The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-04-17
DOM ESTIC.

THE business portion OF Pearsall,
Tex, was burned on the 9th.
GEORGE b. GRIMES, prominent Des
Moines (Ia.) grocer, was fatally shot on
the 9th by James Quan, a burglar.
NINE buildings at Linesville, Pa, in
cluding the Herald Office, were burned
by an incendiary fire on the 9th.
GEORGE A. FIELDS (colored) was
hanged on the 9th at Scranton, Miss,
for the murder Of Jennie Mosley.
SILVER in large quantities was dis
covered on the 9th near Mitchell, s. D.
Miss CAMPBELL, the only daughte of
o. H. Campbell, of the Continental Hotel
at Crestline, o., eloped on the 9th with
negro and married him at Cleveland.
THE new steamship Majestic which
arrived in New York on tho 10th made
her first trip from Liverpool, via
Queenstown, in 6 days, 10 hours, 80
minutes-the quickest maiden passage
on record.
A BOY 10 years old named Hockardt,
living near Geneseo, ILL.,, quarreled
with his little sister on the 10th and
ing her almost instantly.
THE Steele court-martial finding was
made public by the War Department at
Washington on the 10th. The Lieuten-
ant is found guilty of conduct unbecom-
ing an officer and gentleman in strik-
ing Private Wifd,. and sentenced to be
reprimanded and confined within the
limits of his post for three months.
EMMA STARK, under arrest for poison
ing the Newland family in Chicago ad-
| mitted on the 10th that she put poison
in the food "just to see how strong 1T
was"
ISAAC WHITE, an old veteran living
near Leavenworth, Ind, was brutally
beaten by white caps on the 10th for
no known cause.
FLAMES on the 10th at Helvington,
KY, destroyed seventeen buildings and
large tobacco factory.
The United States coast survey
steamer Patterson sailed from San Fran
cisco on tho 10th for seven months
cruise in northern seas.
CoTTLIEB BENSON, an Omaha coach
man, blew out his brains on the 1Otl
because the cook refused to marry him
A NEW counterfeit $40 bill on the Ger
mania National Bank of New Orlean
was in circulation in Chicago on the 10th
The Arkansas City (Ark) street-ca
stables were destroyed by fire on tn
10th, and twenty three horses and tou
cars were burned.
OF the 3,OS1 immigrants landed
Castle Garden, New York, on the lot
1,OS0 were Italians. They started
gangs for Pittsburgh and Chicago
THE equipment shops of the Brookly
City Railroad Company were burned o
the 10th. Loss, $500, 600.
THROUGHOUT Kansas Arbor day W:
observed on the 10th.
Two HIGHWAY robbers &.ptured
Jackson County, W. Va, on the lot
proved to be women.
DURING an electrical storm on IL
10th at Paterson, N. j., large mass
ashes and potato bugs fell from IL
clouds.
; Much excitement but little damal
was caused in Burlington, Ia, on ii
18th by the hurling of bomb by an u
known person upon the pavement ne
the National Bank building.
TWELVE letter boxes at Dayton, {
were broken open early on the mornii
of the 11th and their contents scatter,
about the streets.
THERE were 200 business failures
the United States during the seven da
ended on the 11th, against 206 t
previous seven days. The total OF ia
ures in the United States from Janua
/ to date is $685. against 3,s73 in 1889
FOREST fires were raging on the II
in the Missouri river bottoms five mil
below Liberty, Mo.
NEAR Columbus, Ind, on the II
thirty hogs slew and devoured hei
and a calf. A drove of cattle in neil
boring pasture, infuriated by the SIN
: of blood, broke an intervening fer
: down and charged upon the swii
7 eighteen being killed and ten wound
CHARLES SIMMONS (colored) v
hanged on the 11th at Mount Pleasa
8. c., for the murder of Otto Fishs
(white) October 16. He confessed
guilt
BY a freight collision on the 18th
! Mansfield, o., on the Baltimore g. O
road, seventeen cars were smashed
g q loss of $50, 900 caused.
:. A SEVERE earthquake shock was
- at Dover, Me-, on the 18th. Clio
were stopped and smaIl articles W
thrown from rneir places