The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-12-18

week ended ON the tSth Ag8rtgated
1876, 7ld, sol, hgnifist Vi, ,sb8, ,bigl6o the
ptevious week. As compared With the
corresponding week Of 1880 The. Serease
amounted to4.4
GEoReE SERKER and JameH Lane
were frozen TO death near Clay Court
hSIss' %ms nows, 10, a." Minnesota and Dakota
Elevator Company at MiuDeapolk failed
for si50,0dt,
Ar a birthday celebration IN the
Buchtel College at Akron, O., tlIe cloth
ing Of some Of the students cnukht fire,
and five girls were fatally and tpnr 9th
ers were badly burned.
AN encounter took place between a
band OF cowboys and numbe- of In
dians at Daly's ranch in South Dakota,
and three Indians were killed.
FIVE persons were struck an ex-
press train and killed ~ u railway
crossing IA Bristol, Pa. s A
Ar Goshcn, Ind, WIN tsnewitz
was sentenced TO life imp Hsy5.oi Hsy5oi lsit' ior
the murder OF james Mcclure last Sep
tember, and at Columbus, Ind, John
Petilliott, the wife murderer, was sent
enced to nine-years' imprisonment.
JOHN BARKER started a fire on a
ranch near Denver, Col, and was dis
covered in the act by several men who
threw him into the flames and he was
burned to death.
THE town Of Minden, Neb., was
almost entirely wiped out by FIRE.
FoR the murder of four negroes in
August, 1868, twenty-five years ago,
John Blyew was sentenced at Vance
burg Ky, to the penitentiyry for life.
He had been fugitive from justice
twenty-five years.
THE first carload of oranges of this
years crop from California was shipped
east on the 18th.
AT Providence, r. L., the big clothing
establishment of the $. B. Barnaby
Company was gutted by fire, causing q
loss of 100000. One fireman was
killed.
A sIx-FooT vein of silver oar, assay
ing 5000 per ton, was found near Sara
toga, Wyo.
Mrs. +. l.. SHELDON, now in Kansas
City, intends to head an exploring ex-
lhbO w AlTlCd.
MILES OaLE, the notorious counter
feiter, was sentenced at Memphis,
Tenn, to fifteen years in the peniten-
tiary.
JOHN ScHAEFER and his wife were
struck by a train at Misawalsa, Ind,
and both were killed.
JOSEPH MARSHALL, his son Charles
and Herbert Cooner were drowned near
Harbor Springs, Mich, while returning
from fishing cruise.
A BLOCK of eight large stores and
nineteen offices at Pottstown, Pa., were
destroyed by fire.
WHILE Mrs. Louis Holnagel was alb.
sent from her home near Saginaw,
Mich, her two little boys were burned
to death.
In fit OF jealousy Sherman McMa.
lon shot fatally the daughter Of Mrs
Sarah Cochran at Cherry Bend, o and
then killed himself.
The Farmers Bank at Fontanelle,
Ia, closed its doors with liabilities OF
$50, 900 and assets amounting to S25, ,0O0
BELL, MILLER & Co., dry-goods deal
ers at Cincinnati, failed for S400, 900; as.
sets, $3.50, 200.
A BURGLAR stole $500 from the house
of Asa Warneck, near Sulphur Springs,
Ind, and fatally beat Mr.. Warneck and
his wife, who were both nearly 0(
ears old.
THE visible supply of grain in store
in the United States on ~he 18th was
Wheat, 25, 1856, 150 bushels; corn, 1,s2o,
469 bushels; oats, $500, 7sl bushels.
Two THRIVING Arkansas towns, Oar
danellc and Monticello, were almost
wiped out by fire.
SITTING BULL, the Sioux chief was
shot and killed on the 18th at his camp
forty miles northwest of Standing Rocl
Agency, N. D., by. the Indian police
| while resisting arrest. Seven other In
dians, including Sitting Bulls son
Grow Foot, Black Bear and Catch Bird,
\ were slain and five of the Indian police
were killed.
MARIs Il SMITH, bankers and brokers
| at Philadelphia, failed for 100000. a..
Two YOUNG men Mt New Albany
Ind, who refused to support those de
pendent upon them, were taken from
| saloons at midnight and flogged b.
White Caps.
ROBERT Hoy was buried under eigh
tons of salt at Warsaw, N. Y, ant
| smothered to death. s
THE Lorillard Brick Works Company
of New York went into the hands OF,
receiver. The liabilities were $1,000,
900 and the assets S1,500,000.
PETER ST. GEORGE, living near Chip