The state capital., 1892-07-02

tv. Ind, was killed by binder on the
14th. His team ran away and he fell
in front of the knives, from which he
received fatal injuries.
ADv1cEs from Chin Tu, China, convey
the intelligence of the death from chol-
era of the wife of DR.. Kilburn, medical
missionary of the Methodist church.
She was the daughter of Prof. James
Fowler, of Kingston, Ont, and was
married last August.
AN election was held in Fort Wayne,
Ind, on the 18th, to vote on an appro-
priation of S15O, 900 in aid Of the Find
! Law, Fort Wayne & Western Railroad
| Co. in consideration that it's shops be
| located in that city. The measure was
defeated by majority of 500 votes.
Mr.. W. II. WILSON, the well-known
horseman of Cynthiana, Ky, who had
been ill at Cincinnati for a few days,
died on the 14th at the Cincinnati hos
pital. His trouble was obstruction OF
! the bowels surgical operation was
nerformed for his relief, but too late to
save his life.
Mrs. S. A. THEIR and her daughter,
Mrs. David Brown, of Attlca, lnd.,
were struck by a Chicago q Illinois
Central freight train as they were
crossing the track in buggy on the
18th. Mrs. Thier was killed instantly,
and Mrs. Brown was fatally injured.
SHERIFF HERzoG of Ashland county,
O., who has been living at a SIC, 900 rate
on a 81 900 salary, has met the usual
end, and is ss, 900 short in his accounts,
and has departed for parts unknown.
Ex-Gov. NEWTON BOOTH died sudden
ly at Sacramento, Cal, on the 18th. Tie
; was formerly resident of Terre Haute
: Ind
, DURING a severe wind storm, on the
2 night of the 14th, the amphitheater a
the State Fair grounds at Des MONIES
Ia, was completely demolished. 1t was
v a two-story building, with a seating
: capacity of 10000. Loss, $4,000; insur
e ance. S., 900. A new and better build
n ing will be erected at once.
d Four sons of Christopher A. Ball
e thrifty farmer living near Princes
n Anne. Md, were drowned while bath
:. ing in the Manokim river on the 10th
They were aged 16, Is, II and 10 year
Y respectively.
n WIN. GILpIN, JR., eldest son of eS
: Gov Gilpin, of Colorado, lost his life
v on the 10th, by falling from bluff int
e the South Platte river, near point Q
a the South Fork railroad known as III
y Crossing The boy was hunting wat
u several companions when he missed n
n footing. His neck was broken by tt
fall. Young Gilpin was II years
age.
VI VI THE small steamer Dixie was sun
10 . in collision on the river at Burial
~ N. Y, on the 10th, with the steam
nc Pilgrim. Her passengers and GREY
n ~ twenty-five persons in all, jump'
e hurredly into the water where th'
th ! sustained themselves with such hoa
nc and pieces of wreck as they cou
er catch until they were picked up.
FRANK RoLLIN, a prisoner IN t
Ohio penitentiary, sent up last nj
e from Ottawa county for burglar
80 hanged himself, on the night OF I
- nth, in his cell by a cloth string
- tached to wire fastened to his .
az hook. In his stocking was found
!, letter confessing that in 1883 he a
- Samuel Potts murdered man IN Sa
-ha nav, Mich, but giving no names.
yer Mr.. j. COLEMAN DRAYToN, son-in-l
In. Of the late William Astor, OF New fo
I'M has taken a cottage on Mount Des
,av street. Bar Harbor, Me-, where he v
- spend the season with his children.