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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1896
Page
2
A damaged clipping mentions a man and his wife amid terse remarks and a request for help. References to Colorado and a terse exchange suggest a personal or dramatic scene, but readable facts are limited.
A Macon county Missouri citizen paid back last week a $20 loan taken forty six years ago at 10 percent. He had paid $116.25 in interest over the years. The repayment completes the long standing transaction.
Manitoba wheat yields lag expectations and the government cuts its export forecast to under 10 million bushels. Area sown is just under 1 million acres, not counting northwest territories wheat, with total production revised to slightly under 45 million bushels from last year’s 33 million.
The Swiss army demonstrated that electricity alters in flight trajectory. A line of four steel cables parallel to the range caused lateral deflection of about 70 feet at 780 feet. At 9,000 feet the claimed deviation reached 14 degrees, though direction relative to the cables is unspecified.
In California Missouri, a post office safe was robbed. Five men were involved. the criminal leader died in a saloon dispute, revealing the others. The farmer who killed the ringleader was denied a $200 reward since the head robber was neither arrested nor convicted, exposing a peculiarity in reward law.
The Bureau of Statistics reports August breadstuffs valued at 13,854,311 dollars, with wheat 6,693,004 bushels and corn 9,428,939 bushels. For the two months ending August, totals reach 26,268,279 bushels of main grains and 2,817,313 barrels of flour, vs 18,072,887 and 1,997,783 respectively in 1895.
Washington reports that US and Great Britain near a general arbitration treaty to settle differences within five years. A six member court will decide disputes, three from each nation's judiciary, with gains for commerce and peace. Negotiations aim for signature within three weeks and ratification before year end.
In Wo mwn Whips a Borgtar Wooster, three masked burglars battered the Bristow farmhouse near Wooster Ohio at dawn. Housekeeper Miss Alice Baxter confronted them with a lamp and struck one robber in the face, forcing the trio to flee. One of the assailants was later arrested.
Samuel Gompers presided as 150 delegates and about six times that many onlookers filled the Odd Fellows temple for the AFL's sixteenth annual convention. The gathering included English Trade Unionists Samuel Woods and John Malinson as guests, with Gompers outlining strikes, eight hour aims, textile union growth, immigration policy, and AFL neutrality on political campaigns.
New York wired report from December 14 notes foreign correspondents discuss rising tensions in the Philippine Islands. Spanish authorities report measures to quell Katipunan activity amid reports of reinforcements and armed bands. Local garrisons pursue suspects as incidents flare in Nueva Ecija Pangasinan and Iba Zamboanga areas with arms seized.
The text shows scattered fragments about state and federal reforms, debates by delegates, and mentions of a cabinet department of labor. It hints at conservatives' influence and the aim to preserve the American Republic within a constitutional framework.
A group of about twenty young men in Fayetteville Ark has organized and will depart for Cuba to support the insurgent cause. They have acted as agents for New York backers and held a quiet conference with sympathetic patriots. The company plans to move materials and ammunition to the island via Galveston and start the march within days, signaling support for independence.
A Pittsburgh bank, Deey National Bank of Hollid, suspended operations as a heavy run drained cash. The institution, capitalized at fifty thousand dollars, faced financial strain amid broader bank fears reported in Holliday area.
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