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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1890
Page
2
A collage of items from The Register includes a Liverpool woman’s arrest for street robbery on ocean steamers, remarks on editors’ heat terms, feats of strength, and judges. It notes Justice Mitten’s long service dating to Lincoln, women’s labor anecdotes, and evolving social norms. It ends with reflections on manners, vanity, and railway travel habits.
The Colorado roundup notes a habeas corpus trial in Boulder for the Millington case, Rio Grande track completion to Grand Junction by Sept. 15, and a Pueblo shop fire causing about $18,000 loss. Other items include W. E. Pabor elected president of the State Editorial Association, Den ver conference of German Methodists, and the American Climatological Association meeting in Denver. Also reported are Colorado coal beds near Delta, a Telluride railroad workforce surge, the Western Union Beef Company restructuring, honey industry gains in Larimer County, fatal blasting in a Lexington tunnel, tax valuation near Pueblo rising by about seven million, and a Como fire that killed three.
London reformer J Henniker Heaton discusses the success of England's government telegraph system with Postmaster General Wanamaker. Heaton cites profits, reduced rates, new submarine cables, and telegraphic money orders while arguing against private ownership and urging further rate cuts to France. Also reports on New York arbitration into the Central railroad labor dispute and J J Hill funding a Catholic seminary in St Paul.
Dispatches narrate Mr. Best of Durango fending off a bear with superhuman strength, a fatal balloon fall at Wooprretp fair, a love triangle ending in a widow’s marriage to Clam, and Butler. Also notes a Hawaiian disturbance, naval orders, and farm mortgage foreclosures data from Topeka Capital.
In Guatemala City a daughter of General Martin Barrundia fired at United States Minister Mizner in his office aboard the Pacific Mail steamer Acapulco’s San Jose de Guatemala, missing when a law book stopped the bullet. She was arrested. President Barrillas offered protection, Mizner declined prosecution. moral blame speculated on Barrundia’s resistance to arrest.
A mine drift in Borg slave Galicia experienced a fire damp explosion caused by open lanterns. About 300 miners were in the drift when a cave in trapped eighty men who were all killed or suffocated. rescue efforts, poor ventilation, and few safety lamps were cited as factors.
The Louisville & Nashville cannonball train was held up at Pensacola Junction by robbers who entered the express car and forced the messenger Archie Johnson to open the safe. Engineer Bob Sizer was ordered to move the train to the Columbia River bridge before the robbers vanished into the woods. A posse pursued from Flomaton and Mobile.
Silver prices rise to 1.19 an ounce on the 29th. Clark resigns as Assistant Postmaster General. Government bonds bought in August total 19,847,200. City National Bank of Hastings Nebraska closes. New York Central strikers return to work. Blaine speaks at Waterville on reciprocity. A 17 year old girl is arrested for horse stealing in Dakota. Platt offered and declines Spanish mission due to business. Rubens picture imported to Baltimore with 4308 duty on a 15520 value. Four hundred twenty delegates form a single tax national body in New York. Washington navy yard crane built to lift 110 tons for gun handling. Stanleys to sail for New York around October. Mazner’s life threatened in Guatemala. possible exit. Inter-State Commerce suspends grain-rate order to Sept 15. Valparaiso strike riot with deaths and damage. Italian tourists struck by storm on Mount Cervia. injuries. Portuguese steamer foundered near Antigua. many crew saved. Rome reports socialistic conspiracy with bombs and dangerous correspondence. London Shipping Union formed to curb unions and defend shipping. Doland SD: Peter Petersen struck by lightning at Riggs farm straw stack. stack survives. Central America peace signed after San Salvador-Guatemala talk. armies ordered to peace footing. Ogden Utah opens free non-sectarian public schools under Gentile control. Mormon children enroll as schools expand.
A New York journal reports telephonic insanity rising among young female operators. Nine cases have been documented, all involving women. Doctors warn constant phone attention harms nervous individuals, recounting a nineteen year old patient who began shouting greetings at work.
The report surveys actions in Congress with notes on the tariff bill, finance committee amendments, and labor measures. It cites adjournment timing, wool duties, convict labor laws, and overseas trade reciprocity while naming figures such as Edmunds, Plumb, Morgan, Allison, Hoar, Blair, and Reed, plus references to Alabama, Oklahoma, and Kansas proceedings.
Washington reports Windom and the silver department will buy 4,500,000 ounces each since August 13 when the new silver bill took effect. The plan aims for about 54 ounces monthly, but officials decide to adhere to the law and adjust purchases to a roughly 20,000 ounce monthly quota with ten days left to complete. A separate dialogue segment appears unrelated.
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