The Lamar register., 1892-05-28
TeIeEraphic BrevItIsI.


California Democrats have instructed for
Cleveland.
smallpox epidemic is in progress at Qua
temala, Mexico
fire at Tehuantepec, Mexico, on the Goth,
rendered 100 families homeless.
Cholera is epidemic at Harrah, Egypt. One
hundred people are dying daily.
The Peoples party of Illinois has declared
for free silver and compulsory education.
Deeming, the Australian murderer, was
hanged last Monday morning at Melbourne.
Three grauite-cutting firms at Barre, yer-
mont, have acceded to the demands of the
men.
The Methodist conference has reelected
DIR. D. Il. Moore as editor of the Western I'd
roeate.
Perry, the New York train robber, has been
sentenced TO the penitentiary for forty-aine
years.
Arrangements are being made for holding
in CHICAGO next year an international single
tax congress.
Nine Russians of whom seven were children
were drowned by the flood at Lincoln, Nebras-
ka, on the 18th.
1t has been discovered in Constantlnople
that the Russians have aided n plot TO blow
up the sultan.
South Dakota will contribute about fifty
carloads of supplies for the Russians, accord
ing to the present rate of donations
A desperate attempt was made the other
night by Florida train robbers to hold up
train. They killed the messenger and were
then driven of.
The cabin of fisherman near Iroquois,
Michigan, took fire in the absence of the
father, and the mother,in saving her children,
was fatally burned.
\ fourteenth century copy of the Bible,
written in Latin on veIlum, has been present
ed to the American Bible Society by Charles
Baker of Baltimore.
John Boyer, a workman in a planning mill at
Danville, Illinois, has recently fallen heir to a
large amount Of property in Germany by the
death Of an old aunt.
The birthplace of Shakespeare will not be
exhibited at Chicago, as was Intended, the
trustees of stratford-on-Avon having taken
action to prevent its removal.
The fourth annual convention of the young
people Of the United Presbyterian church be
gan its session at East Liverpool, Ohio, on the
Goth, with about 600 delegates attending.
On Monday, while the family of Abner
Gray of Milan, Tennessee, were asleep, the
house took fire and before the inmates could
escape two of the children were burned to
death.
The contact of molten metal and water
caused an explosion Tuesday at the works of
the st. Louis Steel Foundry company, almost
destroying the plant, the damage amounting
to 900.
Owing to recent decisions of the supreme
court, the settlers Of Oklahoma who hold
over 16O acres viii forfeit the excess There
is probability Of trouble in the new division
Of the lands.
The United States Supreme Court has de-
cided that the railroads can legally grant
reduced rate to theatrical troupes The same
rate must be granted to any party of ten or
more persons.
The parents Of an eight-year-old Chicago
boy have recovered $4,000 from a street rail-
way company for Gripping the boy The
gripman was watching street parade and
did not ring his gong.
1t is stated that compromise has been eff
fected between the Cherokee delegation and
the Cherokee claimants, by which the latter
are to be paid $3.50, 900. and each of them viii
eeive 1G0 acres of land in the Strip
The funeral Of Andrew C. Anderson. who
was drowned while attempting to make his
twenty-eighth rescue of life, d.ring the floods
at Sioux City, was held on the :ssrd A mon
umenf it his honor will be erected by the
citizens