The state capital., 1892-08-20

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celebrated 'ner 1o4trr th cir efforts
14th.
JUDGE GRESHAM emphatically denies
that he will take the stump for the
peoples party in Indiana during the
campaign.
REV. FATHER HUMPHREY, known as
the "Patriot Priest" and others ac-
cused of riot at Tipperary during the
recent elections in Ireland, failed to
appear, stn the 18th, befor-> the magis-
trates ta answer to the summons
served upon them, and warrants were
issued for their arrest.
GEN. w. j. Hustled, who hs d been i'll
ever since his return to Peel1sAiu, n. Y,
from the Minneapolis convention, was
reported on the 18th, to tc very low.
JENNIE TABOR, of Hudson, Mich. con-
fessed on the 18th, to having put twenty
dynamite bombs in the parlor organ in
order to kill her brothers and sisters.
GEORGE T. LAUGHLIN. an assistant
professor in the Massachusetts, institute
of technology, was drowned while
swimming off Lynn beach on the 14th.
He was only % years old, and extremely
bright and popular.
THE new British ship Thracian
foundered off the Isle of Man on the
18th. Her entire crew, numbering
twenty-five, together with the captain S
wife, were lost.
THE Costa Rican congress has ratified
the reciprocity treaty with the United
States. While duties are removed from
various fresh and dried articles of food,
a high tax remains upon canned goods.
THEODORE LENTERN, of Chicago. who
recently moved on to farm he had pur-
chased near La Porte, Ind, was killed,
on the 14th by being dragged about 80
| rods by runaway horse. The deceased
was about 35 years old, and leaves a
wife and two children.
| e. ]. MURPHY. representing the Kan
sas Artificial Rain Co, of Goodland,
Kas., arrived at Elk City, Kas., on the
| 14th, and under an $500 contract com
| menced operations on the Wedell
mound, / mile north of town. Clouds
| began to gather in three or four
| hours. and at o'clock a few drops OF
rain fell. 1t then cleared off, but clouds
formed again on the morning Of the
| 18th, and heavy rain fell.
A FINE model of the battlc-ship Ore
gon has been prepared at the Washing
ton navy-yard under the supervision OF
Naval Constructor Hichborn, who is
now in charge of the bureau of con-
struction ard repair, in the absence OF
| Chief Constructor Wilson. This model
will be sent to the coming exposition in
| Portland, Ore.
Ten THOUSAND people attended the
early settlers picnic at Dubuque, Ia,
on the 18th, and arrangements were
made for the erection of monument
over the grave of Julian Dubuque, &C
whom Baron Carondelet, the Spanish
governor of Louisiana, gave grant OF
/ laItd in ITS.
PouLTNEY BIGELow, the American
artist and correspondent who was re-
Gently expelled from Russia, got into a
fight with some Polish rivermen who
exncted tolls, He whipped the crowd
and then had them arrested.
Mrs. n. Z. BEAsLEY, of Chicago, Is
the Inventor of a grain pipe line fol
carrying small grain. Tho projeot Il
still In its incipieney, but M:s. Heaaley
Ia confident Of the final success OF tho
invention,
PRoF. JAMES LAwnEAD, territorial
auditor and superintendent of instrnc
ton, died at Guthrie. Okla, on the 18th
aged go. He had Deen very prom /
nent educator ali his life, and helt
many prominent nnsitions in Kansas
| snd Ohio before ge:gg to Oklahoma,