The state capital., 1892-09-17
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
THE Horton (Kas. Headlight, the Off
cial city paper, on the Sth, published
two tabulated reports of the city treas
urer, E. j. Byers, for the past two
wears, one made out by the old city
clerk, W. f. Lane, and one by the pres
ent incumbent, G. J. Prewett. 1t is
discovered that City Treasurer Byers is
short in his accounts with the city $4,-
roo.
REAR ADMIRAL GERHARDI, command
ing the North Atlantic squadron, was,
on the Sth, detached from that duty
and directed to proceed to San Fran
| cisco, where he will assume duties OF
commanding officer of the vessels on the
| Pacific station, and bring them around
to New York to participate in the grand
naval review on the occasion OF the
opening Of the Worlds fair.
In duel at Dadeville, Ala, on the
9th, growing out of a political dispute,
| Scott Pierson and Daniel White, local
political leaders, each emptied his re-
volver and both were fatally wounded.
| EIGHT men were killed and three IA
tally hurtin collision on the Clear
| field q Cambria railroad near Altoona,
Pa. on the oth A work train met an
upbound passenger train in deep cut
near Eckenrode's mills. The cut was
filled with wreckage. Engineer c. W.
Ferry and Fireman L. Parish of the
passenger were taken out dead.
REAR-ADMIRAL WALKER will have
command of the vessels of the North
Atlantic squadron ordered to Venezuela
during the trouble there. Admiral
Walker was. on the Sth, detached from
| command of the squadron of evolution
and directed to take charge of the YES
sells ordered south
THE British bark Salina. Capt. Peter
son, the first of the Greenland fleet tc
arrive this year, arrived at Philadel
phia on the sth. The captain said that
he had not heard of the steamer Kite
that went to the relief of Lieut.. Peary
and his party.
A NUMBER of disastrous thunder
storms have been reported from various
parts of Spain recently. Several per
sons have been killed by lightning
while damage has been done to crops II
the province of Granada.
THE nationalist congress which wa
to have been held at Mannheim, Ger
many, has been postponed on account
of the cholera.
THE Spanish authorities have ordered
all vessels arriving from London to b.
quarantined.
THE king and queen of Italy dis
played keen interest in the American
exhibits at the Columbus exposition a
E Genoa.
ERNEST HUFFcUTT of Bloomington
Ind, has been appointed secretary o
legation at st. Petersburg by Unite
States Minister White.
M.IE McDERLANDER, a Frencf
, woman who succumbed to cholera
at Paris, on the 10th, was
: model nurse She was the firs
y to volunteer and asked for tn
!. hardest post She took night duty an
@ had attended sixty patients. Whe
the doctor, finding she was wearin
herself out, ordered her to rest, sh
n burst INTO tears and begged to be a
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did till She was herself att:EcKeEt.
WILLIAM E. CALL, treasurer of the
knights of Pythias lodge of Gloucester,
| Mass. has been arrested on charge of
embezzlements
| THE officers of the Chinese Six Com
panies, located at San Francisco. have
issued proclamation calling upon the
Chinese in the United States to defy
the Geary law and refuse to register.
| They also demand, under threats, con
tribution of one dollar from each Chin
csc in the United States toward a
fund to be used in testing the constltu'
tionality of the law.
PROF HAFFKINE, of the Pasteur in
stitutc. in Paris, who discovered the
anti-cholera vaccine" declares that ex-
periments on himself and DR.. Jawein
of st. Petersburg, prove that the vac
cine is without danger to health, and
that it gives immunity from cholera
six DAYS after incubation.
SENATOR GIRARD, aged IS, died a.
Winnepeg, Man, on the 18th, after
, short illness. He had represented
Manitoba in the Dominion govern
ment for many years.
, THE North Greenland expedition, lin
der Lieut.. Peary, for the safety o
/ which so much anxiety has recent,
been felt. returned to st. Johns n. f.
on the 10th, with all on board safe ans
we'll except DR.. Verhoeff, who was los
while absent from the ship making SCI
entiic Investigations.
THE decline of the cholera in Russia
l shown by recent official figures, was onl
: temporary. The number of new case
1 and deaths is again on the increase.
e TIE Portsmouth Chronicle, the old
est newspaper in New Hampshire
@ bolts the nomination OF eX-Senato
n Blair for congress.
: REV. DR.. TALMAGE is suffering fror
I insomnia resulting from incessan
+ preaching and the fatigue of his III
; ropean tour.
AT the request of the deceased, tn
Quaker form of service was observe
ut the funeral of the late John {
Whittier.
$ DR.. ELMER LEE. an American ph,
d sieian from Chicago, is in st. Peter
le burg making study of cholera, wit
Is especial reference TO precautlona1
1t measures in case the scourge shoul
y break out in the United States
se In prize fight near Northampton
le England, on the 18th, between
soldier named Playson and boo
maker named Langley, the latter w;
y so horribly battered that he died of h
> injuries.
le THE Berlin correspondent of Il
st London Times expresses the opinie
81 that the new German military bill
ID will involve an expenditure of on
m so, 900, 600 marks.
d. IT appears as if all immigrants land'
at Ellis island will be obliged to rema
in New York, as the railroad and steal