The state capital., 1891-10-17

AT t0e Close OI DuSlucSSY OH IllS l@tIs
but SIS, 76g, 300 four-and-a-half per cent.
bonds were outstanding.
The resumption of guano shipment
from Chill will take place at an early
day.
Ex-Gov BIGELOw, of Connecticut,
died at New Haven on the 18th.
ENGINEER MEANEY of the New York
& New England train which was wreck
ed at Hawleyville, Conn, September "a,
has surrendered himself. Three lives
were lost by the accident, and the cor
oner issued warrants for manslaughter
against Meaney and Conductor Conrad.
B 9th men fed. Meaney gave bail in
So, 900.
ALFRED RUSSELL and Thomas Law
ton are under arrest at Colorado
Springs. Col, charged with the MUIR
der of Motoneer John Heming, on the
night of the 7th, and both have made
partial confessions of the deed. They
wanted money to go to circus and
took this means of obtaining it.
THE constitutionality of the New
York electrocution law is again before
the supreme court of the United States
on a motion to dismiss, affirm or adj
vance the cases of Charles McElyaine
and Nicolo TreZzo, condemned murder
ers, who are awaiting death by electro
cution.
SAMUEL w. MENNEnEY, traveller
for Rochester IN. " shoe house, was
found dead at Omaha (Neb.) hotel on
the morning of the 18th. 1t is supposed
he turned on the gas by mistake for
electricity and forgot to shut it off after
turning on the electric light.
ARTHUR d. MAYO, promising young
musician, well known in New York,
Cincinnati, Springfield, Washington
and Boston, has been missing since the
7th. Young Mayo has been in failing
health and under great mental depres-
sion for some time past.
THE daughters of the late Gen. Bou-
langer have retained counsel and will
contest four clauses of their fathers
will.
DIR. f. CHRISTENSEN, of Leaven-
worth, Kas., has invented an electric
lamp for miners. 1t was tried, on tho
18th, in the Home mine in the presence
experienced miners. The lamp was
held for some time in two feet of gas to
prove that it would actually do away
with all danger of explosion from damp.
EXPORTS of breadstuffs during Sep
tember past aggregated in values $751;
422, 2,O12 against S7,199,34S in Septem-
ber, 1890. For the nine months of this
year. ending September 80, breadstuffs
exports were valued at $145,0 129,
against $11O, 693, 80 for the nine months
ending September 30, 1890.
SEVERAL dispatches have been re-
ceived at the navy department recently
from Admiral Brown at Valparaiso,
Chilli. All indicate that matters are
gradually quieting down, and that the
junta is strengthening its hold upon it's
followers.
THE Laurel Hill Presbyterian church
at Uniontown, Pa, celebrated, on the
18th, the one hundredth anniversary of
the establishing of Presbyterianism
west of the Allegheny mountains.
About 400 ministers and members of
the church were present and the exer-
cises were very interesting.
COTTON exports from the United
States during September last aggre-
gated 227. 796 bales, valued at $40, S57, 345,
against 40, 100 bales valued at S21, ,094,-
$40 in September, 1890
FIRE, on the 18th, destroyed the Mer-
chants oil works, in West Cleveland,
O., entailing a loss of $50, 900, on which
there was an insurance of S12, 500. The
Acme grease works were also damaged
to the extent of $50, 900; insurance, $1O,-
900.
THE Presbyterian synod of Minnesota
adopted resolutions protesting against
the opening of the Worlds fair on Sun
day
THE Pennsylvania senate met on the
the 18th and listened to message from
Gov. Pattison in relation to the loose
financial methods of the state as dis
closed in the Bardsley investigation.
THE burning of dried vegetation on
the surface of Lake Yeoman, Indiana,
on the 18th, made the body of water ap-
pear a veritable sea of fire.
HENRY SANDFoRD, of Connecticut,
was elected president of the Adams
Express Co., to succeed John Hoey,
ousted for malfeasance.