The state capital., 1891-10-31
NE VS. AND NOTES,
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

was intrustcd.
AT meeting of the directors of the
American Tln-plate Co. held at Ander.
son, Ind, on the 23d. contracts for the
erection of the buildings and furnish
ing machinery for the new factory a,
Elwood were let. Work on the exca
vation has begun, and the contracts re.
quirc the factory, which will employ
LOCO men, to be ready to run by March
| next.
The longboat belonging to the
French training ship Austerlitz, ant
manned by twelve boys and two quar-
termasters of that vessel, was capsized
| when in dangerous spot at the en-
trance of the harbor of Brest, on the
23d, and all hands narrowly escaped
drowning. They were found later
clinging to the overturned boat.
THE steamship Wisconsin, Of the
Guion line. which left New York for
Liverpool. on the 18th. and about whose
safety there was some uneasincss, ar
rived at Queenstown on the 23d.
ACTING SECRETARY SPAULDING has
directed the collector of customs at San
Francisco to commence both criminal
and civil proceedings against Bernard
Reiss for opium smuggling.
THE number of cases of diphtheria in
Mansfield, O., is estimated at over 100.
There are also a great number OF cases
of scarlet fever. A great many deaths
have occurred.
MINISTER EGAN has been instructed
to demand of the Chilian government:
First, an indemnity in money to be paid
to the families of the dead sailors of
the Baltimore and to the families OF
such of the wounded rs may die; sec
participants in the assault, and, third,
suitable apology to the United States.
The tone of the dispatch indicates that
the administration will brook no delay
in securing settlement of the matter.
The situation is regarded as one of eX-
treme gravity.
GEN. JOHN PALMER, commander-in-
chief Of the grand army, will issue an
order. after the November campaign.
forbidding members parading in pro-
cessions where confederate flags are
carried.
THE name of John r. Glenn, ex-
mayor of Atlanta, Ga, has been pre-
sented 20 the president for appointment
to one of the vacancies in the interstate
commission.
THE Cork McCarthyites have selected
Martin Flavin, a merchant, to contest
the scat made vacant by Parnell' S
death
A FIRE in the stables at the Council
Bluffs (Ia.) driving park, on the 23d,
resulted disastrously, several of the
horses being burned to death. Heavy
losers are. II. Sweet, S23. 900: Searls &
Ellsworth. So, 900, and Chamberlain. of
Denver, $1,000. The driving park asso-
citation is also heavy loser
The verdict of the coroners jury in
the case of the negro, Smith, taken
from the Omaha (Neb.) Jail and hanged
by mob, is that Smith was fright
ened to death by unknown persons"
JUDGE LEA, of Little Rock, overruled
the demurrer in the case of ex-Treas-
urer Woodruff, of Arkansas, and the
trial of the case began on the goth.
THE president, it is understood, will
treat the matter of pauper Immigration
with some vigor in his forthcoming an
nual message to congress.
THE Ulster Ureland) linen trade is
SO prosperous that the wages of en-
ployes have been voluntarily increased
by the employers.
The company and technical staff of
the famous Meiningin Court theater
sailed from Germany for New York on
the oath.
ISAAC TERKOwsKI Russian Jew inn
migrant when questioned by the in
spectors at the landing bureau in New
York, on the 25th, as to his financial
ability to take care of himself, greatly
surprised the barge office officials by
producing belt from around his body
and taking therefrom SO, 50o-St, 500 in
cash and the remainder in letters of
credit. He was passed.
THE astounding discovery has been
made that Wheeling, w. Va, has been
for four years absolutely without police
rules and regulations. Four years ago
the city police board was abolished, but
the ordinance transferring its powers to
the police committee failed to reordain
the existing police rules. AS result
the police have been acting without
legal authority or regulation.
In the celebration of Archbishop
KenriclS's golden jubilee in st. Louis,
in December next, in accordance with
circular issued by James +. Coffey,
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Catholic children attending the public
schools will be excluded from partici-
patton in the ceremonies. Some of the
priests who have no parochial schools
are quite indignant in consequence.
THE total exports Of coffee from San.
tos, Brazil, for the eight months of 1891
amounted to 1,63S, 9Sl bags, of which
431, 22s were sent to the United States
and 1,2OS, 1873 to Europe. This is a large
increase over 1890. during the same
period of which the exports to the
United States amounted to 213, 1875 bags
and to Europe s31, s36 bags.
Mrs. ELIZA HARPLE, a steerage pas
senger, was held by customs inspectors
in New York, on the 25th, on charge
of attempting to smuggle jewelry, qnan-
titles of which she had concealed about
her person and that of her infant She
had with her $4,000 in cash. She had
run away from her husband in Ger.
many, it is said
A SPECIAL train, consisting of sleep
er and baggage car, with the "Still
Alarm company on board, made the
run over the Kansas City & st. Joe
road from ST. Louis to Pacific Junction
on the 25th, distance of Ill miles, in
lls minutes, including four stops of two
minutes each. The run was made in
order to secure desired westward con
nection.
Mrs. Booth CLAIBORNE, the leader OF
the Salvation Army in France and Swift
zerland, and her secretary. Nine Pyron