Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-11

army fought duel with swords,
and enc, Manuel BIanco, will die.
Pbylloxera has appeared in the
French champagne districts. The
leading growers are alarmed.
The influenzt has again appeared
in Moscow. Five hundred persons
on an average, are daily prOstrated.
Six people were drowned 10 Dor
chester, Mass, Sunday afternoon
by the capsizing Of yacht.
The mayor Of Berne, Switzerland,
gave an official reception to the
del gates Of the international geo
graphical congress.
Sunday was the hottest day in
Chicago for many years, the ther
mometer registering 100. Several
cases Of sunstroke were reported,
two of them fatal.
Judge Ogden Huffman, of San
Francisco, died at Salt Lakes hos
pitaI Sunday, Of paralysis of the
heart. lie has been federal judge
for over forty years.
Mrs. Nellie Webb, an aged and
wealthy widow of Louisville, KY,
drowned herself in a bathtub. She
was victim of drink and had
been placed in a sanitarium.
Charles Nlemani, of Cincinnati,
Sunday, shot and killed his ther,
who was abusing his mother. The
parents had been divorced, but the
father continued to live with the
family.
During the progress Of a camp
meeting at Barnesville, Md, Sun
day, several cOlored men got into a
quarrel, in which Louis Brown was
killed and three others wounded.
Prince Bismarck, in conversation
with Herr Lurz, member Of the
reichstag, said: "You may tell
everyone / consider the reduction Of
the corn duty IA disaster for the
country"
William Fullerton, a young Amer
lean graduate of Harvard, replaces
NJ. de BlowItz a. the working head
in the Paris office Of the London
Times. Blowiiz will continue spec
ial contributions.
The statement il made on what
appears to be good authorities that
owing to the critical condition of af-
fairs in the East, England will add
ten war ships to her Mediterranean
fleet and hold the channel squadron
in readiness to reinforce the Medi
terranean feet at a moments notice.
Bayard Seville, the swindler ar
rested i'm San Francisco for buncoing
James g. Fair ou, of $500, operated
extensively in that section in June
and July under the name of John
Qnigley. He victimized a number
of people in Pasadena, Pomona and
Ontario, by means Of sight drafts on
+. j. Baldwin. Among his victims
is said to he the president Of the
Pasadena bank.
William Ecstland, an employe Of
the Pacific Pine Lumber company,
while passing through the yards at
the corner of Folsom and Stuart
street, San Francisco, Sunday morn
ing, discovered, between two piles
of lumber, tie dead body of a man
lying face downward over u stringer,
with his throat cut from ear to
ear. A blood-siained razor, tightly
clutched in the right hand, in
that the deceased had COM
mitted suicide. The body Is now
lying at the mUrsue awaiting identi-
ficatiOn.
Mrs. William Drager, of Ripor,
took three ounces cf
Paris green early Sundy morning.
Then she went TO All clubhouse and |
,ut herself in the stomach with a
'azor. She lived four hours. She
lad quarreed with her husband
ew days before.
William l.. Crossdale, the editor
If the Standard, and chairman of
he national committee OF the Single
FAX League, died Sunday afternoon
It Merriwold, Sullivan county, N.
I :, of peritonitis, after an illness of
light days.
Samuel Burman, of st. Louis,
topped at house Saturday night
where there was social gathering
Ind offered 20 fight any body pres.
mt. He then started in with a
whip to lash the crowd. They took
linn to lamp post and would have
hanged him but for the interfere
nee of the police.
From the Mill Creek Hills.