The Lamar register., 1893-08-05
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The Sismesc government has accepted the
full terms OF the French ultimatum.
The Pacific Express Conpany's delivery
wagon at wichita was robbed OF q 500 last
Saturday.
A mall pouch containing ESQ, 600 in securi-
heard Of since.
Abram Pardon, cashier Of . bank at Pntter-
son, New Jersey, has been arrested for steal
ing Sl0, 600 from the bank.
The Worlds Fair is now half over and the
total paid attendance for the first three
months numbered 7,0o0, COO persons.
By the aid of the spectroscope at Lick OBJ
servatory some important discoveries have
been made concerning the new comet.
The great Amoskeag mills At Manchester,
New Hampshire, closed down on the 3lst for
at least a month. The mills employed 5000
operatives.
Large numbers of the mills In the East are
closing down. They include cotton and other
factories. This is due to the uncertainties OF
future tariff legislation. Other factories still
run but on short time.
The New York delegation to the Bi-Metallic
Convention have declared that Secretary Car
isle should be impeached for the course be
has pursued in refusing TO buy the full
monthly quota of silver.
For the first time since the passage of the
Sherman silver law, the treasury last month
failed TO buy the full quota of 4,5oo, 600
ounces of silver The total purchase for the
month was ., 3s4 900 ounces, leaving shortage
Of ., 10000 ounces.
The Mid-winter fair managers Of San Fran
cisco have been notified by the Transeonti-
mental Freight committee that the concessions
desired for the carriage of exhibits from
Chicago to San Francisco have been granted.
Full charges will be made on shipments west,
but exhibits will be returned free.
The last weekly New York bank statement
- -. -. a
crease 1904 ,225 loans, decrease, 81, so5, 800;
specie, decrease, 81. 22l 400; legal tender, de
crease 50, SOS, 500; deposits, decrease e, 259,-
100; circulation, increase sllO, 800. The banks
are now S4.03l,655 below the requirements of
the % per cent rule.
Advices from Hong Kong give details of
terrific powder explosion at the government
powder magazine at Canton on Jupe "a,
which killed 50, injured over 800 people aud
wrecked four hundred houses IN the Sam Unli
district, in which the magazine stands The
total number Of houses destroyed is estimated
at 400.
The Radicals have begun a revolutionary
movement in the provinces Of Buenos Ayres
and Santa Fe. and fighting has been going
On in twenty towns in the fret named
province. According TO adyiecs so far re-
ceived, the insurgents seem TO be victorious.
There was desperate fighting In Rosario, the
battle lasting SIX hours
A dispatch from Singapore says that on
Thursday night a piratieal outbreak occurred
among the Chinese passengers on the Dutch
steamer Rsjah Acheen- The Chinese attacked
the crew of the steamer. killing the English
captain, mate and twenty-five Of the AsiAtic
sailors and woundlng fifteen Others. They
then quilted the vessel taking some of the
passengers as csptives. The steamer with
the wounded Is now in Dutch hands.
An important meeting OF presidents of the
iavings Institutions Of New York and Brook
l..f.4 a. a. hi 4@
,ided to recommend to the trustees and direc-
iors Of the various banks represented to en-
force the sixty days notice clause of the saw
ings bank act The resolution adopted by
the presidents provided that the full require
ment of sixty days notice be enforced against
Withdrawal- of $50 or orer. Fer sums under
that amount Il was recommended that only
notice of thirty days be required.
Secretary Hoke Smith OF the interior de-
partment was burned In effgy by the citizens
of Portsmouth, Ohio. A number of pensions
had been suspended there. The climax was
reached when the pension of J. L. Reed, a
Feteran of the Eleventh Illinois cavalry, aged
g. was dropped. Mr.. Reed had served four
Tears and five months and his pension was
mis- sole support When he received the news
of his suspension he became a rAying maniac
This aroused the citizens to high state of
Indignation.
Advlces from Ward & Courtney's grading
lamp at Seven Rivers, Eddy county, state
hat James Barrett. a native OF Athens. Ohio,
In a crazy fit brought on by drink, took a
,hotgun at 3 O'Clock Monday morning last
md called at two OF the camp tents and with
out warning fired upon james Barnes and
Jack Holohan. killing both instantly. Bar
rett gave himself up to the sheriff and an at
Tempt was made 10 lynch him on Monday
light, but the sheriff secreted HIN in the
mountains. He admits the crime and says he
Is ready to hang for 1t.
The new treaty with the United States has
seen drafted by the Hawaiian government,
aud will be sent TO Washington week hence
It cedes all right of sovereignty over the HA-
saiian Islands and dependencies 10 the L nited
states, 10 become an integral part thereof, and
transfers all public property TO the United
states. Ii provides further that the pres
mt government shall eontlnue for five years
lnder the direction of an United States CON-
mission, prohibits Chinese immigration, and
provides that the Hawaiian debt be assumed
,y the United States.
Chief of Police Speers OF Kansas City has
discovered law in the statutes forblddlng
,ailroad companies TO bring paupers into the
Itate. In view of the threatened invasion of
unemployed and destitute men from Colorado
he has decided to tnforce the law. All trains
will be stopped by an officer of inspection at
he state line aud paupers will not be allowed
% come into the state. Chief Speers believes
hat most Of the men coming East now are
lmposters and tramps, and are simply trading
On the misfortune OF the real unemployed
men in order to get free railroad ride.
Western roads reached an agreement We'd
1esday evening as TO Worlds Fair rates for
the month of August Commencing August
[, Worlds Fair tickets to Chicago may be
sold at one fare for the round trip, plus 81
provided that the round trip rate from East
St Louis shall be so, and from st. Louis to
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