Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-07-24
GEyERAL NEws NorEs.

without rencnlDg vote on the PORK
bill.
Rich petroleum deposits have
been discovered on the island Of
Santi, Greece.
Smallpox is 70 prevalent Ia Berliu
as to be nearly epidemic. a ma
jority Of the cases are Of malignant
type.
Thomas Mathews, Of Pullman,
Wash, was thrown from a lumber
wagon Wednesday by q runaway
team and fatally injured.
Osgood Smith, a lO-year old boy
Of Roseburg, Or, was drowned in
the Umpqua river Wednesday while
playing along the bank.
A young man named KnOHgh,
who has been working near Weston,
Or, disappeared few days ago,
aud 1t Is feared he has committed
suicide.
Willie Bowling, Of Starke, Fla,
was shot and killed Wednesday and
his father fatally wounded by
George Fulch. at country dance.
rhe shooting was the result of an
old feud.
Secretary Foster Wednesday
ordered the removal of Collector
Bradshaw, of the Puget sound dis
trict. There has been great deal
OF complaint recently about th'
Office which Bradshawe holds.
A train on the Hunt road, neai
Dayton, Wash, "Wednesday rau
over aud killed man who was
walking on the track. His name
was John Studer, a blacksmith who
was slightly demented.
William WEIGH, a yard brakeman
at Cumberland, Md, was caught on
train Wednesday and ground t,
pieces. He ls the fifth member oi
his family who has met a violent
death in few months.
Word was received at Folsom
prison Wednesday night that
Matthias Bluner, the murderer who
escaped last week, has been recap
tured by Constable O'Donnell al
Modesto.
j. b. Preiss, contractor, was
found guilty of arson, in burning
an unfinished building belonging t.
j. J. Ripping in Perrin colony, near
Fresno, Cal, last January. He was
sentenced to eight years at Folsom
A statement prepared at the post.
Office department shows that the
number Of offices IN the country on
June 80, 1891, to be a4,39l. First
class, 116; second-olass 500; third
class, ,2277; fourth class, 81 ,44S. This
is an increase of 200 during the
year.
Moses Scott, a citizen of Olympia,
WASH, disappeared sixteen years
ago, leaving considerable property.
He was thought to be dead, and his
stepmotber was about TO dispose of
his property when he suddenly re-
tnrned. He gives no reason for his
disappearance.
George S. Smith was shot and
killed in Alexandria, Va, Wednes-
day night by Jefferson Phillips.
They had some words about a
woman. Smith was one of Alexan-
drias most enterprising citizens,
and was for long time lieutenant
of the Capitol police force in WASH
ington, ID. u.
The negro Maudux, who was
wanted as witness In the case of
Ousley, murderer of George Ball in
Marysville, was taken Into custody
at Sacramento a few days ago. He
was gwen the liberty of the city
prison yard, not being regular
prisoner, but Wednesday night he
scaled tla wall and escaped.
Henry Ark, eXssecFetary of the
Coast Seamons' Union ut San Fran
cisco pleaded guilty of emoezzllng
$4,000 of funds OF the society, and
will be- sentenced next Saturday,
A charge Of embezslement and two
charges of forgery growing out of
the same transactions, are pleading
against Ark In the Same court.
The result Of the postmortem eK-
animation of the remains Of the late
James McHenry, of the Erie rail
road, whose life IL said to have been
heavily insured, and who was sup
posed to have died from poisoning
shows no grounds for suspecting
that MoHenry had been poisoned.
John IL. Maynard, was arrested
on the charge Of embez2lement pre-
ferred by his sister, Mrs. Helen Reid,
of Chicago. She alleges that he has
made way with $4,000 bonds of the
Contra Costa Water company,
which she entrusted 10 his care,
Samuel Alexander, n weaver In
the Dwight mills at Chicago deliber-
ately shot and killed James Nesbltt
ON the street Wednesday morning,
firing four shots, three Of which
took effect. Michael Markell, who
endeayored TO capture Alexander,
was shot twice la the leg,
Before any work could be done