The state capital., 1891-10-24

THE commercial congress of the West
ern states interested in deep water har-
bors on the gulf met in Omaha, Neb-, ,on
the 10Th, with more than 100 delegates
present.
Miss ANNA II. HOFFMAN,, who has since
April been seamstress in Chicago, has
left that city for her home in Burling-
ton, Ia, to take possession OF neat
little fortune of S35, 900, which was
willed to her by her grandfather, Ignatz
Hoppman, who died recently in Prussia
DR.. TALMAGE's tabernacle in Brook
lyn was entered through window by
some unknown person, who succeeded
in stealing only. the sexton's overcoat,
overlooking some silverware which was
in the church.
Mrs. EVA g. WHITE, charming
widow of Detroit, Mich, has sued A. E.
Cramton, wealthy bachelor of Vassar,
Mich, for $50, 200 damages for breach OF
promise of marriage.
THE Dublin Freeman's Journal says
that strong feeling in favor of de-
termined effort in the direction of re-
Cancellation exists throughout Ireland.
The Journal adds that if the measure
of home rule granted by the liberals is
inadequate, it will again become neces'
sary to coerce them into submission.
and this could only be done by a united
party.
ONE of the mills of the Colum bia
Powder Manufacturing Co., located
about miles from Farmingdale, n. D..
| blew up with terrific force on the Goth.
G. L. Van Note and Geo. Wooley, who
were in the mill at the time, were in
stantly killed.
A DANGEROUS counterfeit has been
discovered in the st. Louis sub-treasury.
1t is bogus S2 silver certificate, and
| treasury officials as we'll as bank cash.
| iers pronounce it one of the most skill
| full counterfeits ever known in this
country.
THE Alabama state fair opened at
| Birmingham on the Goth. Gov. Jones
made the opening speech. Large
| hibit is very creditab BILE.
Don ALclDEs MoNTERo, the Uruguay
an minister of finance, who recently
rendered his resignation, has reconsid.
cred his determination and will remain
| in the cabinet.
JOHN REDMOND has resigned as MEM
Der of parliament for Wexford, Ireland,
and will contest the seat for Cork made
vacant by Mr.. Parnell's death.
| GEN. REGEs, governor of the state of
| Nuevo Leon, Mexico, has ordered a
likeness of George Washington to be
removed from the front of beer sa-
loon owned by Americans in Monterey,
as he believed that Washington was too
great and good to have his portrait used
as sign for beer saloon. The pro-
prietors of the saloon claim damages,
and say that Secretary Blaine has been
appealed to.
| THE Burlington passenger train, No
5, which left Chicago at o'clock on the
evening of the goth, went into the ditch
at Monmouth, Ia. The engineer and
five passengers are said to have been
killed The train either ran through
switch or jumped the track.
PROF ISAAC C. RUSSELL, who was
sent by the United States government
anu GIlc NdClOHdI OcuS dpHlCdl SoCICGf
to explore the region about Mount st.
Elias, arrived at Vancouver, b. c., on
the goth, and left at once for the east
via Seattle, Wash. One of the party
Thomas White, was drowned.
JOHN RUSH, a young white man, was
taken from the Jail at Columbia, La,
by a mob, on the night of the 18th, and
lynched for having murdered Hagal
Sterling, an old colored woman, who
resisted his forcible entry of her home
while drunk.
On the goth the new revenue cutter
Galveston, which was built in Baltimore
at cost of $3.50, 900, arrived at Calves
ton, Tex, and was received with a ma
tional salute of twenty-one guns by the
Galveston light artillery. 1t will bt
placed in service at once and take the
place of the revenue cutter Dix, the lat
ter going to Mobile.
BEATRICE COLLINS, aged % years, the
mysterious New York beauty who was
undergoing a sentence of two years fol
passing counterfeit money, and Johr
Bush, alias John Miller, aged Is years
a well-known burglar, escaped from jai
at Reading, Pa, on the Goth, presuma
bly, with the aid of some one connected
nth the Jail.