The state capital., 1891-09-26
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE;NEWs IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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San Quentin prison intended to blow up
the prison with dynamite and kill the
guards and escape. Some of the dyna-
mite, half dozen revolvers and large
number of cartridges are said to be in
the warden's possession.
COMMANDER A. c. KELLOGG, u. 5. n,
lately on duty at League Island navy
yard. has lately developed some brain
trouble, which board of physicians
says units him for active duty, and he
has been removed to Washington to be
cared for at the st. Elizabeth asylum.
A PRIVATE agent of one of the Ha-
waiian factions called on President
Harrison, on the nth, to warn him that
the British contemplate taking possess
sion of that little government arle- es-
tablishing a naval station there which
would give them command OF the Pa
cific trade.
CHARLES j. KIRsCHNER, of Toledo,
O., has been elected supreme treasurer
of the order of Catholic knights of
America, to succeed O'Brien, who has
disappeared. O'Brien's shortage, upon
further investigation, has increased
from $40, 600 to S71, ,000
THE town council of Bamberg, S. c..
becoming disgusted at the apathy of
the Chicago authorities in regard to the
Tascott suspect held there, turned him
loose, on the nth, and after receiving
the proceeds of a collection taken up in
his behalf the man Hardin" mounted
a box-car and rode out of town.
| W. O. OWEN, surveyor for Albany
county, Wyo., and w. G. Johnson, head
of government geological party, re-
ern Wyoming. The find is high up in the
Tetons. Immediately south of the Vel
lowstone national park.
DURING the progress of some artillery
experiments at Jueterbogk, near Ber-
lin, on the 18th, she'll burst, and sev-
eral persons were seriously injured by
the explosion.
SECRETARY TRACY has awarded the
contract for building torpedo boat
Number 2 to the Iowa Iron works, of
Dubuque, Ia, at S113,5 500.
by the explosion of boiler in Van
sise's jelly factory at Montville, O., on
| the 18th, three workmcn were killed.
| It is also reported that two little girls
playing in buggy near the factory
were killed. The building was en-
tirely demolished
DISPATCHES from Zanzibar state that
Lieut. Tettenborg and sixty-tive sur
vivors of the Zalewski expedition have
arrived at Bagamoyo.
RUSSIA is likely to become formid-
able competitor of the United States in
the important kerosene oil market OF
India.
| On the 18th the bank of England
shipped $50, 600 in gold. to the United
States.
A SPECIAL cable dispatch from
Managua, Nicaragua, says terrific
tornado, lasting eight minutes, occurred
at Saucetown, near Leon, on the 9th
| 1t destroyed houses. uprooted trees and
caused a great panic among the resi-
dents Many persons are reported tC
have been injured.
THE post mortem examination of the
body of Charles Barouski, which was
conducted in the presence of twelve of
the leading physicians of Sioux City
Ia, on the Goth, revealed case which
they declare to be without parallel in
the history of medicine. He was a
veteran of the late war, and received &
rifle ball through the mouth, which
lodged in his head. The ball was
found in the lower or vital part
of the BRAIN or, as the doctors call it
the posterior horn of the left latera
ventricle The only trouble the de
ceased ever experienced was dizziness
when he stopped over or lay on his lef
side.
The news of Balmaceda's suicide a
the Argentine legation in Santi
ago de Chill, on the 10Th, made
marked impression in Londo1
and is the chief topic, even sur
passing the question of the Dardanelles
and the German emperor's assault
upon Napoleon the Great The genera
feeling in English commercial circles
is one of relief and JOY, since, while
Balmaceda lived there never could bt
an assurance that he might not stir III
another revolution, and reverse the
order of things, to the great detrimen
of the English interests in control o.
the nitrate traffic.
NUMEROUS incendiary fires are re
ported as occurring in Russia. The
starving peasants set buildings on fire
in order to share in the plunder of such
places. Many arrests have been made
COMMISSIONER OWEN has directed tina
fifteen Russian Hebrews, who entered
the United States at Suspension Bridge
N. Y, in an utterly destitute condition
be returned to Canada.
THE Cleveland hotel and ten bust
ness houses at Sheffield, Ala, were
burned on the night of the Goth. Th'
buildings are total wreck, and th'
loss is about S11O, 900, with light insur
ance.
X-REPREsENTATIvEW WILLIAM SCOTT
of Erie, Pa, died at midnight of th'
10Th, after protracted illness. Hi
death, when it came, was sudden ant
unexpected.
/ Aeon PAsHA, late Turkish ministe
of finance, who was dismissed from hi
post recently with other members Q
the cabinet, was killed on the 10Th, b.
ing thrown from his horse.
The cattle in Huntingdon and ad
joining counties in Pennsylvania ar
being attacked with peculiar ant
thus far unidentified disease, which in
nearly every instance proves fatal
The disease first appeared but recent,
and already hundreds of cattle hav'
perished. When attacked the animal
head falls helplessly, and its legs seen
unable to bear the weight of its body
IT is rumored that many Christian
in Armenia have been murdered by tn
Kurds.
THE Yemen insurgents have capture
Sana, the capital of the Arabia
province of that name. The gran'
vizier will probably send the troop