The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-05-29

their Willingness TO sell tnelr iandS 10
the Covernment at Si. 25 an acre, retain;
ing sixty acres ior each member of the
tribe.
AT the leading clearinghouse In the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the Gath aggregated
81, 800, $50, 235, against i,4SI, 625,s46 the
previous week. AS compared with the
corresponding week OF 1889 the increase
amounted to II. 1.
ELLIS ISLAND, in New York harbor,
was on the gath turned over to the
Unised States Government as a landing
place for immigrants.
IT was discovered on the Gath that an
attempt had been made to blow up the
Haymarket monument in Chicago which
marks the scene Of the Anarchist riot
May 4, 1850. Two gallons of dynamite
and n number of halt-burned fuses were
found,
A FIRE set by tramps destroyed every
house in the city of Coolidge; n, NJ, on
the oath. isS
PRESIDENT HARRISON directed on the
gath that the United States flag shall
hereafter fly daily over the executive
mansion from sunrise to sunset, instead
of, as heretofore, being hoisted on spe-
cial occasions.
W. L. HART, agent at Pittsoh, Pa,
for firm OF coal operators, disappeared
OH the Gath with $4,000 belonging to
the firm:
AT Watuppa lake, near Fall River,
Kan, Samuel Whites and wife, Henry
Wittles, Samuel Wittles, Jr., Levina
Buckley, Willie Buckley, Frederick
Buckley and Willie Turner were
drowned on the 25th by the upsctting
of boat.
TIE First Baptist Church OF Racine,
Wis, commemorated its hftioth ami
Sersary on the 25th.
AT : o'clock on the morning Of the
a5th Glovcrsville, n. Y, was visited by
severe shock of earthquake. Large
buildings were shaken, people were
thrown out of chairs and out of bed
and glass was shattered.
THE Methodist General Conference al
St, Louis on the 24th declared the
Scriptural ground to he the only true
one Tor divorce.
A nAiN-sToRM ON the 25th at Johns
town, Pn., flooded streets, filled cellars
and did much damage, tho water being
up to the first floor in fifty houses.
FRANK FISH. Who fatally stabbed Johr
Cullihane in Canandaigua, N. Y, Jan
uary 90 last was on the Gath sentenced
to die by electricity.
JonN Brown, Memphis (Tenn.
butcher, his wife and 5-ycar-olC
daughter were drowned in Wolf river
near Memphis, On the 24th.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN completed hi
trip around the world ON the cath, ar
irving at Tacoma, Wash, at Z. p. IN
The time from start to finish was q
days, Is hours, 3 minutes and seconds
Nellie IIly's time was ~ days, hours
1 minutes and "a seconds.
OK the a4th James and Curtis Roland
4 OF Martinsville, Ind. were, sentenced t
eighteen months in the penitentiary fo
stealing chickens and disfranchiscd 10
ten years.
TIE ocean race between the steam
ships City of Rome, Aurania and Alask
ended on the 25th with victory for thu
frst-named.
A HURRICANE swept over New Lon
don, Ia, on the 24th, and u number o
dwellings were blown down and severa
people injured.
TrE Cook County (Ill.) grand jury o
tho gath returned indictments agains
twenty-siX men, including Alderma'
McAbee ind Michael j. Corcoran, TO
election frauds.
THE Presbyterian General Assembl
in session on the 24th at Saratoga, n. y
agreed to appoint a commission
formulate amendments to the "Confes
sion of Faith" the commission to re
port to the general assembly of 1891.
FLAMES on the 25th destroyed thirty
seven buildings at Port Legdcn, n. Y.
OVER 800 illegal liquor sellers in Pitts
burgh, Pa, were arrested during tn
week ended on the Gath.
TnE visible supply of wheat and cor
In the United States on the Goth vas, RI
spectivcly, %, 45s, 0O3 and II, ,O7S, 10? bust
els.
Ben MEYERS, catcher of the Colorad
baseball team, was killed on the pot
at Montgomery, Ala, by pitched bal
which struck him in the mouth
THE tifty-eighth annual meeting {
the American Baptist Mission Societ
was held at Emmanuel Baptist Churc
in Chicago on the abth. Tho rcceip
of the year were S449, 444 and the G:
penditures S392, l68
TIE first convention of German Cat
olic societies of Wisconsin was opent
, at Milwaukee on the goth. 1t was +
solved to celebrate October as a n
ional Germ n-American holiday.
HEAVY rains had on the Goth cause
, great loss in the vicinity of Vance, TIE
The Nueces river had carried off who
settlements.and several lives had bet
, lost.
, THE eight commissioners-at-large (
: the worlds fair were appointed on II
Goth by President Harrison as follow
August L. Bullock, Massachusetts,; alte
7 nate, Henry ingalls,, Maine. Thorn
w. Palmer, Michigan; alternate, Jam
t Oliver, Indiana. II. G. Kerens, NJ
= souri,; alternate, r. w. Furness, n
l braska. Edward II. Amidon, New Yor
y. alternate, Gorton W. Allen, New Yor
Peter A. b. Widener, PeAnsylvani
alternate, John W. Chalfant, Penns,
D vania. Samuel w, lnman, Georgi
l alternate, William Lindsay, Kentuck
Henry Exall, Texas; alternate, Hen
, l.. King, Texas. Mark L. McDonal
/ California; alternate, Thomas BurB
State of Washington.
$ IT was discovered on the Goth that
( laborer named John Williamson h
i murdered his employer, JEFF Moore, a
: son, at Sedalia, Mo.
J. TIE twenty-fourth annual convent
J, | of tho IIni iyersal Peace Union bera n