The state capital., 1892-02-27

PERSONAL. AND GENERAL.

TIE dry goods store of the E. NJ. Nc
Glllin Co.. at Cleveland. O., was burned
on the night of the 18th, involving a
loss of at least 5000, 900; probably COW
cred by insurance. The building was 4
Superior and Seneca streets, and ex-
tending back to Long street.
A MIDDLE-AGED man registering as
John E, Dye, Somerset, Ky, was found
dead in bed at the Phoenix hotel, Lex
ington. KY, on the 18th. The gas had
been blown ont and filled the room
Dye belonged to the Knights of Pythias
and accompanied the Somerset delega-
ton to the anniversary celebl alton.
IN the Wyoming supreme court, on
the 18th, the application for a new
trial made on behalf of Charles Miller,
the notorious boy double murderer,
was denied, and he was for the second
time sentenced to be hanged. Friday,
April %, was fixed as the execution
day.
CASES of yellow fever are still occur
ring in Caracas. Venezuela, despite
every effort made by the sanitary au-
thorities to stamp out the disease.
On the morning of the 10th a sudden
darkness overspread st. Louis about
$50, and the city at once became dark
as midnight, causing an almost COM
plete suspension Of business for time.
r. w LoUTER, a bookkeeper for an
insurance company in Chicago. met
horrible death in one of the elevators
of the Rialto building on the 18th. He
was about to step off, when the ele-
vator shot up and he was caught be-
tween the top of the door and the ele-
vator frame and crushed to death. It
took half an hour to release his man
gled body,
ii. A. BRUINS, president of the Mer-
chants bank of Moorhead, Mimi, had
a preliminary examination, on the 18th,
on charge of embezzling $1,000. He
was discharged on the grounds that the
state supreme court has ruled that
in cases of copartnership like this, the
complaint as stated did not charge a
crime. Bruins is now free from all
legal charges.
CHARLES FOSTER, secretary of the
oath, on an extensive tour for his
health. Gen. John B. Hamilton, sur
geon of the marine hospital service, will
accompany him.
CHIEF ENGINEER Brooks, U. S. N,
has been placed on the retired list. to
date from March /.
PRINCE ALEXANDER of Battenberg,
now more generally known as Count
Hartenau, has made formal application
to the emperor of Austria for permis-
sion to accept pension of 80. 900 francs
a year recently voted him by the
sobranje of Bulgaria.
ONE MILLION DOLLARS in gold were
shipped to Europe from New York on
the goth.
A CHESS match will shortly be played
by telegraph between the Manhattan
Chess club, of New York, and the New
Orleans Chess, Checker and Whist club,
of the Crescent city.
LETTERS from ST. Luce, Fla, report
that Senator Quay, who is staying
there, is threatened with pneumonia.
His health has not been improved by
Ine cnanBe OF climate.
JUAN ANTONIO FLORES has been ar
rested in San Antonio, Tex, by a
deputy marshal and placed in Jail
charged with violation of the neutrality
laws He is said by the officers to be
Catarino Garzas chief lieutenant and
the Rio Grande. "Juan Antonio
Flores" is the name signed to the fiery
revolutionary proclamations which
were scattered through the troubled
districts.
DOMINION STATIsTICIAN JOHNSON ad-
vises Canadians to have nothing to do
with United States silver until the free
coinage question is settled by congress.
THE New York city banks now hold
$50, s57, $50 in excess of the requirements
of the 25 per cent. rule.
AARON HAMACHER, keeper in the
state prison at Jackson, Mich, convict
ed of furnishing clothing to several
prisoners and assisting them to escape,
has been sentenced to seven years i'm
prisonment-the full limit of the law.
THE man found dead beside the rail
road track at Braidwood. H., on the
Goth, proves to be Albert Nj. Howard,
Of Schenectady, n. Y. He WIS on his
way to Colorado Springs, Cei. At the
inquest it was shown he was blown off
the train while going from the sleeper
to the dining car. Howard was a past
and prelate of Brown Post,
6. A. r., of Schenectady, to which
place his body was sent.
THE ice gorge reached Pittsburgh,
Pa. on the 2lst, about daylight and
caused rise of three feet in an hour,
but the ice was badly broken by its
journey, and it passed down the Ohio
river without doing any damara