The state herald., 1890-01-17
BY TELEGRAPH.

l s-eN ~ fNfSe e>ss-.~ -
yoke, Mass.
The three-year-old King Of Spain is
seriously Ill.
Calvin S. Brlce has been elected
Senator from Ohio
/ James p. Campbell was inaugurated
Governor Of Ohio last Monday.
A Fort Worth woman gave birth to
four healthy girl babies last week.
Tho City Hall Of Lexington, Maine,
was burned on the 7th. Loss, 5000.
Charlotte Fisk Bates, the well-known
authoress, died Sunday night at NewYork
Judge Kelley, Of Pennsylvania, bot
ter known Us Pig Iron Kelley, died on the
| sth.
The project OF uniting St. Paul
and Minneapolis into one city is again be-
ing agitated.
A tornado demolished flfty-four
houses and killed eleven people Mt Clinton,
Ky, last week.
A number OF bills have been intro
duced into Congress tending to cripple tho
Louisiana lottery.
Tho office Of the Wells-Fargo Ex-
press Company at Dallas, Texas, was
robbed of sil 900 tho other day.
Cuba's total sugar crop for 1889
was 41s,344 tons, that of 1855, ,Gi9, ,4os tons;
local consumption in 1850, $4,000 tons.
New York's "lOOn consumed 800
quarts of champagne at its perfectly ex-
quisite New Years ball the other night
There were 25O deaths in New York
City last Wednesday. or these i+7 were
TO u greater Of less extent due to influenza.
The building in which the Western
Union Telegraph Compay is located at st.
Louis was destroyed by fire few days
ago.
John II. Shoenberser's will be-
queaths nearly sl,OOO,OOO TO establish n
hospita! in Pittsburg as memorial to his
wife.
Tho Peters pence OF 1889 yielded to
the Pope $4,000 less than lsss. The lcga-
cies belueathcd to the Pope during the
year amount to ss0O,0O0.
General Crook has made u strong
plea for the Apache Indians held as pris-
oners in Alabama. He describes their
condition as most pitiful.
The monarch distillery at Peoria.
Illinois, said to be the largest in the world,
burned last Sunday, together with 100000
gallons Of untaxed spirits.
President Harrison has committed
the sentence Of Dave Lemon, who was TO
have been hanged Wednesday rext at
Wichita, Kan, 10 Imprisonment for life.
Doctor Dollingcr, head OF the "old
Catholic movement in Southern Ger
many, and one of the famous opponents Of
tho doctrine OF Papal infallibility, is dead.
Ono OF tho Vandcrbilts of New York
has purchased from the Earl OF Dudley the
famous picture "1hc Grand Canal OF Ven
icen The price paid for the painting was
10000.
A band OF Mexican horse-thievcs
ambushcd a camping party consisting of
three men, two women and four children
near chihuahua, Saturday, and shot and
killed two of the men,
The Rev. Francis Byra chaplain of
the House OF Commons and one of the
chaplains of Queen Victoria, is reported
TO have run away TO avoid the consequences
Of debts resulting from turf betting.
The British bark Monarch. with ten
tons Of dynamite on board. caught fire In
mid ocean. The crew escaped and wit
messed the terrible explosion that followed
from distance. They were picked up
later.
Throop Avenue Presbyterian Church
In Brooklyn was wrecked Thursday morn
ing by u high wind. The debris lodged on
the roof of small house adjoining, killing
or inirring all OF It's inmates, seven In
number. Five were killed outright.
During the year 1889 the total num-
bcr OF immigrants landed ut Castle Gar
den was 3i5, 2ss, or 6s,ai6 less than were
received during tho previous year. II is
asserted that the later comcrs were far su-
pcrlor to the hordcs OF ignorant aud pov-
crty stricken creatures who reached these
shores In lSss.
The Prohibition party Of Missouri
has issued u call FOR convention To be
held ut Scdalia, Mo. Feb. 3 10 . next. The
Knights OF Labor, the Farmers Alliance,
and the Union Labor party arc invited To
be present and assist in the formation OF u
platform. The object OF the meeting is 10
form n fusion party, II possible, out OF
these minority elements.
A telegram has been received at
the Lick observatory, Mount Hamilton.
from Professor $. W. Burnham, chief OF
the eclipse expedition which was sent from
the Lick observatory to South Africa,
which announced that his observation of
the eclipse OF the sun on December - was
entirely successful. The expedition is
homeward bound.
w. l.. Eglcson. the Topeka man
who is cndcavoring 10 induce the negroes
| OF South Carolina to cmgrnic TO Oklahoma,
has already succeeded In settling 800 nc
rroes there, They arc mostly from Tokclsa
and have left during the last six months.
They have established colony near King.
| fisher, and are opening farms and building
houses. Egleson seems ~ be acting upon
f, his own responsibility.
Mrs. Caroline j. Cammcrcr. aged
~ ycurs, has brought suit TO recover si0o,-
900 O0damages from Clemens Muller,a retired
real estate dealer ofNcw York, for breach
Of promise. Muller is ~ years old and
Miss Cammcrcr claims he proposed and
was accepted while he had wifc In an In.
sane asylum. iic then proposed mock
marriage which she refused; then he do