The Lamar register., 1893-10-28
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Paid admissions to the Fair last Sunday
were 14057S.
Marshal MncMahon, the great French SOL
dier, died on the 17th
Mrs. Lucy Stone, an original woman's suf-
irage advocate, is dead.
The list of killed in the Battle Creek horror
has been swelied to twenty-eight.
The total admissions to the Worid's Fair
from May to October 81 were 25, ,231 ,59S.
general strike is threatened on the Santa
Fe unless She pay car Is more regular in its
visits.
Lemars, Iowa, had bad fire Monday. Forty
horses and $4,000 worth OF property were
destroyed.
woman sufIragists are having quarrel OF
some magnitude.
The DspGuw Plate Glass Company, OF New
Albany, has assigned. Assets, S2,OlO,0OO;
liabilities, s4So,cc0.
The extensive wall paper house Of William
Campbell " Co. in New York City burned on
the 18th involving loss of four million dol
lars.
The twenty-ffth anniversary of the promo
ton Of Cardinal Gibbons to the episcopacy
was celebrated at Baltimore with great pomp
this week.
Thirty-one tribes OF Moors arc said TO have
pledged themselves 10 fight in n war of exter-
Morocco.
Count TaafIe, the prime minister of Austria,
has introduced In the Austrian Reichsrath
bill which will give the franchise to 100000
persons who are not now voters.
Last Saturday was Manhattan Day at the
Fair and IL Is estimated that 1000 New
Workers were on the grounds. The total
paid attendance was a little short of 100000.
The Puget Sound National Bank. of Ever
EFT, Washington, and FIRST National Bank OF
Ellensburg. Washington, which closed their
doors during the recent financial panic, have
re-opened for business.
J. P. Miller, the Oldest postmaster in the
country, died at Gauley. West Virginia., Sum
day night He WIS IS years old and had
served continuously since his appointment by
President Jackson n 1882.
Secretary Lamort has received the annual
report of Bri5sdier General 4. Brcokes, com
manding the department OF the Platte.
Speaking OF the indian as a soldier, Brookes
says the Creates difficulty seems to be the
Indians do not speak English.
1t is believed that the Malta rhe Italian
criminal society has again broken out In New
Orleans policeman who had his throat
cut several weeks ago by an Italian, WAS as
saulted by unknown persons Sunday.
Monteyedto dispatch says: News has
been received irom Rio Janeiro that Freder-
icho Culu,ero orenA has been proclaimed
provisional president of Brazil by Admiral
Mello. Lorena is the captain of one of the
rebel warships.
Three deaths of yellow fever were officially
reported at Brunswick, Georgia, Monday, as
well as thirty six new cases. There are now
under treatment fifty-two whites and 2ll col
ored, total of 263 Total cases TO date 107,
OF which forty-one died and 39S have been dis
charged.
At III. National W. c. T. U. convention
the following officers were elected: Presi-
dent, Mrs. Frances Z. Willard Illinois; sec
retary, Mrs Mary a. Woodbridge, Ohio; re-
cording secretary, Mrs. l. \. Stevens, Michi-
gan, treasurer, Mrs. II. M. Barker, North
Dakots.
George J. Gould, one of the largest, If not
the largest individual stockhoder in the
Union Pacific property says: 1.-The appoint
ment of receivers for the Union Pacific was
the best thing that could have happened the
road. 1t Will keep the property intact In
stead Of placing 1t at the mercy of many
varied interests
A dispatch has been received in Berlin from
Or. Peters, the great German explorer of AZ
rica, who was recently visiting the United
States and Canada, in which the doctor says
he has been enjoying greatly what he has
seen in America He adds, however: "Still
It Is not Europe. America keeps in culture
and civilization about the middle between
Africa and Europe
The cattle killing record OF the world has
been broken at Armour's packing house in
Kansas City, where 8, lis cattle were slaught-
cred in eleven hours. The slaughter began at
o'clock, was interrupted half hour at noon
and ended at 6 80 O'Clock The average was
Eve steers slaughtered every minute. No
packing house In the world has ever killed
the same number Of cattle in the same time.
The Indian agent at Puyallup, Washington,
has unlimited his report TO the interior de-
partmen.. lie says intoxicatlon Is the pre-
dominant evil among the Indians. The evil
Will grow, he thinks, because OF the decision
of the courts that an Indian holding patent
to land Is citizen. He recommends on ac-
count Of this that law be passed holding
that when a patent is given It shall not con-
fer citizenship upon the Indian.
kilograms received from Algiers announce
q disaster to the French troops in that dis
trict which has remarkable resemblance to
the recent engagement between the Spanish
troops at Mcliila and the Moors. The dis
patches state that detachment of forty
French soldiers was attacked near FL Geola
an Important caravan station on the Sahara.
soma DAYS ago. The Arab tribe which fired
upon the French troops is said to have been
the Turages. whose territory is situated near
FL Geola The French detachment is said to
have made desperate defense, which lasted
awlo.c day, during which twelve of tho
forty French soldiers were killed and num-
bcrs we're wounded.
4 dispatch from Guthrie, Oklahoma, says:
Every TOW ia the territory is filling up with
people from the Cherokee Strip, who come in
hungry cold and without cent of money.
they are ali wllliny to work. but the crowd is
90 great there is no work for them, and those
who will not wo-k gfr suffering from hunger
AZ Perry, Oscar Ecst er OF Columbus, Ohio,
wGe found nearly dead from hunger and ex-
po,urc and was e,n. to lis home, while a
nrp,her nf other mon who are sick and pennt-