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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1892
Page
2
A reflective piece discusses fair property assessments based on current cash value, critique of political corruption, and the role of education in shaping society. It contrasts press coverage, distant news with local realities, and argues education as the key to moral and public life, urging uniform laws and informed citizens.
Fifty lawyers in Creede and a fatal runaway incident near Ogden. Canon City to Cripple Creek stage line active, Grand Junction church building beginning, and Akron jewel theft. Aspen miner wins $37,000 against the Deep Mining Co. Fracas at Lake City injures Harry English. feared dead. Vision for Mesa County ditch financing debated by eastern capitalists. Mesa County school book recommendations approved. Charley Miller to hang for murder. Wyoming Supreme Court upholds. New Mexico convicts allowed 20 percent from shop sales. Senator Gallinger to dedicate Colorado Springs printers home. Pueblo coal oil war lowers price to five cents. Fort unions bodies disinterment plan. Denver market prices for eggs, dairy, hay, grains, cattle, hogs, sheep. Body of Banker Dawson found near Laramie City. life insurance payout confirmed.
Chancellor Caprivi resigns and many brief items follow: musician Max Strakosh dies. New Orleans sewer plans. Zincore discovery near Delphi Indiana. Standard of Trust dissolves by court order. five foot coal vein near Marshalltown Iowa. White Caps terrorize Montgomery County PA. Mahoning coal mines shut. Michigan Prohibitionists oppose fusion with People's party. US courts in Boston to be investigated for illegal fees. New York Assembly passes World’s Fair bill with $350000. South Livermore Maine fatal fall from church spire. Monroe Iowa man commits suicide by hanging on doorknob. Indiana Australian ballot upheld unanimously. Senator Hill visits the South delivering speeches. Frederick Hangle of Philadelphia commits suicide by steam hammer. Wisconsin Supreme Court rules Assembly apportionment unconstitutional. New York Senate backs $300000 World’s Fair with Sunday closing amendment. Vincennes Indiana duel over a girl ends with gun. Sonsonate railroad derailment kills 13, wounds 31. West Publishing printers strike over apprentice limits. Immenhausen Germany fire destroys 100 houses leaving hundreds homeless.
John Traynor, fire boss at a coal mine near Coal Run, disappeared after entering the mine to test gas. His wife, distraught by his absence, later vanished. A mine survey party found her holding her dead husband’s head as she sang. She is now a raving maniac. The couple’s bodies were brought to the surface.
President Harrison urged Britain to renew the modus vivendi to halt last year’s seal slaughter until the treaty is ratified. Lord Salisbury sent a evasive note, while the President’s reply demanded renewal without irrelevant conditions and warned of enforcing laws with U.S. force if Britain refuses. The exchange caused a sensation in Congress.
Chancellor Caprivi offered his resignation at a cabinet meeting on the 18th after a prolonged clash over the education bill which he championed as Prussian premier. The Kaiser favored a material modification, prompting Caprivi to resign, with Johannes Miquel suggested as possible successor if accepted.
Three Cass county Missouri judges are jailed for contempt after they refused to levy funds to pay nearly two million dollars in railroad bonds. The bondholders sued, and the judges chose imprisonment over raising the levy. They receive lodging and liberty, may not leave the county without permission, and plan to stay jailed until their terms end next January unless the sentence is revoked. Judge Wray may seek a swap to release him. The judges expect a compromise to resolve the bond dispute.
More than two hundred delegates gathered in Las Vegas New Mexico for a three day irrigation convention. Gov Prince opened the meeting and E S Storer was elected president J H Christ secretary and a vice president from each county. The group backed ceding arid lands to the states and adopted resolutions urging Congress to admit New Mexico as a state with broad cross party support.
A benzine explosion at a druggist shop in Amsterdam on the 22nd caused a blaze that leveled four houses. Five people were killed and twenty injured, seven critically. The blast buried two boys and two girls and ignited a confectioner shop across the street. Early death toll rose as eight bodies were found and more remain missing. Herr Van Eupen and his wife and son died from injuries.
