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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1891
Page
2
The piece argues Europe poses a constant risk to British rule and urges strict immigration limits for the United States. It critiques wealth inequality, calls for careful questioning, and notes the Australia‑U.S. constitutional parallels while predicting renewed American restraint and global obligation.
A wide array of brief reports from Denver and across Colorado recounts incidents and events. A Denver woman dies on 8th Street while conflict and crime unfold in Sterling and Windsor, with trains in Eaton and Loveland signaling danger. Authorities note meetings, contracts, and reforms in health, religion, and education, while Wyoming-bound ice transport costs and gypsum production in Colorado are reported.
Still after the Prince of Wales scandal crowds hiss the band at Carnarvon and denounce the Prince for baccarat ties. Reports say Methodist conferences condemn him while gossip swirls around Lord and Lady Brooke and their separated status amid royal scandal and custody of wealth.
The steamer City of Richmond docked at Hornby, Liverpool, when hatch removal released dense smoke and flames from burning cotton in the hold. Firefighters flooded the hold, extinguishing the blaze. only 12 bales were removed in six hours as work paused due to heat and safety concerns. The vessel, list to starboard from water pumped into the hold.
All states and territories receive space at Jackson Park for their World’s Fair buildings. Thirty acres of prime park land between Fifty-sixth and Fifty-eighth streets are allocated to state structures, with some sites under half an acre and others larger. Foreign governments will occupy seventeen acres to the north. States are grouped regionally into Eastern Southern Middle Western and Pacific clusters.
Hundreds of London laundry workers walked out for an eight hour day with two shillings daily pay. They formed processions, smashed windows of non union shops, and dragged back workers. Police faced jeers as demonstrations spread with broad public sympathy. Duchess of Castro jailed in Madrid for abusing a servant, bail denied, children allowed with her. The servant, a foundling, fled after four days of service and was found bruised. Palace staff testified to ill treatment. the duchess, wealthy and eccentric, has a troubled marriage history.
Details from the Basel area railroad disaster describe two engines and five carriages plunging into a swift river under a failed bridge near Monchenstein Basle. Death toll estimates range from seventy to over one hundred as bodies are recovered in ghastly condition. Separately, at a Denver Methodist conference, appointments were announced for the North and South Denver districts with numerous to be supplied positions and names such as S. W. Thorsten and J. H. Merritt.
W A Thompson in Chicago recounts a February sweeping flu in the Chinese empire that killed hundreds of thousands. He notes a thirty day outbreak with rising death rates and that Chinese physicists could not explain the cause leading to panic and rituals to drive out the evil spirit. In Canton, a week saw about 10 000 burials.
A bundle of early 1891 dispatches report passage of a land purchase bill in the House of Commons. Other items note fear of a new revolution in Samos, major fires in Seabright New Jersey, large gifts to Princeton, population growth in England, and various international and domestic political tensions.
President Harrison publicizes a temporary Behring Sea pact with Britain and the United States. The accord bars seal killing east of the 1867 line until May and allows seizure of violators by either nation’s naval officers. British and American enforcement aims to protect seal stocks amid looming arbitration.
A bridge over the Moenichen, an Rhine tributary near Stein Basel canton Switzerland, collapsed under an excursion train to a musical fete. Two engines and the first car plunged into the river. others dangled above. All trainmen killed and many passengers drowned. At least sixty dead and over a hundred injured. The disaster shocked Switzerland and Song Germany.
Reports from the Granite mining district describe a thriving strike in a raise on the 10th level with substantial ore. The Gold Hill region sees new shafts and exploratory work, including the Aztec shale bed at the Fair God claim, while investors eye Mexico and British Guiana for potential returns amid rising ore values and developing infrastructure.
A Batoum dispatch reports five Russian sailors meeting a strange boat with twelve pirates. The pirates fired on the Russians, killing four. Pursuit boats engaged. two pirates killed, two wounded. Survivors reached shore to relay the encounter. two more Russian boats pursued but pirates escaped. A gunboat continued pursuit.
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