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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1891
Page
2
A scattered editorial page notes on cheap aluminum, immigrant labor, and social habits. It laments mistrustful youths, praises neighborly spirit, warns of oyster scarcity, and ponders mind nourishment and the pace of progress with skeptical reflections.
A long dispatch lists global events including President Harrison's duck hunt, fires in Pittsburgh, plans for the World's Fair, Franco-British naval funding, and Behring Sea talks. It covers elections, disasters, criminal cases, and imperial actions across the United States, Europe, and Africa with multiple named figures and places.
The steamer City of Peking reports that about 500 criminals including pirates were beheaded in Kwantung province near the Chinese New Year. Choho on the Black River in Tonkin was raided by 500 rebels burning property and killing a French resident. Pirates who robbed the British steamer Namoa of 20090 dollars and killed crewmen have been arrested. Japanese whalers offend against law by flying Japanese flags. The Japanese Parliament funds IKXoch remedy studies. A Siamese paper cites a Champon cyclone destroying 60 houses. Bangkok fire losses reach 1.2 million dollars with nine burned. The Chi Kung bank of Shanghai fails with 400000 taels liabilities. its Hong Kong branch manager’s son involved in a sharpers’ scheme costing another large loss.
The Farmers' Alliance found the Kansas Legislature disappointing as reforms they backed failed in the Senate. Bills to cut railway fares, set minimum freight rates, tax mortgages and bonds, waive appraisals, and cap officer salaries did not pass. Passed laws include funding for the Kansas exhibit at the World's Fair, extended foreclosure execution limits, experimental insect control, and prohibiting alien land ownership with potential confiscation. State appropriations for institutions and departments will be trimmed, aiming to save about $200,000. Three investigations proceed costing roughly $150,000: Coffeyville dynamite plot, state house commissioners acts, and Judge Botkin impeachment inquiry.
The St Paul tidal observer reports a coastal tidal house swept away by a heavy northwest gale on February 11 and recovered from the opposite shore. Five men who pursued it could not return due to severe weather. three were badly frozen. He notes an estimated twenty mile distance of a possibly unknown volcano, visible intermittently with emissions like smoke or steam, awaiting spring permission to visit.
A synagogue gable collapse in Menzel Westphalia during heavy weather buried several children. some bodies recovered, with search ongoing and hopes to find survivors. The incident follows warnings of unsafe gables long neglected.
Arrangements are complete for the Mount Carmel Company to build the large air ship in Chicago. The exposition building is leased for three months with the south half closed to host the project. Aluminum from Pittsburg has been ordered. Inventor Pennington says the ship will be ready for a trial flight to New York within sixty days, followed by a Lake Front test to prove the invention’s value and practicality.
At Monte Carlo last week three English and Italian gamblers faced ruin at the gaming tables. An Englishman won £7000 a week ago but then lost that sum and £15,000 more in a single spree. An English earl won 165,000 francs on Monday, but has since lost that along with several thousand francs. An Italian duke, though uncertain if he won, is known to have lost about 1,000,000 francs in recent weeks at croupiers.
Leonard Jerome of New York was buried Friday in Kensal Green cemetery London. The body arrived from Brighton to Grosvenor chapel South Audley for services by Rev Foster Eliott. Attending were Mrs Jerome Lord and Lady Randolph Chevehill Mr and Mrs Moreton Frewen United States minister Hon Robert T Lincoln United States consul general Hon John C New German ambassador Count Von Hansfeldt Wildenburg and about thirty friends.
John Lee a Chicago Chinaman was attacked by a crowd of boys and a drunken man on Desplaines Street. He fought back and was struck by a wooden billet, a boy dropped a heavy stone, a patrol wagon arrived to disperse the crowd, Lee's skull was fractured and his recovery doubtful.
The troop ship Orontes carrying the Leicestershire regiment arrived from Bermuda amid bad weather and field ice near Nova Scotia. An immense tidal wave swept the decks injuring seamen and about twenty five soldiers with broken arms bruises and other injuries. The Orontes will sail Monday for the West Indies and Cape of Good Hope.
Before party conventions, Franklin Mac Veagh received nomination from the Citizens committee while Thomas J. Morgan was chosen by the Socialists. The Socialists also named candidates for other city roles, and independents may join the race. The World’s Fair inaugural ceremonies add urgency to the contest.
A statement of appropriations from the Fifty-first Congress lists regular bills including deficiencies and miscellaneous appropriations at 361.7 million for the first session and 405 million for the second, with permanent appropriations around 101 million for the first session and 122 million for 1892, totaling about 989.7 million. Other estimates exceed a billion dollars.
The Columbian Exposition bureau plans a Venetian village at the end of the pier replacing a casino. Reproductions of Venice houses will sit by the lake, housing restaurants and resorts. Small steamers and gondola boats will ferry visitors through recreated canals, gondoliers in holiday attire will crew them, and the village will be illuminated at night.
Illinois ends a lengthy Senate contest as General John M. Palmer wins the seat with Democrats at 101 votes, Republicans 100, and the Farmers Mutual Benefit Association 8 holding balance. Dr Moore explains his vote shift and says he acted to reflect his supporters and the will of the people. Public bells ring, factories whistle, and flags fly after Springfield’s dual Senate claim.
A cyclone passed Pickens last Saturday causing widespread destruction in Madison County and near Newport where four African Americans died. Floodwaters rose in the Big Black River, washing out bridges and isolating Enterprise as the town floods through streets and stores. Traffic may not resume for days.
The river fell slightly Tuesday but is expected to rise at least a foot as water from the upper river nears the city. Low-lying areas flood, 1,000 houses vacated, and families move to higher ground or seek shelter with friends. Creeks are out of banks, fences, bridges washed away, and wheat fields inundated in surrounding districts.
In the Arkansas House, Tuesday afternoon excitement rose as Mr. Mitchell of Boone and Mr. H. C. Head of Little River clashed during a debate on constitutional convention. A brawl ensued with ink and tobacco juice sprayed. no injuries, but arrests threatened. Both apologized and the House recessed pending action.
A summary of legislative proceedings detailing bills and committee actions. Topics include immigration regulation, county treasurer terms, and land lien rules. It records in committee- and floor-vote form the progress on various measures plus executive sessions and visits.
In a lengthy session the board of assessors and committee of the whole debated resolutions to authorize city purchases and to accept direct tax provisions. A railroad bill faced strict scrutiny with an anti pooling clause and amendments rejected. Several finance and legal bills moved forward or were postponed, including provisions on county ditches, convict labor, and state treasury duties.
Heavy snows persist in the mountains as Colorado notes tax disputes with Otero County, the ex senator Chile's remains in St Louis, and a Pueblo recovery. Thieves haul lumber from a Rocky Ford house. Crested Butte strikes ease with 65 workers back, Denver reports only one of sixty five homicides led to an execution. A new Denver police board orders Sunday closures. Aspen grants mining leases at $10,000. Bull Domingo mine near Silver Cliff sees a near flood in old workings. Denver's Geo Lipe, linked to forged deeds in 1889, arrested in Guthrie and to be sent to Chicago for trial. Midland Ivanhoe eastbound passengers endure heavy snow and track clearing. A hunter recalls a pack of wolves and coyotes. Calf thieves operate in the region, with ranchers urged to report price motives.
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