The state capital., 1891-05-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL has left
London for South Africa.
LATE advices from Chilli say that
European residents there think that the
insurgents will succeed in overthrow
ing the Balmaceda government.
COUNT Won MoLTKE, the renowned
German field marshal, died suddenly
at Berlin on the night of the Gath. He
was born in Mecklenburg, October 26,
1900
BOTH houses of the Ohio legislature
have agreed to the Australian ballot
bill.
THE Connecticut gubernatorial case
before the superior court of New Haven
he's been postponed to May s.
THERE was an unfounded rumor on
the oath that Secretary Blaine had been
assassinated by an Italian.
MISS PHGBE CoUZINs will take her
department.
THE British advancing on the Mani
puris have burned twelve villages occu-
pied bv the rebellious tribesmen. The
insurgents retired to the hills, where
they were shelled and many were killed
and wounded.
The death of Won Moltke caused
bitter reflections in French newspapers.
THE death of the Grand Duke Nichol-
as. uncle of the czar, is announced. He
was born in 1881.
IT is reported that John III. Reagan,
United States senator for Texas, has
resigned.
HOMER A. NELSON, ex-secretary of
state of New York, died at Poughkeep-
sic.
IT is announced that Henry Irving
will recite the farewell address at the
concert in May II next when Mr.. Sims
Reeves, the popular English tenor
singer, will make his last appearance
on the stage. Mr.. Reeves, who is nearly
70 years of age, will hereafter devote
himself to teaching music.
Col. ROBERT G. INGERsOLL is con-
fined to his bed seriously i'll with the
grippe.
MRS. BETTE EATON, sister of Presi-
dent Harrison was seriously injured by a
runaway on driving from church at
North Bend, near Cincinnati, on the
Goth Her niece, Miss Moore, was also
serious hurt.
Two students of the general theolog-
ical seminary of the Episcopal church,
New York, have joined the Roman
Catholic church. They are John B.
Werner, of Allentown, Pa, and r. Nor
rill Ludlow, of st. Louis
Ex-CoNGREssMAN MCKINLEY, who
has been quite i'll at Washington from
an acute attack of Indigestion, is much
better, and his physicians and friends
look for his speedy recovery.
Miss BARLEY, of New York, niece
of Pierre Lorillard, has been married
to Count De Pourtales. Minister Reid
was witness of the civil marriage at
Paris.
THE reason why President Hippolyte
does not wish to grant Mole st. Nicho'
las, Hayti, as a coaling station fol
United States vessels is the fear that
the transfer might lead Legitime and his
followers to rise up and capture the
government.
Col. MIGUEL LOPEZ, who, it is said
betrayed Maximilian to Juarez, is dead
in the City of Mexico
GILLIAN advices say that the insurg
ents have occupied Carrizal and Cal
dera and are advancing upon Copiapo
SECRETARY TRACY is on a pleasure
trip to Fortress Monroe.
CHARLES LUTHER WEBSTER, the pub
Usher, is dead at Fredonia, n. Y.
THE crown princess of Greece has
concluded to join the Greek church
THIRTY-FoUR prominent citizens OF
Waco, Tex, have been indicted for al
legged municipal election frauds
S. d. MILLER, son of the attorney
general, has been appointed to the posi-
ton lately vacated by Mr.. Tolman
chief of the division of acquisitions ano
accounts Of the war department.
A TREATY has been arranged be-
tween Salvador and Honduras
THE birthday of Gen. Grant was cele
brated on the 27th by turning the SOC
for his monument at Riverview park
New York.
THE O'Gorman Mahon, the renowned
Irish member of parliament, is lying
dangerously i'll in London.
Ex-KING. TAMAsEsE, of Samoa, is
dead. He suffered from Bright's dis
ease of the kidneys.
THE Chinese government on the 26tf
notified the state department Of its un-
willingness to receive ex-senator Blair
as United States minister.
STEPHEN B. ELKINs is authority for a
statement that Mr.. Blaine will not be 6
candidate for the republican nomina
ton for the presidency.
Miss PHOEBE w. CoUZINs has applied
to the circuit court at Chicago to pre-
vent her removal as secretary of the
ladies' board of the worlds fair.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE London stock exchange was de-
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