The state capital., 1891-09-12


S. B. TURNER. Manager.
SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS
THE catch Of Iceland herring this sea.
the average.
DENMARK has removed the restric
tions on the importation Of American
pork products.
SECRETARY PRocToR has written Gov.
Page of Vermont accepting the ap-
rointment as United States senator tc
succeed Mr. Edmunds.
MAJ. BUNDY, of the New York Mail
and Express, who has been in Paris foI
some time, died on the evening of the
>th. as the result of stroke of apo.
rlexy.
THE North German Gazette and 9th.
or German papers say the Dardanellef
affair is purely a British question, the
other powers being only secondarily
concerned.
Gov. AND Mrs. CAMPBELL. of Ohio, ar
rived in New York, on the Sd, and went
TO the Fifth Avenue hotel for the gov
crnor to rest from the fatigue Of his
journey before going to the seashore,
COMPTROLLER LACEY has sent cir
cular letter to banks holding AZ pei
cent. bonds. notifying them that they
are no longer available as a basis fol-
circulation, the interest having ceased,
PRESIDENT AND MRS HARRISON, Mr..
md Mrs. Russell Harrison, Lieut..
Parker and Mrs. Mary Dimmick went
Grabbing on Cape May sound in the
yacht Glover, Capt Sooy in command,
on the sth.
THREE more British Columbian seal
poachers, the Sapphire, Carmelite and
Wallis, returned to Victoria, on the Sd,
after having made big catches. They
were warned off Behring sea by hel
majcsty's ship Porpoise.
LABOR day was generally celebrated
BY the working people Of the United
States and Canada on the 7th. Parades
picncs, pccch- h-making, sports ant
games, and in some places balls al
night, occupied the hours.
THE first 100 pounds Of sugar made
under the sugar bounty clause Of the
Mckinley tariff bill, was shipped, on
August "a. from Chino, Cal, to Hon
John W. Mason, commissioner Of inter
nal revenue at Washington.
On petition of the native tradesmen
the sultan has stopped the immigration
Of Russian Jews into Jerusalem ano
refuses to permit their landing il
Palestine without a special order
Fifty families of the recently arrived
refugees were sent back.
SENIOR LAzCANo, the Chilian minis
ter, on the 7th, officially informed the
state department that he will be alb
sent from Washington for some time
and that in his absence he has desig
IldGPu ICcIlOI JOISS, oCII ~ wv ~
cation, as charge d'affaires.
THE military authorities Of Novf
Scotia have decided to place two re
vOiving turrets at Fort York redoubt
One will be placed at the southern ex
trcmity of the fort and the other at the
northern end. Each turret will be
made Of stone and will hold four sixty
ton guns.
PRESIDENT GOMPERs of the American
Federation of Labor has extended ar
invitation in behalf of the trade unions
Of North America to the trades unior
congress now in session at Newcastle
on-Tyne, England, to hold an interna
tional trades union convention in Chi
cago during the summer Of 1898.
IT is said that the German 1and-own
ers Of Samoa are holding many Of the
natives in virtual slavery, through cum
ningly- worded contracts on land filched
from its owners in exchange for whisky
upon which they had first been made
drunk. This explains the antipathy Of
the people for anything German.
THE business failures occurring
throughout the country during the seven
DAYS ended on the 4th, number, for
the United States, 1871, and for Canada
90, or total Of 217; as compared with
a total of 226 for the previous week.
For the corresponding week Of last
year the figures were 2O3, representing
167 failures in the United States and 81
in the Dominion Of Canada.
A NEW and damaging insect has re
Gently made its appearance at Watson
Vile, Cal, where it has attacked beet'
grown in that vicinity for the suga
factories. The new insect is of an un
known species, and is sort Of myster.
to scientists. 1t is feared that it
ravages will seriously affect the sugar
beet industry, which is just beginnin!
to assume large proportions.
IT was reported in Washington city
on the 5th, upon what is considere
good authority, that Secretary Of Wa
Proctor has sent his resignation t
President Harrison, to take effect SEP
tember so. The same authority say
that Stephen b. Ell1ins, president Q
the New York & West Virginia Rail
road Co., will assume the duties Of tn
war office on October /, by appointment
Of the president
SIXTEEN Swedish and Norwegia
workmen were blown to atoms by tn
explosion of Z. A. Reynolds & Coz dy