The state capital., 1891-09-12
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

the I'd. They were received with ma
tional salute from the shore batteries,
music, fireworks, etc. The British war
ship Champion was decl1ed out in bunt-
ing and her yards manned in honor OF
the occasion.
THE secretary of war, upon the re-
quest of Secretary Rusk, has issued
orders that no cattle from the Cherokee
strip shall be permitted to be driven
north of the quarantine line, but that
all such cattle must go south on the line
established by the department of agri-
culture.
THE sale barns of DIR. N. P. Valerius
& Co., importers of horses, at Water
town, Wis, were burned on the Sd.
The loss will reach S65, 900, with insur-
ance of $4,000. The horses burned in
cluded several valuable Clydesdales re-
Gently imported from Scotland. Not
one was saved.
WHILE attempting to cut an electric
wire on a pole thirty feet from the
ground, on the 4th, Chas. Welch, of the
Edison Electric Illuminating Co., of
Lancaster, Pa, was transhXed with
$500 volts of electricity. He shot
downward from the bar on which he
sat, but his body was caught on wire
underneath, from which he hung un
conscious in the air. He was rescued
from his perilous position and will re-
cover.
THE Chilian congressional junta hav-
ing declined to give guarantees for fair
trials for the political refugees on board
the American and German war ships in
the harbor of Valparaiso, it was decided
by the German and American admirals
to convey them to friendly territory,
probably Peru.
Mrs. MARY BUTCHER died at Atlantic
Highlands, n. j., on the Sd, aged 104
years and 10 months. She was born
near Port Monmouth, n. j., had been
married three times, but is survived by
only one son, T. L. Rogers, now beyond
the prime of life.
JERRY THOMPSON, a notorious ''rus
tier" and two companions were caught
changing brands on cattle in Custer
county, Mont, and were all hanged to
the same tree This is the first lynch
ing of cattlc-thieves in Montana Tor a
number of years.
THE marriage engagement of Miss
May Mortimer Talmage, the second
daughter of Rev. DR.. Talmage. to Mr.
Daniel D. Mangam, Jr., wealthy
young grain merchant is announced
The marriage will take place in the
early winter and will be the first cele-
brated in the new Brooklyn tabernacle.
A CHIMNEY fell of it's own weight
through the roof of an old four-story
frame building in New York, on the
4th, crashing through all the floors
The building was used as Chimes"
opium den and two of the inmates
were slightly injured.
THE president returned from his gun
ming trip to Manumuskin, N. J., on the
afternoon of the 4th. He again proved
himself crack shot, fourteen falling
to his share of the forty five birds
killed. j. Robert Mckee brought down
nine, and George w. Boyd seven.
AT Independence, Ia, the worlds
trotting record for stations was broken.
the 5-year-old stallion Allerton beat
ing Nelson's record of 2:10s4, making
the mile in an even 2:10. Direct, b. g.,
paced a mile in 200, thus lowering all
harness records.
S. P. STIKER.a mechanical engineer of
Buffalo, n. Y, has, it is claimed, dis
covered a method of making ice with
gas and returning the gas to the mains
unimpaired. He has an experimental
plant at work in the Provincial Gas
Co.'S works at International Bridge,
Ont, and can, it is said, produce a
temperature of 80 deg. below zero. No
chemicals are used-simply water and
gas.
NEARLY 500 men employed at the
Beatty glass-works at Tiffin, O., were
in a state of enforced idleness in con-
sequence of strike, on the 4th, of the
$50 boys employed in sticking up and
gathering in" The boys demanded all
increase in wages, which the managers
refused to give.
THE state department notified Minis
ter Egan, on the 4th, by telegraph, to
recognize the authority of the junta, or
congressional government of Chilli
A FARMER named Westland, residing
on farm near the railroad track in
the neighborhood of Eland Junction.
Wis, was instantly killed, on the 5th,
while plowing. His team became
frightened by passing engine, and he
was thrown to the ground, and the
plow cut his body in two.
Hon. JOHN DoMINIs, prince consort OF
| Hawaii, died. August 27, from a sudden
attack of pneumonia He had been i'll
for some time with gout, which, turned
| into inflammatory rheumatism, pneu-
monia subsequently setting in.
GEORGE w. PECK, JR., owner OF
Pecks Sun, and son of Gov. Peck Of
Wisconsin, has been arrested on the
charge of circulating through the mai
copies of his paper containing Louis
lana lottery advertisements.
THE German government has ordered
| further coal mining in the vicinity OF
Gleiwitz, Prussian -Silesia, stopped
have made their appearance in the
mines.
THE Freeman's Journal of Dublir
says that the wheat crops in West Glare
and other western districts of ireland
are, owing to the recent severe rains
'only fit for litter" The potato bligh
is general, one-third of the crop being
already gone, while the barley and oat
are rotting.
VISITORS to the beach at Asbury Park
n. j., on the 9th were treated to |
novel sight. An immense waterspout
fully 800 feet high was seen to form
and move seaward in southeastern,
direction. narrowly missing fisher
man in his boat, who pulled out of it
course only just in time.
SCIENTISTS assert that the Eifel towe
causes electrical disturbances and tha
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