At Lime Spur near Rockwood two miners William McSweeney and Nick Grey tamped giant powder when an explosion occurred. McSweeney suffered a severe shoulder injury from a shattered stick, facial cuts, and powder burns. two fingers may require amputation. Grey had minor injuries. They were transported to Durango and Mercy hospital treated. Prohibitionists to Convene in Cincinnati on June 29.
Ferdinand Ward, once a famed but unfortunate financier linked to a Grant era Wall Street scheme, will leave Sing Sing on April 20 after six years eight months. He received a ten year sentence in 1885 from Judge Barrett. his commutation shaved 3.5 years. Ward is reportedly reforming and may not face further indictments.
An explosion at Laclede Fire Brick Works Cheltenham near St Louis crushed two boilers lifting one half onto the street and injuring several workers. Frank Seger the fireman survived after being pulled from the water. Four men died instantly and others were badly hurt as crowds gathered police closed the works.
The Banque de Chemin de Fer of Paris suspended on the 19th after directors faced fraud charges. One director committed suicide, two fled, and another was arrested as liabilities reached about 1,000,000,000 francs with assets near 5,000,000. The bank allegedly diverted funds from a 1591 national loan into industrial and mining ventures, risking collapse when subscriptions mature next July.
News from Bolivia reports the loss of national mall boss Angel Jose and crew in a gale off Bahia between Guayaquil Manabi and Esmeraldas. Indian uprisings grow, Gran Chaco Indians and Brazilians join, officers plot dictatorship, and rumors of a presidential closure of chambers. General Sierra of the revolutionaries reportedly killed himself in Curaren mountains.
In Crowley Louisiana a burglar Horace Steele was killed after entering the office of W W Dusen and Co with a false key. Three guards awaited the robbery and ex Sheriff C C Dusen fired when the intruder was spotted by street lamp reflections. The incident ended with the burglar fatally struck.
A serious riot reported in Orecho among peasants dependent on public relief over bread distribution. They besieged the burgomaster's house, smeared it with tar and set it ablaze, driving back the inmates. Farmers arrived to rescue the burgomaster and his family after a desperate struggle.
News notes from Denver recount Jacob Boehm's suicide amid a ruined firm solvent to $300,000 and alleged forgeries, tying to liquor excess and a failed Albuquerque street railway scheme. It contrasts with James McBride's life sentence for wife murder fueled by whiskey as Y M C A activities expand, and mentions railway office moves, a recovered sword for Captain Altman, and a Denver El Paso railroad venture with $5 million capital.
In Pierre South Dakota a saloon keeper Frank Burchard won a suit against the city for fines paid under prohibition enforcement. The city had collected monthly fines while aiding state authorities, leading to alleged extortion and threats. The judge awarded Burchard the full amount, signaling potential wider challenges to city practices. Also reported is the death of Daniel Potter near Waucoma Iowa aged 9, whose wife died Feb 11 leaving him to grieve, and a lengthy community tribute to the pioneer.
Governor Seay reportsCheyenne and Arapaho allotments will wrap up this week. Teams draft county seat plans and request immediate post offices and routes. After final allotments a short Washington conference follows, then lands open. Six new counties with over 8 million acres for settlers.
A house fire in Springfield Minnesota on the 20th killed two children. The oldest child was about 22. The father was severely scorched, likely fatally, and was pulled from the blaze by a 14 year old boy. One child escaped uninjured, waking, fleeing, then returning to drag his father out. The mother was away at the time. The father, Leahy, had just returned from the East.
The Woman's Tribune of Washington urges every woman nationwide to mail a card stating her preferred presidential candidate. The newspaper will publish weekly results for the duration, asking press and public to spread the call to maximize female participation.
Fragmented OCR text describes shorthand study and a tense dialogue about contagion and fear aboard a railcar. It mentions a woman, a concerned passenger, and a conductor, with fragments hinting at a drama of exposure and restraint during travel.
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