The state capital., 1891-10-03
NEWS AND NOTES,
a Summary Of Important Events
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

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THE Gaiety theater in Liverpool was
burned on the morning of the 25th.
REV. DR.. TUPPER, of Atlanta, Ga.
formerly of Leavenworth, Kas.) and
his wife have become reconciled and
all is peace again. The scandalous
Stories which came near disrupting the
reverend doctors family and destroying
his usefulness in the ministry, proved
to have been the concoctions of design
ing servants intent upon blackmail.
REV. SAMUEL DICKINSON BURCHARD,
who uttered the words, Rum, Roman
ism and Rebellion" T" which cut such a
prominent figure in the last week of the
BlaineCleveland presidential campaign
in 1881, died at Saratoga, n. Y, on the
25th, of acute peritonitis.
PETER JOHNSON, of Dassel, Mimi,
thinks he has discovered the long-lost
art of tempering copper. He and Nile
Nelson, machinist, want to organize
a company and start a factory in Min
neapolis. The new process will make
copper as hard as steel.
MRS. FLORENCE MAVERICKS solicitor
in London has been notified that the
British home office will decline to re-
open the case of the unfortunate woman
in any form.
| Hon. CARL SCHURZ has resigned tn e
| presidency of the hamburg American
Packet Co. 1t is said that his resignation
was due to the fact that he had learned
on the arrival Of the German directors
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complete change in the officers of the
company in New York city.
THE porte denies that the Turkish
| governor and other Turkish officers
have fed from Sana, the capital Of
Yemen, or that the insurgents have
captured Iodeida, on the Red sea. The
reported massacre of Christians in Ar
menia by Kurds is also denied.
THE sultan of Zanzibar, after con-
sulting with the British, has decided to
prepare for himself fixed civil list,
and to entirely reconstruct his admins
tration by appointing responsible min
| listers for the different branches of the
public service.
| Gov. PATTIsoN of Pennsylvania has
issued proclamation calling an extra
[ session of the state senate for the pur-
pose of investigating the auditor and
| state treasurer.
| ADvICEs of the 27th from the various
parts Of the state Of Minnesota indicate
that the very general rainfall has
quenched nearly all the forest fires.
BUCKLEY, the San Francisco poll
tician, who is now wanted by the po-
| lice of that city on an Indictment by
the grand jury, is in Canada.
II is officially stated that but 600
buildings remain standing in Consue-
gra, Spain, out of 2, 100 that stood there
before the flood.
Ex-STATE TREASURER VIM. II. KEN
BILE, of Philadelphia, died suddenly, on
the 27th, of heart failure.
JOHN S. SINCLAIR, of Lacota, Nelson
county, n. D., who four years ago
buried himself in the northwestern
wilds and crt himself off from COM
munication with his kindred in Scot
land, by an altogether unexpected chain
of circumstances finds himself elevated
to the British peerage as earl of Cath
ness. He has been Lord Berriedale for
a year and didn't know it,
ADvICEs from Chill indicate that the
provisional government is making itself
conspicuous by annoying citizens of the
United States in various ways. To such
an extent has it been carried that Min
lister Egan not only entered an emphatic
protest, but has referred the matter to
the authorities at Washington.
EDGE, the bicyclist, has broken the
bicycle record, by riding from London
to Edinburgh, 397 miles, in 80 hours and
Az minutes.
The poet laureate Tennyson has just
completed the first work which he has
ever written especially for the stage.
SIXTEEN fire alarms in st. Louis, on
the 27th, made an almost unparalleled
record, and the firemen saw midnight
come almost worn out. Property to
the value of $3.50, 900 was consumed, in
cluding Plants Touring mill and the
Mansur-Tebbits agricultural implement
warehouse, an immense new building
which had been occupied only six
weeks,
A HURRICANE swept through northern
Minnesota during the early morning
hours of the 27th, striking the Red lake
and Lerch lake.lumber regions, spending
it's force near the Manitoba line. 1t is es-
timated that 100000, 900 feet of timber
was destroyed. Whether there were
any fatalities could not be learned.
THE earthquake shocks of the night
pretty generally throughout Missouri
and Illinois and also in portions of In-
diana and Kentucky. In most places
they were accompanied by very dis
tinct rumbling, and nerves and build
ings were about equally shaken.
SAMUEL W. THORNTON and Eva jew
ell, who say they floated off from Co
ney Island and were picked up by
vessel. were members Of Mount Olivet
church in Brooklyn. The pastor, Rev.
David Junoe, and a committee Of
trustees have decided to investigate the
circumstances attending the remarka-
BILE trip of the couple.
THE arrest of Baron Nordenskjold
for removing relics of the ancient cliff
dwellers from the Manicos canyon of
the Ute reservation in Colorado is
likely to assume international inn
portance, the state department having
called on Mayor Holland of Durango,
Col, for the particulars of the case.
/ REV. HOWARD MACQUEARY has been
formally deposed from the Episcopal
ministry by Bishop Leonard.
GEO. w. JOHNSON and his son, who
lived near Beaver Creek, n. d., were
burned to death in the great Emmons
county prairie fires. They had gone to
put head fire out, when the huge
flames, leaping high as the houses
tops, swept over them, leaving them
hnrnad and disfirnred cnrnSeS