The Lamar register., 1893-10-14
r.,.rr.ph,o Brevitls.

Thousands arc out OF Work In Sicily and tne
condition of the island Il deplorable. Politi-
cal agitation Is increasing.
Charles Clark, a young farmer living near
Oakland, lllinois, died of rabies contracted
from the bite OF = guinea pig.
John Roberts, the English billiard cham
pion, beat Frank c. Ives In the 10000 point
game at New York by about l, 900 points.
The american yscht Vigilant won the first
race with the vaikyrie at New York on the
7th by six minutes. The wind was light
Harry Tyler has broken the bicyle record
for 8 Ddng start He made mile In
2:0l $S at Springfield, Massachusetts, on the
5th-
General Campos with a bomb, was executed
at Barcelona on the 9th By being shot In the
back
Three thousand miners in Wales eoliieries
have struck work because forty men en-
ployed in the collieries were not members OF
the union
An international meeting OF the Evangel-
ical Alliance opened At Chicago on the 9Th.
II is attended by orthodox Christians from
many countries
The first yacht race between the Valkyrie
and Vigilant at New York on the 5th WAS
failure, as there was not wind enough TO get
them over the course.
One of the passengers on the Hamburg
American steamship Russia has died OF
cholera at quarantine, in New York Bay.
There are no other cases
The Cunarder Lucania has beaten the rec
ord of the City OF Paris, BY running from
Queenstown to New York In five days, thir-
teen hours and twenty-nine minutes.
The Yankee boat, Nigilant, won the second
race with Nalkyrie on the 9Th She appar-
emily outssiled her competitor on all points
and beat her a distance of three miles
The Hamburg American steamer Russia Is
detained at quarantine by the New losk
health officers, as there are several suspicious
cases of sickness, thought to be cholera ees
The monetary conference of the Latin
states will meet in Paris Octoher9. Italy will
be represented by Senior Derenzir, the Italian
minister At Brussels, and by Deputy Zepu.
John Redmond says that the Parnellites
will no longer support Mr.. Gladstone in Par
lament He is not satis1ed with the home
rule bill or the prospect for another one.
The attendance at the Columbian E1posi-
tion on the qth-Chicago Day-vAs ISL, ,Oe6,
which beats the records of all Worlds fairs
The crush of people was dreadful and hun
dreds were injured in various ways
President Diaz, of Mexico. has offered a
series of big rewards to the total amount Of
500, 900, for the opening and development Of
good gold fields. The value of silver pro
duced In the land Is greater than gold, and
gold is the metal n ow wanted
Acting upon the advice OF diplomatic corps
the Brazilian government has ordered the re-
moval of all batteries recently erected In Rio
de Janeiro. This, 1t is thought viii remove
all the objections of the foreign Aduirals In
regard to the Intervention In case the insurs-
ent feet resumed the bombardment of the
city.
New Orleans has raised relief fund of
about ss5, 600 In all, and steamers, luggers,
skihs and trains have been sent In every
direction to extend relief. The only new de-
velopment is the intelligence from Bayou
Sandress, leading from Grand Isle district,
that there are 500 deaths along that section,
m aking about 1,6oo deaths between Cheniere
and Bayou Cook
A shocking scandal has been caused By the
coroner's investigation of the San Francisco
Founding Asylum, where thirty-three babe.
have died within the past six weeks. The
place has been closed. The coroner ascer-
of nutrition and maltreatment The Daugh-
tiers of the Good Shepherd publicly branded
the asylum as a slaughter house for babies.
Throughout Warwickshire and Worcester
shire, England, the effects of the coal famine
become more acute daily. Factories are clos
ing constantly because they have not suffi-
Client coal TO keep their furnaces going, aad
thousands of men are being thrown out Of
work In this way. The supplies of the gns
companies can last only few days longer
Even the farmers are suffering, and many of
them have been compelled to stop threshing
A Panama special to New York paper
says: sacna advices report that Chill ia send
ing 100 cavalry horses, 5 krupp guns and
10000 Mannlicher guns 10 Bolivia This is
taken to Indicate an alliance hostile 70 Peru
the two countries, Chill and Bolivia, beliey-
ing that in her present straits Brazil could
not lend helping hand to Peru. Nothing ia
known of the attitude Ecuador would assume
should the report prove true.
The Vanderbnts have entered into con-
tract for one OF the greatest real estate pur-
chases ever made on Manhattan Island. The
property TO be purchased covers four city
blocks between One Hundred and Fifty fifth
and One Hundred and FhtY-nnth streets and
includes what Is known the Manhattan
Field and the new polo grounds, Il is said
that the contract price is So 900, 900 and that
| 100000 has been deposited TO bind the bar
gain. IL IS understood that the purchase was
made for railroad purposes.
Ateight O'Clock Monday night an east
bound freight train on the Pennsylyania, Fort
Wayne * Cincinnati road. while running at
| high rate of speed, one mile west OF North
| Lawrence, Ohio was blown into fragments by
| the explosion of car containing 432 kegs of
| gunpowder. The train crew escaped unhurt
| but the engineer, Z. p Calvin. and the fire.
man, Thomas McCann, were burned severely.
| Brakeman Rockhili was badly burned The
track was torn up for 100 yards, hole twenty
feet deep was made in the ground, telegraph
poles were leveled, thirty cars were wrecked,
and the cab was stripped from the engine
Two tramps were hurt, one fatally.
Further dispatches from the scene of de-
struction on the south coast of Louisiana
state the storm was, beyond any doubt, the
worst that has been experienced In the South
but it has never anywhere been equalled in
its destruction of property and sacrifice of
human life by any storm confined TO as lin