Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-07-20
Mrs. Maybrick Wanted Life
Insurance.
TO PROTECT OUR FISHERMEN.
The Airship no Good, Complicated
Case, Spurgeon May Recover,
Several Bank Failures and AS
signments, State and Foreign
News, Etc.
rnE woRLnis cRops.


LONDON, July 20-The Times sum.
inarizes the harvest prospects Of the
world as follows: In Russia there
Is grave deficit. The peasantry
are starving and there is small hope
Of relief, IN India serious anxiety
Of famine pre-, alls over consider
able portion Of the country. Madras,
Rajputana and the Punjale are the
worst sufferers. There is a drought
IN BENGAL, and the need Of more
rain Is urgent. Bombay alone
promises "a good harvest The
American harvest will be good IN
quality and amount, but with the
failure OF the India aud Russia sup
plies IL is of the utmost importance
that the English crop be not short.
rhe prospect on the whole is good
In the chief wheat counties of Es
sex, Norfolk and Suffolk the crop Il
above the average, and in Other
counties up TO average. Harvest
will be late and prices high, conse
quenlly there is good outlook foI
English farmers to break the long
series Of disastrous years.
MRS. MAVERICK.
LONDON, July 20.-Judgment was
given today In the action brought
by Mrs. Maybrick against the In
surance association to recover SIC, 600
Insurance on her husbands life
The court decided that as she had
murdered her husband she could
not recover. Mas. Maybrick Is the
American woman who was convict
ed few years ago Of poisoning her
husband, a well-known Liverpool
cotton merchant, and who il now
serving life sentence.
THE AIRsHIP NO GOOD.
BURLINGTON, Ia, July 20.-Bur-
lington's airship company is no
more. The capitalists who had
gone into the so, 100000 incorporat-
ion with Mr.. Pennington became
convinced there was nothing in the
enterprise, and so dissolved the com
pany today. Pennington proposes
TO fly his new machine from Bur
lington to New York, carrying four
people In six hours. Nearly two
thirds of the required subscription
had been secured.
A COMPLICATED CASE.
KANSAS CITY, July 20.-A special
from Topeka says. G.. w. Mackay,
alliance judge of the Twenty-fourth
district, has taken another turn at
the supreme court. Yesterday he
placed warrant In the hands of the
coroner of Harper county for the ar
rest Of the sheriff, who had obeyed
the orders of the supreme court in
stead of his own. The bench and
the bar are awaiting anxlously the
next move Of the jurist who rep
resents the Observation-Disclosures
and laughs at the plutocrats in
Topeka, who thinks they can dictate
to him because they are called sur.
preme judges. Saturday morning
the attorney for Burr, the sheriff, re
celved from the supreme court the
necessary papers for having Mackay
arrested for contempt of court,
Judge Valentine Is the only judge In
the city. The case will become his
toric.
BANK CLOSES.
Fort WORTH, Texas, July 20
Merchants First National bank was
closed this morning by the bank eX-
aminer. Assets twelve hundred
thousand, liabilities tlye hundred
thousand. Trouble began six
months ago when rumors caused
heavy withdrawal of deposits eighty
live thousand being taken out 10y
foreign loan companies ON account
OF alien land laws. Bank is solvent,
depositors aud creditors are fully
protected.
ANOTHER BANK FAILURE.
KANSAS CRY, July 20.-Central
bank Kansas City, Kansas, failed
this morning due failure OF the
First National bank Thursday.
Liabilities $3.50, 900, assets $4,000,
ASSIGNED.
NEwRuRYPoRr Mass, July 20,-
The Bayley hat factory assigned
today, Liabilities, SlT5,0OO; assets,
less than S5o,O0oi creditors mostly
local.
ANOTHER ASSIGNMENT.
Hi0oANuM, Conn, July ~. The
Higganum Misunderstanding Co, mau-
uAolurers OF farm implements made
an assignment today TO ES.Gover
nor l.ounshury. state Senator
Clark is president aud Clinton r.
Davis, chairman Democratic state
committee, secretary aud treasuWr.
Assets and liabilities not yet learned.
A san MIGUEL Bi.Aze.
PAs0 RoBl.Es, Cal, July a0.-A
flre broke out in the Palace saloon
building, In San Miguel, owned by 4
ID, Speyer Of this place, which |
amounled loa total loss OF about $50, /
coo. The ilre was a very hot aud 1
quiek one, aud before much could \
lo done the who'e Fam er's Union
bl'~k, owned hy O. ur,er 4 Reed,
Nas consumed The company sus-
lalnsd loss of $1,000; Insured for
sSioo !, IL supposed 10 have been