The state capital., 1892-10-15

ingmen the day preceding that set for
the Worlds fair dedicatory exercise is
said to be among the probabilities:
Two NEW cases of cholera were re-
ported from Ironton, near Tonawanda,
n. Y, on the 7th, and the excitement
there was tense.
JAMES LINDSAY, of Blythebo urne, n.
Y, quarreled with his wife, on the 9th,
and went out and threw himself in
front of an approaching train and was
instantly killed.
CREpo has announced his determine
tion to enter Caracas.
A TRIP TO Niagara Falls and Lewiston
marked the close of the formal pro-
gfamiiae. Of the second real estate con-
gress, which ended its session in Buff
falo, n. Y, on the 7th
REPORTS from Santos, Brazil, to a
Philadelphia merchant reveal n sad
story of yellow fever at that seaport in
South America. An epidemic has been
raging there for months, and the dead
have been piled in trenches of great
length. 1t is claimed that more victims
have been swept away in and around
Santos than have died in central Eu-
rope from the cholera plague.
FREDERICK FRIsCH, one of the leading
cotton men of New Orleans, was arrest
ed on the Tth, for embezzling $4,000
Frisch has been the New Orleans rep
resentative of the large cotton house of
Gassner & Co. of Liverpool. He has
occupied the position of manager of the
firms business at this end for some
time and has been noted for the bold
ness of his operations.
john WILLIAMS, colored, who killed
j. +. Henncinan, the mayor Of Spar
tansburg, s. c., on Sunday, September
old colored girl. who killed the 1-year-
old infant Of w. c. Carpenter, of Gaff-
| ney City, in June last we're hanged on
the same scaffold at Spartansburg on
the 7th.
NOTWITHSTANDING the repeated ar
| rests of dishonest employees of the New
York post office, thieving goes steadily
on there On the 7th two more clerks
were captured by the post-office in
spectors.
MINISTER. I.lacot.N is on his way homsl
| The outlook for the coming w1nue71
| among the poor and bereaved Of Ham
| burg is very gloomy The money thus
| far subscribed for the relief of distress
| caused by the cholera has already been
entirely spent with very little visible
result. The need Of an organized sys-
| tenn of relief is urgent, and unless
| something in that line is speedily ac-
| complished, famine will follow the
| plague.
The comptroller OF the currency has
| declared fourth dividend of 25 per
cent in favor Of the creditors of the
State national bank of Wellington,
Kas. This makes 100 per cent on
claims proved amounting to S56,G72.
IT is probable that the Morton resi-
| dence in Washington may be purchased
for the French legation, in which case
| occupy their handsome New York resi-
dence during the coming winter.
THE order of Vesta an organization
which differed from the Iron Pall only
in the moderation of it's promises of
! profit, made an assignment, on the Sth,
| for the benefit of it's creditors
GEN. MILES, on the Sth, sent telegraph
instructions to Col Wade, commandant
| at Fort Reno, l. T., to send what troops
| were needed to suppress riotous disturb
anees in the Choctaw nation.
The revolutionist Crespo, on the Sth,
entered Caracas, the Venezuelan capi-
| tal at the head of his victorious army
$4,000 strong He was proclaimed pro-
visional president.
MAYOR GRANT of New York has
vetoed franchise for the use of the
trolley system in the streets of that
| city.
/ THE shaft for the Columbus monu-
ment in New York was successfully
I raised and placed in position on the 9th.
1t is a single stone twenty-seven feet
I high, four feet in diameter at the base,
and weighs thirty-six tons. 1t rests on
a base built up twenty feet from the
4 ground, and with the statue added will
be seventy eight feet high.
| WEIPERT's machine works at He'll
'bronn, Germany, were burned, Oh the
10th, with a loss of 81 900, 000
A On the 9th Benjamin johnson, mem
ber of the congregation of st. Matthew's
German Lutheran church, Hoboken, n.
j., became suddenly deranged in the
middle of services and created a panic
in the church. He jumped to his feet,
threatened to kill the congregation and
drew revolver johnson was arrested
and locked up.
The agricultural departments
monthly report for wheat gives the
state averages of yield per acre rang
ing from six to twenty-five bushels and
averaging thirteen bushels.
The question of making Camp Low,
Sandy Hook, permanent federal quar-
antine station has been practically set
tied by the announcement that. on the
recommendation of Surgeon-General
,Wyman, permanent buildings will be
erected of sufficient strength and suita-
lble capacity to contain a complete
misunderstanding plant
CHESTER GRIssEMER, a real estate
broker of Tacoma. Wash, died, on the
9th, at the Philadelphia hospital from
the supposed effects of opium poisoning
that it is believed was administered to
him in low lodging house to which
he had been taken by designing cab
driver. and where he was robbed of his
valuabies
THE steamer Premier was run down
and sunk near Whitby island, on tho
Pacific coast, by the collier steamer
Willamette. on the night of the Sth.
Three persons were killed outright and