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

Moines, Ia, causing loss Of S1OO, OOO
No one was injured.
THE Louisville g. Nashville cannon
ball express, from New Orleans for Gin.
cinnati, was wrecked hear English Ky,
on the 9th, and nine people were seri-
ously hurt, two OF them fatally.
PEbLIco, Umatilla indian, was
hanged at Portland, Ore, on the 9th by
the United States authorities for the
murder Of an Indian woman.
RoBBERs went through train on the
Northern Pacific road on the 7th near
Now Salem, N. d., securing the regis
tered mail matter.
THE Etna and STANDARD iron mills at
Martins Ferry, w. Va, were sold to an
English syndicate o. the 7th for st,3oo,.
600
WILLIAM PALMER was arrested BY
post-ofilce inspectors at La Crosse, Wis,
on the It'll for swindling Wisconsin,
Iowa and Minnesota people out OF s25,-
coo by bogus employment agency.
FoUn children were drowned in the
Mississippi river at Rapids City, H., on
the Sth.
AT the leading clearinghouse in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on tho 7th aggregated
l.dGs, 2TS, sos, against si,oT5, 275, 1875 tho
previous week. As compared with the
corresponding week OF 1889 the increase
amounted to 2T.r.
A sAILBoAT capsized on the sth in tho
bay at Boston, Mass, and seven young
men were drowned.
FIVE incendiary fires were started in
tho thiclily-settled part Of Davenport,
Ia, on the sth, all within six blocks.
But little damage was done.
THE stock interests of Colorado. Wy
oming, New Mexico and Texas COM
bined on the nth in company, with q
capital of SIS, 600, 600
BURGLARS set fire to bank in Chats
worth H., on the sth, and the entire
business portion of the city was burned,
Sixty fox-hounds, valued at $4,000,
the property Of the Radnor Fox.Hunt.
ing Club at Philadelphia, were de-
stroyed by poison on the Tth on account
OF the prevalence of rabies among them,
Is New Mexico thousands of cattle
were dying on the 7th for want of food
There had been no rainfall for six
months in the southern portion Of the
Territory and ranges were bare.
JOHN p. kUNZE, the ex-suspect in the
Cronin murder case in Chicago on the
7th gave the States Attorney some i'm
| portant information concerning tho
mysterious man who drove DIR. Cronin
to his death.
| THE percentages OF the baseball clubs
In tho Players League for tho week
ended on the 1th were: Boston, .631 New
York, .594; Brooklyn, .575; Chicago,
.514. Philadelphia, .473; Cleveland, Asa;
Pittsburgh, 400; Buffalo .3l3. Tho
clubs in the National League stood:
Cincinnati, .G3s; Philadelphia, .G31;
Chicago, .57l; Brooklyn, .555; New
York, 800; Boston, .473; Cleveland, 1858;
Pittsburgh, $50.
| PosTMAsTER-GENERA WANAMAKER
and other friends of Mrs. Harrison on
the 7th presented her with the cottage
at Cape May in which she spent por-
tion of last summer.
THE sash and door factory Of the
Iacto Company at Bucoda Wash, was
burned on the 7th. Loss Sl35, 600.
TIE International Boot and Shoe
| Workers in session at Rochester, n Y,
on the 7th decided that no person who
sells or manufactures spirits or malt
liquors shall hereafter be eligible to
membership in the organization.
ACCORDING to the report issued on the
7th by the New Orleans Cotton Ex-
change there were 100000 more bales
Of cotton in sight than at the same time
last year.
A COLLISION occurred on the 7th on
the South Atlantic & Ohio railroad near
Richmond, Va, between passenger
train and construction train, seriously
injuring six passengers
JOHN DEWEY and George Langford,
farmer boys living near Eilingham, H.,
went to sleep on the railroad track on
the 9th and were killed by an engine.
STORM visited parts of Mississippi
on the 9th, doing much damage to grow
ing crops. Hail-stones as large as hens
eggs fell
THE bark Sunbeam, Captain Moulton,
arrived at New Bedford, Mass, on the
9th from successful whaling voyage of
three years and ten months in the South
Atlantic ocean.
A SNEAK thief entered the room of
Ben Vivell, the noted bookmaker, at
Cincinnati on the 9th and got away with
$4,000.
THE Hyde C Behman theater in
Brooklyn, N. Y, was destroyed by fire
on the 9th. Loss, 100000.
EIGHT men were killed and twenty
two injured in a collision on the Wabash
road at Warrenton, Mo-, on the 9th.
The men were in charge of race-horses,
and fifteen of the latter were also killed
The loss to tho railway company was
5000, ,OOO
A GRAIN bin in q Chicago elevator
burst on the 9th and two men, Tim
othy Lynch and Simon German, were
smothered to death.
THE Trembath Hotel at Wilkesbarre
Pa, was destroyed by fire on the 9th
and one of the guests, w. Paul Bonn
baugh, was burned to death.
On the 9th nine girls were fined for
playing baseball with Danville, ILL.,,
team at that place on Sunday. The
boys were also fined.
George II. Pell, concerned in the
wrecking of the Sixth National Bank
of New York, was sentenced on the 9th
to seven years and six months at hard
labor in the States prison.
JOSEPH MoNTAG, Of Chicago, an old
man whose dissipated habits had es-
tranged him from his family, shot and
killed his wife on the 9th and then
wounded himself fatally.
THOMAS SUTTON, of Dubuque, To-, who
had been undergoing an enforced fast