The Lamar register., 1892-01-23
BY TELEGRAPH.

with Ia grippe.
Senator German of Maryland nas
been re elected.
The State OF Tennessee will not DC
represented at the Worlds Fair,
Senator Plumb's estate is valued at
about $4,000. 1t is scattered in nine
states.
Constantine Hermann, OF Scranton,
Pa, drowned himself because Of his wife's
extravaganza.
A number of Russians were drowned
in the river Neva last Monday by the col
lapse OF a bridge.
A snow storm in Spain has put a
stop to railroad and telegraphic communi
cation with France.
Three young people were fatally in
iured at Nashville, Tennessee, while out
coasting last Monday night.
The men of New York who show
desire to marry the daughter of Jay Gould
are promptly arrested, charged with being
insane.
The new silver quarter coins bear
some resemblance to a $40 gold piece and
are being plated By swindlers and passed
as such.
At o'clock Tuesday morning fire
destroyed the barn OF the Robson Electric
company Of Toledo, Ohio, with thiriy-nve
electric motor cars. Loss, $4,000.
Passenger train No. 4 on the Omaha
road was wrecked near Milwaukee on the
18th. Eight passengers in the sleeper
l.v,. L led
A house in Lancaster, Ohio, was
blown all to pieces the other night by nat
ural gas which had escaped from pipes IN
the cellar. None OF the family were
killed.
AT n meeting of delegates Of the
tion numbering 100000 men, a resolution
OF coincidence with tho royal family was
voted down.
Four feet OF the pipe line of the
STANDARD OIL Company, near Woolwics.
Pennsylvania, was taken away Sunday by
unknown parties. Over 1000 barrels Of
oil were lost.
A report from Tacoma, Washington,
says that John l. Sullivan has signed the
pledge and last Friday night made a speech
from the stage with Francis Murphy, the
temperance orator.
The Michigan State Millers' AssO-
citation, a; the meeting in Lansing, Friday,
indorsed the washbdrn anti-option bill, in
so far as it does not interfere with legiti.
mate commercial relations,
Fires have been started in the fur
naces OF the Catasauqua Manufacturing
Company, Fullerton, Pennsy lvania, fer
the first time since the strike OF July last
Non-union hands are employed
Cardinal Manning, the leading
prelate Of the Catholic church In England.
died at $50 Thursday morning. He has
been in feeble health for a long time, and
his last sickness found him unable TO make
any resistance 10 lis ravages.
Judge Newman has filed an opinion
in the Madison, Wisconsin, treasury suits
action against the state treasurer TO re-
cover interest on state moneys The de
cision is favorable to the state, aad orders
the return of the principa! and interest
in all nearly 100000
Thomas \. Edison has perfected and
patented another wonderful electrical In
vention. It is in substance a system by
which telegraphic communication can be
carried on between ships at sea, between
ships and shore and between distant points
on land without use Of wire or cable.
OF twenty-three mail trains due in
Chicago Tuesday morning from all parts,
fourteen failed to arrive before noon, and
not any Of them were on time. The snow
blockade Is one OF the most extensive the
postoffice officials remember 10 have ex,
perienced.
The Minneapolis passenger train on
the Chicago * Northwestern road ran into
the reEr OF freight near Sharon, Wis
consin, Tuesday morning, wreckiug and
burning the caooose and one car OF -four.
The fireman on the passenger train was
slightly hurt
The notorious variety theater of
Covington, Nebraska, known as the
Fashion, was totally destroyed by fire on
the 18th. Loss, 3O,oo1; insurance small
The fire also destroyed the buildings occu-
pied by McCofiu's gambling house and
Billy Leech's saloon.
E. C. Boudine and T. NJ. Burlington,
delegates Of the Cherokee nation, left St.
Louis Monday morning for Washington,
where they will look after Legislative
measures affecting the interests OF their
people. They will urge the ratification by
Congress Of the agreement for the sale Of
the Cherokee strip.
Cardinal Gibbons has written q
letter to General George D. Johnston de-
nouncing the Louisiana lottery, and in 1t
the cardinal expresses the hope that the
efforts of those, who like General Johnston
are opposing the renewal Of the lottery's
charter, will result in the suppression of
the lottery evil now resting on the fair
state of Louisiana.
Reports from Montreal state that
the Great Northwestern Telegraph Com.
pany, which some years ago entered into a
contract to operate the Montreal and Do.
minion telegraph companies for ninety
nine years, will hand over all its franchises
to the Western Union company, which
will in future operate the two Canadian
companies.
A sleigh load of young people were
precipitated over an embankment in Penn
sylvania last Monday night The horses,
rig and entire crowd were hurled to the