The state capital., 1892-10-08


IwENTY-FoUR ma l;l.1-..,-.a--
were reported in Berlin on the I'd.
FIVE persons died in Buda- Pesth, on
the Cd. of cholera.
WHAT is known as the "Fairbault
PLAN in school matters at Mortified,
Mimi, has failed. and in all probability
will be thing of the past in SO far as
the present scheme of the public school
system and the parochial schools there
being made into one. A monster meet
| ing was held at which 1000 men and
women voted the board out favoring the
scheme, and electing a new board op-
posing it.
| A FIRE occurred at Taner, near
Steineau, Germany, on the 2d, which
destroyed eighteen dwellings. Three
persons perished in the flames.
THE Emmett hotel, at Estherville, Ia,
was destroyed by fire on the night of
the 1st. J. M. Brennan, one OF the
guests. was burned to death.
KLAUsEN Bros, of Boise City, Idaho,
have received word from the superin-
tendent of their stock range in the Bear
River valley that more than 900 head
of fat cattle have been destroyed by
the great forest fires that have been
sweeping over that region. Nine houses
and four cabins were also destroyed and
three herdsmen fatally burned.
THE acid chamber and office of the
Goulding fertilizer works, four miles
north of Pensacola, Fla. together with
the valuable plant, several hundred tons
of lead and large quantity of expen-
sive chem icals. was destroyed by fire
on the 2d. The loss is estimated at
800, 600, partly covered by insurance.
THE startling discovery was made, on
the I'd, that box of valuables placed
bank of Buffalo, N. Y, which Treas
urer Damn wrecked by stealing nearly
half million dollars, has mysteriously
disappeared.
A FIRE, believed to be of incendiary
origin. started in the basement of the
Baptist church at Deadwood, S. D., or
the Sd, damaging the edifice to the ex
tent of $4,000. While the department
: was at work on the flames a quarre
arose between DIR. Edward Alfred f
Naultens and Glenn Squirting, fireman
, and Mr.. Naultens was killed.
5 COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia, had two suicides
on the Cd Matt Lyon, boarder at thu
Western hotel, became respondent ovel
a love affair and took morphine TO ent
: his troubles Lucy Benner's lover, {
, member of the fire department, hat
s tired of her. Her parents live il
/ Shenandoah, Ia.
BERTHA SCHMIDT, aged ? years, ,Gaugh
: ter of Mr.. and Mrs August NJ. Schmidt
| of Fort Wayne, Ind, fell into basiI
, of boiling water on the kitchen floor
on the Cd, and was so badly scaldee
that the flesh dropped off the bones o
/ her feet. She died.
D The annual meeting of the New
York Presbytery was began at th'
D Scotch Presbyterian church in New
D York city, on the Sd. There was full
y attendance in view of the fact that a
y some time during the session the ia
' nous DR.. Briggs case will be reopened
' THE motion to quash the indictment
: against Charles f. Peck. state labo
commissioner of New York, was de
MED, on the Sd. and he will have to an
: swer the criminal charge of having
Y burned the records of his office
# JOHN f. NEWMAN. a Buffalo On. Y.
s switchman who had been out OF worl
: since the recent strike, became insane
e on the ID, as a result of breeding owe
}. his trouble, and attempted to kill hi
@ wife and himself.
e PRIyY COUNCILLOR DR. STEINTHA
IS BoYES, one of the most noted phys
It clans in Berlin, died on the ed. at th
age ets%