The state capital., 1891-09-19
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary Of Important Events
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

| LcHlRH valley railroad. IN LTuni
belonging to the prisoner was found {
quantity of dynamite and other evi
dence that will probably convict him
Remel has a bad record. He caused al
explosion on the Daniel Drew on the
Hudson in 1879, and after serving {
seven-years' sentence, wrecked a Della
ware & Hudson train at Plattsburg, n
Y, killing several persons He is also
well known as a confidence man.
| SCHIFFERsTADT, in Rhenish Bavaria
was nearly destroyed by fire on tht
18th. The disaster originated in the
saw mills, and notwithstanding all eff
forts, the flames spread rapidly, con
verting fiourishing town to ashes.
The subscription lists for the reliet
of the sufferers by the Park place dis
aster in New York were declared CLOSED
at meeting of the relief committee or
the 10th. The total sum received was
S27, ,535. The committee reported thai
out of sixty-three families investigated
forty-seven required help.
Two DEsPoNDENT ones ended their
lives at Niagara falls on the 10th. One
" uS q uIdiIs ODuCI d Noludus icy
were strangers. The man selected
| Luna island as place to end his
| troubles. The woman leaped to death
| from Prospect point, before the eyes OF
hundreds of people. The identity OF
neither of the parties has as yet been
established.
JOHN A. BANDCRoFT's brick barn. al
Worcester, Mass, was partially de.
stroyed by fire on the 18th. Fourteen
horses and several valuable Swiss cat
| tie were burned to death. Loss, $780,
900; fully insured. An employe named
Frank Wood has been arrested on sus-
piciOn of having caused the fire.
On the 18th William Fl. Galley, a col
ored student at the Harvard medical
school, shot himself in the breast, dy-
ing in a few minutes, because his fa-
ther forbade him to keep further COM
pany with a young colored girl of
whom he was greatly enamored.
Mr.. AND MRS. CLEVELAND will close
Gray Cables their seaside mansion at
Buzzards Bay, Mass, probably the
Goth, returning thence to New York for
the winter.
ACTING TREASURER WHELPLY says
that never in the history of the coun-
try was there such a demand upon the
United States treasury for money with
which to move the crops The treasury
is doing its best to meet the demand.
What is most in demand are notes of
the smaller denominations.
nf nntrn1o11y11 oil 1,oc
been made at Cologne, Cal, fifty miles
southwest of Fresno. The oil is de-
clared to be of the best quality yet
found in the state, being easily refined
Machinery has arrived from Los An
geles to operate the wells on large
scale.
THERE are on file in the department
of justice the applications of about $50
more or less eminent lawyers from all
sections of the country for appointment
on the bench of the new United States
circuit court.
THE captain, several of the crew and
forty cabin passengers of the Italian
steamer TaOrmina were drowned, on the
18th, by the sinking of the steamer, in
collision in the Egean sea off Cape
Colonna with the Greek steamer Thes-
salia.
SECRETARY PROCTOR is making final
tour of the military stations of the west
previous to his resignation of the war
portfolio. The secretary will visit the
posts in Minnesota, South Dakota, Mon
tana, Nebraska and other points. He
is accompanied by Quartermaster Gen
eral Holobird, Maj. Schwab and Lieut..
Howard. He will retire from the cabi-
net, he says, Novemb ber 1.
CLAIMANTS, as well as the govern
ment, are getting ready for the litiga-
ton before the private land claims
court established by the last congress.
Not single petition has been filed by
claimants as yet, but a flood of business
is known to be in course of preparation.
The pension Office during the month
of August issued 24.47o pension certifi-
Gates of all kinds, the average first pay
ment on each being SIG.
THE reported cotton pickers' strike
proves to be a myth in Georgia. All
the negroes are at work. Reports re-
ceived from Texas and all portions of
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisi-
ana and Tennessee are to the same
effect.
WHILE playing near stove, on the
18th, Mary O'Neil, aged II years, sur
vivor of the Johnstown flood, who had
been living at Ansonia with her brot h.
er, was fatally burned at New Haven,
Conn, by her clothing catching fire.
Her parents were victims of the Johns
town flood.
THERE will be sales under foreclosure
during October of 374 estates belonging
to the nobility throughout Russia.
THE floods in the province of Toledo,
Spain, have inflicted enormous damage
and caused the loss of 1000 lives, ac-
cording to official advices thus far re-
ceived from the stricken district. Com
munication is entirely cut off in many
directions, and it is believed that when
the full returns are received a still
greater calamity will be discovered.
ABBE PREssUTI, of Rome, will
shortly publish documents showing
that it was mainly through the efforts
of the pope's nuncio at Madrid that
Columbus obtained the cooperation of
the Spanish court in his efforts to dis
cover a new world.
VICE-PREsIDENT LANE, of the Union
Pacific, states that the refunding plan
adopted by the directors of that road is
rapidly nearing completion, and that
none of the creditors are causing
trouble, all of them being willing to
await the company's arrangement of
the United States debt.
JOHN SAUNDERS, prominent young
business man of Pleasantville, O., sud-
denly became a raving maniac from
brooding over quarrel which he re-
Gently had with his brother in regard
to business matters.