The Lamar register., 1892-04-23
TelegraphIc Brevities.

Kenosha Wisconsin, lost S5Oo,0 900 by fire
on the 10Th
VIM. NJ. Eyarts is losing his eyesight. He
can not read or write.
The Democrats of Kansas have declared for
Cleveland and free coinage.
Herr Most has just been released from pris-
on after years confinement
An anarchist arrested in Spain has revealed
the existence of plot to murder the infant
king.
A London paper declares that the United
States has purchased the Island of San Do
mingo.
The Michigan Republicans hare selected
Alger men for delegates to the national con
vention.
The Gar is very grateful for the food sent
from this country to the famine sufferers in
Russia.
Hon. Alexander Mckenzie, ex-premier of
Canada, died on the 10Th. He was seventy
years Old.
Another instance has just been reported of
man assaulting woman in an English car
compartment.
j. R. Jordan, furniture dealer of Bristol
Tennessee, shot and killed \. c. Adams, his
wifes paramour.
Pittsburg is interested over the coming mar
riage of a man seventy years old to school
teacher of twenty-five.
The charges of cruelty made against United
States troops in Texas have been found by the
grand jury TO be groundless.
4Roswen Smith, president of the Century
Company, died OF paralysis on the 18th. He
had been sick for some time.
n,,- b,- so,.ar x-assa1a .1
patrol Behring Sea, and the British govern
ment will furnish several more.
The people living in several counties of
Texas are said to be suffering for the neces-
saries of life because of drought.
Louisville, Kentucky, was the scene of
number of fires a few nights ago. a band of
incendiaries are trying to burn the city.
The eght-year-o!d son of Joseph swayne,
wealthy resident of Admission, Alabama, was
kidnapped Wednesday and taken to the noun
tains, where he was found tied to tree later
on.
The saloon men of Sioux City, Iowa, who
have been driven out of business by the en-
forcement of the prohibition law, have organ
lied and Will endeayor TO stop all business on
Sunday.
Quartermaster General Batehelder has or
dered the department quartermaster at ST.
Louis to send 400 tents to the mayor of Colum-
bus, Mississippi, for the benefit of the food
sufferers.
Receiver wyman of the Nebraska Fire In
surance Company has brought suit against
five of the stockholders, alleging fraud by the
disposition of s35, 900 deposited in the Bank
of Commerce, Omaha.
Fred Strauss, the st. Louis dynamiter, who
attempted to blow up the bakery of John
Miller because that individual refused to give
him work, was sentenced Friday to thirty
days in the workhouse.
Henry Lee, nephew OF ex-governor Fitz-
hugh Lee of Virginia, took three and half
grains of laudanum at Hotel Barnum, St
Louis, with suicidal intent Friday night
stomach pump saved him.
Captain A D. Yocum, who killed Myron
Van Fleet, the correspondent of sensational
sheet, for slandering his daughter, and who
was sentenced TO one year in the penltentiary,
was pardoned the next day by Governor Boyd.
Unknown persons made a desperate
tempt to wreck the New York express on the
Lackawanna road by placing heavy boulder
on the track q short distance south OF Oswego
the other night, but the locomotive threw it
from the track.
The Mercantile Telegraph Company of ST.
Louis, Missouri, has applied to the Circuit
Court for injunction to prevent the police
from raiding its office. The manager of the
company was fined $4,000 for violating the
Stone pool law"
A Chicago corouer's jury, after investigat-
ing the deaths Of the eight victims Of the
Pearee street disaster, found that the city
building commissioner and two Of his inspec-
tors, the owner and the architect of the
collapsed building were responsible.
The prospectus Of the May issue Of the Cos
HlopoiitaH, is accompanied by letter of the
American News Company, stating that the
news stand sales OF the Cosmopolitan have in
creased nearly 900 per cent during the past
three years-the second half of the papers
existence.
One Of the most unique strikes ever lnaug-
uiated Is In progress at Dodge City On ac-
count Of the small salaries received the school
teachers have nearly all ceased to instruct,
many having left town, attracted by higher
salaries. while nearly all those who remain
refuse to teach until their salaries are raised.
Major A. D. Yocum Of Hastings Nebraska.
was found guilty Of msnsiaughter and sen
fenced TO serve one year in the state penlten-
tiary for the killing o; Myron Van Fleet.
February %, 1892, who had !asulted Yocum's
laughter. A petition with over 1000 names
has been presented Governor Boyd praying
FOR the pardon Of the prisoner.