The state capital., 1891-09-26

seas, WcIe dTTdlHkeu DeIUTe COHIIHiS-
sioner Halle, of Boston, on the a2d, and
held In $500 each for the United States
district court.
A VOUCHER for SS2. az in favor Of
Phoebe Couzins for salary from April
! to April Is as secretary of the board
of lady managers of the Worlds
fair exposition was received at the
treasury department on the 21st. 1t
was approved by Bertha H. NJ. Palmer
as president of the board Of lady mana
gers. This voucher will be paid and
will close Miss Couzins' connection with
the Worlds fair.
The treasury department has pre-
pared statement which shows that
the customs receipts at the port of New
York for the first nineteen days of Sep
tember, 1891, have fallen off nearly 49,.
OOO, 900 as compared with the corre'
spending days of Septen1b Der, 1890. THE
total receipts at New York for the pc.
riod of September, 1891, named aggfe-
gated S6,b51.757.
PREPARATIONS for the great ecutien'
ical conference of Methodism, which is
to open in Washington, October Z, are
approaching completion, and all indica-
tions point to the greatest gathering OF
religious brain-force ever seen in this OF
any other country. rar
SAMUEL THORNTON and Eva Jewell
disappeared August 27 from Coney
Island beach and were mourned as
drowned. A telegram from Jackson
L., ho Ofct c+a+a fhov
there safe and asked money on which
to return home. It was thought posi-
BILE that the message was the scheme OF
some designing person to make raise,
THE banking fraternity of London
has been startled by the announcement
made public on the 21st, that the Lon
don e. Westminster bank had beer
robbed of large parcel of bills re-
mitted from country banks, aggregat
ing over million dollars No clew tt
the thieves.
On the 21st EXCongressman w. G.
Whitthorne of the Seventh Tennessee
district died at his home in Columbia
Tenn, aged 66 years Mr. Whitthornt
had been In bad health for severa
years.
ALLERToN went another mile in 200 a
at independence, Ia, on the 21st, thu:
putting an end to all disputes as to th'
stallion championship. The quarter
were rated at :324, 1:0419, 1:374, 2:094
FRED KAMMERER, a wife murderer
overcome with remorse and goaded OF
| by the certainty that he would b.
hanged, took his own life in the count,
| Jail at Cleveland, O.. on the 21st.
Miss ELIZA BUTLER, the younges
| daughter of United States Senator M
C. Butler, of South Carolina, died o
nervous prostration at the Highlands
in North Carolina, on the 21st, after
very short illness.
| WILLIAM S. HIGGINs, who caused th'
death of aunt Tillie'' Hunter, an aget
negress, by setting her clothes on fir
with lighted match in milwaukee
saloon, September, IL, was, on the 22d
held for murder.
The crisis in the Italian cabinet is in
creasing in consequence of a ditferenc
of opinion in the ministry, on levyln,
fresh taxes made necessary by the in
creased cost of the army and navy.
THE trial of the Hopkins-Searle
will case was begun at Salem, Mass.
on the 22d. All of .the contestants wer
present personally or represented b
distinguished counsel.
THE correspondent of the Londo
Standard at st. Petersburg says tina
the Russian government has accepte
794 as the price for the new loan Q
20, 600, 900 rubles.
A FALSE report that Carl Schurz ha
been bequeathed Sl,0O0,000 on tn
death of his mother, was promptly de
MED by Mr. Schurz. His mother die
fifteen years ago
THE st. Paul (Minn.) schools hav
been closed on account of the excessiv
heat.
THREE men committed suicide in tn
Cleveland(O.) Jail within week recent
ly.
JAMES III. MEAD. well-know
banker of Sheboygan, Wis, fell dea
from heart disease while walking O.
the street on the 22d.
THE bank of England shipped $500
900 in gold to the United States on tn
sy0d