Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-09-24

Gratis will arrive in Portland next
Thursday, and will leave on the
Saturday following.
NOT on THE BILLS.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 24-At the Lon
don theater, a second-clsss variety
house, Horace Cone in playing a
thrilling drama entitled Jack the
Ripper" the eliminating scene Of
which is the execution Of Jack.
Tuesday night Jack was hanged
in fine style, and big audience en-
joyed bis dance in tie air. But
with the dropping Of the curtain,
the enactment of another scene be-
gan. Mr.. Cone bad been cut down
and the black cap removed, but the
man was insensible and his face was
changing color. His wife, who was
standing By, tainted, and for a few
moments the greatest excitement
prevailed. Physicians summoned
applied restOratives, but it was
a half an hour before the man re-
gained consciousness. 81 believe
Pm all right now" he said today.
except that my throat is still sore
from the choking. 1t was all my
fault. L neglected to fasten one
portion of my harness tight enough,
and the result was that my throat
and chin had to bear all the weight.
FOOLISH WOMAN.
ST. LOUIS. Sept. 24-An inquest
was held yesterday on the body of
Mrs. Caroline d. Lindhorst, who
was floating in the river. Mrs
Lindhorst had saved enough money
TO buy small house, where she and
her son and daughter lived. Some
days ago she went to see a fortune
teller. Finding that Mrs Llndhorst
had money, the fortune-teller told
her to bring $1,000 to her to be in
vested in lottery tickets and she
would win enough To make her rich.
She mortgaged her house and secur
ed the money, which she took to the
mystic. She received instructions
to call September 20. When she
called she learned the fortuue-teller
had disappeared. "Thep," said Mrs.
Lindhorst, 81 will kill myself"
She walked away and WAS not seen
again until her body was found
in the river.
FOUR MEN KILLED.
NOGALEs, A. II. Sept. "a. -Four
men were killed Tuesday afternoon
by an accident on the Imuris Mines
Company's railroad, at Cerro BlancO
mines, forty miles south of here.
The railroad is a twenty-inch gauge,
and is twenty-nine miles IN length
running from Cerro Blanco station
on the Sonora railroad to the mines
up very steep grade. On the
down trip the engine was thrown
from the track, and four of the
seven men on board were killed, in
ending both the engineer and fire.
men, who were scalded to death.
The fifth man is not expected to
survive. Small rocks were placed
on the track by some one, supposed
to he n Iecently-discharged Mexican
employe, and caused the engine to
leave the track. The Mexican
authorities are investigating the
cause, and should the proof be con-
vincing, the suspected party will be
taken to the scene of the accident
and amid the debris shot to death.
COMRADES OF The BATTLEFIELD.
ST. Louis, Sept. PA general
order issued at the national head.
quarters, Comrades of the Battle
field, makes the following changes:
l.. j. Allen, resigned as lieutenant.
general, is isappointed as chief-of-staff,
with full power to act as and for the
general commander; j, II. Moore, re.
signed as quartermaster general and
is commissioned rs lieutenant-gen-
eral and given general supervision of
the order in California, Oregon,
Washington and Alaska. T.. Il.
Sewers resigned from the court of
inquiry and Is commissioned quar-
termastes-general. The following are
commissioned commanders of the
order for their respective states, with
the rank of major general: Magaus
TAFT, Los Gatos, Cal; II. S. Plum
mer, Puyallup, Wash. Major-gen-
erals commanding states will inn
mediately proceed to appoint re-
cruiting officers for portions of their
territory and report the same to the
generals headquarters for com
mission. The order is signed by |
George Il. Dalton, commanding.
THE HARVEST FESTIVAL.
MINNEAPoLIs, Sept. 24.-The
harvest festival was celebrated yes
.erday. The buildings are covered
with bunting, and many of them
showed sheaves of wheat bound up
n fantastic forms, Arches of wheat
'pan some of the streets, while
'thers are constructed of flour barrels
md sacks of grain. Religious ser.
'ices were held this morning in the
'arious churches. Ia the afternoon
here was procession of over 1000
ioats.
A STEAMER WRECKED.
PANAMA tVlu GnlVestonl Sent ol