The state capital., 1891-08-22
NEWS And NOTES.
a Summary Of Important Events
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

MESSRS. BUTTERWORTH AND HANDY.
of the foreign committee of the Colum-
bian exposition, who had been in Aus
tria explaining the advantages of the
enterprise, went to Buda Pesth, on the
18th, to perform q similar work in Hun
gary. They will visit Roumania- Bull
garia and Servia, and, finally. Con-
stantinoplc, and expect to return to
London about September !.
A LARGE two-story building used as
a carriage factory in the village of New
Midway. Md. was burned on the l4th.
1t is believed that it was set on fire by
white caps, who objected to its being
rcmodeled into school building.
In January last Thomas B. Car
ruthers was murdered at Rat Portage,
Ont. On the 18th his widow was arrest
ed in Toronto charged with having muir
dered her husband.
THE funeral of James Russell Lowell
took place in Appleton chapel, Harvard
university, Boston, at noon of the 18th.
The services were of a simple charac-
ter There was no service at the house
or the grave. Internent was in the
lOb dit nOuub
JOSEPH FRANzRED, secretary of the
Camp Washington Building association
of Cincinnati, is accused Of misappro-
priating $4,000 by means of spurious
checks. An investigation is progress
ing.
A REPORT from Highstown, n. j., in
dicates that many of the Jewish cxiles
from Russia have been driven from
the old world only to be swindled in
the new by some dishonest manipula-
tors of the Baron Hirsch fund.
DAVID JACOBS and Mrs. Mary John
son, who were to have been hanged at
Chesterfield, s. c., on the 14th, for the
murder of the woman's husband, re-
ceived respite after the black caps
and nooses had been adjusted and
while awaiting the signal that would
have launched them into eternity.
THE national encampment of the Sons
of Veterans will convene at Mime
apolis, Mimi, August 25, and it promises
to be the largest and most enthusiastic
encampment ever held by that order
1t is estimated that fully 10000 mem
bcrs will be present.
THE remains of Editor George J.
Jones of the New York Times were in
TERED, on the 14th, after appropriate
ceremonies, in Woodlawn cemetery.
WHILE Harry Leathers was tearing
out an old fireplace in his home at
Mooresville, Ind, on the 14th, he found
thirty crisp SO bills that had been hid
den beneath the hearth by some former
occupant.
THE engagement is announced of Dr.
Paul Thorndyke, formerly of Milwau-
kee, but now of Boston, to Miss Rachel
Sherman, daughter of the late Gen. W.
7. Sherman. The young people met
while in Europe.
THE republican congressional COM
mittee of the second Tennessee district
m ct at Knoxville, on the 14th, and can
vassed the returns of the recent primary
election. The official figures are: Houlx,
Is, ,2S5; Woodruff, 6,O57; Houk's MAORI
ty, 9,22S-
THE miners of the Aberdare district
of South Wales, where extensive col
lieries and iron and tin works are situ-
ated, have gone on strike. About TO-.
900 men are out This action is taken
in spite of the lessened demand for coal
caused by the stoppage of many facto-
rieS
THE furniture factory of Stille &
Mudhe at Cincinnati was completely
destroyed by fire on the evening Of the
14th The loss will probably exceed
500, 900; insured.
THE cele bration of the seven hun
dredth anniversary of the founding of
the city of Berne, Switzerland, occurred
on the 18th. There were Il number of
American delegates in the historical
procession. Elaborate fetes were held.
WALLACE WILLIAMS house in Severn
county, Ga, was struck by lightning
on the 18th. Three sons of Williams !,
all preachers. were in the house at the
time. One was killed, another is ia
tally and the third badly injured.
JNo. B. ToLLMAN, the oldest printer
in Lynn, Mass, died. on the 18th, aged
S4. The "Tollman fund, to be used
for the suppression of illegal liquor
selling in Lynn" had given him wide
reputation.
THE estate of Lord Lurgan, situated
in counties Armagh and Down. Ulster,
has been sold under the provisions of
the Irish land-purchasc act. The 500
tenants agree to pay e235, 900 for the
property.
THE services of 600 clerks in the cen
sus office were dispensed with on the
18th. The night work was also discon-
tinued.
pope approves the exhibition Of the
holy coat as laudable and opportune,
and promises indulgences to pilgrims.
AUSTRIAN grain exporters anticipate
large profits, owing to the rise in the
price of cereals and to the abundance
of the Balkan harvest for both Aus
trian consumption and expectation.
JUDGE NELSON, i'll the United States
circuit court at Boston, on the 18th,
granted the United States until Decem-
Der in which to introduce testimony
before the examiners in the suit of the
United States VS.. the American Bell
Telephone Co. This is the suit to re-
peal the patents granted to Alex. Gra-
ham Bell for inventions on the tele-
phone, on the ground that he obtained
them by fraud.
THE steamer City of Washington,
which arrived at New York, on the
nth, from Mexican ports and Havana,
reports that yellow fever was prevail.
ing to an alarming extent at Vera
Cruz, and though the health authori
ties we're striving to check the spread
of the disease, their efforts were appar-
emily unavailing.
THE strike of the Omaha (Neb.
smelters ended on the 18th, with the
understanding that the men begin work
on the old terms, and negotiate fol
wages on the basis of the eight-houl
day.
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