The state capital., 1891-10-31

force ali entrance into the mouse OF
Charles Brandt, ut Preston, Ia; on the
25th. A 15-year-old son of the owner
shot at and is to believed to have ia
tally wounded one man, as blood was
plentiful about the house and on the
grounds. The wounded 'man must
have been carried off by his comrade,
as searching parties failed to unearth
him.
SECRETARY BLAINE was at his desk
at the state department on the 10Th.
| During the forenoon he saw no callers,
but occupied his time in acquainting
! himself with the status of the tluiner-
Gus matters before the department.
TRENTON. n. j., has a precocious boy
of years. He has the manners of a
young man Of 20 and the mustache Of
an older man. He Is strong as a trained
athlete and is the terror of the neigh
| borhood in which he lives. Efforts are
being made to have him restrained.
Two burglars blowed the safe of
the Omaha Street Railway CO., on the
night of the Goth. and secured 1,200,
while pals held up the superintendent
and two workmen with drawn revolv-
| erS.
BARCELONA anarchists are preparing
| for a grand celebration of the ami
versary of the execution Of the Chicago
anarchists concerned in the Haymarket
riots.
WILLIAM L. MUNsoN, travelling pas
senger agent of the Kentucky Central
branch of the Louisville & Nashville
railroad, is short in his accounts to the
Fulton Building association of Cincin-
natl about S14, 900. The exposure was
made by his own father, George Mum
son. general passenger agent of the
road. When he discovered his sons
misdoings Mr. Munson and another son,
to save the family name, decided to ex-
pose w. l..
RALPH CUNNINGHAM, son of a prom
inent Fostoria CO., business man, tried
to kill himself on the 26th, by crawling
in the red-hot furnace of the spoke fac
tory of which his father is part owner.
The engineer pulled him out but not
until his body and head had been al
most roasted. He will die. Poor health
was the cause of the act.
WALT WHITMAN, the ''Good Gray
Poet" is helpless paralytic, it is said.
He has wasted to a mere shadow, and
his body is bent with age and disease.
The doctors say he may live for long
time, but is likely to be taken away at
any time, as the paralysis from which
he suffers is slowly approaching the
heart.
Tue United States court of claims
met in Washington, on the Goth, for the
October term, after an adjournment
taken on June S. Chief Justice Rich
ardson and Justices Mott and Weldon
were on the bench. Justice Davis had
not yet arrived from Europe.
INQUIRY at the American consulate
at Matamora, Mexico, results in infor-
nation that neither of the alleged revo-
lutionists executed recently by the or
der of Gen. Lorenzo Garcia, command
ing at Comargomier, was an America
citizen, as has been reported.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA declines to take
part officially in the Worlds fair in
Chicago unless the American duties on
wool are abolished.
'cMIIh, SclI VI IiIC
late first lord of the treasury, was
elected from the Strand. on the 27th,
to his fathers seat in the British par
lament, by a vote of 1852 to 1,94G for
Gutteridge. the liberal candidate.
THE United States grand jury at
Pittsburgh, Pa, returned true bill.
on the 27th, against w. Ii. Dill, the
alleged defaulting president of the
Clearfeld (Pa.) national bank.
The United States grand jury at
Boston has indicted the officers of the
Louisiana Lottery Co. for illegal use Of
the mails.
Col. HEWITT, the last surviving Off
GER who took part in the battle of
Waterloo, died in London on the 27th.
THE sultan is Fastening preparations
for the effective fortifcation of TIE
Bosphorus and the Dardanelles.
THOMAS. -DEROFIINGER, defaulting
treasurer of the Pittsburgh PA. sch Dol
board, was arrested in Omaha, Neb.,
on the 27th, as he was stepping from
Rock Island train He at first gave his
pame as Henry w. Jones, but after
wards acknowledged his identity. His
shortage is $4,000.