The state capital., 1891-10-17

throughout the city Of Cork with wide
black borders, and bearing the words:
Murdered to please Englishmen."
A DISPATCH from Brighton says that
the condition of Mrs. Parnell is one Of
utter collapse. Her physicians are said
to be becoming seriously alarmed as to
the final result Of the shock which She
has sustained
THE cabinet, at it's meeting on the
18th, discussed in detail several reci-
procity treaties that are now in the
course Of negotiation between the
United States and European and South
American countries.
IT is said that under French law
Mrs. Charles Stewart Parnell and John
Howard Parnell are the heirs Of the
Paris fund of $40, 600 which was banked
in Paris in the joint names Of Mr.. Nc
Carthy and Mr. Parnell
THE exports Of specie from New
York during the week ended on the
18th amounted to SS38, PIT, of which but
S573O was in gold. The imports Of
specie amounted to S3, 754, 494, Of which
So, 735, Coz was in gold.
THE October term of the United
States supreme court began at noon on
the 18th. Chief Justice Fuller, who is
at the bedside Of his daughter in Chi
cago, and Justice Gray, who is recover
ing from an attack Of typhoid fever,
were not ahlp to attend
The attempted revolt at Montcvideo,
Uruguay, ANONYMOUSLY failed by rea-
son Of the refusal Of the artillery to
ioin tho revolutionists. During the
firing, on the 18th, six persons were
killed and seven wounded. Fifty-two
arrests have been made.
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY FOSTER
has ordered three clerks to 60 to Phila-
delphia to aid in investigating the af
fairs of the Keystone national bank.
They will be paid out Of the fund of
5000 placed at the secretary's disposal
by the committee Of fifty.
THE export Of barley from Canada to
the United States during the fiscal
wear ended June 30 last, as compared
with last year, declined from 1O,O40,-
600 to 4,SO0, 900 bushels During the
same period there was an increase Of
500 per cent. in the export Of barley to
Great Britain.
FORTY Italians, who arrived in New
York on the Cachemira, under contract
to work on railroad at New Portage,
O.. at 81, 80 day, were detained at the
barge office, and will be returned on
the same vessel. They were engaged
by an agent, who furnished passage
money for them.
DISPATCHES from Annoy, China, bear
ing date Of September 27, announce
that serious rioting had occurred 40
miles from that city The riot, which
was caused by fiscal abuses, created
great excitement The trouble was
quellcd, but not before several man
darins and other officials had been
killed by the mob.
FRANK MELBOURNE, the Australian
rainmakcr has closed his experiments
at Goodland, Kas., explaining that the
cold nights counteracted all the work
he did during the day. Since his eX-
perimcnting began northwestern Kan
sas has had more rain than had ever
fallen there before, and the people are
satisfied with his explanation.
TIE government OF the United States
has Just concluded convention with
IC+n
by which all our cereals will be ad-
smitted free into Germany in considera-
ton of the continued free admission
into the United States Of German beet
sugar after January /, which, under the
recent law, the president could stop.
AT the earliest opportunity after the
firm establishment Of the new Chilian
government a number Of claims will be
presented for payment by the repre-
sentatives of the different foreign ma
tions there The British claims amount
to between $50, 900, 900 and $50, 900, 900;
Spanish and Italian claims amount to
about 50, 900, 900, while those Of Amer
lea are only about S25, 900.
IT is publicly charged in Philadelphia
that Mr.. Burke, the official stenog-
rapher to the Legislative Investigating
committee before which State Treas
urer Boyer and Auditor-General Nc Ca
mant gave testimony, has fed, taking his
notes with him, to prevent the evidence
of Boyer and McCament from being
submitted to the special committee of
the senate which met in Harrisburg on
the 18th.
YOUNG lady, supposed to have been
Mary Mclaughlin, going to visit her
sister at West Branch, Mich, arose
from her berth on sleeper on the New
York Central road, at 4 o'clock on the
morning Of the 1ath, walked to the rear
platform and disappeared. When found,
near West Batavia, N. ", she was so
severely injured that she died soon
after 1t is supposed that she was a
somnambulist and walked off the train
while asleep.
In addition to twenty locomotives
now being loaded at Philadelphia for
Brazil, the Baldwin locomotive work Of
that city have an order for 12S loco
motives for that country. Under the
reciprocity treaty with Brazil locomo-
tives and railway supplies from the
United States are admitted free of Gus
toms duty, and the railway equipment
Of that republic, which was formerly
almost exclusively of English manu-
facture, Is now being rapidly replaced
by articles OF American manufacture.