The Lamar register., 1891-10-03
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
[ew York has the grip again.

walls at Melbourne.
John D. Knox, banker and preacher.
has been arrested at Topeka for em-
bezzlelnent.
General Booth OF the Salvation
Army received an ovation at Sidney.
New South Wales.
Another bank at Louisville, Ken
lucky, has closed its doors. This is
the fourth in six months.
AT Madison, Indiana, Riley Smart
prominent young man, has died
from the effects of being stung by
wasps.
The British government will have
to pay about 100000 indemnity to
sealers driven out OF Behring Sea this
season.
The Waltham Watch Company an
nounces a reduction of from 10 to 10
per cent. in the wages of about 900
employees.
Two young men attending a dance
at Elk Mountain, Wyoming last week.
had a difficulty and Hall fatally stab
bed Kelley.
In Newark, New Jersey, Ernest
Lehman, rejected lover, poisoned
| Emma Bush with Paris green mixed
in soda water.
The Alsace-Lorraine passport de-
cree, which nominally goes into effect
in October, is already in operation
and the frontier is now open.
The commercial treaty negotiations
which have been in progress for some
time past between Germany and Bel
g!um continue to be successful.
James Anderson, formerly one of
the Jesse James gang, died in Nampa,
Idaho, the other day, where he has
been living undetected for several
years.
A Aworthless, drunken printer at To-
peka shot and killed young lady
because she would not marry him.
He had the good taste to kill himself
afterward.
Great anxiety prevails in Rangoon,
British Burmah. Dacoits are gather.
ing around Wuntho. At attack on
the garrison is anticipated and SER
ious fighting is expected.
Near Williamsport, North Dakota,
in the recent prairie fires three men
perished; forty-three cattle were over.
taken and burned. The damage by
the fire estimated at $50, 900.
Japanese Prince Katsumata is about
to marry Miss Cora Dunn, daughter
of the postmaster of Binghamtou y ew
York. The bride is a beautiful blonde
She goes to Japan with her husband
The largest fly-wheel in the United
States was set in motion the Other
day in the Boston West End street
railway power house. 1t is 2S feet il
diameter, 10 feet face and weighs 81
ttons.
ii While the Italians OF Newark, New
Jersey, were celebrating in honor o.
st. Rocas day, gas pipe filed with
dynamite exploded and killed three
persons. y large number were in.
iured.
At negro church in Sheffield, Ala.
a negro named Wilson, becoming en-.
ragged at another negro for paying
attention to his wife, shot and killed
the man and then cut his wife's throat
from ear to ear.
Bart Campbell, alias Bill Under
wood, one of the worst outlaws who
ever carried a Winchester. on the
Texas border, was captured in Faulk.
ener county, Arkansas, last week,
after desperate struggle.
Twenty-eight farms with all the
cattle and stores have been destroyed
by fires of incendiary origin at Kozie-
glow in Russian Poland. In order to
delay the fire engines, the incendi.
aries cut the ropes OF the fire bells
Philadelphia suffered from great
fire on the 2Sth which destroyed a
half million dollars worth of proper
ty. A building filed with oil was on
fire at first and from that the flames
spread to several adjoining buildings.
A number of firemen were injured.
Stampede in negro church in
Jacksonville, Florida, on Wednesday
at midnight, caused the death of one
girl and fatally injured three other
persons and crippled about twenty
more. The gas went out and some
one shouted, Judgment has come, -
and panic ensued.
1t is said that commercial treaty
is being negotiated between Russia
and Persia that would virtually place
Persia under the protectorate OF
Russia. The proposed treaty pro
vides that the duty of representing
both countries abroad shall be dele
gated to one representative, possibly
the Russian.
Intelligence has just been received
from the upper Yukon. in Alaska. that
band OF hostile Chilcats attacked a
small party of two whites and five In
dians and several were killed. 1t is
thought that the party is Ewing Earls-
cliff, prominent citizen and Journal
ist of Missouri; Herbert Earlscliff. a
young Englishman, and five Indians
All were armed. No particulars
could be learned from the Indians
who brought the news.
A correspondent at Rome writes it
is reported that the committee of
cardinals which was appointed to in
quire into the condition OF the vati-
can finances and the best way of
handling them has recommended that
all the surplus funds be banked some
where outside of Italy, The pope has