The Lamar register., 1893-05-06
relegraphie Brev,t,e,.


VIM. C. Cloudy. the wcll-known Democrat
and lawyer of Chicago, died on the 27th.
A tornado swept through Northern Indiana
Wednesday night, doing great damage.
grain blockage is threatened at Buffalo,
the canals being closed and railroads unable |
10 haul away the grain.
A verdict Of So 600 has been rendered in |
the United States District Court at Spokane,
against J. H Sloan, weli-known capitalist, |
Tor cutting timber from government land.
All the Union Pacific iron workers who have |
been OF a strike at Omaha returned to work !
on the 25th, and every department of the |
shops began running with n full force of men. |
DIR. HaHkine, who recently went TO india to |
make experiments In the prevention of |
cholera by the incubation of cholera virus, |
has inoculated 400 persons at Agra and no |
evil results are reported.
The Columbian celebration Mt New York !
ended on the 2Sth with n parade OF soldiers |
and sailors on land. The foreign contlngents |
attracted great attention and the occasion |
was one long To be remembered.
The Northern Pacific steamship Victoria |
arrived from China and Japan on the .sth, |
having made the remarkably fast time of
twelve days and thirty-one minutes. She
brought 36i Chinese, 2l3 of whom are actors,
en- route to the Worlds Foir.
The Belgian Senate, by o vote of 90 TO l,
with fourteen absentees from voting has ap-
proved the Nyssan plan to establish universal
suffrage with plural voting, based on the
ownership of property and the possession of
certain educational qualifications.
Late reports from the Navajo reservation
indicate that there is no further danger of an
outbreak, and that the settlers are not ap-
prehcnsiye. Ii is their desire, however, TO
give the Indians n scare and teach them to
discontinue their custom of imposing on
settlers.
A bold thief attempted 10 steal the small
globe containing tue ashes of Columbus from
he n l.aR Rahlla q the Worlds Fair
| grounds last Saturday. He was detected By y
| guard who grappled with him and the globe
| was dropped In the scuifle. The thief then
| made hts escape.
| A telegram was received at the navy de-
partment Wednesday from New York an
| noune!pg the death there of Captain Gilbert
| Z. NIltse from congestion of the brain.
4 Captain Wiitse commanded the Boston dur
| Ing the trouble In Hawaii andled the marines
that hols,ed our flag establishing protecto-
rate over the islands.
/ The wife of Captain Roberts OF the White
| Star steamship Naronic, which has been
! missing since February IL, when the vessel
| sailed from Liverpool TO New York, and the
| wife OF Chief Officer Wright, who was second
In command to Captain Roberts on the Mar
| onic, have both gone Insane through despair
| caused by the loss of their husbands, and
! have had 10 be placed in asylum for the
| insane
The magnificent new armory OF the Firs.
regiment, llllnois National guards, WIS de-
stroyed by irc at Chicago on the 24th. Two
men arc known to have perished in the
| flames. Two others were rescued from i'm
I mediate death by the herolsm Of the firemen
but not until they were badly injured. The
ioss TO property is placed at about S2l5, 900,
which is very inaGeqGately covered by In
.urance-
The Boston Herald Company on the 3oth
issued is regular Sunday paper u Column
bian edition with illustrated covers, contain
ing sixty pages or $50 columns, of which 23l
quarter columns or 5.9i3 inches was a6yertis-
ing. This is claimed by the Herald to be the
largest amount of advertising in any paper
| ever published in the United Ststes. The
largest previous record-515l Inches-waS
held by the Chicago Aater-Oesca-
Terrific storm swept over Prince Edward
Island on the 21th. The schooner Anna Bell
Is u wreck at Merlgomish and the Rising
Dawn IS ashore at Carbon. The wind blew
forty miles an hour; 1t Was bitterly cold,
with heavy snow and hail. large number
of lobster men were blown out to sea and un-
doubtedly perished Four boats and their
! crews we're blown out to sea from Canoe Cave
snd six boats and their crews from Black
Point. Four men were picked up by tug of
Point Priu.
Erastus Wiman, the advocate of CONNER
cial reciprocity with Canada, the promoter
! of Numerous projects of more or less financial
success, and prominent member of the New
York Chamber of Commerce, the New York
board OF Trade and many other business or
ganirations. has assigned. His liabilities are
81 .010, COO. The causes of MIR. Wiman's
troubles not known beyond the statement
| that on the multitude OF his extensive ven-
| lures the stringency of the money market hss
had disastrous effect.
An Old brick tenement at SS5 jefferson
/ street New York, was destroyed by fire and
six of It's inmates burned to death on the
3Oth. The lodging house was conducted by Il
Mrs. Judson. She and young servant girl
named Maggie Bailey were the only women
In the building. The dodgers were of the
/ poorer class of laborers and mechanics, about
twenty of whom occupied the various rooms
up-stairs The building was verItable fire.
trap, consisting Of winding Railways and dark
landings. rome OF the rooms being without
windows. So quickly did the fire spread that
the unfortunate victims were caught Ike
rats In a trap.
Thursday night, during an entertainment
at the Methodist church at Eairylew, Penn
sylvana, a terrible panic was caused by a
mixture of powder used to produce colored
lights in the tableauN becoming ignited and
exploding. When the explosion occurred the
church was packed with people. Men, women
and children made mad rush for the doors
and trampled on one another in their wild
rush to escape. No one was killed outright,
but some are go seriously injured that their
deaths are probable. Mrs. George Edwards
was holding q baby In her arms, which was
torn FROM her and stepped on snd its skull
fractured.
Cubs is asaia in the throes of a revolution.
| A general uprising has taken place through
out the eastern portion OF the island. The
movement, which has been kept from the
| public by the authorities, started near
| Holoquln on the 26th instant, when two