The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-07-31

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neapolis and st. Pau was ordered by
Secretary Noble oh the 2Bth
JomN SoIoMAN. Of Indianapolis aged
85 years, and his wife, aged 60 years,
dnarrcled on the 2eth, and Soloman
struck his wife with an Iron pin, fatally
injuring her
Ar tho leading clearing houses in the
United States the EXCHANGES during tho
week ended on tho 10th aggregated
81, $50, T5D,2Tb, against I,1l5, 3s5,57S tho
previous week As roruIlred with the
corresponding week Of 1sso The increase
amounted to,4.3
THE town OF Wallace Idaho, was dc.
stroyod by ilro on the 27th, only two
buildings escaping the f3amcs,
A GYctoNE struck South Lawrence,
Mass, on tho goth and made sweep
400 feet wide along the Merrimac river
for distance Of four miles. In tho
space of three minutes II destroyed scv4
enty dwellings,, rendered homeless 600
people, Titled eight 6uG ~, fatally in.
jured eleven fiiorc anclsSsyoreiy and
Slightly injured sixty others,
THE business portion of Creighton,
Neb., was destroyed by fire on the 27th.
THE Norwegian bark Lloyd, which
sailed from Cuba June II for New York
with a crew of fourteen mon, was given
up as lost on the Goth.
TiiRUtGIt fear of poverty Albert
Parmentcr, a farmer living near Bello.
fontaine o., killed his wife on the Goth
and then took his own life.
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liery No. IA of the Pennsylvania Coal
Company at Wilkcsbarre, Pa, on the
27th, fifty acres falling from three to
eight feet, many houses being wrecked.
No one was injured
WILLIAM GOLDEN. his wife and three
children were killed by the cars on tho
97th at Grafton. W. Va, while trying
to cross the track.
Thirty years ago Rev. John Eberly
conceived the idea of living upon one
meal day as remedy for dyspepsia.
lie did so and at once regained his
health. He has followed the plan ever
since, and on the 27th he celebrated his
| 67th birthday at Pottstown, Pa.
A FIRE started by spark from loco
motive destroyed the Monitor plow
works at Minneapolis on the 2Sth, en-
| failing n loss of Sl15,0OO.
JOuN $. TYSEN, lawyer of Balti-
more, Md, and William II. Mumford
were drowned by tho rapsizing of a boat
while fishing at Magnolia on the 2sth.
Ar New Portage, o., factory com
menced on the 2sth the manufacture OF
lumber for building purposes out Of
straw.
New HAMrsuIEE's population was on
the 2Sth given at 81, 100, gain of over
80, 900 in ten years.
IS a railway collision on the 2Sth al
Terrc liautc, Ind, Engineer George
Kraft lost his life. 1t was his sixty-iirs,
birthday.
TIE English syndicate whic h had
been negotiating for the G. c. Washburr
mills at Minneapolis failed TO secure the
property on the 2Sth.
THE visible supply of wheat and corn
| in the United States on the 2Sth was,
respectively, $500, BIS and 1000, zoe
bushels.
MANUEL GoRUTIA, son Of wealthy
Mexican, attending school at New
York, was discovered on the 2sth to be
afflicted with leprosy.
TIE issue of standard silver dollars
from the mints during the week ended
on tho Goth was S413,237, against $3.50.
4O3 during the corresponding period of
last year.
A CALI was issued on the 2sth for the
third annual meeting of the National
Bur Association, to be held at lndianap-
oils August 8.
Ir was reported on the 2Sth that j.
Milton Turner, tho colored cX-Minister
to Liberia, with others, had secured
90, 0l0 acres of land in Mexico which he
proposed to COLOMBO with negroes from
the United States.
AT Winfield, Kan, fire on the 2sth
burned the livery stables of Met ampbell
Bros and the Southwestern transfer
and Bus Company. Over twcnty-sever
horses pcrisbcd in the flames
THE steamer Louise was run into 10y
the steamer Virginia on the ?sth of
Fort Carroll, Md, and five persons OF
the Louise were drowned.
BY the crossing of electric-light wire:
in the Treasury Department at Wasl'
ington on the 2Sth the north end Of the
building was set on fire, but before Sc
rious damage was done the flames were
eXtinguished