The Lamar register., 1892-04-02
TeIerranhIc RrcNifIe..

An umbrella trust has been formed.
NJ B. Curtis, charged with murder at San
Francisco, has been released ON bail
1t Is stated that Chilli will pay damages to
the families OF the sailors killed At Nalpa.
raiso.
Sir R. A. Donney, an English baronet, has
been declared bankrupt. His liabilities are
s., 10000.
Two brothers, named Koullkyosky. have
been arrested near Warsaw, Russia. for mur.
dering and robbing peasants.
The Memphis grand jury, after examining
fifty witnesses, has been unable to return any
indictments for lynching of the negro prison
ers
Rev. Samuel j. Cotton of Belfast has been
convicted Of manslaughter. He conducts an
orphanage, whose inmates he has shamefully
abused.
A member of the New York legislature has
introduced bill to license houses Of prostitu-
tion. 1t has raised a great breeze in the En-
pire State.
The annual report of the Cunard Steamship
Company shows profit Of geo g9l The
directors recommend dividend Of Gas 600,
being per cent.
The German government has issued decree
forbidding the passage Of Russian Jews
through Germany, and they are now turned
back at the frontier.
The Russians are very much exercised over
the appearance of German balloons above
their forts. These balloons are navigated
with great ease in any direction.
Night work was begun at jackson Park.
MI To-
the Columbian Exposition, and from now on
this double force of men will be employed n
The bodies of twenty-thrce men who lost
their lives in the Hill Farm coal mine at Dun
bar, Pennsylvania, in June, 1900. have been
recovered. They were sufrOcated TO death
Prof. Bandalier Of Santa Fe Is to head an
expedition OF research to Peru, Ecuador and
Bolivia, where three years viii be spent in
that archaeological field.
The Ameer of Afghanistan has forbidden
his subjects to visit the British agency in that
country without permission, and fifty persons
have been expelled from Afghanistan as Brit
ish spies
Captain Yocum, who shot and killed Myron
Van Fleet at Hastings, Nebraska, some time
since for slandering his daughter, has been
convicted of manslaughter He will try and
get new trial.
A petroleum factory at Auburville, five
miles north of Paris, was destroyed by an ex-
plosion which caused the loss of 10, ,OOO, 900
litres Of oil. The carelessness Of a workman
caused the disaster
"A prisoner charged with speaking dlsre-
spectfully of the Emperor created great row
while being tried at Berlin. He blackcuar,led
the court officials and the Emperor and tried
to kill everyone near him.
The Illinois Supreme Court has pronounced
the Illinois anti-truck law unconstitutional.
The court holds that the act unwarrantabIy in
terferes with the right Of employers and en-
ployes to make contracts.
DIR. Newton Bateman has resigned as presi-
dent of Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. be-
cause Of ill-health, and John H. Finley. ex-
secretary of the New York State Board of
Charities, has been chosen as his successor.
James Molly. aged Q, was rescued from a
band Of gypsies at Evansville, indiana, last
week. He was carried away from his home
st Bclleville, Illinois, seven months ago. He |
tells pitiful story Of priyation and suffering.
The railroads have conceded TO the demands |
# the Birmingham, Alabama. iron masters |
or reduced rates on pig iron to points nor,h |
Il the Ohio River and Il reduction of about 30 |
ents per ton will go into effect about March, /