The state capital., 1891-09-05

LIE DOm1nlOn kline dSSocidIloH
matches opened at Ottawa, Ont, on
the 31st. In addition to those offered
by the association the government
gives $4,000 in prizes.
The reciprocity treaty between San
Domingo and the United States took
effect on the 1st, and is said to be one of
the most favorable yet made. The
treaty removes entirely for this coun-
try the heavy duties heretofore imposed
on more than 3S per cent. of the export
trade of the United States with San
Domingo; it reduces by 25 per cent. the
duties on 2S per cent. of the trade, and
hereafter we shall have the decided ad-
vantage over competing countries
THE exhibition trial of the engines of
6, ,64S-ton armored cruiser Maine was
given on the East river, New York, on
the 3lst. Secretary Tracy and Chief
Engineers Melville, Baker and Kaffer,
of the navy department, were present.
The engines of the Maine are the larg-
est of their kind ever built in this coun-
trv. The trial was eminently success
full.
ANOTHER deep cut is to be made in
the salaries Of the Worlds fair officials
in order to keep the expenditures within
the appropriation. President Palmer
will surrender his salary of $4,000;
James A. Mckenzie, vice-chairman of
the executive committee, will be denied
salary of equal amount, and George
Mills chief clerk to director-General
Davis will have to forego a salary OF
So. OOO Retrenchment will also be made
in other directions.
The failure is announced of three OF
the largest summer hotels at Atlantic
City, N. J., the United States, Congress
Hall and Cambridge. The backward
season is supposed to have been the
cause of the failures.
A LANDSLIDE which is settling
across the Lienzer gorge in the valley
of the brave in Austria, is forming a
great lake, which threatens to divert
the course of the river and do incalcul-
able damage.
ALL the hospitals in Valparaiso are
full of wounded soldiers, and private
houses are being used temporarily. 1t
is estimated that there are 1000
wounded men now in that city.
Miss ELIZABETH HANEY, a young
woman of Washington 'city, committed
suicide, on the 1st, by jumping into the
Patomac river while suffering from de-
lirium brought on by illness.
THE monthly debt statement, issued
from the treasury department on the
1st, shows reduction in the debt dur
ing the month of August amounting to
S., 5S1, S95.
A BILL, which will undoubtedly pass,
has been introduced in the Georgia
legislature pensioning all INDECENT con-
| federates to the amount of 500 per
year.
CORONER HANLEY Of New York and
his deputies began the inquest on the
victims of the Park place disaster on
| the 1st
THE small steam barge jerks, loaded
with stone for Lake Erie ports, was
run into by the steam barge e. w.
Morley, near Ballard's reef, Detroit
river, on the 1st, and sent to the bot
tom. The wife of the captain Of the
jerks and the engineer and fireman
were killed in the collision.
THE property of the Balmacedists
will be confscated to pay off the paper
issue of the late Chilian dictator The
banks have been temporarily closed for
the inspection of their books in order
to ascertain the amounts held to the
credit of Balmaceda and his satellites
| A PASSENGER train was derailed at
| Swingless station, Cal, on the 1st, by
the spreading of the rails. The engine
and four cars were wrecked, and Postal
Clerk Quinby was killed and several
others were severely injured.
THE ninth international congress OF
orientalists was opened in London, or
the 1st, by Dr. Taylor, of st. Johns
college, Cam bridge. Owing to illness
the marquis of Dufferin, to whom the
duty had been assigned, was unable tc
be present.
The Denver & Rio Grande expires:
train, No. 4, bound from Salt Lake
City to Denver, was held up by seven
masked men near Texas Creek, Col, at
| o'clock a. IN. of the 1st, and the con-
tents of the safe-about 5000 in all
taken. The engineer and fireman
were also robbed of their watches, but
the robbers did not molest the passen