The Lamar register., 1892-12-10
Topographic Br~v,rie..

Senator Gibson OF Louisiana Is dying Al
Hot Springs, Arkansas
There was very heavy far of snow on
Long Island on the 90th.
The comet is growing larger, but DINNER.
1t is probably recedlng.
The department of agriculture has found q
cure for lumpy jaw in cattle.
General Diaz has been inaugurated presi-
dent OF Mexico for the fourth time.
Russell Harrison's paper, the Helena Jour
nal, has been sold by the sheriff for debt
Jay Gould was buried at Lawnwood GENE
terry on the 9th. The services were very sim
pie.
By the wreck of a fast freight at Monk.
Connecticut, Engineer Miles was instantly
killed.
A negro murderer was taken from the jail
at Hiswstha, Kansas, On the esth, and
lynehed
A New York syndicate has purchased the
street railway system OF New Orleans for slO,-
ooo,0oo
Hamilton county, indiana, near the surface
of the ground
The remains OF Rev DIR. John Scott, the
Presidents father-in-law, were buried at
Washington, Pa
Two men robbed bank at Trenton. New
Jersey, on the 29th but were captured before
they got out of town.
The big Worlds Fair whalebaek steamer
Christopher Columbus was launched at West
Superior on the 5th.
Telegraphers on the Rock Island system
have asked for an increase OF wages and will
strike If it is no, granted.
Chicago Is suffering from an epidemic of
bursIaries. Seven safes in one building were
cracked in one night recently.
There IS great destitution on the western
coart of Noyia Scotia on account OF the al
most entire failure Of the fisheries.
on the 5th NJ Ribot succeeded in forming
cabinet acceptable TO President Carnot 1t
is about the same as the previous one.
cIt is reported that Jay Gould has "trusteed''
large portion OF his railroad stock This
will prevent its being thrown on the market.
Bill Manus, Tennessee tough, killed his
13-year-o.d daughter, who interfered when he
was beating his wife. A lynehins Is threat
ened
The steamer Haytian Republic struck the
wharf in a storm at Seattle and $4,000 worth
OF Esods were thrown into the water and
lost
The ministers and others in Pittsburs have
made such a fuss about the social evil that
the dissolute women are being run out of
town.
The Elm Park Methods, church at serAn-
ton, Pennsylvania, just completed at a cost
Of 500, zoo, was completely Quilted by fire on
the 3rd.
Cardinal Gibbons has written a letter to
the Worlds Fair Opening Association favor
ing quiet opening OF the exhibition to the
public on Sunday.
The Office OF the Philadelphia Leigcr, Geo
W. Childs' paper, was injured BY fire aud
water Tuesday night The loss viii
amount TO 100000.
The Calumet iron and steel works near
Chicago, have been sold to Cleveland parties
for $500 900, and will be started up after
lying idle for one year.
The Rev. DIR. John Scott, fa,her-in-lAw OF
President Harrison, died at the White HoEse
on the 29th. He was 80 years old The fua-
eral was held at the White House THURSDAY.
Judge Bum at Chicago has decided that
the employment OF alien sailors IN American
vessels on the great Ia kes Is not prohibited.
The decision Is defeat for the Seamen's
Union.
Hon. Harvey Meyers, eE-speaker Of the
Kentucky Legislature, has been Indicted for
offering bride TO an alderman to secure the
passage of a street railway ordinance in Gin
cinnati.
The treasury department has decided that
a Chinese boy may enter the United States
for the purpose of receiving an education,
provided he has the permission Of his own
government
Chief Brown OF the Department OF Public
Safety at Pittsburg has issued an order closing
all houses of ill-fame in the city as a result OF
the movement against the social evil started
recently by the ministers OF that city.
The Hamilton woolen Company, eontrol-
ing sixteen mills at Amesbury, Massachusetts,
has increased the wages of all employees, ex-
cept spinners, per cent The spinners were
given an increase OF 10 per cent recently.
Tonquin adv!ces give meager details Of an
atroeious crime by Chinese pirates In Ton
quin. A band OF these desperadoes penned
up eighty women and children in the caves
at Quang Huyea and smoked them to death.
The cause OF the act IS not given, but 1t was
probably because their relatives refused to
give sufficient ransons
Major HeinrIchs, German officer, has
been sentenced by court martial TO one year
imprisonment In fortress for having caused
the death of seven privates last summer.
Heinrichs caused his whole battalion TO swim
the Spissp I'm all their