The Lamar register., 1892-10-08
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French author, died on The lst
By afe In the Union stock yards at om,-
ha on The sOth, 800 sheep pcrIshed
Paper mills Of the east have shut down as
their supply ox rags From Europe has been
cut on
The strike of operators on the Burlington,
Cedar Rapids & Northern raiirvad has been
declared on
The German Catholic Congress which mex
in Newark last week voted down resolution
favoring opening the Worlds Fair on sun
day.
Judge Crounse, Republican candidate for
governor of Nebraska, Is laid up with sore
eyes, SO that he cannot speak in the cam
paign-
7. c. Plat, Warner Miller, whitelaw Reid
and Chau neey Depew addressed meeting of
Republicans at Cooper Union, New York, on
the asth
1t is proposed to introduce bull-dghtlng at
Chicago during the Worlds Fair, but the of
hcers of the Humane Society says it will not
be allowed,
In the school election which just took place
at Faribault, Minnesota. the opponents OF
Archbishop Ireland's .Fanbault planr we're
triumphant
Conway's mountaineering party now IN the
kindoo- koosh, have climbed peak 5000
feet high This is 600 fee, higher than any
recorded climb.
One hundred and sixty persons have been
arrested at Palermo. Italy, and its environs
suspected of being members of conspiracy
to wayley travellers.
Twelve persons hare died at Angonela,
France, from the effects OF eating what they
supposed to be mushrooms. Many other per-
sons who partook of the supposed mushrooms
are still suffering.
runaway horse in Chicago dashed
through window of house and striking
against an iron mantel in the room fractured
its skull and died on the spot.
Nancy Hanks trotted a mile at Terre Haute,
Indiana, on the 2sth on regulation track in
2:o4- The third quarter was made in twenty
nine and three quarter seconds
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has de-
cided that the present apportionment law l.
unconstitutional The governor will proba-
bly, call an extra session OF the legislature 10
pass another law.
The total exodus OF Jews from Russia since
May, 1891, has reached the number of 10000
of which 10000 were assisted by German re-
lief committees. The rest travelled to Turkey,
Palestine or Galicia.
Turkey Is negotiating with an English, Ger
man and Dutch syndicate for loan of 60
100000, of which sum =, coo viii be
spent in reeonstructing the fortldcations
along the Bosphorus.
Advices from Honolulu state that the gov
ernment has finally decided to make no ex-
hibit at the Columbian exposition, but instead
has appropriated $4,000 for sending n Ha-
waiian band to Chicago
The residence of Samuel Atkinson, near
Teloup, Kan, was struck by lightning, XIII
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Atkinson and their two
children, one four years old and the other
seven months old The house was burned tC
the ground
Welsh newspapers declare that Mr.. Glad
stone has invited an eminent Welsh ecelesias-
tic to draft bill to disestablish the church in
Wales. They add that the bill win be pre-
pared In a manner that will be acceptable to
the Welsh clergy.
By the collapse of floor in the Normal
school of Tarbes, in Western France, on sun
day. during a prize distribution, 200 people
were precipitated into a room beneath Over
100 people were injured, and one, child, was
killed Three of the injured died during the
night.
dispatch from Guthrie says thousands
upon thousands of acres of seething flames
of fire is to be seen upon the Cherokee Strip.
The boomers, becoming cnraged, set fire to
the grass There is no possible way to check
the fire, and it is thought many cattle viii
perish
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
introduced a new system at its car shops at
Lower Pittsyille, and all hands work by con-
tract The men are well pleased with the in
novation and claim they can make more
money. Besides this 20 per cent. more work
is accomplished.
During the eight busiest days OF the Grand
Army encampment period 30 people as
cended the Washington monument. OF this
number g. 640 were lifted to the top in the
elevator and 24.568 walked up the stairway.
Wednesday, the day after the parade, the
largest day of the PERIOD loo people ascend
ing.
A telegram from Mazatlan, Mexico, says
that there Is great deal OF misery through
out the country and that the poorer people
are aocking to the larger centers of popula-
tion and wealth, driv en- there by hunger, and
begging bread It is said the misery is ia
creasing and that none can tell TO what point
it may arrive.
The steamer Watertown, which plies be-
tween Boston and Lynn, took fire Wednesday
afternoon and was entirely destroyed. One
of her passengers, Mrs. Mary Carter, wife OF
the steward, John Carter, was injured jump
ing from the vessel and died soon after Her
husband was badly burned about the head,
but was saved.
The pope has ordered the propaganda to
carry out the necessary formalities for the
erection of the diocese of Dallas Texas, into
an archbishopric. The diocese of Dallas was
erected in 1890, and Rt.-Rev. Thomas I.
Brennan of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was
chosen the first bishop Of the new see. He
Is now in Rome
The National ZeitaHJ states positively that
the new army bill will add %, 600 men to the
German army on peace footing. The ad-
dltional annual expense necessitated by the
provision Of the bill, says the paper, will be
&C, 600, 900 marks, while so, 600 marks will
be asked to meet special expenditures for
army reforms in ls93-94.