The state capital., 1891-08-29

S. b. TURNER. Manager.
SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS
Hon. JOHN INGLEs, lord justice-gen-
eral of Scotland, died on the Goth, aged
81 years.
THE treasury department has decided
that yacht purchased in England oy
i. w. Vanderbilt and by him brought
to New York, is dutiable under fair
of the tariff law.
OFFICIAL advices received in London,
on the goth, announce that the cyclone
which visited Martinique on the 18TH
was the most severe since the year
1917. Fully sixty lives were lost.
THE Bourse Gazette Of St Peters
burg, announces that the Russian gov
ernment has ordered the confiscatlon
of all grain intended for export If
found to contain more than S per cent.
of rye.
THE Vermont legislature met in spe-
cial session, on the 25th, the disposition
of the direct tax refund and the ques-
ton of increasing the states approprla-
tion for the Chicago fair being the chief
questions to be acted upon.
ARIBI PAsHA, weary of his exile IN
Ceylon, meditates a return to Egypt
The Egyptian government has notlfied
the British representative at Cairo that
if he returns he will at once lose MS
pension of $3.50 a month and his head.
THE Kreuse Zeitung of Berlin prom
ises a series of articles on the Russo
French entente and the feverish excite
ment prevailing in France, and de-
clares that it sees the coming Of storm
which, however, Germany is fully pre-
pared to meet.
ACUTE trichinosis prevails at Muhlau
near Plauen, Saxony. Many people
are i'll, and several have died from eat
ing infected pork, evidently Of Ger
man breeding. The local inspector o.
meats has been dismissed from ONCE
and prosecuted.
THE news Of the fighting in Chill hao
a favorable influence upon the LondoI
stock exchanges on the 25th. Chilia1
bonds advanced slightly in price. Ih'
feeling prevails that the struggle s.
disastrous to Chilli is about to be ende'
by decisive battle.
PRESIDENT GoMPERs of the Amerlcal
Federation of Labor, has issued a
open letter to all labor corporation
asking them to assist the Natlona
Ouarrymen's union in forcing the ston
cut bv McClenahan Bros, Of Port Dc
post, Md, out of the market
SIR GEORGE BADEN POWELL, n
British sealing commissioner, wh
writes from the Pribylov islands undt
date Of August 5, says: "We have IL
spectcd all the rool1eries on the Prib.
low islands. Fifty schooners have bee
warned and several arrested
The report that France and Russ
w. had virtually agreed that in the ever
of victory over Germany they woul
have Schleswig conveyed to Denmarl
has caused considerable comment
Berlin, where the war feeling has bee
running high for some time past.
TIE aggregate receipts of wool
Boston since January 1, 1891, have bee
354, 96S bales domestic and 126,O72 bal
foreign, against 3]1,656 bales domest
and 70, $50 bales foreign for the san
time in 1890 This is an increase of A.
GA bales domestic and of 1858 bal
foreign.
ACTING SECRETARY NETTLETON n
decided that when letter is suppos
to contain dutiable matter and the
dressee refuses to open it in the pre-
ence of a customs officer it should, aft
being retained at the post office for
proper period, be sent to the dead IL
ter office.
On the 22d Secretary Noble direct
the commissioner Of Indian affairs
instruct Indian Agent Bennett OF t
Union agency, I. r., to seize all pac
ages of beer that came into the lndl
territory and to turn them over to t
United States marshal to be libeled L
der the revised statutes
THE London Standards ST. Pete
burg correspondent says that Unit
States Minister Charles Emory Smi'
acting under instructions from Wa
ington, has requested an lntervl
with the Russian minister OF the
terror to discuss the question OF
emirration of Russian Jews to Am
lea.
IT is said that the French publ
tions in regard to the kaiser's allei
misconduct on the yacht Hohenzoll'
have been called to the latters not
but he has refused with dlsdain to
ANYTHING about them 1t is certa
however, that he is very angry on
subject, and that they have affected
sentiments toward France.
The crisis in the Berlin cabi
awaits the action of the kaiser, Y
has not yet signifed his purpose,
the impression continues that Dr. \
uel will have his way and secure
repeal of the corn laws. The ka
has beq1 growing colder tow
Caprivi, while he is more friendly
Count Waldersee, from whom he
for some time apparently estranged
MEssRs. BUTTERwoRTH, Handy
Peck, of the foreign commission of
Columbian fair commission, have
satisfactory interviews with the
sian ministers of foreign affairs
e.,oo ,,,,on +ba Suhieet Of RuSs