The state capital., 1891-11-21
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

throughout the country during the
seven days ended on the 18th, number,
; for the United States, 253, and for Can
ada SO, or total of 291; as compared
with total of 266 for the previous
week. For the corresponding week of
last year the figures were 266, repre-
senting 224 failures in the United States
and 42 in the Dominion of Canada,
II was stated at the department of
state, on the 18th, that there had been
no correspondence between this gov
ernment and that of Italy in regard
|, to the New Orleans lynching affair
since last spring, and consequently the
dispatch from Rome stating that this
government had acknowledged liabil-
ity for the affair and would pay in
demnity is incorrect
The president issued proclamation,
on the 18th, fixing Thursday, Novem-
ber 26, as day of thanksgiving.
MEssRs. MOODY AND SANKEY, the
famed American evangelists, have
agreed to make tour of Scotland.
They anticipate period of consider
able spiritual success.
SECRETARY TRACY contradicts the re-
port that Admiral Gherardi has been
ordered to relieve Admiral Brown of
the command of the South Pacific sta
ton.
THERE is almost complete blockade
of the ports of Rio and Santos, Brazil,
from which the bulk of the worlds sup
ply of coffee is exported. This is due to
INSULT cient custom house facilities and
inability to load and unload the vessels
now waiting to receive and discharge
cargoes. Unless this situation is soon
relieved, coffee dealers in this country
say that prices will soon advance, as
the supply here will soon be exhausted
The receipts at the custom house at
| lquiGue, one of the largest of the
nitrate ports of Chilli, during the month
! of October amounted to 50, ,627, 600. The
! greater portion of this amount was
paid as export duties on the nitrate
shipped from that port. The receipts
were the largest ever known at that
| port
Hon. ALLEN G. THURMAN was IS
years old on the 18th. The anniversary
was shorn of much of its former bright
ness for the willow rocking-chair that
has stood so long by the side of the
open fireplace in the old English sitting
room that leads out of the hall of the
old homestead in Columbus, O., was
| empty. Judge Thurman is in excellent
health.
HUNTERS from Park Rapids, Red
Lake Falls and La Prairie, Mimi, re-
port that an epidemic has broken out
among the wild geese, and thou
sands of birds are floating weak and
helpless on the lakes and ponds. The
natives are gathering them in great
quantities to pluck the feathers.
RUTHEvEN, Ia, has been undergoing
It fearful siege of typhoid fever and it
has now developed that the cause is the
decaying matter which abounds in the
lakes surrounding the town.
IT is reported about the Charleston
navy yard that the Newark and eight
other cruisers have been ordered to
Chill.
THERE were only ten failures during
the past year out of 1900 national
banks.
CHARLES BETHEARD, his wife and
three children, comprising an entire
family, were cremated by the burning
of their home in a tenement in Column
bus, O.. on the 18th.
BARONESS Won WALDERsEE, the NOR
ganatic wife of Louis, duke of Bavaria
died on the 18th. The baroness was
formerly Fraulein Mendel, and, until
her marriage, was one of the best
known artists on the Munich comic
stage. To marry her the duke re.
nounced his right of the succession to
the duchy in favor of his brother
Charles.
IT is stated in semi-official circles in
Ottawa Ont, that Lord Stanley is con-
templating resigning from the office of
governor general of Canada, and that
he will be appointed viceroy of India
SENIOR Don PEDRO MoNTT, the new
minister of Chill to the United States, |
was formally presented to President |
Harrison, on the 14th, by Secretary
Blaine, and in offering his credentials |
expressed the hope that peace and |
friendship might be preserved between |
the two countries, to which sentiment |
the president gave cordial assent.
MATTHEW E. RYAN, well known |
among the theatrical profession as |
manager of Havlin's formerly People's)
theater in st. Louis, died in that city,
on the 18th, after a few days illness. |
His malady was erysipelas, from which
he had suffered occasionally before.
Gov. ALVIN p HovEY of Indiana ar
rived in Dallas, Tex, on the 18th, hav-
ing been compelled to cut his Mexican
trip short by reason of serious illness
He was confined to his bed in his car,
which he had been unable to leave for
several days
REV. ZACHARY EDDY, regarded as the
greatest pulpit speaker of the Congrega-
tional church west of the Hudson died
in Detroit, Mich, on the 18th, of heart
disease, aged "a. He had been preach
er since the age of Is.
WILLIAM j. FLORENCE, the we'll
known comedian, was reported, on the
night of the 18th, as dying at the Con-
tinental hotel in Philadelphia of pneu-
monia, which followed severe cold
contracted few days previously.
The insane wife of a journeylnan sad
dler in Litchteld, England, cut the
throat Of her own daughter and those
VI WV nlcp-uduRutcTs, dlI IHTee OF |
whom died almost Immediately. She
then cut her own throat, infiicting a
fearful cash. The unfortunate wom-
ans husband. nearly insane with
grief and despair, tried to cut his
throat when he saw the blood-drenched
room in which his wife and dead daugh-
ters were found.
THE miners of the Department. of Pas
de-Calais, France, have sent messengers
to England to solicit aid in the present
struggle from English miners. The
latter will, it is believed. extend their
support, although no official action has
been taken on the subject. If the
struggle is protracted aid may also be