The Lamar register., 1898-10-26
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South is improving.
General Lawion has reached New
York from Santiago
The German National Bank at Pitts
burg has closed its doors.
Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, .
going to London to raise loan
The German emperor was given .
great reception at Constantinople.
The war investigating commission
left Washington for Jacksonville on the
10th.
Snow fell in Chicago on the 18th. the
earliest in the season for twenty-slx
years.
New surveys show that the Alaskan
coast at the mouth OF the Yukon u
twenty-five miles further west than
supposed.
The Alger battery from Cheyenne
has been assigned for permanent gar
rison duty at San Francisco, and VIII
not go to Manila.
Queen wilhelmina, Hollands youth
full ruler, is about to wed. Her royal
consort II is announced, will be Prince
William of wied.
Il .s reported that Princess Kaiulani
wan Wtu auuEtW aoahs- AOAA>.
Providence newspaper reporter, but
now a resident of Honolulu.
Farmers in the Kansu district, China,
ascribing the cause of long prevailing
draughts to the telegraph wires, have
demolished poles and wires.
General Brooke has plenary powers
in Porto Rico and will have sole charge
OF the government of the island until
some othpr nrrapUqmppt y made
Major General Francis V. Greene has
been ordered to report to General Fitz-
hugh Lee. Seventh army corps, and
win command a division of the army
Of occupation.
1t is reported that the Santa Fe rail-
road has purchased the San Francisco
& San Joaquin Valley railroad in Cali
fornia, probably seeking an entrance
to San Francisco.
A dispatch from Pretoria says that
Mr.. Hope, representing an American
syndicate, offers to loan the Transvaai
government s12,50o,Ooo at per cent.
and 2is per cent. commission.
band OF desperadoes, numbering p
900, with 10000 disbanded Mansu sol
diers. took possession of the gold mines
north of Kirin, China, and is hindering
Russian railroad development.
Pope Leo. 1t is announced in Vatican
circles, is preparing an encyclical de-
nouncing anarchy and anarchists. 1t
will be issued in the near future and is
considered very strong document.
Judge Hammond of the United States
Circuit Court at Cleveland. Ohio. grant
ed the application of the American
Steel and Wire Company for an injunc-
a. NC tyira lr1
The prospects are that the big deal
whereby an English syndicate Is to Sc
cure. through purchase, possession OF
the Cincinnati brewerles, will be com
pleted some time during the present
week.
The Pullman company has decided to
increase its capital stock fifty per cent.
TO be divided pro rata among the
stockholders, in order that the capital
stock may equal the assets of the COM
pany.
The National Council of Women of
the United States will meet at Omaha,
October oath and 29th, under the aus
plces of the womens department of
the Transmississippi International Ex-
position.
The total receipts from internal rev
enue since June Both, the day follow
ing which date the law went into eff
feet, was $50, ,651. .556.62, an increase
over the same period in 1897 of Ss2,-
029, ,667.04.
Central Pacific officials will attempt
to negotiate n blanket mortgage Of
S11S,Oo0, 900 10 liquidate all bonds and
debts of the system. This will check
mate the plans of reorganization of the
English stockholders.
American imports into China con-
time to increase. While those of other
countries decrease. This is shown by
a statement of the Chinese trade re-
ports for 1897, just received by the
Treasury Bureau of Statistics.
The Dowager Duchess of Sutherland
/ has offered reward of $4,000 for the
recovery of the jewels, said to be val
ued at S150,000, which she lost ON
board of n train bound for Calais
while on her way to London.
Frank II. Sargent. grand master of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men. who was appointed a member of
the National Labor Commission by
President Mckinley, has resigned the
commissionership in order to retain his
position with the brotherhood.