The state capital., 1891-09-05
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Eventa
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


the stevedores. Only union men are
to be employed at stated rate OF
wages. This settles the lumber shov-
ers' strike.
JUDGE JOHN I. DILLON, of New
York, was, on the 2oth, elected presi-
dent of the American Bar association
in session in Boston. A report was
adopted urging all the states to ap-
point committees on uniformity of state
laws.
THE preliminary examination of wit
nesses summoned to testify in regard
to the Park place disaster was begun
by Assistant District-Attorney Town
send, of New York on the 2Sth. The
testimony introduced in contradictory.
A YOUTH named Ballet convicted OF
number of murders under circum-
stances of exceptional atrocity, was
guillotined at Douai, France, on the
2sth. He jol1ed and laughed during
the march to the guillotine, refusing
the spiritual offices of the priests, and
shouted "Vive la Republique."
The treasury department received
information, on the 2Sth, that certain
bankers in New York were selling 4
percent. bonds and buying AIS with
view to having the latter continued at
per cent, and using them as a basis
of circulation of national bank notes.
AN international congress for dellb-
Grating the question of the treatment
Of criminals and the most effective
means of improving the condition OF
the criminal classes is in session In
Christiania, Norway.
THE town council of Moscow is con-
sidering a proposition to compel EN-
ployers to furnish their workmen with
rye bread at the normal, or about one
half the present price. Experienced
persons says that the rye ukase will
merely have the effect of enriching a
few dealers who are holding grain for
famine prices
THERE was cloud-burst in the
mountain near Sand Lake, N. Y, on
the 27th, and the damage resulting was
the heaviest, that ever visited that
vicinity from such a cause.
THE most audaciOus robbery on rec
ord is reported from Kingman, Kas. A
man passing himself off as John Mar
rick "a nonresident farmer) hired
threshers and had threshed and pock-
eted the proceeds of ten stacks of wheat,
rounding up 5000, with which he skipped.
Marrics has the straw for his seasons
| work.
IT is now thought that the terrible
| accident on the Western North Carolina
railroad was the work of two tramps
| who had been put off a train near the
| bridge where the wreck occurred, as
the nuts from the bolts of the loosened
| rail were found on rock near the
| bridge.
LARGE quantities of dynamite were
| recently exploded from the highest
| peak of the Socorro mountains in New
Mexico. and as a result the heaviest
rain Of the year fell. breaking the long
continued drought
GILLIAN news up to the 3Oth gave ac-
counts of the terrible excesses of a mob
in Santiago, the capital previous to its
surrender to the victorious congression-
alists. The residence of President Bal
maceda and those of some of his minis
ters and warmest adherents, together
with the government newspaper offices,
were fired and destroyed after being
plundered of their valuables, and reg,
ular reign of terror inaugurated. Bal
maceda fled, and is supposed to be max
ing his way to BuenOs Ayres.
ADvICEs received at Halifax, n. S.,
from the Pacific coast, report that the
! Nova Scotia sealer Carmelite had cap
tured 1,40O seals, and the Annie 5.
Moore had taken 500. The Umbria had
not been heard from, but it is believed
she made a good haul. These three
vessels are understood to have cap
tured 500. 900 worth of skins.
A sIx-DAY international bicycle race
| is to be held in the Madison Square
garden, New York city, beginning Oc'
tober 13 All the competitors will use
high, ordinary wheels, and every coun
try will be represented in the contest
A competitor in order to secure a share
Of the gate receipts will have to cover
at least /, 800 miles.
MRS. S. Ii. RUNNER, wife of we'll
known Binghamton N. " restau
ratcur, was burned to death in a small
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about a. m. on the 29th. She was il
the habit of reading in bed, and it il
supposed she upset the lamp and Sc
fire to the bed.
NAL II. G. SEMPLE, a prominent law
yer Of Montgomery, Ala, and Maj Il
Ii. Shorter, president of the Alabam;
railroad commission, have filed appli
cations for the vacancy in the inter
state commission caused by the dealt
of Commissioner Bragg.
WILLIAM O'BERMAN, while dragging
a pond in Raritan bay, NJ :, on the goth
hauled up an immense stingaree. Al
. ter he had thrown the fish into tn
boat it made leap and struck O'Ber
man on the leg. near the kee, nearl
serering it.
, THos DAvEAN, aged 25, n farmer VIII
, lived three miles out of Red Bank, n
j., was murdered by gang Of Italian
on the 2Sth.
PRESIDENT DIAz of Mexico has dt
} cided on firm economic policy, OWN
, to the stringency existing in foreig
+ money markets.
THE Rockingham house at Narragal
l sett Pier, Mass, was damaged $50, O0l
at 2 o'clock on the morning of the SIS
I by fire. The $50 sleeping guests wer
! all aroused and rescued, with los
! however, of personal property equal t
that on the building.
SEVEN persons were killed and man
! injured by an explosion of fire-damp
& the Malaga colliery, in Somersetshir
! England, at 8 a. m. of the 3lst. Tw
E persons, also, are missing.
i Two MORE bodies were taken fro
d the Park place New York city, ruin
! on the 31st, and the search, which ha
/ been abandoned as completed, w;
: vigorously renewed.
ORDER was not restored in Nalparais