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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1891
Page
2
A blend of late 19th century opinion pieces touches on farm life incentives, physicians prescription rights, civilization’s test through luxury and virtue, advances in astronomy and photography, and public concerns about game protection. It also covers ethnic displacement in Moscow and a meditation on the mother child bond and consanguinity as a root of relationships.
A Denver jury awarded $200,000 to C A Deane for alienation of his wife’s affections against S W French. A tame elephant at a Denver suburb site fatally injured a child on the Fourth. Boulder gains a new telephone circuit serving multiple towns but excluding longmont and Denver. Rocky Mountain Oil plans a Pueblo refinery on 100 acres near the Union Pacific line. A Cockrell’s mill Fourth picnic is noted. Gilbert Kipp’s nine daughter was reported missing. a body was found downstream. Three men arrested in Sterling for cattle theft and shipment to Cheyenne and Missouri rail hubs. Rocky Mountain Chautauqua Assembly opens at Glen Park. runs to July 29 with talks, poems, and music. Robert Birchill found dead in his Greenley home, possibly heat-related. Colorado pensions granted to several citizens including Herriott, Walters, Abrams, and others. Fort Morgan notes jury deliberations in the George T Hughes murder case and a sister’s prayer reportedly influencing verdict. Fyffe, on trial at Fairplay, convicted. faces 30 years for the killing, expressing desire to return to his family.
The Fifth Chautauqua Assembly will run July 8 to 23 at Glen Park near Palmer Lake with Judge H Gilmore presiding and Rev. A. A. Cameron directing instruction. Daily Normal Division lessons cover scriptures, Sunday school teaching, and primary work. Dr. Morrison leads a women’s quintet, railroads offer excursion tickets, meals and lodging priced, tents arranged, and Denver address for information. The National Editorial Association meets July 14 in St Paul with 700 delegates expected and the first public typesetting machine exhibit planned. Reports arrive of January February battles on the Upper Congo and Aruwimi rivers between state troops and Arab slave traders, with slavers defeated and peace hoped.
Deputy State Treasurer Wilson disclosed only about 1100 cash remains for paying salaries as warrants must cover the last obligations. He noted revenue from state lands has been diverted to various projects, leaving the treasury unable to fully redeem warrants and risking salary payments by warrant alone.
In Carlow, McCarthyite Hammond won the parliamentary by election for the late O Gorman Mahon’s seat, defeating Parnellite Andrew Kettle by 2 216 votes. Kettle, a Dublin farmer, had been twice defeated before. Hammond is Carlow merchant and longtime town council chair. Parnell said the loss would not deter him and he would press independent candidates nationwide.
Colonel Dyrenforth of the Department of Agriculture travels to the Texas interior with two assistants to test if rain can be produced in arid regions by exploding balloons filled with oxygen and hydrogen at height. Tests will also use dynamite on kites, aiming for mid air explosions tied to ground powered circuits. The team will choose a quiet, secluded Texas site for thorough experiments affecting clouds. A Chilean congressional party has revived the immigration bureau in Paris, previously suppressed by Balmeg coda.
Rome reports mass evacuations on Mount Vesuvius as tremors presage a potential major eruption. Naples authorities warn visitors away from the crater while earthquakes intensify. guides face prosecution if they overlook danger. Italian scientists predict increasing quakes until a violent outbreak, after which tremors may ease.
After the Baton Rouge cyclone the city faces at least 200000 dollars in damage and the penitentiary reports sizable losses. Among the injured, John Pohey dies at the prison. Mrs Colton and Mrs Young are fatally hurt. Convicts Thomas J. Ford, William Huckiey, Louis Clare and Edward Dewitt earn praise for heroic acts and aid to wounded. clemency moves may follow.
A schooner crew from New Zealand recounts the Comprede wreck off Otago in Foveaus Strait. After a fire, hurricane, and wreck on rocks near the Auckland Islands the sailors swam ashore and endured 103 days of privation before rescue by a sailing vessel bound for New Zealand.
