The state capital., 1892-02-13


his wife are visiting Washington and
staying at the Riggs house. During the
senator's absence from the hotel a few
nights ago, and while Mrs. Bowen was
at dinner, some one entered their room
and stole diamond iewelry valued at
81. .60O There is no clew to the thief.
The United States senate in execu-
tive session, on the 8th, confirmed the
nomination of Rathbun TO be post
master at Elmira, N. Y, vice Flood, re
moved. This is the nomination which
Senator Hill has been opposing.
TIE editor of the Financial Observer
of London, has been sentenced to two
months imprisonment for libel.
ANDREW CARNEGIE, the iron king,
delivered sermon in a Unitarian
church IN New York, on the 7th, on
1.-The Gospel of Wealth"
Four anarchists, sentenced to death
for participation in the recent attempt
made to sack the town of Neres, Spain.
were execute ed in public at o'clock on
the morning of the 10th.
| AN unsuccessful attempt to extort
money from widows landed in the OF.
tumwa Qa.) jail, on the sth, Harry
Beatty, 1s, and Bick Bidwell, "a years
of age Their scheme had been to write
threatening letters to widows with COM
Portable allowances. declaring that I'M
less money was forthcoming they would
burn or dynamite their homes.
COUNSEL for Lille johnson, who is
charged with the murder of Freda Ward
in Memphis, Tenn, in conjunction with
Alice Mitchell, applied to Judge Dubose,
on the 8th, for a writ of habeas corpus.
with a view to having their client adj
mitted to bail. The writ was granted
and made returnable on the 18th.
JAMES O'FALLoN, of Leavenworth,
Kas. was recently robbed of $2 900 in
gold, which he had buried in the floor
of the cellar underneath his rickety
dwelling. John O'Fallon, his son, and
an accomplice named Peter Gilliclk were
arrested in Kansas City for stealing the
money, and 1915 of it was found in
young O'Fallon's clothes.
THE Moorehead iMinn.) Merchants
bank, private concern, closed its
doors on the Sth. The deposits and
claims held by other banks amount to
Sl75,OOO and the nominal assets are
$500, 900, but it is believed so cents on
the dollar is the most the bank can pay.
II is reported that marble has been
found in large quantities and of the
finest quality near Bonaparte, Ia Mis-
souri, parties have secured the privilege
of developing the quarries.
GEORGE E. CABANIs, a pioneer settler
and prominent man in southwestern
Wisconsin, died at Georgetown, north
of Galena, ILL.,, on the Sth. He was 6
captain in the Black Hawk war in 1882
and forty years later represented his
district in the Wisconsin legislature
In his boyhood, which was spent ir
Sangamon county, ILL.,, he was com
panion of Abraham Lincoln.
On the 9th the New York court o
appeals decided that Jeremiah Cotto
the Italian now awaiting death at Sing
Sing by electrocution, must die as or
dered by the lower court. He wa
found guilty of numbering Luigi Fran
catoza on July "a. 1891.
THE British Indian troop ship Eu
pirates, bound to Bombay, came il
collision with the German steame
Gutenfels in the Suez canal. The latte
, steamer had several plates bent anC
: broken and her bulwarks, rails ant
, decks damaged.
The president, on the 9th, sent to th
senate the nomination of w. NJ. Grin
I nell, of New York, to be third assist
, ant secretary of State, vice j. Il
| Moore, resigned.
q Hon. JOHN JAY KNOX, eX-Cnite
t States comptroller, who had been il
q with pneumonia at his residence in Ney
. York city, died on the 9th.
q HAwLEY CHAPMAN, the actor, wa
@ pronounced insane by Brooklyn Jury
on the sth, and committed to the White
=, stone Insane asylum.
y Mr. REID, United States minister
France, who was recently i'll with il
;. fluenza, has had a relapse and is agai
= confined to his room.
p A BARREL floating in the river mile
U below Nashville, Tenn, was broke
open and found to contain the remain
of a man.
] JOHN HUGHES, the pioneer shil
;, builder of New Orleans, dled in tht
q city on the Sth, 81 years of age. d
built the confederate ram Manassas.