The state capital., 1892-01-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Starr county, Tex, between the forces
of the Mexican revolutionist Cara and
Capt. Burke, of the United States
army, in which the forces of the latter
were greatly out numbered, and it was
feared by Gen. Stanley, at San Anto-
Mo, that the little band of Americans
would be annihilated before reinforce
ment could reach them.
ADELBERT d. SIYE, the captured ex-
press robber, arrived in st. Louis New
Years morning, accompanied by two
| Pacific coast detectives. He was at once
turned over to the local police, who
ton, but with Indifferent success. EX-
tradition papers have been procured for
Mrs. Hedspeth, and she will be taken
to st. Louis.
| SECRETARY ELKINs assumed charge
of the affairs of the war department
on the 31st He reached the depart
mcnt early and spent the morning in
receiving his subordinate officers.
F! A RECIPROCITY arrangement was
| signed, on the 31st, between Secretary
Blaine and Senor Calvo, diplomatic
representative of Costa Rica, at Wash
ington.
THE cocoa crop of Ecuador is quite a
failure, and the coffee harvest is like
wise short.
The president of Ecuador has re-
ceived notice of the acceptance by the
British bondholders of the arrange
ment passed at the last session of con-
gress for the settlement for the for
eign debt of the republic.
Hon. Bishop w. PERKINS was appoint
ed, on the 1st, by Gov. Humphreys of
Kansas as United States senator to sue
| ceed the late Senator Preston B. Plumb
Senator Perkins represented the Third
| Kansas district in the Fifty-frst and
two preceding congresses. He is a resi-
dent of Oswego, Kas.
A LIMA (Peru) dispatch says that in
the event of war with Chilli the United
States would surely have the active
support of Peru as well as Bolivia.
NJ. PATERNoTRE, the newly-accred-
tied minister of France to this govern
ment, was presented to the president,
on the 31st, by the secretary of state.
J. z. SLAUGHTER. one of the South
ern express robbers, has been found
guilty at Savannah, Ga. of robbery,
with a recommendation to mercy. 1t is
generally thought he will be given the
full extent of the law-twenty years in
the mines. Perkins and Turner, the
men who held up the Central II ain with
him, will be next tried
A MAN by the name of Demarcript
| L. II
Denver, Col, on the 1st, saying that
two years ago he killed a Mr.. and Mrs.
! Greenwood at Colfax Cal. for the pur-
pose Of robbery. He claims that there
is $500 reward for his arrest, and re-
quested that the police give his son
William half that amount, as he was in
| great want. After his surrender the
man became violently insane.
THERE is likelihood that the note Of
the Chilian minister of foreign affairs,
| Senior Malta, which caused such offense
| to the government at Washington, may
| be withdrawn. 1t is stated that Presi-
dent Montt has been advised to with
draw the note, and member of the
new cabinet said the cabinet would take
| the court on the Baltimore affair is
| made
OLD Castle Garden and the barge
office in New York city passed out OF
existence at midnight of the 31st as the
landing place for immigrants coming to
that city. The new landing place on
Ellis island was formally opened with
the rising of the sun on the morning of
the 1st.
EX-CHIEF d. w. BUsHYHEAD of the
Cherokee nation died at Tahlequah, /.
r., on the night of the 31st, in the sixty
sixth year of his age. Bushyhead was
educated in the missionary schools Of
Tennessee before the Cherokees re-
moved west of the Mississippi.
ACTING presumably under instruc-
tions from his government, Mr. Ken
nedy, the British minister to Chilli has
been advising President Months gov
ernment to make reasonable terms with
the United States. Herr Gutschmidt,
the German minister at Santiago, has
offered the services of his government
as ar bitrator between the two coun-
tries.
THE officers of the steamship City of
Paris, which arrived in New York, on
the 1st, forty-eight hours overdue, re-
port the voyage as one of the roughest
they have ever experienced. Nine.
Adelina Patti and Sig. Niccolini were
among the passengers.
ADELBERT d. SLYE. arrested in Cali
fornia and returned to st, Louis as one
of the Glendale express robbers, has
been SO thoroughly identified since his
arrival in st. Louis, both in connection
with the express robbery and other
serious crimes, that he stands in line to
spend the rest of his life in prison.
The city of Peru, Ind, depends en-
tirely upon natural gas for its fuel sup
ply. On the night of the I'd, with the
mercury Ave degrees below zero, the
main pipe leading to the city burst
and the gas was turned off. The few
people having wood stoves managed to
keep from freezing by burning boxes,
boards and old furniture, but the ma
jority of the population were obliged
to keep their beds for warmth.
EDWARD BALI, years old, died of
hydrophobia, on the Sd, at his home in
Newark, n. j. The little fellow was
badly bitten by mastiff owned by
Campbell Clark, prominent citizen of
that city, on December II. A younger
brother of Ball was also bitten at the
time and the worst is feared in his
case.
CAR containing ten non-union oper-
ators, whom the Western Union Tele-
graph Co. was sending south to take the
place of the strikers, was broken into
at Texarkana, Tex, on the night of
the I'd, and three of the men were
killed.