The Lamar register., 1893-03-25
TeIesraphIe Hrevitlcs.

Tro thousand barrels of whisky we're burned
at Covlngton on the 18th
Mrs. Lease has been elected president OF
the Kansas state board of charities.
Several of Garza's followers have recently
surrendered 10 the United States troops.
Itseems certain that there will soon be
big strike on the Atlantic & Pacific railroad.
The Republican National League has been
called to meet at Louisville, Kentucky, on the
10th of May.
George Whine, a negro yagrant, was sold at
Fayette. Missouri, on the 18th for /, period
Of six months for 500
Richard Croker, the New York Tammany
chief, has paid S250, 900 for half interest in
3 Kentucky horse farm
a big locomotive exploded at Butte Mon
tana, on the 18th. Two men we're killed and
two others badly hurt.
a Felipe osa3ie, promiaent banker of
robbing his bank OF s+oo,ooo.
By an explosion Of gas In coal mine near
Sonnclsvllle, Pennsylvania, on the 18th, ten
men were injured and several OF them will
ats.
The price paid for silver on the Goth by the
treasury department, s0.s2I5 per ounce, was
the lowest since the silver purchase act went
into effect
The steamship Sarnia with nearly 500 pas
cengers aboard arrived at Halifax on the 19th.
She was week overdue owing 10 having
broken her shaft.
Several cases OF cholera have appeared in
convict prison in Moscow. The provincial
council has voted 100000 francs to be spent in
.nstituting preventive measures.
Fire in the Exeter, New Hampshire, cotton
mills on the l4th destroyed S250, 900 worth Of
property, threw 240 hands out of employ
ment and injured three persons
Secretary Morton has begun reforming his
department in very practical manner. He
has dismissed, or rather 'furlougbed, l2l
employees of the bureau Of animal industry.
Joseph Gardner OF Bedford, Indiana, has
presented the National Red Cross Society over
100 acres of land in Indiana: This ground
would be neutral territory in case of any war.
There was \ .eariul explosion OF TIRE damp
in coal mine ut Anderson, Indian Territory,
on the 18th. by which nine men we're instantly
killed and eight Others injured so that they
will die
President Cleveland has appointed ex-C Con-
grcssman Blount of Georgia, chairman of !.
commission to visit Honolulu and Investigate
the annexation question. He started ut once
for Sln Francisco.
The female base ball team that went down
TO Cuba to entertain our Spanish neighbor'
was mohbed and barely escaped with their
lives. The manager is nov suing the Spanish
government for damages,
The pecuniary result of the papal jubilee
Is gain TO the Golfers Of the vatican of up
ward of e250 900, as well as Jewels, plate and
other valuable articles, which are estimated
10 be worth nearly t2O0,O Coz.
A syndicate OF Boston men have obtained
nm option on the st. Johns, New Brunswick
rolling mills, and au agent OF thc syndicate
Is now In Montreal, endeavoring 10 obtain the
four big manufacturing irms there.
Large sales of lands for coffee growing are
reported from the straits of Vera Cruz and
Oaxacu Mexico. where both natives and for
eiguers are buying extensively, many Ameri-
| cans being included among the buyers.
After trying the single tax doctrine about
two years the little town of H attsyillc.
Maryland. is about to go back to the Old sys-
TEN and give up Henry Georges idea The
system has been declared unconstitutional