The state capital., 1891-08-08
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary Of Important Events
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

with and sank the Norwegian schooner
LORNA in the British channel on the
31st Eight persons were drowned.
LIVERPOOL. suffered from a $3.50, 900
fire on the 31st. Many thousand bales
of cotton were burned.
THE reciprocity treaty between the
United States and San Domingo has
been signed. and will be proclaimed by
the president soon.
THE cruiser Presidente Errazuris,
which was built for the Balmaceda
government of Chilli, sailed from Lis
bon at a. m. on the 31st, but anchored
off the harbor. Her movements are
watched closely by the Portuguese au-
thorities and agents of other govern
ments.
BEFORE the news of the close season
reached the North American CONNER
cial Co. they had taken $500 sealskins.
SEVERE storm, on the 31st, did
much damage at Rockaway Beach, the
beach being badly washed out and
streets and sidewalks broken up by the
waves and the torrents of rain. Elec-
trio lights were put out by the break
AiS " polCS. ouIuC VI lIIC houClo HtA0
considerably damaged, and bathing
houses were washed away.
AN explosion in fireworks factory
in Corunna, Spain. on the 1st, killed
six persons and injured many others.
EMMA EAMEs, the American opera
singer, and the son of w. w. Story, the
sculptor, were married in London on
| the 31st
ADvIcEs from Ounalaska say that on
| July II the United States steamer Rush
picked up boat containing six men
| from the whaling bark Herman. They
| lost the ship in fog three days before,
and were nearly dead from hunger and
exposure when found.
JOHN CONWAY, the fireman who mur-
dered the boy found in bag floating
in the dock at Liverpool on May II, has
been sentenced to death.
THE British steamer Angelica, from
| Cardiff for the Mediterranean, re-
turned to port, on the 1st, on fire.
| Three of her crew were burned tC
death.
| HARRY OGDEN, a wealthy merchant
doing business in Franklin street, New
| York, and owning a cottage at Mon
mouth Beach, is missing. He was last
seen on July 25 on the steamer Mon.
mouth, during a heavy shower, as she
was nearing Sandy Hook. 1t is feared
he fell overheard.
| Mrs. JAMES Brown POTTER, who is
now in Paris, denies the report that she
has been divorced, and her father de-
nies that she is to marry Kyrle Bellew,
her leading man.
THE conviction of r. Nj. King, a lScv-
enth-Day Adventist, of Obion county
| Tenn, for blowing on Sunday, was up
held by Judge Hammond, of the United
States district court. King must either
pay fine or serve jail sentence.
1T has developed that Albert Moliter
who was murdered thirteen years age
in Presque Isle county, Mich, was ;
son of the king of Wurtemburg.
| AN officer of the United States navy
now in South America writes home
that no quarter is asked or given in the
| Chilian revolution.
Hon. BAYLEss. HANNA died on the
fst, at Charlottesville, Ind. He was
minister to the Argentine Republic
under Cleveland. He was also appoint
ed minister to Persia, but declined. He
was prominent in Indiana politics.
| Two INNOCENT persons were killed al
a ball in the Blue mountains of Colora
do, on the 1st, in disturbance caused
by an unlimited guest.
| AN ancient convent where Columbus
attended mass in Spain is to be repro
duced at the Chicago World fair.
| THIRTY striking furnace men marched
to the Omaha and Grant smelling
works in Omaha, Neb., on the night o1
the 2d, and induced all the men to quit
| The furnaces were abandoned at heavy
loss.
THE wool yield in Utah for the pres
ent year amounts to l1,0OJ, 300 pounds
gain of 2, 1000, 900 pounds over the yield
of 1890 1t sold at an average price OF
sixteen cents and seventeen cents pei
pound. 1t was the most prosperL us
year ever experienced by wool growers
| All has been marketed with the excep
tion of about 100000 pounds which is
being held for fancy prices.
| lie bICdSuIN 10 1iloIlhC
that the commercial company's steamer
st. Paul will sail from San Francisco
on the 10th, for the seal islands. Of
fetal mail for points in Behring sea
will be sent by this steamer.
SUPERINTENDENT OWEN, on the Sd
directed that thirteen Russian He
brews, who had arrived at Baltimore,
Md, and were detained as assisted
emigrants," be released from custody
bonds having been furnished that they
would not become public charges
LIEUT.. JOHN f. MEIGs, of the navy
has been placed on the retired list fol
color blindness.
A New YORK Advertiser reporter
turned guard at the Clinton On. Y.
state prison, and now tells a story o.
horrible barbarities practiced there by
the officials.
A STATEMENT prepared at the treas
ury department shows that the re-
ceipts from customs at the port of New
York for the seven months of the pres
ent calendar year have fallen off, as
compared with the corresponding
months of the calendar year 1890, S22,
444,37S. The receipts for July. 1891
were S11. .303, 169, while for July, 1890
they were ST., 173. 016, showing fall
ing off of nearly s6, 200, 900. Other ports
show as great decrease as New York
THE National Union of textile work:
opened their second annual session n
Fall River, Mass, on the Sd. Presi
dent Sullivan was in the chair. OvcI
800 delegates were present
THE trea sury department is informed
that the consulate of the Argentine re
public at Satille Bluff, Ga, has beer
abolished by order of the Argentine