The Lamar register., 1891-11-21
THE WORLD AT LARGE.

Cotton exports from the United
States last month were 91l,71l bales;
last year, 956, ,741 bales.
Three persons were killed at Cux-
haven, Germany, on the 18th, by the
explosion OF locomotive.
Three life-sentence convicts who
tunnelled out at Waupun, Wisconsin,
peniteutiary, have been recaptured.
A decree will shortly be issued, re-
voking the prohibition of American
pork in the Austrian Hungarian en-
pire.
The railroads centering at Kansas
City are nearly paralyzed by lack of
freight cars TO handle the business Of
fered to them.
a boy named Eddie Belden, SEN
der, has had his sentence commuted to
life Imprisonment.
More official scandals are being
made public in Montreal, Canada, and
great excitement is manifested among
government officials.
Mr.. Azez MuSselman. a Syrian, has
presented President Harrison au ele-
giant portrait on silk, framed in ma
tive wood and mother of pearl.
A strike is threatened on the Kan
sas City. Fort Scott & Memphis rail-
road. The trainmen demand an in
crease of wages and decrease Of
labor.
John A. Gafford, convict who es-
capped from the Little Rock peniten-
tiary, has returned voluntarily to
serve out the balance of his fve-year
sentence.
}. X. Emmett and his company OF
twenty-eight persons have been
arrested for Sunday parade, in vio-
lation of Pittsburg blue law passed
100 years ago.
In Ottawa, Canada, J. r. Arnold,
late mechanical engineer of the public
works department, has been arrested.
charged with conspiracy to defraud
| the government
The schooner Montcalm went ashore
in gale on Sunday night at Selkirk.
Ontario, on Lake Erie. One man
swan ashore. The balance OF the
crew awaits life boats.
| Treasury officials are breaking up
an extensive opium smuggling con-
federation in New York, Men OF
high responsibility and good CONNER
cial standing are implicated.
In Fresno, California. A l..
Strausse, prominent merchant, has
failed. His liabilities are $3.50, 900,
assets nominally 800, 900. Specula-
tion in fast horses the cause.
Chief Mayes OF the Cherokees has
sent a message to the Cherokee coun-
ell at Talequah, urging the appoint
ment of commission to negotiate for
the sale OF the Cherokee strip
At Hobert, near Valparaiso, Indi-
ana, twenty tons OF gunpowder ex-
ploded. The powder-house disap-
peared and several houses were
wrecked. Loss $4,000. No lives
lost.
Judge 5. Clinton Hastings OF San
| Francisco has been sued by his two
daug hters, who claim he has defraud-
ed them out of their property. He is
a millionaire.
Near Clarksburg, West Virginia, a
gang of toughs attempted to capture
a passenger train. Trainmen, as
sisted by passengers, cleared the track
and captured the leader of the gang.
Colonel Haywood, commandant OF
the United States marine corps, in his
report to the secretary of the navy,
complains of the severe strain on ma
rines by the late increased demand for
sea service.
The Supreme Court OF Michigan has
declared tie law giving prison boards
large liberty to dete rhine the length
of prisoners sentence unconstitu-
tional. Several other states have
similar laws.
Secretary Noble has dismissed from
the service Louis V. Bogy of St. Louis,
clerk IN the pension office, for hav-
ing written and published a novel ot
an Objectionable character on official
life in Washington.
The South Dakota railroad commits
sion is in session in Huron trying to
devise relief for the grain blockade.
Only half the wheat crop has been
threshed, but all the elevators are full
and not half cars enough can be OBJ
tanned to move the crop.
At Fridays session OF the Interna-
tional Peace Congress at Rome, reso-
lutions were adopted in favor OF par
tial military disarmament, the crea-
tion of an international tribunal or ar
bitration and the establishment at
Berne of a permanent international
peace bureau.
st. Paul suffered from one of the
most destructive fires in its history
Wednesday night, the buildings dam
aged being those of Griggs, Copper &
Co., wholesale grocers, and Farwell
Ozmuu, Kirk & Co.. wholesale hard
ware. The total loss is estimated at
from 100000 TO s1,OO0,OOO. The
losses are covered by insurance.
Nearly twice as many immigrants
landed at the barge Office In New
York last week as in the same week
last year. There were 3,436, re-
markably large percentage, to avoid
the military conscription, believing
that there would be a war in the
spring. German after German told