The state capital., 1892-08-27

brother Of Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, !
died at Bound Brook, n. j., on the goth. |
DAN MoRIARIrY, an old man, was
locked up at Mandori, Wis, for being
drunk His pipe set the jail on fire,
and he was burned to death.
THE Kentucky legislature has been
called in extra session by the governor
to reconsider the bills vetoed by him be-
fore the adjournment
WHIrELAw REID, republican vice
presidential candidate, arrived at
Cederville, O., on the goth, on visit to
his aged mother.
BOIL worms form the only unpleas-
ant feature in the cotton situation in
several sections of Texas.
Ir was believed on the Goth that the
miners troubles in Tennessee were at
an end.
WM. SMITH and Andrew Karker, aged
Is and 16 years respectively, the latter
the sole support of widowed mother,
were instantly killed by an electric car
at Auburn, N. Y, on the 21st, the
buggy in which they were riding being
struck and overturned and the occu-
l.
| CAPT. DAVID PORTER DoBBINs, OF the
Buffalo On. W life-saving station, died
on the 2Oth after short illness, at the
age of IS years. Capt. Dobbins was
well known as the inventor of various
| life-saving devices.
Blythe explosion of a locomotive boiler
at Memphis, Tenn, on the 2lst, Engin-
eer J. C. Blunderfeld and Fireman
Robert Prather were killed, the former
instantly and the latter after hours OF
horrible torture.
Up to the Goth subscriptions to the
Manning memorial fund in England
amounted to nearly $4,000. The me-
mortal will be arefuge for the homeless
poor without distinction of creed, but
under Catholic management.
Two NoN-UNIoN workmen, returning
from a meeting in West Superior, Wis,
on the night Of the Goth, were waylaid
by fifteen Amalgamated association
men, armed with pistols, clubs and
: knives. One of them was murdered
outright and the other fatally injured.
SIR CHARLES RUSSELL fully concurs
In Mr. Gladstone's desire to abolish the
custom permitting law officers OF the
crown to combine private with public
S practice. Sir Charles will, accordingly
give IAN income of $4,000
: Mr.. GLADSTONE went to HawardeI
e on the goth.
E AcrING-Gov. HANDY of Arkansas, re
: ceived telegram from Mrs. Eagle, a
e Richmond, KY, on the 21st, saying tha
: Gov. Eagle had grown much worse
and was in critical condition.
THE village of Rock River, thirt.
t miles east of Marquette, Mich, wa
/ wiped out by fire on the aoth; loss, $50
o 600.
5, THE treasury department, on tn
t 22d, formulated and issued the regula
V tions for the imposition of tolls on "a
}, madam vessels passing through tn
: Sault Ste. Marie canal.
e THE dispute between the journey
s. men tailors in England and the master
le regarding the matter of piecework ha
resulted in the employers locking OF
their men, and as a result 5000 tailor
A. and their assistants are made idle.
re THREE persons were badly burne
lie and bruised while making their escaI
Of from burning apartment house
v Brooklyn, on the 21st, which had bee
ia fred by an incendiary.
es CHOLERA victims are dying in II
r. heran, the Persian capital, at the rate
ne 900 daily.
e. ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY building
n were destroyed ~ fire in the town
es Sontra, Germany, on the ed, amor
if them many Of the principal busine
houses