The state capital., 1891-07-04

LIEUT.-CoM GEORGE A. norris, or
the United States steamship Omaha
died at San Francisco. on the Goth, of
pneumonia. He was born in Maine
and graduated from the naval academy
in 1866.
THE Central Statistical society of st.
Petersburg announces that in Decem-
ber last the inhabitants of that empire
| numbered 10. 900, 900, showing an an
nual increase of 100000.
By the stoppage of the Welsh tin.
plate works 100000 boxes of tin. plate
will be kept off the ket, the aver.
age consumption being 1000, 900 boxes
a month.
SECRETARY NOBLE has appointed
Hon. III. c. Hallam, of Illinois, to he as
sistant chief clerk of the pension office,
vice Green B. Raum, Jr., resigned
ADvICEs from Santiago, Argentin
Republic, are to the effect that the re
cent peaceable revolution in that
| province is supported by all it's in
| fuential citizens. Troops have been
dispatched to the scene by the govern
| ment. A commission has also been
sent to the province to arrange the diff.
| ficulty.
WIN Ok and his wife, Di Toy, cut then
| tongues out in an underground den in
the Chinese quarter of Sacramento,
Cal, on the 30th. Ok bled to death and
the woman will probably die of her in.
juries The pair were old and poor,
and for the past two years the China.
| - fo,1 T.
had to give up work.
| KILBURN ]. BROWN, a sleeping-ca1
conductor between Montreal and Bos-
ton, has been arrested for smuggling
goods into the United States by conceal
ing them in the pillow boxes of his
car. 1t is said that the frauds have
been very extensive.
THE British Official Gazette announces
that, by order of her majesty, the name
of Sir William Gordon-Cumming bas
been stricken from the list of the dep
uty lieutenants of Elginshire, Scotland
C. d. EVANS, compiler of the Mem
phis and the Philadelphia city direc
tories, was found dead in his room a.
| Memphis, Tenn, on the night of the
3Oth A vial, supposed to have con
tanned poison, was on table near hi;
bed, and suicide is inferred.
THE surprise of the day in Boston, OF
the 30th, was the failure of J. M. Hill
the widely-known theatrical manager
and restaurauter of Boston. The liza
bilities are said to be very large.
| The fires in the seven large glas.
| factories at Muncie, Ind, went out, or
| the 30th, for the annual two months
vacation, which the 500 employees will
spend in reinvigorating their system:
and fresh-airing their lungs after theil
ten months service with the blow
pipes.
The United States steamship Aler'
left Victoria, B. c., for Behring sea or
the 3Oth. She is in command of Lieut.
Wainwright Coal and supplies for the
warships have been shipped on the
steamer Costa Rica.
THE Southern Passenger association
has made the rate of one lowest first
class fare for the round trip to the ma
tional G. A. r. encampment in Detroit,
Mich, in August. The Boston Passen
ger association has made a rate of S1i
from Boston to Detroit and return, Au
gust $50.
AT Magdalena, N. NJ, on the 3Oth, w
B. Newberry and w. V. Nolan, promi
nent cattlemen, quarreled. Newberry
began firing at Nolan and two shots
took effect in the groin. Nolan returned
the fire with Wincester. the SECOND
shot passing through the heart, anc
| Newberry fell dead.
| REPORTS from various portions OF
western Oklahoma go to assure i'm
mense crops of wheat cotton and corn
The wheat crop is being threshed an6
is yielding from fifteen to thirty bushels
to the acre. Corn is insured by recent
rains and is already in the ear The
cotton crop, it is estimated, will yiele
from half to bale per acre.
THE friends and trustees of kenyon
college, the old and wealthy Episcopa
institution at Gam bier, o., are greatly
excited over the discovery that S21, ZOO
of the endowment fund has been usec
to meet the running expenses of the
college. For several years the treas
urer's reports have shown small def
ciencies, but no one was aware that the
trust funds had been impaired.