beat all previous steam
ship records from New York to Glib
ralter. The time of her passage was
eight days and eight hours
While quail hunting on opposite
sides of hedge near Nevada, Mis-
souri,, Friday, George Anderson acci-
IDENTIFY shot Joseph Fadden in the face,
fatally wounding him.
Near Menomiuee, Wisconsin, Fri
day, a passenger and freight train
came in collision. Several cars were
wrecked, twenty six head of cattle
killed, and two man badly injured.
A female footpad who has made life
a burden to citizens of Helena, Mon
tana, was acquitted by gallant jury.
Her male confederate was sent to the
pen.
The French Senate has agreed to
the removal OF the prohibition upon
the Importation OF American salt pork.
1t has also voted in favor of the impo-
sition of duty upon the article of 20
francs.
Henry. Arahams, secretary OF the
Central Labor Union of Boston. has
been found guilty in the criminal
court of making speech in Franklin
| park with out a permit. Case has been
appealed to supreme court.
Monday afternoon while Mrs. keif-
er and Mrs. johnson were driving in
the country near Lima, Ohio. their
horse took fright and ran away,
| dashed down u 60-foot embankment,
wrecking the carriage and killing both
ladies.
A dispatch from Madagascar states
that Majuuga, an important town on
the north western part of that island,
az the entrance of Betsiboka bay. has
been almost entirely consumed by n
confiagration. Only ten houses are
reported to be standing.
The rival meetings OF the Parnell-
ties and antl-Parnellites Friday even
ing were separated by an enormous
array Of military and police. and dis
order was thereby prevented. All the
shops in Cork were closed except those
of vendors of blackthorns.
A special from Guthrie, Oklahoma
Territory, says: Reports from the
Pottawatomie reservation state that
prairie ires are raging there and do
ing great damage. Many settler have
lost their homes, and hundreds of the
| aks e.,
| the fire.
| Terrible prairie fires have been
raging in Western Kansas. A Santa
Fe train travelled at its ut
most speed through a sea of flames
with every window and ventilatoI
| closed. From the train could be seen
burning farm buildings and stacks of
grain and hay, and people and stock
| fleeing before the flames.
A letter from Starondoub. Russia.
brings reliable information of the re-
cent Jewish excuses. The story
is a terrible on=. During the attack
on the Jews in their homes, five young
| girls were outraged so cruelty by ruff
fans that they succumbed to their in
| iuries and died. The number OF
| uGuLus d4IOBtbHti INSuilLuE iIOul ttt
| fanatical barbarity of an ignorant Rus
sian mob was not less than twenty.
| Professor Herman Thom of Berlin
4 recently dedicated to the kaiser a
| hymn of Labor full OF patriotic senti-
ments which was greatly admired.
| The Emperor and several members OF
the imperial family testified their ap-
| probation OF Thom's effort by sending
him presents of money. 1t now tran
spires that the hymn was stolen bodi-
.lp from IAN ancient book OF poetry
| Thom will be arrested on charge OF
| fraud.
The great strike Of coal miners OF
| the Pittsburg district for an advance
| of 10 cents per ton is over and the
| 10000 men who have been idle for
| three months will return to work at
the operators terms. The strikers
have lost in wages nearly S1,500,0O
| and are in destitute circumstances,
| many having suffered for the neces-
saries OF life. The action of the con-
vention has occasioned regular re-
| ioicing throughout the district.
There has been another release OF
| convicts in Tennessee. At l O'Clock
Monday morning 200 mounted men
| came in from the mountains and re-
leased the 200 convicts working in
| the mines Fat Oliver Springs. So
| quietly was it done that the people of
the town knew nothing about what
had happened until o'clock, when
they discovered that the stockade OF
the lessees was mass of smoking
ruins All OF the short-term prison
ers were furnished with citizens
clothing, and with the exception of
few who were captured all are now at
large. This makes more than 500
penitentiary convicts turned loose in
that vicinity since Friday morning.
The chief of construction OF the
Worlds Fair has ordered the contrac-
tors who are constructing the Worlds
Fair buildings to double the force OF
men employed on the buildings The
chief of construction made the order
imperative, and said that they would
have to work two shifts OF men eight
hours each or make sixteen hours a
days work. The necessity of haste
has been apparent for some time TO n