The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-03-06
AT Austin, Tex, the Thermometer

THE dead bodies sof = man named
Holmes, his wife and two children were
found on the 2sth ult. o few miles west
of Shawnee, Ind. T. Burglars were
charged with the crime.
THE total indebtednesso Of Indiana was
on tho 9sth ult said to be 20, O43,1 140.
IT was reported on tho s2Sth ult. that
Silcott, the defaulting cashier OF tho
Sergeant-a;-Arfns of the House at Wash
ington, had been captured at Toledo,
Wash. M.S 1
AT Genesoo, Idaho, on the ssth ult.
the thermometer registered AZ degrees
below zero. Heavy Losses Of stock were
reported.
TIE town of Carthage, Miss, was par
tally destroyed by q cyclone on the
2Sth ult.
A COMBINATION Of all the granite con-
Germs in New England was formed at
Boston on the 2Sth ult., and 1t was de-
cided to pay for all work by the hour
after May 1.
A PRIVATE levee below Viclsburg,
Miss, broke on the 2Sth ult., inundat-
ing several plantations.
THE statement of the public debt is
sued on the 1st showed the total debt
to be 81 ,6O1, 713, ,s42; cash in the Treas
ury, s32, 1856, 5si; debt less cash in Treas
ury, 81, O34.547, $50. Decrease during Feb
ruary, So, 159, 4S6. Decrease since June
3o 1889, S42, 900, COL.
THE exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on tho 1st aggregated
S1,197, 596, ,OG4, against $3.50, sos, $50, the
previous week. AS compared with the
corresponding week Of 1859 the in
crease amounted to 15.7.
| JAMES DoUGuERTY, aged 13 years, and
Joseph Ruel, aged 10 years, were
drowned on the I'd in Spring lake, near
Grand Haven, Mich.
THE wholesale boot and shoe house OF
! Noyes, Norman K Co., at st. Joseph,
Mo-, was burned on tho I'd. Loss. Sl5s,-
| 900.
MARTIN OMALLEY and Peter Faley
| lost their lives on the 1st in a burning
shanty in which they slept at johnson
burg, Pa.
AUGUST GRoTIr, employed in brew
cry at Saltwater, Mimi, killed his wife
with razor on the ed and then took his
own life. Domestic trouble caused tho
crime.
In o quarrel on the lst at Mallie, Col.
A. NJ. Wassen killed a railroad man, and
soon after mob lynched Wassen.
A BLIZZARD in the Wabash Qnd. dis
trict on the 1st caused stock to suffer
severely and damaged the growing
wheat
TIE total receipts OF cotton at United
States ports for tho six months ended
February % were 5,357, 225 bales, against
ssssaA QSs last .year. >, s-.s-s-,-,-,-.-
THE big smelling firms Of the United
States formed trust at meeting In
Chicago on the 1st with capital oI
S25, 600, 900.
FLAMES in the Centenary Methodist
Church at Richmond, Va, on the I'd
caused panic, and several persons
were badly injured. The fire damage
was small.
HERMAN WILTON, 81 years Of age, OF
Vincennes, Ind, blew out his brains on
the 1st in consequence Of disappoint-
ment in love.
Mrs. EMMA JOHNSON. poor woman
with three children, committed suicide
in Cairo, H., on the 1st by shooting her.
\ self with pistol.
HICKS & GEPnAT's Bank at Valley
Falls, Kan, was robbed of So, 900 by q
man named Robert Robinson on the 1st
who held up the cashier In few
hours afterward the robber was shot
dead while resisting arrest and the
money recovered.
AT Covington, KY, on the 1st 1853 ot
the 1G5 saloon keepers in the city were
indicted for selling liquor on Sunday
contrary to an old statute OF the State.
JOHN GRiscoM, a man of prominence
in railroad and scientific circles com
mi:tcd suicide in New York on the Isl
by inhaling gas while in bed.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN left Boston
at midnight on the cd for n trip arcuni
the world, which he expects to complete
in sixty days.
THE first block of tin produced from
m American tin mine reached Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the I'd. Tho blocl
weighed twenty-five pounds, and wa.
taken from tin deposit near Hermosa
S. ID.
A BARN on the Hill farm near Siou,
City, Ia, was burned on the 3D., anC
eleven valuable horses. perished in thu
flames.
STATE TREASURER NoLAND, OF Mis-
soufi, was on the Sd suspended by Gov
crnor Francis, it being rumored that No
land was short in his accounts
REpoITs of tho Sd from San Carlo
were to the effect that Apache indians
were committing numerous depreciation
in that vicinity and in Mexico, and tina
an Apache war was imminent.
Snow to the depth Of from twelve t.
eighteen inches fell throughout New
England on the Sd.
An oil we'll which would yield 25
barrels day was discovered on the 3,
at Glasgow, Ky, at a depth Of 135 feet
FoUR negro children were burned Il
death on the 3D. near Grcenville Miss
while their parents were absent.
THE Mississippi Supreme Court on tn
Sd affirmed the sentence of the lowe
court in the case OF Jake Kilrain, whicl
is two months imprisonment and $40
fine.
AN unknown colored woman and he
son wero burned to death on tho Sd in
cabin near bonneville. Mo.
The Exchange Hotel at Middleton. n
Y, was burned on tho Sd, and Miss Lii
Peck was fatally injured while jumping
from window s
DISAPPOINTMENT in love impclled Il
year-old Nellie Fletcher, OF Westside
Ind, to commit suicide on the Sd.
On the Fort Wayne road near Mas
sillon, o., freight trains collided on tn