The state capital., 1892-06-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

of the clause providing for free delivery.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
THE steamship City of New York,
which sailed from New York May IS,
11:25 a. M, was reported at Browhead
D. IN. May "a. The days runs in nautical
miles were as follows: 45S, 467, 470, 472,
473, Ais and 81 to Queenstown; total dis
tance, 2,S96 miles; average speed for the
trip, 20.06 knots per hour. Her actual
time from Sandy Hook hght-ship to
Queenstown is six days, no hours, twen-
ty minutes, which would be equal to
five days. eighteen hours and twenty
minutes over the more northerly course
of 2,776 miles. Taking the distance into
consideration, this is the fastest east
ward passage on record.
A CAMP of gypsies stopped at Brazil,
Ind. recently and attracted considera
bic attention from citizens, who visited
their camp to see their fine wagons.
One of the lady visitors became violent
ly sick and died on the 25th. Many
| think it was Use of yellow fever, and
the town is greatly stirred up over the
matter.
| THE Berlin Post makes a state ment
of the Corporal Lueck incident, which
is accepted as placing the conduct of
Kaiser Wilhelm, heretofore severely
animadverted upon, in a favorable
light.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Oldenburg arrived at Baltimore, Md,
from Bremen, on the Goth, with 2,170
passengers Smallpox was discovered
in the steerage, and the vessel was held
in quarantine.
THE prohibition convention at In
dianapolis, Ind, on the 26th, adopted
platform with plank favoring closing
the Aorlds fair on Sunday.
EssI uIirs1 bIis .-LH,is fflsiGl
vOcate of free trade and author of re-
cent pamphlet urging Canada to adopt
free trade as an answer to the McKin-
ley law, in letter to the London
Times. denOunces as impracticable
Lord Salisburys arguments at Hast
ings in favor of tariff with view to
reciprocity.
THE steamship Harley, of London,
was wrecked off the coast of Cornwall
on the 9th. The Harley was running
too close to a dangerous shore, and sud
denly struck on a submerged rock. The
lives of the crew We're saved
The authorities of Melbourne, have
decided that all the statements written
by Deeming, the wife-murderer, who
was hanged there on the 2lst, shall be
destroyed. These include his letters to
the press.
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role. He has shown hls appreciation of
DIR. Keelys alleged cure for drunken
ness by establishing Keely institute
at Babylon, L. I.
SCORES of villages along the lower
and it's southern tributaries
have been wiped out by the floods. |
Business in many places is wholly sus- r
pended. Few correct reports are sent r
out, 1t is said, because the people are p
afraid of soaring away possible inves- I
tors. 8
TWENTY dead at Wellington and =
eleven at Harper, with scores of others '
badly hurt, many of them dying, is the
latest report of the deadly work of the
Kansas cyclone.
AT the decoration day ceremonies at T
Riverside park, New York city, Gen 7
Porter announced that he had enough I
money in sight to complete the Grant f
!;
GERMAN sugar dealers complain that =
the American trust is bearing" their {
market, and threaten to retaliate with f
4 trust of their own. +
The governor of Virginia has ap- 2
pointed Hon. Eppa Hunton as United /
States senator to succeed John S. Bar
Dour, deceased. 7
GEN. RALPH BUCKLAND died at Ere r
mont, o., on the 2Sth. He was born in !,
s12," and was conspicuous in the late 5
,ivil war. 2
Two MEN were shocked to death at 6
he Edgar Thomson steel works at Brad n
lock, Pa, on the 2Sth, by the boom of {
travelling crane upon which they \
worked coming lin contact with an cleo
ric light wire and cutting through the :,
insulation.
Hon. AND RI. Rev. THOMAS PHELAN, {,
ION of the second earl of Chichester re- q
'ently refused to install clergyman a
because the patron of the living, which Il
vas at Brantham, England, was Ro- !;
nan Catholic. An appeal was taken to
he privy council and that body sus- =;
aimed the decision of Bishop Phelan. II
GEN. TURNER C. .MooREHEAD, a veteran !,
# the Mexican and civil wars, died at 7,
Asbury Park, n. j., on the 2Sth, aged =
0. !.
IT is said that Protestant natives in
Africa are waging war upon Catholic ri
=;
GEN. EPPA HUNToN, who was ap- j.,
ointed by Gov. Mckinney of Virginia Or
o succeed Senator Barbour, deceased, "
vas law partner of Hon. jeff Chan
Ter, of Missouri, prior to his retire sa
lent from practice in Washington. He II
as for some years been living in retire er
1ent at his home in Warrenton, Va. q,
A DECISION was rendered by Judge
at Danville, ILL.,, on the Sc
9th, by which the officers of the town ro
Fairmont were deprived of their po-
itions. The ground of the decision was CT
hat the town had no legal existence, th
aXipg never been incorporated. XII