The Lamar register., 1900-08-01
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The POpuilStS of IeN3S nave haQ
their platform copyrighted.
A plot to assassinate the Chinese min
lister has been unearthed at Paris.
Bryan is to address the Grand Army
of the Republic at its encampment in
Chicago.
The Kansas Populist convention re-
fused to endorse Jerry Simpson for
United States senator.
Representative George NJ. Cur
tis of Iowa has declined the office of
first assistant postmaster general.
The Postoffice Department will issue
an order in day or two extending the
privilege of domestic. rates of postage
to United States soldiers serving in
China.
4 fire at Yuma. Arizona, which start
ed at 10 O'Clock last night swept Main
street from First TO Jones, destroying
everything in its path. The total loss
was $4,000.
After a long period of detention as
Fort Sill, Geronimo, one of the most
blood-thirsty Indians that ever figured
in history, has gone stark mad. He Is
a prisoner at Fort Sill, o. 7.
One of the worst fires ever known in
northern Montana is now raging in the
Swan Lake country, on the western
part of the Lewis and Clarke forest re
serve. Indians deliberately set fire TO
the timber and are slaughtering the
game.
Chief Hale of the Kansas City fire
department with thirty men has start
ed for Paris to compete in the intern2'
tional firemen's tournament next
month. After that Chief Hale and his
men will make an exhibition tour
through western Europe.
A terrific engagement still continues
between the government troops and the
insurgents around Panama, but the
former are still holding their ground.
Many have been killed and wounded,
and a four-hours' armistice was agreed
upon to attend the wounded and bury
the dead.
Reports from various points in Texas
show that 100000 pounds of wool are
being held in the state because grow
ers refuse to accept current prices, and
there is perhaps as much more held at
uncounted points and on ranches. The
growers have held a conference and
agreed 10 hold the entire clip indefinite
ly.
The new steamer Deutschland, Cap
tain Albers. from New York, arrived
ar Plymouth NJ $50 o'clock on the 24th
On her maiden trip eastward, making
a record run Of tiVc days, fourteen
hours and SIX minutes. despite two
DAYS of fog. Her biggest days run
was made on July 18Th ther second day
putJ, when 53d miles were logged.
Henry c. Frye, president of the Ma
tional Glass Company. announces that
five Of the companys plants will be re-
moved from Indiana to the PittsburS
district as soon as proper sites can Dc
secured. This VIII affect over 3,UC
wOrkmen. The reasons given for the
change are that the supply of natural
gas in indiana is diminishing and that
the Oho river provides unusual facil-
tiles for reaching the southern markets.
Union motormen are prosecuting Wig.
orously the strike on the Dallas Con
solidated Street railway. backed by the
entire organized labor forces of the
city. w. ID. Mahon OF Detroit, Michi.
gan. president of the -Amalgamated As
ISOLATION of Street Railway Employees,
has went to Dallas TO take charge OF
the strike. The Dallas Typographical
union passed a resolution tining any
member riding ON the system 50 for
each otfense.
Amid great military. civil and relig-
and Costa RiCa government engineers,
and L. T. Alexander of South Carolina,
arbitrator of the boundary dispute be
tween Nicaragua and Costa Rica, ap-
pointed by President Cleveland, sign
ed the maps dcllmlting the boundary
recently agreed upon. This ceremony
terminated n dispute which has often
threatened war between the two gov
ernments during the last forty years.
The Chinese population of Chicago is
perturbed over the reports from the
various parts Of the city that because
OF Caucasian antipathy aroused by the
trouble in the Celestial empire, boy
colt has been instituted against Chi
nese laundries and truck farms. WI
Sung Lee. banker in Chinatown, and
probably the richest Mongolian in the
CITY, SAYS he had been forced to sus-
pend business during the last week,
and Chinese laundries generally report
a falling off of fifty per cent. in their
business.
San Juan. Porto Rico was labyrinth
of glitterinG Spanish flags to-day in
honor of st. Jago, the patron saint of
Spain.
There was no attempt whatever to
display the American cOlors. The cele-
hration Of the Fourth of July was to-
tally eclipsed to-day. Then the citi-
zens were unable to raise n dollar for
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