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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1892
Page
2
The piece urges clear thinking and honesty, urges learning and directness, and extols memory built on sharp impressions and daily duties. It links personal conduct to enduring memory, stressing marriage, family, and private virtue as foundations of public leadership and timeless worth.
A powerful rotary cyclone struck Mission Township in Shawnee County on the night of the 2nd, ripping houses apart, uprooting trees, and ruining crops. Fatalities included James Mitchell, an unknown woman, Mrs. Hurd, James Plaxton, Swan Anderson, and Gabe Halderman, with numerous others injured. the Pleasant Valley school was demolished while children sheltered there survived with injuries.
The first business session of the Methodist Conference met in Boyd's opera house with 500 delegates and many visitors. Elections, seating disputes between lay and ministerial members, and a push for reform were discussed. The commission urged better discipline arrangement and a May conference date, noting substantial church growth and voting on admission of women to the General Conference.
The Wyoming Republican convention met in Cheyenne on the fourth and elected delegates to Minneapolis including Frank Mandell, Potter, Dinwiddie, Foote, Wagener, and Downey with alternates Hoyt, Keayes, Mrs. Jenkins, and Mrs. Carleton. Resolutions endorsed Harrison and urged prosecuting law breakers in Johnson County. The Behring Sea Fleet enforces new sealing prohibitions with stricter seizure rules. An African M E Conference opened in Philadelphia with broad representation. A town teacher Miss McDonald was abducted and forced to marry her lover W. W. Bain.
An Iowa man buys Golden lots while a Glenwood Springs hotel project advances with a 200000 dollar plan. Montrose forms a silver club of 200. a new national bank opens at Raton New Mexico. Coal miners in Golden win wage advances after strikes. Fremont voters rename their town Cripple Creek. The Gold Bug newspaper starts in Jimtown Boulder county. Printing contracts awarded to Denver Times. Denver arrests Henderson Russell the escaped Mississippi murderer. A 13 year old robs a ranch near Kit Carson. jailed. Choir dress dispute sparks Denver clash with a clergyman. Raton builds water works. summer supply set. Telegraphic briefs include deaths, fires, drownings, a New York bank death, and other incidents across the era.
May Day passed quietly in London with 60 000 to 75 000 marchers and 150 000 spectators, no disturbances, and several eight hour day speeches. Paris, Copenhagen, Rome, Madrid, Berlin, and Vienna saw calm or limited activity, while Liege faced isolated violence as a militia guard was attacked and bombs exploded.
The Inter-West Cattlemen's Congress met in Ogden starting on the 20th with nearly 200 delegates. Officers elected for the permanent organization include Orlando North as president and Wm. Crawford, J. O. Shirley, W. E. Skinner, and J. H. Waite as vice presidents, with R. L. Armstrong as secretary and A. B. Patton as treasurer. The interstate commerce law was discussed but no decisive action taken. Large safemakers' merger announced as Herring Hall Marvin Company. capitalization 3.3 million, stock split 8 percent preferred and common. Mine collapse in San Pedro New Mexico buries machinery. ten days of worker fear precede two near misses and several ore pillars removed.
About 100 Methodist laymen in Omaha for the general conference urged that 150 lay delegates sit separately from 350 ministerial delegates. A 74 to 24 vote carried resolutions seeking equal representation and a chance to speak, with plans to agitate for more lay seats.
A giant bear and cub raided a dead cow near Goose Creek south of Wagon Wheel trap. Guinn and Dell McClelland watched by night then found the trap and pole disappeared, later seen carried by the bears toward Pacosa road. The tale ends with Scotland adopting the thistle as national emblem after a Danish invasion scare.
An Oil City Derrick report recounts a Clarion county resident telling of a ten foot albino black snake that hypnotized a farmer with its gaze. The farmer fatally chopped the serpent, found his own face reflected in the eye, and the creature was photographed and preserved in alcohol in town.
A joke about a gentleman-in-waiting, nicknamed Mr A, imitating the Queen prompts a royal test at Windsor or Balmoral. The queen challenges him to imitate again, catching him off guard and prompting a hearty, schoolgirl like laugh and a gentle admonition not to repeat the act.
A lengthy serialized report reprints a dramatic Albany Journal tale of Charles A. Quant of Galway, a locomotor ataxia patient once deemed incurable. The Express verified the case via hospital records and physician corroboration, discussing Dr Williams Pink Pills as the remedy and detailing Quant’s claimed recovery and time in hospitals, plus accompanying notes on the medicine’s availability and purported benefits.
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