The state capital., 1891-11-21


nth, of four-story tenement house in
Brooklyn.
The French chamber Of deputies has
placed duty Of twenty-five francs per
200 pounds on American pork. as sug-
gested by the senate committees re-
port.
The president, accompanied by ex-
Senator Sewell, Of New Jersey, left
Washington, on the 10Th, for Bengies,
Md, on hunting trip, to be absent
two or three days.
In twenty-four hours run, ended
Mt 6 a. IN. Of the 18th, the Edgar Thorn
son steel works at Braddock Pa, pro-
duced |, T07 gross tons of finished steel
rails breaking all previous records.
BLACK diphtheria of an exceedingly
virulent type is running riot in Cler-
mont and Warren counties, O. Whole
families are down with the disease
and its victims are dying like sheep.
III is reported that the Russian min
lister Of finance, nj. Vishnogradsky, is |
suffering from nervous prostration, ow-
ing to the trouble about the Russian |
loan and the famine, and that he will |
resign.
THE German government proposes to |
submit a bill in the reichStag consider |
ably enlarging the powers of the police |
in dealing with anarchists and other |
agitators. The bill will probably be-
come law.
ACCOUNTS from the interior of Russia
cay that general exodus has begun of
the Germans who, for century past,
have taken a leading share in the de-
velopment of the industrial welfare of
The country.
GEN. AsTROGILDO, who is in command
Of the nationalist forces in Rio Grande
do Sui, has occupied several strategetic
points and is preparing to meet the die
tator's troops should they attempt to
subdue that province.
POSTMASTER VAN Corr of New York
proposes to station a postal clerk on
the docks Of the foreign steamship
companies in order that mail may be
received up to within ten minutes of
the vessels departure.
FIREMAN Tom PICKLE was killed, and
Engineer Dennis Murray and ten pas
sengers were seriously wounded in a
collision. on the 18th, at Gilbert, Mich,
between a freight and passenger train
on the Grand Rapids 81 Indiana rail
road
DISPATCH to the London Times ]
from Santiago de Chilli says that I
advices received there from Valparaiso I
confirm the statement as to the prudent
and pacific attitude assumed by the
states and by the various officials of
that country,
THERE is strongly supported move
nent among the city councillors of Mu-
Mich to compel the erasure from the
golden book of the kaisers autograph
entry, OH the occasion of his recent
visit, to the effect that "the will of the
king is the supreme law"
KING HUMBERT and Queen Marguer- !
1te arrived at Palermo, on the 14th, and
met with an ovation from the people. | ,
The streets were packed with an enor- ,
nous and enthusiastic crowd. So great {
was the anxiety to see their majesties
that many accidents resulted from the
crush.
GREAT BRITAIN will concentrate a
feet at Rio Janeiro should the British
admiral Judge that such course is
necessary. 1t is believed in London
that the revolution will be lasting and
that the national party, If it be true that
it has the support Of all the provinces
mentioned will triumph.
MICHAEL KIRSCHER was arrested in |
New York, on the 12th for forgeries
amounting to so, 900 francs committed $
in Bucharest, Roumania. He was dis
charged from custody next day, how I
ever, there being no extradition treaty
with Roumania. He had $40, 900 in his
possession when he landed. p,
Mr. HENRY ROPES, formerly United G
States consul at St. Petersburg and /
head of the firm OF w. H. Ropes & Co.,
"a Wall street, New York, died at 4
Tenby, near Pembroke, Wales, on the v
10th. The deceased was largely inter- t
ested in Russian trade with England |
and with the United States. e
PALo ALTO trotted a mile without a t
skip at Stockton, Cal, on the nth, in t
2:0S$4. BY this remarkable perform
ance the horse not only broke the stall a
lion record but won all records of the L
world for the famous Palo Alto stable t
The quarters were made as follows: Q
3lI, t:0315, 1868 and 2:Os4
HERR Maass prominent banker of
Charlotten burg, Germany, is, upon his +
own admission, completely ruined He i
says his liabilities are about 1.75O, 900 t
marks. He admits embezzling the
funds of his clients, also a considera- v
BILE amount of money subscribed for S
the erection of church in honor of the
late Emperor William.
THE sudden and unheralded arrival at il
New York, on the 10th, of Albert G.
Porter, United States minister to Italy, e
gave rise to the belief that Italy had
taken advantage of the trouble between Il
the United States and Chill to make a 4
demand for an apology and money t
indemnity for the killing of two of her Il
subjects in New Orleans. C
A NUMBER of prominent editors, ho- d
tel men. railway officials, politicians, t
etc, met in New York city, on the 10th, Q
70 devise means for securing the repub- v
1ican convention in 1892 for that city t
Chauncey NJ. Depew was among those f
who favored the project, and subscribed, a
on behalf of the New York Central 9
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