Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-09-02
egNERAL NEWS NOTES.

Of embezzliDg $S24, was Monday
sentenced 20 one years impr'son-
ment Ia the state prison and fined
1924.
Chris Mcnamara, a gambler, shot
and killed Reese Fowler, proprietor
Of a gambling house, Monday, AZ
Chattanooga, Tenn, during a
quarrel over a woman. The muir
derer escaped.
A double murder was discovered
in Bloomfield, Conn, Monday,
when the bodies ofa German farmer
and his wife were found In "a we'll.
IL is Supposed they were killed by
Italian laborers employed in the
vicinity.
Charles O'Neii, from Oregon, a
teAuisler for the Red Cross Lumber
com pany, was killed Sunday al
Dunsmuir, Cal. A broken brake
caused the accident.
& lisp tch from Zanzibar says the
sultan has declared his dOminioDs
10 be within the zone of the Brussels
spirit act.
TIE socialists organ, Die Volks
wachi, at Berlin, has beeu seized
and the publication of the paper
in future prohibited on account OF
its having persisted in printing az
article violently attacking the en-
peror aud Chancellor Won Capriyi.
The editor is under arrest.
The cashier of the Bank of Eng.
land declares there is no truth what
ever in the rumor that the bank has
been robbed of a large sum of
money.
II is reported in Paris that Henry
T.. Abbey Is negotiating for the
charter Of the Matiposa, a fast
steamer, to convey Nine. Bernhardt
and company to America.
The new Chilian warship Presi-
cent Plato has coaled at Kiel and is
now ready for sea. Her commander
is waiting instructions from Chill
before leaving this port.
The story of the suicide Of Prince
Rudolph of Austria and his mistress,
Marie de Vetsera, is supplemented
by statement from former mem-
ber Of the Austrian court to the
effect that Marie was natural sis
ter Of the prince,
The London st. James Gazette
holds that the submission of the
porte 10 Russia's demands estab-
lislies u precedent which permits
Russian warships to use the passage
of the Dardaneles as they please,
while warships of other nations
must not enter those straits.
The authorizes at places which
the German emperor will pass en-
route to the Schwarnean festivities
haye been notified to prevent the
waving Of flags and throwing of
flowers, as II Is thought such demon
stration is likely TO frighten the
emperor's horses and endanger his
recently injured knee.
A dispatch from Winnipeg says
that special train carrying the
mails of the Canadian Pacific rail-
way steamship Empress of Japan
passed there Monday morning,
covering the distance from Vancou-
yer Ia two days. The mails left
Japan only eleven days before and
are expected to arrive in England
within twenty-one days. This great
ly beats all previous records.
The bottom has fallen out Of the
peach business this season. There
Is no end Of peaches In Delaware
and they are still coming into mar
ket. Housewives have put up"
peaches by the thousands of jars,
and the demand has nearly ceased.
The best peaches ever grown on the
peninsula have sold for 40 cents per
basket at retail. A few years ago
$lb0 WAS not an unusual price for
fruit. So far, this year IL Is es'i-
mated that the Delaware railroad
carried to market about 100000
baskets, aud the canners and dryers
have consumed much of the fruit.
The peaches shipped by water will
probably add 100000 baskets to the
number, and there are, perhaps,
1000, 900 baskets TO come, So many
causes have tended to force the bot
tom out OF the peach market that
hundreds OF baskets Of magnificent
fruit are being fed to the pigs.
A few days ago j. j, Dubrullle,
Frank Froman and Phil Baltimore,
of Albany were out hunting at
Upper Soda where Froman got q
shot at deer, hitting him In one of
his legs. The animal disappeared
Ia the bushes, but was soon after
heard TO make Its peculiar deathlike
groan. The men rushed Ia the di-
reclion, when they discovered the
deer Ia the clutches ofa large black
bear, aud had already been squeezed
10 death. They fired thwe or four
shots apiece ut the bear but, from
some cause, perhaps nervousness,
failed to biz him, and he disappeared
without leaving blood In his tracks,
aud was not seen again,