The state capital., 1891-08-29
IT transpires that Frank Almy, who


murdered Christie Warden near Han
over. N. H., is not Almy at all, but
Frank Abbott, an escaped convict from
Vermont where he was serving tif-
teen years sentence for burglary and
larceny, and if all accounts are true he
has been a bad one ever since he was
big enough to know good from evil.
A cLoUD-BURsT broke over Pottsville,
Pa. on the afternoon of the 23d, and
fully 400 families were driven to the up
per stories of their homes by the rush
inc waters, which filled the streets to
the depth of several feet. Over $780,
600 damage was done to buildings and
stocks of goods.
AT Beaver, Okla, DIR. Davis was
horsewhipped by Thomas Inflow on the
23d. The doctor had been talking about
| Mrs. Inflow. and when attacked by her
| husband attempted to shoot him, but
| Inflow took the revolver away, broke 1t
| and then thrashed him.
| ACRAzY man named Anderson, who
had been attempting to sell tickets to
Heaven for fifty cents and to hell for
ten cents in the streets of Duluth,
Mimi, on the oath, attempted to shoot
George Rupley, general manager OF
the Lake Superior Elevator Co., of that
city.
| CHANCELLOR Won CAPRIvI has ac-
ceded to the request made by United
States Minister Phelps and will allow
Herr Wermuth, the German commits
sioner to the Chicago fair, to accom-
pany the American commissioners
when they return to the United States.
Two FREIGHT trains collided near
Palmer, a small station on the North
erp Pacific railway 80 miles east OF
Tacoma, Wash, on the Gath. Engineer
David Young and Fireman Franz
Cooper of the west-bound train were
killed.
The canning houses of Maryland are
buying peaches as low down as fiv'
cents basket, and have had to refuse
offered invoices at that price because o
the lack of labor to handle them.
THE tenth annual encampment of th'
Sons of Veterans met in Minneapolis
Minn., on the oath, with about 500
members of the order in attendance.
THE socialist workingmen's congress
at Brussels passed resolutions, on tn
oath, condemning the sweating system
of piece work.
Mr.. AND Mrs STANLEY have lei
. Geneva for Paris. Mr.. Stanley seem
l to have almost recovered from the IL
Jury to his leg which he sustaine
through a fall while at Muerran.
THE receipts of wheat at Kansa
City, Mo-, on the Gath were 667 cars
which is the greatest number of cars
u u wheat ever received there in one day
u The largest number received in one da
Z heretofore, was COL cars, in 1882.
L IN letter to the Pail Mall Gazette
an English clergyman living in tn
. province of Kazeen, Russia, gives hal
rowing details of the sutferings c
- peasants by reason of the failure
the crops. Many have been unable
g obtain bread for weeks, and are dy1n
from starvation. There is no prospe'
= of betterment in their condition, al
II uprisings are looked for, as the peop
are desperate.
i, A SALT LAKE city carpenter name
!" Will Sheriff., while out driving, stopp'
his buggy in the residence part OF Il
city, and, tying his horse to telegral
pole, shot himself through the hea,
y The effects of the morphine habit IL
- to the suicide.
. FRED MASON, secretary of catt
y company, was shot and fatally wound
~ near Elizabeth, Col, on the gath,
- one of the herders of the compaI
10 named S. w. Parry, who escaped. M
sons home is at Vergennes, VT
~ JOHN Rowland, wealthy hat man
10 facturer of Yonkers, n. Y, aged
ho wears, fell from a window Of his ii
90 tory, on the 25th, and, striking on t
% stones 100 feet below, was killed.
R. w. PHIsBURY's cooper shop a
eight residences in Manchester, N.
:. were destroyed by fire on the 24'
- Loss, $50, 1000; partially insured.
:" By the premature explosion OF
'e dynamite blast in quarry at Kingstc
. n. j., on the 25th, Daniel Hagerty w
y, killed and five of his fellow-workm
a. a. badly injured, some perhaps fatally
ho THE sixth annual encampment OF
NC Union veterans opened at Clevela1
NC O., on the oath, with a number OF
ie soldiers present from all parts OF t
an country.