The state herald., 1893-10-20

tion met In Los Angeles on the 10th.
There now seems TO be prospect that the
great English coal strikes will soon end.
The New York Clearing House now has
only ", 1000, 900 Of certificates outstanding, y,
Italians and Spaniards celebrated tho dis
covery Of America at Chicago on tho 18TH
Over 600 street car horses were burned 10
death ut Chicago on the l2th. Loss, $780,
600.
Thousands are out of work in Sicily and the
condition of the island Ia deplorublc Pollti-
cal agitation is increasing.
Charlie. Clark, young farmer living near
Oakland, Illinois, died Of rabies contracted
from the bite of a guinea pig
The South Atlantic coast has again been
swept by terrible storm that did great dam
age. Charleston suffered great deal.
Round-trip tickets TO Chicago, good on all
trains and Pullmnns, can be bought until
October 3lst for Sa3 Single rate, sl2,5o,
The receivers of tho Union Pacific road
have ordered an Increase OF hours for shop
men who have boon working on short time.
John Jacob Astor's yacht ran into loaded
ferry boat In the North river few days ago
and caused n terrible panic, but no one was
Injured.
Up to the present time $1,000 miners In
Great Britain, who were engaged In the
great strike, have returned to work ut the
oiu WuBcs.
Experts who havo been examining the
property OF the late Senator Stanford estl.
mate It's value at between si0,O0O000 and
$40, 100000.
The Ohio synod OF the Presbyterian church
has approved the dismissal from the church
Of DIR. Preserved Smith Of Lane Seminary on
the ground of heresy
While crossing the English channel the
passenger steamer Marie Henrietta ran into
and cut In half Danish bark. Six OF the
crew were drowned.
One of tho passengers on the Hamburg
American steamship Russia has died OF
cholera at quarantine, III New York Bay.
There are no other cases.
The Congregational board OF foreign mis-
sions met In Worcester, Massachusetts,, on
the 10th. The receipts for last year show a
falling on OF Sl6s, 900
The people oil France and the citizens OF
Toulon appear TO have gone wild on the occa-
sion OF welcoming the Russian warships on
The lith and succeeding days,
A meeting of the National Humane Society
was held In Chicago last week. @. II.
Thompson VI Denver was elected president
Of the oreahlz alton Of agents.
President Morsman, OF the Pacific Express
Company, has directed that all contributions
To the relief OF the Louisiana sufferers be car
ricd free over all the lines OF his company.
The attendance at the Worlds Exposition
Turing the week ending October IA was -
l4s,9s', 1t IL expected that the total at
tendance for the season will reach q, 00J,0)
A party Of slxty-seven unemployed me-
chanics from Arizona captured freight
train and ran II into Texas on their way east.
About thirty Of them were arrested In San
Antonio.
Since Chicago has declined to bull, a per
manent railway museum, Baltimore will
build one, the nucleus Of which will be the
exhibit Of the Baltimore Il Ohio Railway
Company at the fair.
The steamer Wocosen has gone down OF
Long Point In Lake Superior, and ont Of her
crew OF sixteen people three are saved and
thirteen drowned. 1t was caught In the great
storm OF the 18th.
The attendance at the Columbian Exposi-
ton on the 9th-Chicago Day-wns 75l,0aG,
which beats the records Of all Worlds fairs.
The crush OF people was dreadful md hun
drcds were Injured In various ways
Information comes from Valparaiso, Chill,
Of the marriage of Miss Amelia Rokas to
son OF Hon. Patrick Egan, formerly United
States minister to chill. The brides family
are very wealthy.
A terrific storm ragged over the eastern part
OF the country on the 18th Great damage
was done TO shipping on the Atlantic coast
and the great lakes. Along the South Attain
Tic coast towns suffered and wires all through
the East were blown down.
There was slill further reduction In the ma
| tional reserve OF the treasury on tho It'll, the
amount being $50, l5s, 80, Abou, half MIL
lion, lower than II was In June last, when II
| touched The lowest point In It's history to that
time. The currency balance, however, showed
an increase and stood at tlC,s3l III.
John Hansen, one OF the paid patroimen OF
| the Sailors Union at san Francisco, has been
arrested as tie man who placed dy Mantle on
board the tug Ethel and Marion. aud rs the
principal In the plot which eliminated In the
destruction OF Curtains boarding hou,c and
| the death OF four mcn. The chief Of police
says the evidence Is positive
The Nandcrbilts have entered Into con.
tract for one OF the greatest real estate pnr.
.hases ever made on Manhattan Island. The
property TO be purchased covers four city
blocks between One Hundred and fliiy.nfth
and One Hundred and fifty-niuih streets aud
includes what l. known rs the Manhattan
Field and the new polo grounds IL Is said
that the contract price IL t3,00O, 900 and that
100000 ha. been deposited To bind the bar.
gain. II Is understood that the purchase WAS
made for railroad purposes.
Bill Dalton, the not or!ous bandit for who'c
apprehension reward Of $4,000 Ia offered,
and two OF bis associates, Bill Dooiln and
Texas Newcomb, tcrrorlycd saltwater, Okla.
bona, Saturday night. They paradei the
streets with rovolyers strapped In their belts
and carried Winchestcrs In their hand.
Many Of the citizens OF Saltwater recognized
them and reported the matter 10 the officers,
but the officers seemed reluctant TO eBdeayor
TO capture them. A posse OF deputies ha.
left Guthrie In pursuit OF them.
big combination Of San Francisco street
| railways, which has been In progress for solne
lime, Is al last completed, With n capital
stock OF a little over sls,0o0,0o0, OF thls Tia
southern Pacific company control. 10 pet
| ,cnt The combination includes sixteen
street lines and controls nearly all the travel
y the city. Only six lines remalu outside of
he combination. The results Of the new
ieal will be a complete system 81 transfers
20 every part OF the city, great reduction In
running expenses and the number Of en-.
ployes.
Now that the Canadian river la, again 10.
.eded into its banks, the full extent 81 N.
iafnAgc done In Oklahoma by the recent un.
orceeden,cd rise II being learned. Scores of
buildings we're swept away, fences, orchards,
ste, all washed AWAY. aud other damage
lone that will cause the loss TO run up inio
many thousands OF dollars A large number
u farmers have lost everything they pos.
,cssed, aud much suffering will cn.uc. only
.wo lives arc known to DO lost, but II u feared
others have pcrlshcd, ms tho flood came nnn.
sarcs upon scores II strip settlers cncAmpel
along the river
One Of the most disastrous fires which has
aged In Detroit for many years occurred at
II o'clock Saturday night on ChamplAin
,trcct, whole block OF business bull Hing. on
hat street between Brush and licnuicn
being completely. sscp, away, sgd Harmony
Hall, the scene Of many political boa niians,
burned TO the groun'i, Tho ronnarfuiion
tarted IN n paint factory, that OF boy,en
Bros. A fierce Wind was blowing. The IRE
had the nsccndency to tho last aud the nrc.
men could only work TO prevent II from
spreading outside Of the block which n con.
,umcd. The loss WINS GOO 900.
On Saturday for tho third iimc sineo the
opening Of tho Cherokee strip Enid held m
election for municipal officers. The whole
proceedings were the broadcast KIND u n
farce. Uanns OF allen voters were imported