The state capital., 1892-06-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
1HE steamer John Matthews, loaded
with corn, bound for Pine Bluff, Ark.
ran against the pier on the bridge over
the Arkansas river at Van Buren,, Ark.
at | o'clock on the morning of the Sd,
and sank. Rescuing parties at once
set to work to save the crew. Capt,
Black, the pilot, and at least one-third
of the crew are lost
TIE levee in front of the Bell Chase
plantation, on the right bank of the
Mississippi river, fifteen miles below
New Orleans, caved in, on the Sd, and
in few minutes a crevasse Of fiftv-
four feet wide and six feet deep was
raging. The break will cause great
loss to many planters in the lower
coast.
In frightful thunderstorm in Lack
awanna county, Pa, on the night of the
"a, two boys were killed and boy and
girl fatally injured by lightning.
THE most desperate man Sewer coun-
ty, Tenn, has ever produced was arrest
ed near Knoxville on the Sd. His name
IS James Sutton. His latest crime was
cutting one Little to pieces with
hatchet last September. For this he
was confined in the Sevierville Jail, but
escaped the following month. In De-
cember he was recaptured, but in Jan
uary made his escape again Besides
other accomplishments, he has been
three times and all his wives
are living.
IT is declared positively by a person
who is in a position to know, but who
declines to have his named used. that
the Dalton gang, which held up the
Santa Fe express at Red Rock, |. r.. Sc
cured from the Wells-Fargo company
safe $4,000 in cash, which was being
forwarded from the treasury depart
ment at Washington to the agent of the
Sac aud EoxIndians .-~
COAL train switching on sidetrack
half mile west of Colchester, H.. on
the evening of the Sd, ran into a con
Structlon train on the main line and |
up several cars. William Peck, |
4 young man of Colchester, was killed |
outright; Swede named Gus Chelgren |
fatally and several others severely in |
ured.
A GENERAL strike is imminent at the
rreat Calumet and Hecla copper mine |
n upper Michigan. The company
threatens to discharge ali employees who
ire members of the Knights of Labor
II any other labor organization. A
ong struggle is expected, as the unions
re very strong at Calumet.
MRS. HENRY THOMAS, of Cadix, o.. sent
Ter 5-ycar old son Willie to store to
'uy snuff on the Sd Later the bov
vas found dead near his house with his
Mouth full of snuff. 1t is supposed that
e had undertaken to use it and was
trangled to death.
OIL CITY and Titusvillc (Pa.) were
lslted, at o'clock on the morning of
he 5th, by terrible calamity. The
ursting of dam seven miles up Oil
reek caused a sudden flood which in
ndated large portion of the cities
asultlng in the destruction of much
and the loss of many lives.
'hile the flood was at its height the
urstlng of several oil tanks and the
'nition of the fluid, which spread ,
broad upon the surface of the waters,
irrled death in its most horrible form i,
nd devastation everywhere. The loss !
human life was terrible. various esti-
ates placing it at from fifty to nearly :
10.
SECRETARY OF STATE BLAINE ten '
cred his resignation to the president.
I the 4th, and it was promptly ac-
opted. In an interview Mr.. Blaine
as made to say that his action was in
way the result of the near approach
the Republican national nominating
invention, but was caused by the false 7
yht in which he was made to appear u
fore the public by reason of his con- II
ant mention in connection with the :
esldency and its implied treachery to .
e administration of which he was a Il
ember becoming unbeara BILE. r
THE victims of the fire IN the Berken-
rg mine at Przibram, Bohemia. are n
w estimated at 500. 81
No ADvICEs had been received. m to Il
e 4th, from Capt Lugard relative to O
alleged excesses committed in cl
sanda. The East Africa Co. has de- ce
led to withdraw its expedition at the tt
d OF the year, and has notified the az
urch missionary society, which sub OF
'lbed 916,00 toward the cost of the
gard expedition and to protect the c;
ssionaries, that the latter must there is
5er fight their own battles. M
FRANCE is calling the English gov la
1ment to an account for recent mas m
res of French Catholic missionaries CT
Africa by British Protestant soldiers.
The coming conference between the w
II of Russia and the emperor of Ger st
my is believed to have a deep polit- st
/ significance.
COWARD MCMILLAN, the wife muir pa
'er, was hanged in the iail-yard at vi
lkesbarre. Pa, on the 9TH The drop de
at 1928 a. m, and in nine minutes
was pronounced dead, His neck was co
,ken. He killed his wife while drunk H
February 20, 1874. pt