The Lamar register., 1891-12-26
BY TELEGRAPH.
A Beet Sugar Convention met at
Lincoln on the nth

An enthusiastic convention OF the
friends Of silver in the southwest met IN
Ell Paso, Texas, on the 10th.
At Brazil, Indiana, the non-unton
miners went to work yesterday. Inc
strikers did not interfere with them
Representative Culbertson of Texas
has been offered the position of interstate
commerce commissioner, but has declined.
In Sangus, Massachusetts, an Indian
tomb has been discovered seven feet below
the surface. Many curios were obtained
The strike OF telegraphers on the
Atlantic & Pacific road is over, as Presi-
dent MARVEL has conceded their demands.
North bound Santa Fe train par
tally wrecked near Admore, Indian Terri
tory. Engineer and fireman fatally In
iured.
East half of Trukee, California, has
been destroyed by fire. Loss sieoioooi
little insurance. Several men were In
iured.
In Wilkesbarre. Pennsylvania two
miners in an iron bucket were killed in a
mine shaft by large mass Of ice falling
on them.
The first carload of American tin
has arrived at San Diego, California, from
the Yemescal mines. The shipment is
26,Oo0 pounds
Judge Hanford. in Seattle, has made
decision very favorable to Chinese mer-
chants who go out of the United States and
desire to return.
Steamship Forest Home, which ar
rived from Hamburg to New York on the
2lst had a collision with whale, but sns
tanned no injury.
Joseph Sullivan. superintendent Of
the penitentiary at Frankfort Kentucky,
has suddenly disappeared. He was suner
ing from la grippe.
The little steamer. Hattie Gage,
from the Arctic seas, has been seired and
will be brought to San Francisco for
piracy on the coast Of Alaska
Near Little Rock, Arkansas, win
Lancaster, fugitive from justice, was
shot dead by Constable Holman on Mon
day night while resisting arrest
The Duke OF Devonshire owned
$4,000 acres OF land lying in fourteen
counties. The rent roll OF his estates
amount to over el7O,oo0 per year.
Investigation of the Jail scandals in
the Reading, Pennsylvania, jail, is now in
progress. The testimony shows gross mis-
conduct of officials with female prisoners.
In Claybourne county, Alabama
g.E -.
Illicit distilleries, was shot dead through a
window while eating supper with his
family.
Pittsburg manufacturers OF tin plate
have abandoned the idea of furnishing tin
plate to cover the Pennsylvania building
at the Worlds Fair. The output Of tin is
too limited.
Supervisor Thomas S. Welch of
Syracuse, New York. has been fined $50
and thirty days Imprisonment for disre-
garding an order Of court in u contested
election case
Aurora Fire Insurance company OF
Cincinnati, has wound up its affairs aud
gone out of business. Its business has
been assumed by the National Of Hart
ford, Connecticut
Word has been received that the
Cherokee Council and the United States
commission have agreed upon the sale and
purchase of the Cherokee Strip for the
consideration of 5000. 600.
Station Agent W. S. Summers, who
disappeared from LIthonia, Georgia, a
week ago, has returned home. He claims
TO have been knocked down and taken to s
log cabin and robbed by two strangers.
A serious type of influenza has ap-
peared in the county Of Westmoreland,
England. Large numbers Of the inhabi-
tauts of the county are Frustrated with the
disease and many deaths have been re-
ported.
1t is stated that the Chicago &
Northwestern system had issued a general
order that its operators must abandon the
Order of Railway Telegraphers or quilt the
compauy's service. The men will probably
not obey.
Following his custom of five years
past, General Alger is taking steps to give
to 500 Detroit newsboys Christmas gift In
shape of brand new suit Of clothes and
overcoat. The matter of selecting the
lucky boys has been put into the hands OF
the daily newspapers.
While 200 laborers were returning
from work upon the Sulmona & Iserna
railway in Italy, they were oyertaken by
q terrible snowstorm. Many of the men
were sufocated in the drifts and others
were frozen to death, Fifteen bodies have
thus far been recovered, and twenty of the
unfortunate men are still missing.
An engagement has taken place a;
Tortillas, Tamaulipas, between the Mexi
can troops and the insurgents The insur-
gents were defeated, with three men killed
and q number wounded. When the news
of the affray reached Laredo United States
troops Immediately left 10 intercept the
crossing of the insurgents into Texas.
1t now appears that the letters from
Valparaiso which have been appearing in
the London, Times displaying so bitter a
tone toward the United States government
and its representatives, were written by a
woman, and not by the boastful Thompson
Their real author, it seems, was Lady Jor
dan, the wife of Deputy Jordan. at San
tiago.
A dispatch received on the 10th