The Lamar register., 1893-07-29
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a case OF genuine leprosy has been discoy-
cred In North Dakota.
The congress Of shorthand writer's has
opened at the Worlds Fair.
Two children were killed near RusselyiIle
kentucky, by lightning, while standing uu-
der tree
-Four hundred men have been laid OF at the
westnghouse Electric Works In Newark,
New Jersey.
A Sunday school excursion train was
wrecked near Buffalo, Wednesday, and a
number OF cnildren seriously injured.
The Paris papers are getting quite excited
over the Slam affairs. They see In every
move the hand OF British intrigue.
The pension department has stopped pay
ing tne So pension OF Justice Long, of the
ST,0oO.
Governor Markham, OF California, has ap-
pointed Ex-Governor George C. Perkins
United states Senator to succeed the late Le-
land Stanford.
The British court martial which Is investi-
eating the sinking Of the Victoria has con-
elusive evidence that II was the fault Of Vice
Admiral Tryon who lost his life.
". ]. Bowling, editor Of the Renville, Min
nesota, Star, man with neither legs or
hands, has been arrested by order Of the vii
lige eoGneil for not working poll tax.
Siam has agreed to part OF the French de-
mands' bat this is not considered satisfactory,
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ordered TO Withdraw. var may ensue.
Ths bulletu O, the American Iroa aud
steel Association says the total production OF
pig iroa for the frat half of 1898 was .562 9ls
gross ious, showing decrease, as COM
pared with the first half OF Is9a Of 206,156
tons.
\ San Francisco paper states that Governor
Markham has decided To appoint Irwin g.
stump to succeed the late Senator Stanford.
stump was chairman OF the Republican state
committee during the last campaign.
In purchasing silver bullion on the 2Ist at
/ 500 per ounce, the treasury department paid
/ lower price than IT has ever paid for the
I commodity. The highest price paid for sil.er
bullion under the sherman law was 81 % per
ounce.
/ special from Topeka says that the Santa
/ Fe management has just unearthed extensive
/ frauds on that division OF the road included
! between Topeka and Chicago. The frauds,
I Il j. said, have resulted in loss to the road
I of 5000 a month.
At Grand Forks, y. D.. a case OF genuine
| .. H. Nclson, - years old, who came from
Norway three years age. Dr. Engstad, of
that city, called to investigate the case and
{ pronounced IL genuine leprosy.
Opinion Is general here that Siam will pay
/ 10 full the Indemnity demanded by France.
IL IA doubtful, however, that the French
l claims TO territory will be allowed Much
depends upoa the response Of Great Britain
| TO the effort Siam Is MAXIM; To gain her moral
I or material sEpport-
The Ne~ York Pres says Joseph jefferson,
/ the veteran actor, Is near deaths door. A
l eanccrous affection OF the neck Is the princi-
/ pal AllEaent- Mr.. JeiTensoa's physicians have
/ so far been badly bsiiied by the disease
/ which = attributed to an inherited tendency
and partly 80 earcessness In the treatment Of
boil some T9onihs ago.
/ The American line steamship Paris has
ls.eV
! Fire Island al 4.e3 O'Clock this afternoon,
l hayiEg made the run from Southampton In
six days nine hours and thirty minutes.
Thi- ls nearly two hours better than the rec
I ord made by the Hamburg line steamer Fuerst
| Bisnlzrk. in April, issrs- The Paris also holds
the record between Queenstown and New
I York
/ Al Hastings. Nehraska, Thursday evening,
a gang Of scventy-fvc men took possession of
Z = darlington freight train, asd when the con-
I duesor undertook To eject them they resisted
successfully. When the superintendent was
notified he directed the night yardmaster at
Lincoln to make up special train OF empty
box cars and accommodate everybody who
Z cared to ride. The train will be run as far as
/ the Iowa line The men clairl TO conc from
/ Deaser,
On the twenty first the great driving wheel
/ of the Memphis electric power house exploded
into hundreds of pieces. tearin. up the build
/ .ng and killing Engineer McDerDott Instant
| iy The wheel was four feet across, fifteen
/ feet In diameter and weighed 2.sO0 pounds. 1t
became Wild and eccentric from some un-
| known cause, revolving at an incredible speed,
| aud t-fore IL could be stopped fhe explosion
resulted from centrifugal force
Hugh Harvey and Homer Hanskolder, sijust
for the fun of the thing shot through q
window Of Schaefer's powder magazine near
/ Huntington. Indiana The shot exploded
COO pounds of powder and 100 p1unds of dy-
Mantle Harvey and Hansholder were both
killed. Houses In the ncighborho0d were
riddled by dying bricks, and windows
were broken all over the city. Andrew Her
stos aud John Cooley were badly injured by
flying bricks
So far as the State department is Informed
there are no American citizens residing in
Siam except about a score OF missionaries 1t
Is not believed TO be necessary to take any
special measures for their protection. The
, United States has NO diplomatic representa-
tive In Siam II the welfare OF our mission
aries should be threatened, they can secure
protection upon application to the minister of
some other nation. The commercial Interests
of the United States arc insignlfica Mt.
The guards at shaft No. 4s, Wier City, Kas.,
0:30 o'clock Monday night The mob ap-
shaft Deputy Sheriff Grant, who was on
patrol guard. returned the firc, and calling
the other guards defended the mine against
the mob. Over 100 shots were fired, but none
OF the guards were injured When the mob
saw that the guards were standing their
ground they fed II is not known how many,
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