The state capital., 1891-07-18
SSaMND NOTES..
A Summary Of Important Events
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

He was hard of hearing and stepped
from behind boX-car right in front OF
the express train. He was hurled fifty
feet. Stephens leaves an aged widow
and several children.
In the Canadian senate Premier A b.
bott, in reply to Hon. Mr.. Flint, said it
was not the intention of the govern
ment to reimpose an import duty on saw
logs and timber taken from Canada to
the United States in view of the trade
negotiations which will be resumed at
Washington in October
The treasury department, under the
recent copyright law, will issue list
weekly, furnished by the librarian of
congress, of title entries under the
copyright law. This list will be fur
nished to subscribers at S. year in ad-
vance. The list will also be furnished
to collectors of customs and postmas-
ters at offices receiving foreign mail
COUNT CoLLERoDo-M MELLs has been
condemned to fourteen days imprison-
ment at Vienna for participating in a
conspiracy to defraud tradesmen. The
shortness of his sentence is due to the
fact that he is over 70 years of age, and
the instrument, rather than the respon-
sible originator of the swindling opera
ton.
A FURIOUS storm, partalting of the
nature of cloudburst, occurred at Hell
ena, Mont, on the 9th. For half hour
the downpour of rain was furious and
the electric display terrific. Three
houses in town were struck and several
inmates stunned.
JUDGE Ross, of the United States dis
trict court at Los Angeles, Cal, has
granted an appeal in the case of
the schooner Robert and Minnie to the
United States court in San Francisco.
ALDERMAN DILLON, of Dublin, who
visited Mr.. John Dillon and Mr.. VIM.
O'Brien in prison, on the 10th, reports
that he found them in excellent health.
They will be released on the 3Oth.
A FEUD between the Mcpherson and
McRay families, in Warwick county,
Va, resulted, on the 10th, in the muir
der of Leon Mcpherson and his 6-year-
old daughter.
OCoolot d lCdI
dOysans, Is miles from Grenoble,
France, on the 10th. Fifty families
were rendered homeless.
CLIFFORD SILVER, aged 10, of Corona,
N. Y, fell into Flushing creek, on the
10th, and was drowned. His brother
who is II years old, made an attempt to
jump after the drowning boy, but was
held back by an unknown man, who
made no effort to rescue the
boy. This is the third son of the family
who has lost his life by drowning.
HOLDING in one hand the picture of
three young ladies and in the other a
revolver, well-dressed young man,
as W. c. Aldrich, of Chicago,
killed himself at the Republican house,
Milwaukee, on the 10th.
UNLESS all signs fail there will be
two more beet-sugar factories, as large
as the one at Chino, erected at Pomona,
Cal, during the next year. The rep
resentatives of a syndicate of Chicago
and st. Louis capitalists are to spend
two months in looking over southern
California, and in watching operations
at the Chino factory.
JAMES b. RYAN died at his home in
indianapolis, Ind, on the 10th. He
was chairman Of the democratic state
in 1S74./ He was elected
treasurer of Indiana that year, and was
reelected in 1875. He was man of
marked ability, and in his day was a
power in the councils of his party in
the state.
VIM 3. DUNCAN, the 17-year-old clerk
who stole box containing $50, 900
worth of diamonds from Lewisohn &
Co., the Maiden Lane New York; jew
elers, in January last, and left them at
the Astor house, expecting to return
and take them away, was sentenced, on
the 10th, to four years and five months
A wEsT-BOUND train on the Northern
Pacific road was wrecked near Missou-
la, Mont, on the night of the 18th, by
an immense landslide. None of the
passengers were hurt beyond a few
bruises, but eight tramps, who were
riding on the brake beams, are reported
to have been crushed to death.
SEVEN persons were killed and a num-
Der injured by the collision of an engine
with an excursion train at switch on
The Colorado Midland road at Aspen
Junction, on the night of the 1lth.
The victims were cooked to death by
steam.
Gov. STEELE of Oklahoma, who is a
of the board of directors of
the national soldiers home, says that
many old soldiers are now in poor
houses because there is notro enough
for them in the homes.
THE receipts from customs duties at
New York continue to show heavy
falling off, as compared with last year,
the receipts for the first ten days in
July, 1891, being So, 342, 976; and in July,
1890, 81, 943, 29S.
THE navy department received no.
tice, on the 18th, of the arrival of the
United States steamer Marion at Port
Townsend, Wash, from whence she
sails to Behring sea.
THE White House people celebrated
the third birthday of Mary Lodge Nc
Kee, on the 11th, by launching minia-
ture boat on the lake and naming it
''R. II. Mckee"
THE comptroller of the currency has
and accepted the resignation
Of National Bank Exam iner Drew, of
Philadelphia
THE German kaiser is quoted as say
ing to the duke of Cambridge, after re-
viewing the troops volunteer and reg
nlarl at Wimbledon, on the 11th: Now
[ can understand Waterloo, his opinion
Of the ''tradesmen soldiers evidently
having experienced change.
P. W. BARNEY, superintendent of the
Lake George & Champlain Transporta