The state capital., 1891-06-06
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Eventa
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Chicago, and carried crew of six men.
HENRY MORSE, an inmate of the
Michigan Soldiers home at Grand Rap
ids, entered a room at the home occu
pied by Henry Harrington, on the night
of the 2Sth, and stabbed the latter half
a dozen times in the side with butcher
knife, inf1icting wounds which will
prove fatal.
DURING slight rain shower at Erie,
Col, on the 2Sth, Paul Hanson, fore
man of the Goodrich & Morrell farm,
was instantly killed by lightning. He
was blowing ditch on the farm. Both
horses hitched to the plow were
knocked senseless. A lad, aged IS,
named Clarence Peacock, who was a
few feet in front of the team, was rem
dered unconscious, though not injured.
THE boiler in the saw-mill of P.
Kramer, at Frankfort, Ind, exploded
on the 28th. Frank Hull, the engineer,
was instantly killed, his body being
mutilated beyond recognition. Ed
Kuntz died in few hours, and Glenn
Swearinger was fatally, and others Sc
riously, injured.
ACTING under instructions from At
torney- General Miller, the United
States district attorney for the district
of California will bring bill in equity
to cancel the Rancho Corte Madero Del
Preside grant in Marin county, Cal.
The tract includes Kershaw island,
Point Tiburon and other property, in
all about 5000 acres, valued at more
than 81, 900, 900.
NEARLY all the persons who accom-
panied the president on his recent tour
through the south and west were enter
tanned at dinner at the executive man
sion, on the evening of the 29th, by the
president and Mrs. Harrison. The din
ner was given in honor of Mr.. and Mrs.
George W. Boyd, of Philadelphia, in
recognition of Mr.. Boyd's wonderfully
successful management of the trip.
A SPECIAL. Worlds fair commission
was selected at the convention in Yank
ton, S. d., on the 2Sth. The governor
will be asked to call special session of
the Legislature to appropriate $50, 000
In case of refusal on the part of the leg
islature to make the appropriation the
commission will raise a fund by popu-
lar subscription.
DR.. M. +. COOMBs, professor of physi-
ology in the Kentucky school of medi-
| cine, announces that he has discovered
what appears to be a cure for lupus.
1t is three parts of methyl viola in 1000
parts of water. In the cases he has
| treated he has had astonishing cures.
GILLIAN advices are that the insur-
gents, contrary to their promises,
threaten to bonn bard Valparaiso The
Notifications are being hurriedly
strengthened 1t is thought, however,
that foreign powers will interfere to
prevent bombardment.
THE bill prohibiting the capture OF
seals in Behring sea by British sub
iaots WAS introduced in parliament h,'
the government on the goth. Mr.. Smith,
the government leader, said he was not
yet prepared to set limit to the pro
hibitive period.
THE earl of Clancarty died, on the
goth, at the age of 81. Viscount Dunlo
who was born in 1868, succeeds him in
the earldom.
NUMEROUS deaths from lightning are
reported from various parts of Germany.
j. & S. G. Fowler, New York sugar
importers, with large interests i'll Cuba,
have assigned to H. H. Pike without
preferences. The failure was a great
surprise to the trade.
THE funeral services over the remains
of Rev. Henry J. VanDyke, DID,,
were held at the Second Presbyterian
church at Brooklyn, on the 30th The
edifice was crowded with mourners.
An elaborate display of floral tributes
testified to the esteem of the parishion-
ers for the dead clergyman. The re-
mains laid in state in the church until
8 o'clock next morning, when they
were taken to Greenwood cemetery,
where they will repose temporarily,
and then be taken to Philadelphia.
A PRETTY 1S-year-old girl is in Jail at
Carroll, Ia, who tells a strange story
of theft, duplicity and a mind to com
NIT murder frustrated only by the want
when year old, and was raised by an
uncle, to screen whom, with other rela-
tives, she gives the fictitious name OF
Katie Faulkner. An inordinate love OF
money was the cause of her undoing.
| THos. JONES, a colored stableman,
was rested in New York, on the 30th,
on charge of stealing the race-horse
Octagon. He was given three horses
to take from Sheepshead Bay to Buff
New York city, but the third, Octagop,
could not be found. He says he sent
him to the Westchester track to race on
the 1st.
AN excursion train consisting of seven
coaches which left Davenport, Ia, at I
o'clock on the morning of the 30th, for
Cedar Rapids, left the track just before
reaching Upton, at 9:2O a. m, through
the spreading of the rails, and all the
coaches were turned upside down. No
fatalities occurred, but several persons
were injured.
| SEvENTY-FIvE pounds Of dynamite
exploded in the Atlantic & Pacific tun-
mel near Silver Flume, Col, on the 3Oth,
killing Henry Taylor, VIM. Coughlin,
John Richards, and John McHolland.
Morris Ferritan was seriously wounded.
The explosion is supposed to have been
caused by spark emitted while tamp-
| ing blast.
THE British government is stirred by
another trouble in South Africa. The
colony of Natal, on which it is pro-
posed to confer self-government by a
bill now under consideration in parlia-
ment, is said to be strongly imbued
with republican sentiments, and is
more than likely, if it obtains practi-
cally independent system of govern
ment, to join hands with the Trans
vaal, instead of being a dependency OF
the Cape
INCORPORATION papers were filed al
Columbus, O.. on the 1st, for the Con