The state capital., 1892-09-17

On the 18th President Harrison tele- |
New York Republican state executive
committee that he greatly regretted to
confirm the report that Mrs. Harrisons S /
condition was such as to make 1T i'm |
possible to take the contemplated trip
through the state
EDWARD HANLAN, the oarsman, will
challenge James Stansbury, of Austria
liza, to row for the championship of the
world. naming either England or CALI
fornia as the place of the race. The
stake will be $4,000 side.
SHORTLY before midnight of the 18th
Mr. Ed O'Meagher Condor, inspector OF
buildings for the United States treasury
department, called at the Associated
Press in Cincinnati in perfectly sound
health and full of vigor. He desired to
contradict a dispatch sent out from
Washington announcing his death.
THE trial opened in Vienna, on the
18th. of twenty-five customs officials
and merchants of the duchy of Ruko-
vina, charged with accepting and CIV
ing bribes. Among them are said to be
the imperial financial director at Chem
owitz, the capital of Bukovina, the
finance inspector and the director of
customs.
| Mrs. GEORGE MIRACLE, wife of
prominent Allen county Ind farmer,
| imagines that she has been buried alive.
| Her maniacal meanings are distressing
| and her attempts to liberate herself
| inf f,,1 t, hnb bn1
Nothing that her troubled family can
say or do can convince her otherwise
than that she is buried under ground.
AN organization is declared to exist
for the purpose of bringing the Central
| American states into the United States,
first as territories and then Us separate
states. 1t is claimed that ex-Secretary
| Blaine is interested in the scheme.
Among other prominent men spoken of
in connection with the plan is Secre-
tary of War Elkins
AFTER a pitiful experience in quar-
antine the passengers of the steamship
Normannia were landed from the
steamer Cepheus on Fire island, on the
18th. and provided with comfortable
accommodations at the Surf hotel. In
the presence of an armed force the
brutal mob on shore who had refused
them landing suddenly disappeared.
THE gross earnings of the Wabash
railroad for the year ended June 30,
1892, were S14, $50, 331.13 operating ex-
penses. $40, 49,, ,526. 95: net earnings, S3,
$50, S09 is; miscellaneous receipts, $780,
453.4S Total, So, TAI. 257.66. After pay
ment of interest on bonds and mort
cages there remains surplus of S9l,'
475.S 81.
THE Seaside hotel at Rockaway, n
J.. was burned to the ground early on
the morning of the 18th. Loss, esti
mated at 500, ,000
ARTHUR Mckee RANKIN was, on the
18th, denied a divorce from his wife
ground of desertion
Four miners were killed by an ex
plosion of gas in the Nottingham mine
, at Plymouth, Pa, on the 18th.
, Ir was rumored, on the 18th, that ;
, band of oppositionists in the Choctav
: nation had murdered twelve progress
, sives near McCaulley's in the row be
tween the two political parties Th
= nationalists We're concentrating
arar,inr .tle1nselves Coy. Jones
sent military force to the sce,yNf the
trouble, and on the arrival VoI the
troops more bloodshed was looked A3r.
| \GEoReE FORREST, a nephey yVpMkes.the
celebrated confederate general OF that
| name, attempted TO kill Col. J. L. Tay-
TX in Memphis, Tenn, on the 18th,
and instead fatally wounded a clerk in
the store of Roat, Taylor &c Co, whom
he mistoolz for Taylor.
IT is reported that Jay Gould will be
elected president of the Wabash Rail
road Co. at the meeting Of directors
soon to be held in New York.
DEPUTY SHERIFF WITTY, of Vasalia;
| Constable Hill, of Sanger, and several
Others came upon Sontag and Evans,
the train robbers, at Sampson flat, Cal,
on the 18th, and attempted to arrest
them, but they escaped after fight in
which Marshal McGinnis, Richard OIL
zen and Il man named Wilson were
killed, and Deputy Sheriff Witty was
| oUain xyOunded