The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-05-08
DOMEST

THE United States Treasury issued
statement on tho 1st sh moving that the
assets amount to S7l2, 100000 against
liabilities OF $3.50, O00, 900, leaving bal
ance in favor OF the treasury Of SG2..
600, 900.
AT Washington on tho 1st ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland was admitted to practice
before the United States Supreme
Court.
JAMES PALMER was hanged on the 1st
at Concord, N. H., for the murder of
Henry Il. Whitehouse at Portsmouth,
May 81, 1883.
THROUGHOUT the country on tho 1st
large demonstrations were made by
working-men in favor Of an eight-hour
day, and in several large cities strikes
were inaugurated by carpenters.
FIFTY-EIGItT converts to Mormonism
arrived at New York from Liverpool on
the 1st. They came from Sweden and
England.
The receipts of the United States dur.
ing April last from customs, internal
revenue and other resources amounted
to over S34, 900, 900, an increase Of about
SO, 600, 900 over those of the correspond
ing month OF last year.
AN incendiary fire on tho 1st in the
West Albany ~. W Livestock Yards
destroyed eight acres OF barns and
cattle-shcds.
DURING a cyclone on tho 1st at Bloom
ing Grove, Tex. the new Baptist church
and many residences were demolished,
and the post-oilice, tho Presbyterian
church and several business houses were
partly wrecked.
IT was announced on the lst that the
recent decision OF the United States Su-
preme Court in the liquor suit known as
the Original package" case opened a
loop-hole for the complete notification
of the prohibitory statues in several
States
THE New York Legislature on the lst
passed bill abolishing capital punish
ment
TIE statement of tho public debt is
sued on tho 1st showed the total debt
to be Sl,595, ,S42 296; cash in the Treas
ury, S35, $50, 1928; debt less cash in Treas.
ury, Sl,0l5,520,77l. Decrease during
April, ST,636,0o Decrease since June
80. 1889, SOL, l25, s51.
McAbee, M. j. Corcoran, John Horn, w.
II. MITCHELL John Dingwell, James
Lynch, Stephen Cowos and Captain
James White (all Democrats) were in
dicted by the grand jury for election
frauds.
THERE were ell business failures in
the United States during the seven days
ended on the I'd, against 21s the pre-
| vious seven days.
FEcnuEIMEu, RAU & Co., shirt man
ufacturers in New York, failed on tho
1st for 1915, 200.
| AT Frankfort, Mich, on the 1st Charles
T. Wright, the lumberman who shot and
killed Sheriff Marshall and Deputy
Thurber. was sentenced to life impris.
| onment
GOVERNOR WATERMAN, of California,
on the I'd granted pardon to A. p. Clip
son, who was sent in May, 1878, to
San Quentin prison to serve life SON.
tence, he having been found innocent
TEN THOUSAND working-men EN-.
| ployed in the iron, cooper and sash and
door industries in Chicago struck on the
I'd for eight hours.
YAM PHoN LEE, a Yale graduate,
started paper in New York on the I'd
for Chinese Sunday school scholars. II
| is called the Chinese Advocate.
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the I'd signed
the bill establishing 4 Territorial gov
ernment in Oklahoma.
JUDGE f. B. MARTINDALE, of Indian
apolis, was on the I'd appointed worlds
fair commissioner for Indiana by Gov
ernor Hovey.
THE State Grange, Farmers Mutual
Benefit Association, Farmers Alliance
| and Knights Of Labor of Illinois con-
solidated at Springfield on the I'd, with
]. M. Thompson, of Joliet as presi-
dent.
AT Mulberry, Ind, on the cd Erwin
Kern killed Harvey Kratzer with bill
lard cue in dispute over the payment
for some drinks.
Mrs. MARY McMoNNAN, who lived
near Lovett's Station, KY, was torn to
pieces on the I'd by hogs which she was
feeding,