The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-02-06
KINo.nousr at Kansas City, Mo-,

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On the 3ist ult Loss, S200,00O.
THE Mississippi Legislature on the
s1st ult. passed bill doing away with
the convict lease system.
TmE statement Of the public debt Is
sued on the 1st showed the total debt
to be s1,8l1, 1881, 1888; cash IN the Treas
ury, s3i, ,sg4, 200; debt less cash in Treas
ury, 81, ,O4o, 7O7, ,018. Decrease during jan
uary, s12, 245, s05. Decrease since June
80. 1880, s35, 5,939,e05.
The exchanges at the Leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on tho 1st aggregated
81, ITO, 2o4, ,S94, against s1, ,to1, ,927, ,94S, the
previous week. AS compared with the
corresponding week OF 1889 the in
crease amounted TO 14.9
FIVE blocks of buildings at Danbury,
Conn, were burned on The I'd. Loss,
$500, 900.
THE three sons of Jas,es Bright, of
Kirkland township, tn+sy were found
dead in their beds on the 3D.; They had
been i'll with influenza, but when they
retired the previous night their con-
dition was not thought to be dangerous.
AT Kenosha, Wis, two large build
ings, the water cure and the German
church were burned on the ID. Total
loss, S125, 600.
NEAR Alligator bay, in Arkansas,
man named Kelley shot and killed his
wife and young man on the 1st in
ht of jealousy.
HUGH Mccormick, Of New Brunswick,
defeated Axtel Paulsen in q ten-mile
race at Eau Claire, Wis, on the ID, and
took the title Of the champion skater of
the world, which Paulsen had held for
eight years. Time, 46K minutes.
THE Sears building, one of the finest
in Boston, was burned on the I'd. Loss,
$3.50, 900.
SIX men were killed, two fatally in
jured and several others hurt on the
lst by an explosion of gas in coal
shaft at Wilkesbarre, Pa.
A TRAIN on the Chicago & Alton rail-
road left the track at Alma, Mo-, on the
1st, ditching sixteen cars, and five of
the trainmen were fatally injured.
THE infant son Of Mr.. and Mrs Ma
thaniel Reeves, living in basement in
Kansas City, Mo-, died on the 1st from
wounds inflicted upon it by rats some-
time during the night.
AT Louisiana, NO., on the 1st Joseph
Bacon, negro boy 12 years old, killed
his sister, years old, and his bother, 8
years old.
AT Winnsboro, La, Allen Buye and
Duncan Thompson, boys of Is, quarreled
on the 1st, and young Buye stabbed
and killed Thompson and then killed
himself.
A TRAIN with one thousand negro en-
igrants en- route from South Carolina to
Louisiana and Texas passed through
Birmingham, Ala, on the I'd.
EARLY on the morning of the I'd a fire
in tenement house in Boston caused
the loss of ten lives, and seven Other
persons were badly injured.
AN incendiary fire on the 1st at FL
wood, Ind, destroyed eight stores.
In Washington on the I'd the superin'
tendent OF the census appointed John
Hyde, OF Nebraska, and Mortimer White.
head, of New Jersey, chief special agents
for the collection of the statistics OF
agriculture.
The New York Presbytery on the Sd
declared itself in favor Of q revision oi
the Westminster Confession of Faith by
vote of 93 to 43.
In Chicago on tho Sd motion for 6
new trial for James j. West, ex-presi
dent of the Times Company, was denied
by Judge Grinncll, and West was sen
fenced to five years in the penitentiarl
and to pay fine Of $1,000.
The schooner Annie nj. Strople, o
the Gloucester (AIass.) fishing feet, wa
on the Sd given up as lost with her crew
of fourteen men.
THE visible supply Of grain in thi
country on the Sd was: Wheat, S,4so, 10
bushels, decrease of 454,4ll bushels
corn, 11,91s, 447 bushels, an increase O
2sS, ,5S5 bushels.
THE bridge across the Illinois rive
near Peoria, ILL.,, gave way on the I'd lie
meath the weight of freight train, an
, Engineer Neville, Fireman OBrien an
: Brakeman Lewis were killed.
In the Metrop olitan Orera-Iouse a
New York on the Sd Hon. Seth Low wa
istalled as tho eleventh president {
Columbia College in the presence of
, vast audience.
THE convention of Knights OF Labe
; of Now York State, held in Troy on tn
= Sd, adopted resolutions in favor of tn
Australian ballot system,
+, On the Sd Director of the Mint Lesc
estimated that on February there VIZ
81, 132, 1856, ia worth of gold and silvt
coin and bullion in the United STATE
divided as follows: Gold coin, 1924, 900
4S3; gold bullion, 500, 6,oso,0S7; silv'
q coin, $4o9, 9,646, ,645; silver bullion, Sl1
557, ,759.
y THE residence of Secretary Of IL
, Navy Tracy in Washington was burnt
= early on tho morning Of the Sd. III
:, Secretary's youngest daughter and Mr.
- Tracy's French maid, Josephine Mo
- rell, were burned to death, and Mr.
a Tracy received injuries from which 81
= died shortly after being removed to
- place of safety. The Secretary W
q rescued in partially-asphyxiated co
;. dition, while his youngest daughte
!. Mrs. Wilmerding, and her little daught
Alice saved themselves by jumpiI
!. from the second STORY window.
:, 1T was stated on the Sd that full
,. fifteen thousand persons near Pottsvill
a Pa, were in starving condition own
to lack OF work in the coal mines.
It PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
70 BY party vote on the 30th ult, q
r Democrats Of the Ohio Senate dg15
Lampson, the Republican Lieutenar
:. Governor elect and decided to seat Ms
h puis, the contestant The case wou