The Lamar register., 1892-01-02
BY TELEGRAPH.
General Booth is in India

is not SO favorable.
A Pittsburg cable car collided with
a beer wsSon. fatally in!uring two persons
and seriously iniuring six others
Two men named Fisher and Atkin-
son were arrested in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Wednesday on the charge Of counterfeit
ing.
North Dakota State Alliance has de-
cided to send delegates to the Peoples
Party National Convention in St Louis,
February -
After january l all promotions in
the treasury department in Washington
are to be made only after civil service ex-
aminatious
1t has transpired that $4,000 per-
sons are starving in the north of Finland,
which country has hitherto been supposed
TO be free from famine.
A passenger train was wrecked by
broken rail near Bristol, Tennessee on the
S0th- Two coaches rolled down an en-
bankmenL Nobody killed
The plates made from imported
tin plates are to be exempted from tariff
duties Just the same as If no foreign ma
terial was used in the manufacture.
Contract for iron work for freight
sheds of St Louis Union depot has been
let to the Pittsburg Bridge Company for
500, 600. The structure will cover nearly
ten acres.
Mrs. Ada Thorpe Lotus, who ar
rived in New York a week ago on the
steamer Britannica, on her way TO assas-
sinats President Harrison, has been sent
to lunatic asylum.
Greenville, Mississippi, bank has
suspended Liabilities, s, ,O0o, coo; assets,
(principally in mortgages) about the same.
Floods and low price of cotton was the
cause Of the failure.
John Branyau, a college graduate,
reported murdered year ago at Huntiag-
burg, Indiana, has lust notified his parents
OF his approaching marriage. He allowed
the report Of his death to remain uncontra
dieted-
Billy Murray, who has made and
lest many fortunes in speculation on the
Chicago Board Of Trade, has sold bis mem
bership and retired, with the intention of
coming 10 Colorado, where he has mining
interests.
In Mercer, Missouri. Robert Severn
ate four cans OF salmon in twenty minutes,
| then lighted his pipe and walked few
steps and fell dead Other parties 70 the
wager were arrested as accessories TO
manslaughter.
The chiefs of the Order OF Railroad
ern Pacific held conference on the 2Sth.
I
men along the line If their demands are
not granted
The Philadelphia burglar who shot
and killed Policeman Findley and severely
injured John J. Nesper on Tuesday night
was identified as Robert J. Cascadcn. He
is less than 20 years Of age and Of re
spectacle family.
The n. q 9. Taylor company, Phila-
delphia tin-plate manufacturers, has pur-
chased ground and made arrangements for
factory which, when completed, will be
the largest establishment Of its kind in the
United States.
Il is announced in Rome that the
United States has agreed 10 pay to Italy
the sum asked BY Italy as indemnity 10 the
relatives Of the men lynched at New
Orleans, who are known 70 have been
Italian subjects.
The secretary of the treasury has
received q conscience contribution OF S3odiu
an envelope postrnRrSed New York In il
was note signed mills" asking that the
| receipt Of the money be acknowledged
through the press.
The Worlds Fair commissioners
from Pennsylvania are In Chicago with
plans for their state building. The build
| ing Will be in part q reproduction Of Inde-
pendence Hall. 1t is thought the old lib
erty bell viii be included.
A Cardiff Welshman named Smith
is the victim of terrible calamity. On
returning home, recently, he found that
the house in which be had lived had been
| burned and that his vile and only child
had perished in the flames.
London suffered from the most
dense iogs during the week preceding
Christmas. So great was it that business
| was injured greatly, as it was very dan
| gerous to venture out upon the streets. A
number of persons were drowned by fan
/ ing into the Thames.
Responding to appeals from many
| sections, the American Red Cross society,
for some time earnestly at work for the
starving Russians, has opened q 81 sub
scription for citizens who cannot contrib
ute supplies. Address Miss Clara Bar
ton, Washington, D. c.
The Catholic pilgrimages to Rome,
which were interrupted by the incident in
the Pantheon when a French pilgrim
insulted the memory OF Victor Emanuel.
will be resumed after Easter. The nil
grims will come from Spain, Austria and
Germany and French pilgrims will follow
in April.
NJ. Gorges Rochegrosse, the we'll
known French painter, and Nj Alexander
Pascalides, Greek painter, are engaged
on grand panorama for Chicago which
will depict the deluge. NJ. Rochegrosse Is
the author Of "The Fail OF Babylon the
immense canvass which created such a
sensation at the last salon.
At the Ludlow street Jail in New
York, it is stated that Edward NJ. Field is
growing weaker every day. His long fast
is growing alarming in its effects His
strength is waning and he is confined 70
his bed all The time Desnite all tho an