The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-11-27
EpitOme of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.

Ara meeting in Cleveland the Nickel
plate railway managers decided to adj
vance tho wages of conductors baggage.
men and brakemcn.
TUE members OF the FIRM OF Tong
Toong Il CO., an extensive Chinese mer-
camille house In San Francisco, fed to
China with $1,000 the wages of 24)
Chinese fishermen who recently re-
turned from Alaska, leaving the fisher
men penniless.
AT tho sale of horses owned by OK.
Congressman Scott ut New York Bolero,
q 2-year.old. was sold to Philip Dwyer
Tor S35, ,0c0.
SURGEON GENERAL HAMILTON In his
annual report takes a decided ground
against the existing immigration law
and makes strong argument for the
restriction OF immigration. Fifteen in
sane persons and eleven idiots were re-
ported by tho medical officer among the
immigrants arriving at New York dur
ing the year.
The jury in the Rev. w. L. Petit
wife-poisoning case at Charlottesville,
Ind, returned verdict Of guilty fix
ing the punishment at Imprisonment
for life.
Z. SEAoLD, of Charlotte, Mich, at.
tempted to kill his wife and then COM
mitted suicide. Domestic trouble was
the cause.
A. NJ. LOTUS shot and killed his
father, ID. c, LOTUS, near Gainesboro,
Tenn, in personal d difIlculty, accident.
ally killing his brother at the same
time.
THE International Law and Order
Lea quo met in annual session at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the Goth.
HARNEY's Hotel and eight dwellings
at Nanticolte, Pa, we're burned.
THE board Of lady managers of the
Worlds Columbian Exposition effected a
permanent organization By the election
of Mrs. Potter Palmer, OF Chicago, as
president, and Miss Phoebe Couzins, OF
st. Louis, secretary.
AT the session OF the Non Partisan
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
at Pittsburgh, Pa, Mrs. f. j. Phinney,
| of Cleveland, O., was reelected presi.
dent.
| BARKER BROTHERS & Co., bankers and
brokers' of Philadelphia, failed for S.,
90, 600
ALFKED DoUGuERrY was sentenced
at ST. Louis to four years in the peAi-
Tertiary for attempting to obtain a pen.
sion frCm the Government under fraud.
! ulent claims.
| Moses $. MARKS, formerly note teller
In the Flour City Bank at Rochester, n.
/ Y, secured SEQ, 000 in money sent to the
bank by express and made his escape.
THE business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
| the 2lst numbered 2II, against 268 the
| preceding week and 277 the correspond
ing week last year.
TllE death of Maria l.. Perry at Whit.
man, Mass, disclosed the fact that for
twenty years she and Lucy A. Lobdell
had been living together as man and
wife.
Dr. CHARLES c. ABBOTT, OF the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania, in a lecture in
Chicago gave many instances that had
come under his observation Of the abil.
| ity Of animals TO think and even reason.
HERMAN BECKERTs, ono of the richest
and best known distillers in kentucky,
dropped dead from heart disease at
Louisville.
An Eastern commercial agency re-
ported that Notwithstanding the finan.
! cial troubles in New York the general
business of tho country continued large.
| JoHN f. BLAKE, mayor Of Canton. o.,
| a leading miller, made an assignment
| with liabilities OF $4,000
EIGHT freight cars were hurled over 8
trestle on the Meridcn railroad neal
Meriden, Conn, three men being fatal
! ly hurt.
| AT Webster, Fla, Deputy United
| States Marshal Samuel lie Strange was
shot to death by r. L. Burford, whom
! he sought to arrest for violation of the
postal laws.
DISPATCHES OF the 21st from the Pine
Ridge agency in South Dakota reported
an extremely critical condition of af
fairs The Indians continued theiI
crazy dances, and several chiefs had ut.
tered threats against the whites. The
| few hundred troops that had reached
the agency were said to anticipate ar
attack from 6,U00 to 5000 well-armed
redskins at any moment
Ir was reported that Jay Gould had
secured control of all the great rail
ways west of the Mississippi river.
| JACK NAPLES (colored) was hanged
| at Knoxville, Tenn, for criminal as
samlt, and Dorsey Edwards (colored)
was executed at Yazoo City, Miss, fol
the murder of his wife Septernber5 last
THE Treasury Department at Wash
| ington has decided that grain taken to
| Canada to be ground can not be re.
turned to the United States without
payment of duty.
THE firm of Ragsdale & Co., OF
Oklahoma City, O. T., who have banks
at Guthrie, Norman, Kingfsher and Ell
Reno, in that Territory, failed to open
| their doors and announced that all pay
ments were suspended.
| A PECULIAR and fatal disease was
raging among cattle and horses in Ore
gon and ad joining counties in Missouri
| Over 100 horses had died. and the dis
ease baf'ied the skill Of the veterinary
surgeons.
An New Orleans the grand jury re.
ported finding true bills against the
seventeen men under arrest charged
with tho murder of Chief of Police
David C. Hennessy on October Is.
COMMoDoRR FoLGER, of tho ordnance
buroau of the Navy Department, re.
ports that tests of nickel-steel have
proved successful, and that it may he
con nidently anticipated that niclel-steel
will enter into the composition of pro-
jectiles
In battle with horse-thiepes near
Cairo, Kan, two Of the robbers were
| shot daad hv the officers