The state capital., 1892-09-17


Folkestone, England, on the 18th.
Ar 1.3() a. m. of the 18th the German
empress gave birth to a daughter, the
first daughter born to the imperial
couple
MISS CLARIssA CALDWELL 'LATHRoP,
Of New York. founder and national or
ganizer Of the Lunacy Reform Law
league. died in Saratoga on the 18th.
SENATOR DAVID B. HILL, Of New |
York. has purchased. for $4,000, the
mansion in Albany, n. ~, Of the late
]. X. Fritz Emmett, and will make 1t
his home.
AN archbishop from Rome will soon
reach the United States and remain a
year to compile statistics as to the
growth Of the Roman Catholic church
in this country.
THE 9th, being the forty second an
niversary of the admission Of Calltor-
MIA into the union, as state, all busi-
ness was suspended in San Francisco
and general holiday was observed.
AUDITOR AcKERMAN's report of the
X Worlds fair finances. made public on
the 9th, shows receipts to August 81
$40, ,4l5, ,O44.65. and expenditures to the
same date, ss, 743, 1922. Balance, 81
65T T,2G5.43.
A DISPATCH from India brings the
important intelligence that the Rus
al Do ri,.r
and thus removed the danger OF war
with China, and also with Great Britain
and Afghanistan.
A. M. JOSEPH. who for eight years
has represented the territory Of New
Mexico as a delegate in congress, was
renominated by acclamation by the
democratic territorial convention IN
Santa Fe on the 10th.
RECEIVER FAILEY cf the order OF the
Iron Hall, has entered suit for $4,000
against Mark G. Davis, ex-supreme
cashier Of the order, alleging that he
has converted that much Of the orders
funds to his own use.
On the 9th every mill in the city of
-~ssiarinettc. Wis. was closed One thou
sand men struck for ten hours day a t
the present paw. They had been work
ing twelve hours All saloons were
closed by order of the mayor.
THOMAS HARRINGTON, Of Brooklyn,
has begun suit against the president of
Nyack village. n VI claiming $1,000
damages for the death Of his brother
John j.. who was burned to death in
the Nyack lookup some months ago.
OK the 18th the general term of the
supreme court Of Kings county. n. T..
vacated the temporary injunction OBJ
tanned by the board Of health OF the
town Of Islip restraining Gov. Flower
from using Fire island as a quarantine
station.
THE~wlIl Of the late George William
Curtis, ~. New Yorlx.s has been offered
for probate. 1t directs that ayy his |
estate be given absolutely to rs wife. |
Anna Shaw Curtis whom he appoints
his sole execntrix. No approximate
estimate can be obtained Of the E-alue
Of the estate.
On the sth Jersey Lightning Zim-
mcrman took three records away from
Il. J. Osmond, the crack English bicycle
rider, at Springfield, Mass. He started
for the five-mile record. and in doing SO
lowered the three mile, four mile and
five mile records. His time was: 7:15 4-5,
9:4l and 1912 As.
IT,, l. 1hDff
has virtually abdicatcd the Dominion
premiership. His rooms at the Vic
toria chambe in Ottawa, have been
given up, and all his personal effects
have been sent to Montreal, indicating
that he does not intend to return to the
former city as premier
A NEW difficulty in tic way of pro-
viding for the comfort and safety OF
the imprisoned passengers on the quar-
antined vessels at New York developed
On the 18th, when the landing of the
steamer Cephus, at Fire island, with
the passengers from the Normannia
was resisted by armed deputies.
AT the Dominion Trade and Labor
congress held in Toronto, Ont, on the
18th, resolutions were adopted in favor
of municipalities owning all electric
light plants, waterworl1s, ferries and
street railways, and the federal gov
ernment owning and controlling all
railways, telegraph and telephone
lines.
THE advisory committee of the
Amalpamated association reported, on
the 18th. that the men were yet salts
fed with the progress Of the strike at
Homestead. Pa, and content TO fight It
out on the present lines for weeks.
Meantime the mills are being success
fully operated with non-union en-
rloycs.
ROBERT j. GODFREY, supreme treas
urcr Of the Order Of Solon, was held
for court, in Pittsburgh, Pa. on th'
9Th charged with embezzling the funds
o.f the order: and ex-Supreme PrcsiGen
John M Ball and Supreme Secretary
A. s. Mundorf were held on the charg'
of conspiring to conceal the suprem'
treasurers shortage.
LIEUT.. PEARY's expedition, recent.
returned from the Arctic regions
planted the Stars and Stripes at tn
highest point yet reached on the cas-
coast of Greenland, s3 deg. n. lat, 3
deg. W. long. The old flag was raises
on the Fourth Of July, and the opel
water discovered was named Independ
ence bav in honor of the day.
The Turkish government has az
ouiesced in the claim of the Unite
States for protection to the America
missionaries at Bourdour, in the prov
ince of Konia, Asia Minor, and repars
tion for the injuries to the person an
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