The state capital., 1892-09-10

JUDGE WILLIAM E. DECK, for two
terms chief justice of the supreme
court of Colorado, was found dead in
bed in Denver on the morning of the
3D. He was 55 years old.
The Guion line steamer Alaska, sail
ing from Liverpool, on the Sd, for New
York. carried no emigrant passengers.
| THE Cunard Steamship Co., on the 1st,
announced that it had suspended all
emigrant traffic during the prevalence
| of cholera -.
| IT transpired, on the I'd, that $500
fever patients occupied all the beds
available in the London hospitals for
emergencies. About 800 beds have
been specially arranged for, however,
| to meet the requirements of cholera
| epidemic
UP to noon of the 1st no new cases of
| cholera had developed on board the
| steamship Moravia. The vessel was Or
dered to the lower anchorage in the
outer harbor, where she will remain
isolated until it can be determined
| whether there is danger of further in
| fection. -:. .
THE emperor of Austria has com
manded that on account of the cholera
the Hungarian military maneuvers
shall be abandoned
IT is reported from Merv that 1000
Afghans were killed in the last battle
with the revolving Hazaras. ..
A RELAY bicycle run was started from
the east point of the capitol in Wash
ington, on the I'd, the objective point
being Pittsburgh. Pa, 800 miles dis
tant, with nine mountain ranges to
cross. The wheelmen expected to make
the distance in twenty-five hours. :
On the I'd the New York city authori-
ties voted $4,000 for the fitting up of
tie barge offered by the st. Johns
!. ailas1or Ihe=recse.ian Of CHOLERA p4..
tients.
ACCORDING to Bradstreet's report the
clearing house returns of the United
States, for the week ended on the 1st,
amounted to 1865, $50, ,621; for the Do
minion of Canada, SIC, 148,31O.
IT is estimated that the quarantine
regulations will entail loss of s2 OOO,-
900 monthly on the steamship COM,
panies whose vessels ply between
European and United States ports, of
which 81, ,OO0,0 900 will be on account of
loss of immigrant traffic.
A PHILADELPHIA & READING train,
on the Cd, made the phenomenal run
of nine miles in six minutes during a
run from Buffalo to Rochester, the en-
tire distance including stops, being
made at the average time of mile
minute.
THE British cruiser Druid has been
stationed at Crosse Isle quarantine sta
ton, below Montreal, Can, and her
commander has orders to fire on any
vessel attempting to pass quarantine
without reporting.
HENRY GIBBS, n well-known colored
jockey, was arrested at Minneapolis
Mimi, on the I'd, for the murder of
William Jones, at st. Louis, March 80
last. Gibbs claims to have killed Jones
in defense of a woman's life.
Mrs. CATHERINE HoRANE stumbled
and fell at Syracuse, n. Y, on the 1st,
and pencil which she carried in her
hand was driven through her eye into
uCI III dill, blIlOSb oCd III.
THE entire packing interests of the
Armour family, representing capital
of $50, 900, 600, will be harmoniously
united October 1next.
GROUND was broken at Lamont, ILL.,.
on the Sd, for the great drainage canal
and waterway between the northern
lakes and the Gulf of Mexico, the con-
struction of which, together with
bonuses for land condemned, it is esti-
mated will cost s25, ,o0o, 600.
FIRE broke ont early on the morning
of the 4th, at Patoka, Ind, and de-
stroyed two drug stores three grocer
les and four smaller shops. The fire
was caused by incendiaries, who have
made several previous but Intellectual
attempts to fire the town.
TwENTY-FoUR tons of powder on
board the bark Auchmountain, lying of!
the town of Greenock, Scotland, ex-
ploded, on the Sd, blowing the vessel
to atoms. No person appears to have
perished in the explosion, though many
were injured.
By the destruction of the Russian city
of Miadzola, on the Sd, by fire 1000 per-
sons were left without shelter and in
destitute condition.
LORD RosEBERRY denies that he was
induced by Queen Victoria to take the
foreign office under the Gladstone gov
ernment.
SEVERAL earthquake shocks were
felt in Zelt, Greece, on the 4th.
A MOVEMENT is on foot among English
yacht owners to sail direct to Chicago
! to visit the Worlds exposition next
year.
DANIEL. DoUGHERTY, of Philadelphia,
died on the 5th.
THE mill, lumber yards, offices and
sta bles of the Union Planning Mill Co.
at Pittsburgh, Pa, were destroyed by
fire on the 6th. 4 lighted torch fell
into pile OF shavings and the fire was
soon past control. The loss Is about
$4,000; nothing was insured.
Our Of o large party Of Austrian
soldiers hilleted in a farm house in
Galieia, on the night, rof the 4tt, eight
were killed and seven more or less in=
jured.
The temperature Of the river Elbe at
| Hamburg is degrees higher than tha.
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