The state capital., 1891-08-22

AN aeronaut who made his ascent
before an immense crowd at Maceratta,
Italy, on the 16Ln, fell from his balloon
at dizzy height into the Adriatic sea
JAMES HURLEY was arrested "a
Bridgeton, Conn.,, on the nth, charged
with attempting to bribe Alderman
Wood during the recent police troubles.
THE galvanizing shop of the Britton
Iron and Steel works at Cleveland. O.,
were totally destroyed by fire on the
nth. Loss, $40, 900: fully insured.
THE British bank of Australia at
Melbourne has suspended. The liza
bilitles are $500, 600, of which half is
held in England.
A CANADIAN steamer has brought
news confirming the reports of great
distress among the people of Labrador
and the northwest coast of Newfound-
land on account of grip, diphtheria
and starvation.
ONE of the worst fires that has ever
visited the mines of Colorado is now in
progress at the Louisville mine on Iron
Hill, near Leadville. The fire broke
out in the 500-foot lead as the result of
the upsetting of a lamp, on the nth,
and at last accounts was still raging.
THE farmers of Vigo county, Ind.
backed by the Farmers Alliance, are
protesting against the assessment of
Axtell, the S1o5,OO stallion, at SIS, 600
by the county board of review, and
have appointed a committee to go to
Indianapolis to ask the state board of
tax commissioners to raise the assess
ment
ANDREW o. OPPMAN, president of the
Oppman Brewing Co. at Cleveland, O.,
had an altercation with one of his hos
tiers, Fred Seigel, on the night of the
10th. After knocking Seigel down, the
latter said when taken to the hospital,
Oppman beat him severely. Seigel died
on the 18th. and Oppman was held un-
der the charge of murder.
THE members of the travelling foreign
committee of the Chicago Colum bian
fair commission, who are at present in
Austria with the object of bringing ia
the attention of the Austrians the adj
vantages of exhibiting at the fair, lave
met with flattering success.
On the morning of the 18th John
Fits, aged So years, well-known Da-
viess county (Ky.) farmer, was shot and
instantly killed by Il neighbor Norton
Hazelwood. Trouble had existed for a
long time between the two families.
ROBERT GLASS, of Jefferson county,
Ind, is losing his entire family with
the dreadful milk disease. Four chill
dren are dead and his wife and last
child were reported dying on the night
of the 18th.
ADvICEs from British Columbia state
that the proposed Peace River & llud-
sons Bay railway is to be built. The
road is planned to extend from Port
Symptom on the Pacific to Hudson's Bay
connecting there with a line of steam
ers. This route, it is claimed. will make
the distance between Europe and Asia
shorter by 1,954 miles than the Cana
dian Pacific. and 2,676 miles shorter
than the Central Pacific and San Fran
cisco route.
VIM BRICK1LL, of New York. has
brought suit against the city of Balti-
more, Md, for 500, 900 damages for the
alleged infringement of a patent for
feed water heaters for steam fre-en-
gines invented by him.
BOAT containing n party of four
artists, sl1etching on the Ohio river op-
posite Cincinnati, on the 18th, cap
sized near the Kentucky shore and
three of the party were drowned.
THE Damon iron works at Boston were
burned on the 18th. Loss, $500, 600;
partially insured. KeDdalls machine
works, on the next corner, were also.
burned; loss, SS0,0O0.
ALFRED SIMoNIs, a Belgian senator.
who is large cloth manufacturer at
Vervicrs, will he named by the Belgian
government commissioner to the Chi.
cago exhibition.
By the sudden collapse of stone
bridge over the St. Mark river, in
Hayti, eighty of the throng of persons
watching the raging torrent below,
were drowned.
A FARMER named Avon Tyler, living
near San Mateo, Cal, in a fit of mad
drunkenness, beat his vile over the head
with piclS-handle, and then seriously
injured his S-year-old son with the sama
weapon. The woman's skull is frac-
tured and she cannot recover. Ths
boy NAV survive.