The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-11-13
Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC,

.lNIEHESllNG NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC,
COLONEL THOMAS b. PptcH, president
OF the Gazittc Pointing Company of
Scdala, Mo" and one of tho best known
men in Missouri, was shot and mortally
wounded during political discussion
by Judge John Higgins, Of tho Pcttis
County court Both men were en- route
to thuir homes on Missouri Pacific
tain,
WHILE temporarily insane Mrs. 10
seph Lamprecht OF Philadelphia, killed
her infant child, fatally cut tho throat
of her 6-year-old daughter Mary and
then fatally stabbed herself
A FIRE at Greensboro, KY, destroyed
many business buildings, including tho
Messenger newspaper office. win II.
Hahn jumped from the third-story
window Of tho Rudd House and wa
Killed..
AMONG paroles granted by the peni-
tentiary managers at Columbus, o.,
were those of Frod II. Braggins, tho
Cleveland editor sent ur for eight years
for forgery, and john i. Simons,
treasurer of Drake County. convicted OF
embezzlement and sontcnccl for six
years.
TWO wonKMEN were instantly killed
and third badly hurt by falling
pier under a railroad track upon which
they wore at work at Doylcstown Pa.
THE cooper shop of the Phladclph
Cooperagc Company, the soap factory
and spice mill OF p. c. Thompson an II
large storage warehouse belonging to
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at
Philadelphia were burned, causing u
loss Of Sls5,0OO.
THE statue to the memory OF William
Denning, manufacturer of the cannon
used by the Americans in the war Of the
revolution, was unvailed at Neville,
PA.
w. u. CorTRELI., tho notorious Cedar
Keys (Fla.) desperado, was shot and
killed by Chief OF Police Gerald at
! Montgomery, Ala.
GOVERNOR HUMPHREY, of Kansas,
granted an unconditional pardon to
| William Baldwin, who was under death
sentence for numbering his sister Mary
+ in Atchison July s, 1885. Baldwin was
believed to be innocent
EMIL WuELFIoDr, OF Terre IIaute,
who found employment in beating his
! wife, was thrashed by womon with raw
! hides in one of the streets of that city.
S,CNoH SUccI, the faster, began fast
of forty-nvo days in New York on tho
| 9th.
IlESEY HUMPHREY died in New Yorl;
| from an epileptic tit caused by hard
drinking. Ten years ago he inherited
q fortune Of 500, 600 and he had scArce-
ly drawn a sober breath since.
Ar a meeting in Philadelphia for the
relief OF tho suffering in Ireland al
which Messrs. O'Brien and Dillon made
speeches Postmaster John Fields. wht
acted as treasurer. presented subscYip
tion list which footed up Sl2,S ,Ss5
ABOUT sixty crusaders assaulted the
saloon Of Andy Spaulding at Freeman
Mo-. and knocked in the heads OF all
| liquor barrels. Freeman is local
option town and the raid was general,
approved.
A HEAVY volume OF business through
out the country was reported, with tho
monetary situation substantially un
changed. The foreign trade was IN
usually active, tho imports during
October being in excess of Sl05, 90 900.
NEARLY forty buildings, including
the entire business portion of Truclicr
Cal, were destroyed by an incendiarI
fire.
BLACK diphth iberia was prevailing in al
epidemic form in Cygnet. o., and thu
schools were all closed and business wa
practically suspended,
TRAM wreckers ditchcd passcngc
train on the Missouri Pacific road nca
O,tervillc, Mo, and the engineer and
four postal clerks were badly injured
Robbery was the object
THE police broke mp an Anarchis
meeting at Newark, n. j., by arrcstini
Mrs, Lucy Parsons, Herr Most and seve
others.
TRAINS collided near Nicholasville
KY, tearing sleeping car to fragments
The passengers miraculously escapes
death, but several OF them were severe
ly injured.
THE business failures in the Unito'
States during the seven days ended O.
the 7th numbered Els, against 21s tn
preceding week and 267 the correspond
ing week last year.
The entire business portion of Hart
man, Ark, was burned.
Mrs. o. G.. BAILEY, the wife of
prominent citizen of Arlington, Tenn.
WAS killed by negro whom She had re
fused money.
NovERTo GRIEGo, a Mexican, wa
hanged at Canyon City, Col, for th
murder OF w. L. Underwood on June
.last and Will Bethea (colored) wa
hanged at Wrightsville, Ca, for killin
Lumbc Inspector Raiford on March l
last.
AN assignment was made by the MI
tual Fire Insurance Company Of CHI
cago. Poor business was given as tn
eause of the failure.
EVERY house in Winslow, Pike Cour
ty, Ind, was burned, and there would b
much suffering among the inhabitants
AN official translation of the recon,
ly-issued oncyclical of Pope Leo XIII
has been received by Cardinal Gibbon
and all the Archbishops and Bishops @
the Catholic church in this country, +
bo road by them to the people OF thei
respective dioceses. Tho letter lay
particular stress on the evil influence
of the Masonic order and says it is "ar
imated by the spirit of Satan"
AT the leading clearlug-houses in th
| United States the exchanges during tn