The state capital., 1892-06-11

cook who was under arrest charged
with putting poison in the food at the
| Wooten house, has been held to await
the action of the grand jury
AUSTIN PORTER a wife murderer. was
taken from the jail at Grayson, XIV, by
a mob, at l o'clock on the morning of
the 9Th, and hanged to a railroad
bridge.
THE Baptist ministers of New York
have voted confidence in Rev. Thomas
Dixon, now under arrest for libeling an
excise commissioner
| DIR. BUCHANAN, OF New York city.
was arrested on the 9Th, charged with
killing his wife by poison,
On the 9th the famous Mrs Josephine
Ammon died in Cleveland, O.. of ulcera-
tion of the bowels. Her career had
been an exceptional one. She became
famous throughout Ohio five years ago.
when Judge Hamilton committed her
to jail for contempt in refusing to an
swer questions in the celebrated Josie
Balm habeas corpus case. She renamed
in prison forty-one days before she
yielded.
BOILER exploded in the tile works
of Kinsey, Caughill & Co.. near Ada
vile, Ind, on the 9th, and Daniel Tay-
lor, James Caughill and Bert Roller
were killed. George Williams was ia
tally injured. Caughill had only been
married three weeks. The others leave
families.
NEARLY 1000 men resumed work at
the large Spreckles sugar refineries in
Philadelphia, on the 9Th, after shut
down of nearly three months General
Manager Peterson says they will at
once put new sugar on the market
again at such prices as they deem re-
munerative, without reference to any
prices any trust may be disposed to die
tate
AT the Hills stone-quarries near
Greencastle, Ind, on the 9th, fright
full accident occurred, caused by the ex-
plosion of twenty-fve-pound case OF
powder Charles Williams was killed
and John Williams and Fred Goddard
were seriously injured.
The rebuilding of ,Jimtown, Col,
destroyed by fire on the 5th, will not
take tangible shape until the insurance
on the burnt town is adjusted. A
search of the ruins reveals no skeletons
and the reports of loss of lives were
pure fabrication. The loss of property
is still estimated at 81, 900, ,OOO
CLARK's mill-dam. at Union City, Pa.
burst, on the night of the 9Th, and
wall of water swept through the town.
carrying thirty houses from their foun-
dations, and while many persons were
badly hurt, none lost their lives Hun
dreds of horses and cattle were drowned.
By the explosion of a coal-oil stove at
j JetfcrsOnville, Ind, on the evening of
the 5th, Misses Lizzie Davidson and
Katie McCann We're badly burned about |
their faces, waists and arms.
CHESTER HEITzMAN, of Logansport,
Ind. whose left leg was cut off by
Panhandle train, has compromised his |
suit of $4,000 against the company by |
accepting $4,000 in cash.
MARGARET ELLEN CLARK. a lady well |
known in Dubuque, Ia, for thirty |
years, fell down stairs, on the 5th, and |
broke her neck. Death was almost in
otf IL ohiICouS. CllC was UIlt udugnUer Oh
Engineer John Clark, of the Chicago,
& st. Paul railway.
Two SHOCKS of earthquake were felt
1T midnight on the 9Th at Canosa, a
5own in the Province of Bari, thirteen
niles southwest of Barletta, Italy.
The shocks were felt at Rome. though
lOt SO severely.
A LARGE number of the victims of
he Oil City and Titusville (Pa) horror
we're buried, on the 7th, with impress
i've ceremonies. 1t was estimated that
he list Of - dead would reach about
UU.
Mis-. AGNES FRIEAG, of New York,
committed suicide, on the 7th, rather
han be dispossessed of her home, the
ent of which, her husband being out
# work, she could not pay
A CYCLONE at Emmettsburg, Ia, on
he 18th. destroyed the Burlington.
'edar Rapids & Northern depot and
everal other buildings
THE English excursion steamer Alert
vas wrecked, on the 7th, on the JERSEY
Sland coast. A panic ensued. but all
n board were saved.
The emperor of Germany and the car
f Russia met at Keil on the 7th.