The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-06-12
DOMESTIC.


State convention at Milwaukee on the
4th and resolutions were adopted pro-
testing against the Bennett school law.
STATEMENTS were made on the 9th
that the recent fllibustering plots
against Lower California were planned
in British interests, the scheme being
to make the peninsula another Ameri-
can colony of England.
LIGHTNING struck school-house near
Flandreau, S. d., on the 5th, killing
seven children.
An immense crowd listened to Chaun-
cey NJ. Depew's lecture on the worlds s
fair on the evening of the 9th at tho
Auditorium in Chicago.
OWING to recent storms the village OF
Manawa, Ia, on Lake Manawa, was
under five feet of water on the 5th and
entirely deserted.
IN the vicinity of Lockport n. Y,
great damage was done on the 9th by q
wind and rain-storm and many cattle
were drowned.
ZACH Il. luNDLEY, chairman of the
State Democratic Central Committee OF
South Dakota, was murdered by his son
at Huron on the 5th in dispute about
putting down carpet.
RoLIIN BEERS, lawyer at Bridge
port, Conn, who swindled his brother
and sister and other persons out of $780,
900, fled to Canada on the 5th.
THE district near Hubbard, Ia, was
swept on the 5th by tornado, houses
anS barns being reduced to kindling
wood, and many horses and cattle were
killed.
ApvICEs of the 5th say that q party
Of five Government Surveyors had been
massacred by Indians in the upper
Green river country in Wyoming
FIFTEEN HUNDRED Indians armed
with Winchester rifles on the Menomi-
nee reservation in Wisconsin drove the
Indian agent off on the 9Th. Trouble
was feared.
THE 13ith annual commencement Of
tho University of Pennsylvania was
held in the Academy of Music in Phila-
delpha on the 5th.
A CLoUD-BURsT on the 5th at Red
Wing, Mimi, did great damage. Near.
ly half of Goodhue County was over
flowed and several cases OF loss of life
were reported. The Belle Creek valley
was completely devastated and every
farmhouse on bottom land was washed
away.
THREE men were fatally sunstruck on
tho 5th at Cleveland, o.
AN oil tank on steamer near Phila.
dclphia exploded on the 9Th, killing
one man and badly injuring eleven
others. The property loss was Sl55, 600.
TliE post-olIlce building at Goff Pa,
was struck by lightning and destroyed
on the 9th and Postmaster Henry was
fatally injured.
THERE were 205 business failures in
the United States during the seven days
ended on the 9th, against 2ls the previ-
Gus seven days
AT Middlebury, Conn, Mrs. John
Smith and her two little boys were
drowned on the 9th. The lads fell into
the water, and the mother lost her life
in trying to save them.
THE Now York Supreme Court on the
9Th affirmed the conviction and sentence
Of Sheriff Flacls, of New York City, for
fraud.
THOMAS KING was hanged at Boulder,
Mont, on the 9th for killing Matthew
"p % ~ low HlOuJuS ago
HEAVY rain and thunder-storms pre-
vailed in Central New York on the 9th,
the lightning, wind and floods working
havoc. Several lives were lost.
\ PASSENGER train jumped the rails
near Rockford, ILL.,, on the 9th, and the
engineer and four section men were
killed.
TEST vote on the strength of the lot
terry people in the Louisiana Legislat-
uro, taken on the 9th, resulted 40 to 20
In the lottery's favor.
THE bill exempting editors and re-
porters in New York City from Jury
duty was signed on the 9th by Governor
Hill.
TnE Ames thrasher and reaper works
ct Oswego, n. Y, were struck by light
ming on the 9th and totally destroyed.
/, THREE negro murderers, Tom Miles,
Fletcher Halden and Henry Halden,
were hanged at Linden, Tex, on the 9th.
CHEYENNE Indians in Montana were
on the 9th on the verge of an outbreak.
1t was reported that they had killed Ave
whites, and settlers were taking precau-
tions for their safety.
EZRA LEECH, farmer of Newton
County, Miss. discovered $40, 600 In gold
while ditching in his field on the 9th.