Dispatches from railroad officials report no material change in Salton Lake's level in Arizona. An exploring party from Yuma found water entering the desert at El Rio and traced a 52 mile path to Great Lake at Indian Wells, noting a wide, shallow and fast stream. A second expedition will probe the Salton ridge while Flowing Wells launches a new attempt. the Colorado river continues to fall.
Guatemala moves toward a reciprocity treaty with the United States as Guatemalan minister Senor Breteze is directed to arrange talks. Guatemalan commissioners will visit Mexico and the United States to boost trade relations and a continental railway. President Barillas aims to prominently represent Guatemala at the Chicago exposition.
Ponapie chief Nanpie of the Caroline Islands arrived in San Francisco aboard the Australia from Honolulu. He plans to appeal to President Harrison about threats from Spanish soldiers and urges Washington to send a warship to protect American property and ensure fair treatment of his people.
A severe wreck occurred about eight o'clock Saturday on the Kana wah and Michigan railway eight miles west of Charleston. A passenger excursion train from Kan wah to Columbus, including members of the Order of United American Mechanics, derailed on a burned trestle as sleepers caught fire. Two coaches plunged off, one landing upright, the other upside down, with many bodies trapped beneath wreckage. Surgeons and a relief train responded. conditions described as heartrending with a missing or unrecovered body feared.
The Fourth in London saw Mr. Lincoln host a legation reception with Mrs. Lincoln and daughters greeting prominent colony members. Guests included Mrs. Mackay and Mrs. Cameron, Justice Fuller, Senators Cullom and Cameron, and other officials.
Fire consumed the Cheyenne jail sometime between six and seven in the morning on Sunday. One inmate, Freak Johnson known as Stonewall Johnson, was inside and likely suffocated as rescuers could not reach him. Police officer Parker had placed Johnson in a cell to sober up about six o clock. The fire started from within the cell and the building collapsed with only a charred lamp remaining. Johnson, aged years old, left with no friends and likely set the blaze with his own hands.
Dispatches from Naples report a Brazilian man died after his group, guided by a local, ascended Mount Vesuvius despite warnings of renewed activity. A second Brazilian was rescued after falling under sulphurous fumes, while the guide dragged him to safety. The crater fumes proved deadly and warned travelers remain at risk.
A Prohibition gathering in Port Richmond Staten Island drew crowds far larger than expected filling hotels and tents as speakers Mary L Lathrop Bishop Gurst and Dickie addressed the audience. Topics ranged from immigration and gambling to public schools and women’s suffrage with vivid statements on future American morals and religious revival.
A fierce cyclone tore through Baton Rouge demolishing a mansion and a large brickyard and factory inside a three story building labeled hospital and commissary. Forty workers were present. six killed, four wounded fatally, and 35 wounded overall. The hospital wing collapsed trapping and injuring inmates while guards and locals rescued the injured amid heavy rain. A separate towboat wreck near Maton Nouge left several injured. Officers report extensive destruction along a three hundred foot-wide path.
English capital purchases the Chicago Cold Store Company's buildings and leasehold at Lake and Quin Streets for 34 500 000. W W Beloin negotiates the deal after five months in London with financiers and lawyers. The London and Colonial company gains the warehousing project with plans to revolutionize storage of perishables. The deal includes cash and bonds, with completion of payment over four months and a sizable final sum to be paid to the sellers.
The report covers fires in a Quebec convent, indictments and trials including a treasurer jailed for embezzlement, political turmoil in Ireland and Turkey, labor strikes and railway brigandry in Sardinia, and notable accidents and executions. Also noted are scientific accusations about inoculation, U.S. military troop movements in the West, and a dramatic balloon descent with injuries. Multiple named places and entities appear, including Quebec, Hamburg, Chagrin Falls, Carlow, Sardinia, Sing Sing, and Fort Duchesne, with dates and figures interwoven.
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