The Lamar register., 1891-10-10
rAe WORLD AT LARGE.

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Mrs. Winifred Patterson Of St
Louis has died leaving $1,000, 900 TO
Catholic Institutions.
Sub-leasing OF convicts nae Geen
declared illegal by the knoxville.
Tennessee, courts. The convicts will
have 70 be take from the Brleeyille
mines.
At Guthrie. Oklahoma, Chief JUS
tlce Green has decided that private
citiaShs as well as officers may destroy
an illegal saloos~- .hout being liable
for damages.En~,t tom
Australian newS> aysss state that
John h. SeillSah's theatrical tour Is
Il failure, The company is stranded al
Sydney and are awaiting remittances
from this country.
The Chiliau steamer Itata, which
has been released on bonds furnished
by local capitalists, has left San Diego
for Valparaiso. The steamer had
been tied up there since July 1.
The Atchison statement for August,
including the st. Louis & San Fran
cisco system, is as follows: Gross
earnings IS, S66,3 ,376, increase $2S7,-
AZ; net 81 ,299, 920, increase $l70,-
lSO.'
The largest hy-wheel in the United
States was set in motion the other
day in the Boston West End street
railway power house. It is 2S feet iu
diameter, 10 feet face and weighs 50
tons.
A terrible accident is reported from
Ovadu, near Genoa, Italy, An un-
finished tunnel collapsed and twenty
one workmen were buried. Seventeen
were extricated alive and it is feared
the others are dead.
Boulanger's wife is not mentioned
in his will. He appoints his niece,
Mile. Grifiiths. legatee, and asks his
children to respect his last wishes.
He wants to be buried with Mime. De
Bonnemain, and only George s. on
the tomb.
A syndicate OF capitalists from
Kansas City have just obtained from
the government of Nicaragua a con
cession for railroad to Matagulpa
and beyond, about 100 miles in length.
They receive nearly 100000 acres
of land.
A brisk exchange OF kilograms be-
tween the European capitals continues
with view of reinforcing the Europ-
can squadrons in Chinese waters and
affording better protection to the
European colonies on the banks OF
the Yang Use Kiang.
An order has been issued compell-
ing the Northern Railroad Company
of Spain to deposit the sum of $780,
900 as security for damages claimed
by those who suffered injury and by
relatives of those who lost their lives
through the Burgois disaster
Two vessels named the Parsee and
Amazon, returning from Labrador
laden with fish. were overtaken by
the recent violent storm. driven
ashore and became total wrecks. The
captains and crews. numbering ten
or eleven men, were all drowned.
A Pittsburg dispatch says: The
Greenlee and Forst oil well NJ
Mcdonald, eighteen miles from here,
has been drilled deeper and the flow
increased to 400 barrels day.
This is the largest we'll ever struck
in America and believed to be the
largest in the world.
A miraculous escape from death
occurred at Warsaw. Illinois. the
other night. 4 farmer named John
Hartman, while under the influence
of liquor, drove over Il precipitous
blur having a height OF 100 feet. 1t
was thought he was dead, but when
picked up and carried into house
near by it was found that he was not
seriously injured. The horse also
escaped with Few scratches, but the
vehicle was demolished.
A dispatch from Goodland, Kansas.
says: Melbourne, the Australian
rainmaker, began operations here
again yesterday. The test was begun
at o'clock in the morning when the
sky was clear and the ,air warm ana
dry. At noon the sky was covered
with clouds and the thermometer had
fallen from so degrees to go degrees.
The clouds hung over the town all
night, and at two o'clock in the morn
ing rain fell for about half an hour.
A number of the employees CT the
government at Washington are in
debt to a more or less extent to those
who advance small sums OF money
without security ut an interest of 10
per cent. or more. In recent years
there has been war on the usurers.
and while a washerwoman might be
able to collect her bill from delin-
quent clerk. the usurer has been gen
orally given 10 understand that the
department could not help him in his
business. Mr.. Fosters new order
win do away with this, and will per-
NIT all employees to draw their money
every week.
A most da-iug Jail delivery was ac-
complished at st. Louis on the 2nd.
Ten criminals, some of whom are
noted and desperate criminals. made
their escape from the jail The es-
cape occurred at , o'clock in the even
ing. At that hour the prisoners are
fed. Occasionally some of them are
allowed to go to the cookery room
and eat their supPers there. This
was what happened Friday, and while
the prisoners were left alone they
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