The Lamar register., 1891-12-12
BY TELEGRAPH.

1t is reported that force of Chinese
troops have met End defeated 5000 rebels
in northern China
Stephen o son, Dakota farmer. ac-
companied by his daughter, was frozen 70
death in a blizzard last week
The monarchists in Rio Janeiro are
hisheartened by the death OF Dom Pedro
and will hold q meeting to publicly express
their grief.
Commissioner OF Immigration owen
is advised that five pauper immigrants
have been debarred from landing at New
Orleans.
Two men were killed and several
others injured by the breaking Of a scafold
on which they were working at Leighton
Pennsylvania
Cherokee commissioners cannot
agree on price for the Cherokee strip"
The government offers sl.4l per acre, the
Indians demand s..
1t is stated that the Archbishop OF
Canterbury will visit America next year
and will make tour through the United
States and Canada
lucky, well has been opened that runs
l, 200 barrels of oil daily. A railroad will
be constructed to the well.
Sensational evidence is said TO have
been introduced in the Bell telephone suit
in Boston. The press is rigidly excluded
from the trial of the case.
Mexico is about TO remove all duties
/. h.
United States. This will furnish profta-
BILE market for Western crops.
The report comes from the Indian
Territory that two deputy marsha.s, while
searching for an Illicit distillery were
smbushed by outlaws and killed.
The EeiGir OF Paris says it is author
lied to deny the reports that il is the in
tention of Dom Pedro's daughter to assert
her rights TO the throne Of Brazil
William Dean Howells will retire
from Harpcr's Magazine on the LIST of
July and take editorial control of the
Cosmopolitan coiointly with J. Brisben
Walker.
Mrs. Della Stewart Parnell and her
son, John Parnell, brother Of the late
Irish leader, sailed from New York to
England yesterday on the Cunsrd steamer
Aurania-
The .whaleback" steamer Wetmore,
which sailed from Philadelphia lo5 days
ago for Puget Sound, has passed Point
Lobos, of San Francisco, on her way to
Seattle.
n. NJ. Daniels OF the West Bend
Lumber Company AT Emmettsburg, lows,
has absconded with $4,000 in cash. He
left three motherless children behind him,
destitute.
A passenger train on the Reading
road in New Jersey ran into 8 gravel train
last Thursday and was thrown from the
track Three men were killed and . large
number injured.
Sons of the Revolution met in Fran
ces' Tavern, New York, in the room In
which Washington bade farewell to his
companions in lisa They made = perma
nent organization.
The steamer Concho was run
aground in New York harbor the other
day to avoid collision with crowded
ferryboat This act saved many lives and
has not damaged the Concho.
BY vote OF 2l1 to 81 the French
Senate adopted an order of the day, peti-
tioning the government to avail itsel Of its
rights to compel the clergy to respect the
republic and to submit to the laws.
Paul Berger, agent for the krupp
Gun Company Of Germany, has been
ordered from New York to Valparaiso.
War between Chilli and the Argentine
Confederation is about to commence.
There was great gathering OF
princes and princessss at Marlborough
House Monday, the occasion being the
celebration of the betrothal OF Prince Al.
bert Victor to the Princess Victoria OF
Teck.
During the month of November last
q, 253 pension claims of ali classes were
allowed, upon which the first payment.
aggregated S., ,s63, sSs OF the p, 253 claims
allowed, IL, ,060 were under the act of June
%, 1890
Columbus, Ohio, city prison caught
fire the other day from a cigar thrown into
a wooden cuspidor filled with sawdust
There was great excitement among the
forty prisoners, who were removed to
the county jail. Loss about 5000
The grand jury at San Antonio,
Texas, served an attachment on Judge
King while he was presiding over the di.
trict court. He in turn sent them TO jail
for contempt and theF have appealed to
the Supreme Court The town is excited.
The epidemic of influenza is daily
spreading and it is estimated that 40, coo
persons in Berlin have been attacked since
November /. The disease is pronounced
OF a much more virulent type than that
which prevailed there two years ago, and
many deaths are reported.
Lord Lytton, who died few days
ago, as British ambassador at Paris, an
office which carries with it salary Of
about $50, 900 a year, besides allowances,
and who had been previously viceroy of
India, left his wife and and children IN an
absolutely impoverished condition.
The South Carolina house of repre-
sentatives has passed by vote of 40 to "a
a prohibition bill. J 1t absolutely pro
hibits the sale of beer, wines, etc, in any
portion of the state or the transportion of
either by railroads, express companies,
etc, under heavy penalties. 1t was passed
after a bitter fight lasting two days The