The Lamar register., 1892-10-22
reicgraphic Brevitics.

new comet has been discovered by means
OF the Lick telescope.
The officers of the Iron Hall have been iu-
dicted at Indianapolis.
II is reported that Ii Hung Chang, the
ehinese prime minister, is going crazy.
A number of Sepoys have been massacred
In Northern India by the rebellious Chins.
big demonstration in honor of the memo
ry of Parpell was made at Dublin last Sun
day.
Brooklyn man fell from the top of an
eleven-story building without breaking a
bone.
The New York Court OF Appeals has decid-
ed that the apportionment law is coustitu-
tional.
Presldeif Crespo is trying to gain official
recognition from the government of the
United States.
Henry Watterson was asked to deliver the
dedicatory address at Chicago in place Of
breckenridge. He only had week to pre-
pare.
President Harrison has abandoned the idea
of going to Chicago, as Mrs. Harrison con-
stantly grows weaker and may not survive
much longer
The shop keepers of Hamburg have ap-
pealed to the government for aid. They say
that 10, 10000 marks are needed TO relieve
the destitute.
-Four negroes have been lynched at Monroe
vile, Alabama. One of them had confessed
that they had killed man and his daughter
and burned their house.
Ned Christie, the desperate, who was he
sieged a few days ago in his cabin in the In
dian Territory has made his escape. Eighty
men are in hot pursuit.
During the past year the Pullman Palace
Car Company carried 5,219,O2o passengers.
The total income was SIC, ,0O2 $50, of which
| s3,25O, $50 was net profit.
The body of young boy was found in
cesspool in Chinatown, Los Angeles, few
days ago. The whites are very much in
censed against the Chinese
| 1t is reported in New York that Mr. Edison
will withdraw from the Edison General Elec-
| tric Company. He is said to be bitterly Op-
| posed to the formation of the trust
President Harrison has received large
| number of congratulatory messages from
| foreign governments and dignitares upon
the 400th anniversary of the discovery Of
| America.
| The leadership of Gilmore's famous band
has been rendered to Professor D. W Reeves
of Providence, Rhode Island, warm friend
of the late Mr.. Gilmore. Mr.. Reeves has not
yet decided as to his acceptance
CoffeyviIle, Kansas is greatly excited by the
report that the remnants of the Dalton gang
of desperadoes are about to ayenge the death
of the Daltons by descending upon the town
A volunteer company has been equipped and
a sharp watch kept on strangers.
| The In I
meeting decided to hold the next meeting on
the Pacific coast. Among the important busi-
ness transacted was the consolidation Of the
New West and College and Educational so
cleties, also the consolidation OF all mission
airy periodicals.
Mr.. Blame paid visit to whltelaw Reid 5
| home, near New York, last week While
there he met several prominent politicians.
An impromptu gathering of the country peo-
pie brought out Mr.. Blaine and he delivered a
brief speech which was warmly received He
spoke very highly of the present administra-
t n.
The numbers men killed and injured by the
explosion OF gas at the Philadelphia x Read
ing company's Sterling Run colllery at
Shamokin Is now known to be eleven. OF
these five were dead and the remaining six so
badly burned and mutilsted that small hopes
for their recovery entertained All the
bodies have been recovered
The Kiowa, Comanche and Apache tribes
have finally agreed to treat with the govern-
ment commissioners for their reservations
south of Guthrie. They will receive 100 acres
of land per head and $500, 900 This will
throw open to settlement over 5000, ,OOO acres
of land, the greater part of which is very fine
agricultural land and rich in minerals
Reports from points in Northern and West
| ern Kansas say that a copious rain visited
those sections on the 1ath. The rain was a
Godsend to the farmers as the ground was
baked SO hard that they could not put in
wheat. Reports all say that the effect Of this
timely rain will be a largely increased acre
age of wheat sown over previous estimates
The elevated railways of New York carried
nearly million passengers on the llth. The
trains were run dangerously near together,
however, and serious accident occurred. A
train crashed into the rear of another at One
Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Street and nearly
scared lot of lady passengers to death
Quite number were injured more or less.
Judge BotIdn, who has figured conspicuous
ly in connection with county seat contests in
, Western Kansas, one of which resulted in the
murder Of Sheriff Cross and was subsequently
followed by the murder OF Sam Wood, has re-
signed judge of the Thirty-second judicial
district. The governor accepted his rcsigna-
tion and appointed to succeed him William
Easton Hutchinson OF Ulysses, Grant county
-Four persons lost their lives in a cable car
accident at Kansas City the 12th The
accident occurred at the intersection Of the
Santa Fe tracks and the cable car tracks al
the Fifteenth street station. freight train
ran into grip car of the cable train and four
Of the eight persons of the grip car we're kill
ed, the others escaping injury. The cause of
the accident, 1t is said, was the absence from
his post OF duty of the watchman, who was
| attending te his lanterns.
Five workmen in the sulphur mines near
Palermo, were suffocated on the l7th By me-
| phitic gas. Several workmen who escaped
from the mine called for help. Two gendar- |
mes and the wife of one Of the five men who |
had been left dying in the mine, volunteered |
to go to the rescue. All three entered the |
mine. They have not returned and are sun. |