The state capital., 1891-07-04
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The tug was SO badly damaged that
she sank within few minutes. Three
of the crew, with the captain, were
rescued by the Peerless, but the cook
is believed to have been drowned
DURING fire in Hoboken IN. j.
tenement house, on the Goth, Mrs.
Keltz jumped from second-story win
dow and was caught, unhurt, in
blanket held by the fremen. She
frantically endeavored to re-enter the
house to save her baby and had to be
removed by the police. The child,
which was rescued by the fremen, was
fatally burned.
THE trial of 'Frenchy No. 1" for the
murder of Carrie Brown, in manner
suggesting the work of Jack the Rip
per-" was begun in New York on the
29th. A number of witnesses repeated
their testimony given before the coro-
ner's jury as to the prisoners visit to
the East River hotel, the murder, the
finding of blood stains on the prisoners
clothing, etc.
THE infant daughter of the duke and
duchess of Fife was christened at the
chapel royal, st. James palace, on the
2Hth, Queen Victoria acting as chief
sponsor.
IN free fight between lot of
drunken Hungarians and their more
quiet neighbors at Plymouth, Pa, on
the 28th, several shots were fired, and
| two men, Andrew Kamski and Stanis-
laus Sazchesko were fatally injured A
large number of the rioters received
serious wounds and bruises.
THE opposition of the Lords Day
Rest association and others of London
| to the proposed private visit of Emperor
William on Sunday, the 18th, to the
naval exhibition in London, has re-
suited in the, emperor deciding to post
pone that visit to some day during the
| week following.
| TwENTY-oNE sealed indictments have
been returned by the grand jury at
Rochester, n. Y. 1t is rumored that
| the clothing manufacturers concerned
in the recent lockout have been indicted
| for preventing the cutters from getting
work. The truth of the report can not
| be confirmed.
THE state department has received a
dispatch confirming the published re-
port announcing the death of Alexan-
| dria Clark, United States minister to
Liberia. His remains will probably be
brought to the United States for in
terment by the first steamer coming
this way.
THE stoppage OF the Welsh tin-plate
works has made the operatives angry.
| They contend that cessation of one
week per month would answer the
same purpose and avert distress. 1t
has been decided by the workers to
send sixty of their number to America
to ascertain the prospect for profitable
employment here. American agents
are there buying the latest improved
ma chinery and are offering more than
double the wages paid on that side of
| the ocean.
| THE case of Henry Fl. Yard, who is
charged with conspiring with ex-City
| Treasurer John Bardsley, of Philadel-
phia, to loan public money at interest,
which was to have been heard on the
Goth, was postponed until September.
AT Buffalo Valley, Tenn. ,on the Goth,
two witnesses in murder trial, named
Jim Mitchell and Oscar Plunkett be-
came involved in a quarrel in the court
room. They drew revolvers and began
firing at each other and kept it up un-
til both had been mortally wounded.
VICE-PREsIDENT MORTON has secured
the camp owned by Arson Phelps
Stokes, on an island in upper ST. Regis
lake, in the Adirondacks. The camp
ing party will comprise the vice-presi-
dent, his private secretary, r. S. Hill
ton, his two eldest daughters and their
governess, and they will be joined soon
after their arrival by Miss Rachel Sher-
man, daughter of Gen. Sherman.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY NETTLETON
has decided that the two japanese men
imported by Mr.. Wolff, of Chicago, to
propel two Japanese vehicles known as
iinrikishas, his intention being to place
them in the public parks of Chicago for
the purpose of hauling children free OF
charge, must be returned to Japan.
AT meeting of a number Of promi-
nent Irishmen in Philadelphia a resolu-
ton was unanimously adopted to af-
filiate with the Irish Federation of
America, which was organized in New
York few weeks ago, and cut off con-
nection with the Irish National league.
Parnell was repudiated.
| A CLEARLY-DEFINED case of hydro,
phobia was that OF Reuben Drew, a
prominent farmer, aged 76, who died in
convulsions at his home eight miles
west of Fort Wayne, Ind, on the 29th,
| after an awful torture. Six weeks be-
fore Mr.. Drew was bitten on the back
of the hand by a pet spaniel.
On the goth the census office issued e
bulletin on the schools for the blind in
the United States. 1t is shown thai
the total number of such pupils in 1885,
was 1881, while in 1880 the number was
2,041.
THE wife of an emigrant on his way
to Montana gave birth to twins on {
Kansas City train near Dubuque, Ia, OF
the goth. The conductor prepared ;
bed in the baggage car 'and made the
mother as comfortable as possible.
SIEGFRIED JAIN, son of Frederick
jain, founder of the German turner's
societies. was buried at Graceland Gem
etery, Chicago, on the 2Sth. The re
mains were followed to the tomb by 60'
Turner's in uniform. He was born il
1915. and for many years had been to
tally blind.
THE boiler of shifting engine No. 23'
on the Central railroad of New Jersey
exploded near Nesquehoning Junction
%1
Trip, of Mauch Chunk; Fireman j
Pope, of Linsford, and Brakemen Gal
lagher and Smith, of Mauch Chunk
were instantly killed.
ARCHBISHOP TACHE, who for two de