The state capital., 1891-06-13
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Eventa
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

responding week OF last year.
ED ELLIOTT, Of Boston, was drowned
in Prospect Lake, near Colorado
Springs, Col, on the 5th, by the over
turning of boat. He was a brother
of John Elliott, and son-iD-law of Julia
Ward Howe, the lecturer.
A STORM passed over Burns City,
Ind, on the night of the 4th, destroy
ing large amount of property. Abb
salon Sharpless was killed, and Miss
Dora Fortney severely injured. Much
stock was killed.
THE steamers of the Chilian South
American Steamship Co., have been
placed under the British flag on what
is presumed to be sale to an English
company pending the pacification of
the country.
GEORGE d. HAcKETT, treasurer of the
Boston Speculation Co., was convicted
in the United States court, on the 5th,
for violating the lottery laws.
SIX sugar factories are to be erected
in the vicinity of Bay of Nipe, Cuba, by
an English and French syndicate, which
also contemplates building railroad
and developing rich mines in that To-
cality.
d. W. WooD, of Lubec, Me-, was
fined 81, 500 and costs in the United
States circuit court, at Boston, on the
5th, for smuggling opium into the
country.
On the 5th thirty students of Harvard
college were fined S65 each for having
liquors stored in their rooms
THE Italian and Spanish commercial
banks of Buenos Ayres were reopened
on the 5th
On the 5th the Lisbon police seized
supplement of the Union Civicu con-
| tanning violent protest against the
British convention concerning Africa.
The other papers do not oppose the con-
vention.
A SHOOTING affray occurred in New
Orleans, on the 9th, between DIR. Oil
phant, president of the state board of
health, and Mr. George w. Dupree, edi
tor of the Daily States. Dupree, it is
stated, fired five shots, and Oliphant
one shot. Dupree was shot through
the face, while Oliphant escaped un-
| hurt.
THE belief obtains in Germany that
France is hopeful that Portuguese opin-
ion is ready for the proclamation of the
republic, an event which would prob
ably be followed by the establishment
of a Spanish republic also.
LEOPOLD HAsNER, the Austrian states
man, philosopher and economist, died
on the 9th. He was born at Prague,
March Is, 1918, and was Austrian pre-
mier in 1870
THE exports of specie from the port
| of New York for the week ended on the
9th, amounted to So, 975, 412, of which
S6, 414, S35 was in gold, and S560,577 sill
MRS GRANT SARToRIs and
a1,-~-~:hteI5 salfed for >Liverpool On the
THE brigands who recently captured
a number OF Germans from railway
train between Constantinople and
Adrianople whom they held for ran
som, have released their prisoners and
divided the booty.
HENRY MCGRATH sprung an entirely
new and novel method of suicide upon
the Camden IN. j. police. His attempt
was happily frustrated by the assistant
ianitor, who caught him tearing the out
tons off his trousers and swallowing
them, and then trying to force the gar
ment down his throat
The suit of S. H. Kneeland, OF New
York. against the Toledo, ST. Louis
Kansas CITY Railway Co., on contrac
involving over S25, 900, 900, has been set
tied in favor of the defendant, and th
road has been turned over to the com
, pany.
. POLICE CLERK VIM. Cook, of Toledo
, O., is in jail charged with embezzle
ment, and is unable to procure bail.
GREAT excitement was caused anon
the Chilian insurgents over the declsio
of the American admiral to take IN
+ Itata without allowing the discharge
G her arms and ammunition. The pres
q of Iouioue is very bitter, and consider
;, that the United States-the recognize
! cradle of republican ideas-commlts
s grave error in thus indirectly asslstln
a the dictator.
JAMES MILLS, farmer of Johnsf
conntv Ind. has a SOW with 4 litter
j. nine pigs. One is a rare freak OF n
IN ture. being double, two perfect head
-, four ewes. four front feet and two I'LL
~ formed bodies back to the hips, whe
n it becomes one again, having only tv
a hind legs and feet and one tail.
,.s w. G. OLIVER, an Iowa farmer, q
at appeared six years ago, after havn
a. defrauded his creditors. lie W
thought to have drowned himself, b
recently he was arrested In Holto
to Kas., were he had married seco
h. time.
v QUEEN VICTORIA has conferred t
he order of the Red Cross on Mrs. Grl
al wood for heroic conduct at Manlp'
at where her husband, the British polltl'
,oo agent, was murdered by the Man1pu
+ LOT of well-known men OF n
To York have Just organized a soclt
s;- whose object shall be, its constitute
saws, ito bring men and women OF e.
cation into closer relations with
IN laboring classes for their mutual be
of fit" The University Settlement
I'VE ciety is the name of the organization
,ed THE result of the annual meeting
nd the New York and Brooklyn brlt
nst trustees, on the Sth, was surprise
nth that although New York city owns
wn one-third Of the big span, Tammi
cal now contr.ls the structure. Many
to the Brooklyn members were abse
while the New York members were
in force. Ex-senator Wagstatf, II
ew- many man, was elected president
ill, the board, and ex-Mayor Howell
the Brooklyn, vice-president-
ac- LIZZIE WITHERAL, the female burs
rht- who broke into the house of Frank
sol Collev, in Cambridge, Mass, last
two ruary, and stole iewelry worth 81
cap pleaded guilty, on the sth, and was
IL toroa5 ~ tan wears in the house of