The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-04-24

shells exploded on the 18th at Cygnet,
o., and two men were Mown hundreds
of yards and nothing loffof them but a
few strings Of their eJothing. The
horses were also killedf4
GOLD was on the 18th said to have
been discovered on the YARN of C. b.
Fisher, ten miles southfN Aurora, Ill.
IT was reported OF tgH 10th that TO-
900 colored people FROM 1abama would
settle in Oklahoma bef6se July l.
WILLIE RUSSELL, dp3bred lad Of In
dianapolis, on awakening from a three
days trance on the to>h predicted cy-
clones and dire Disasters all over the
country. u.aa
THE exchanges at the Heading clear
lighthouses in the Unitad States during
the week ended on tbS 18th aggregated
81, 141, 14o, 900, against Sts069, 5l7 $50, the
previous week. As cSt1pnred with the
corresponding week of.tsSe, che increase
amounted TO as. v's
NEARLY the entire village Of st. Elmo,
Col, was destroyed by fire on the 10th
A FOREST fire on the 10th near Egg
Harbor City, N. j., caused loss of 800,
900.
IN shaft near La Sale, ILL.,, Jacob
Williamson, John Eustice and Nelson
Akerson, three coal miners, were suffo-
Gated on the Goth by gas.
By the falling of bridge on the goth
at Springfield, o., fifty persons were
injured, I've probably fatally.
STEVE JACOBS (colored) was lynched
by mob on the Goth near Fayetteville,
Tenn, for incondiarism.
THE 115th anniversary of the battle Of
Lexington was celebrated at Lexington,
Mass, on the 10th.
The stables of Contractor Clark in
Brooklyn, N. Y, were burned on the
Goth, and nearly one hundred horses
and mules perished
AT Pigeon Creek, w. Va, on the 10th
Smith Baisden, John Baisden and Will
lam Baisden, three brothers and noted
desperadoes, were killed while resist
ing arrest
The two children of Andrew Young,
a farmer living near Peensville, Pa,
were burned to death in their home on
the 10th.
THE season Of the National Base Ball
League and the Players Base Ball
League opened on the 10th.
A PORTION of Geneva County, Ala,
was visited by tornado on the 10th, and
houses barns and fences were torn to
pieces and nine persons were fatally
injured.
The Pan-American conference at
Washington ended at noon on the 10Th.
Before the final adjournment Secretary
Blaine, who had presided over it's de-
liberations, addressed tho delegates,
congratulating them upon the work ac-
coriplished by the conference.
The worlds fair directors in Chicago
on the 10Th concluded to increase tho
capital stock of the corporation to S1O,-
V.-o. LanD, ovon7nUopV.- ri
Nook, painters, pleaded gp,r F,osh a,
21st to embezzling $4,000 Of the nfins
funds.
THE indictments for completely in the
Cronin murder in Chicago on which
Frank Woodruff, alias "the Confessor,
had been in Jail for eleven months,were
auashed on the 21st, also the indictment
against John Kunze.
TIE little town Of Harrodsburg, KY,
was almost completely wiped out by fire
on the 2lst.
AT the Southwestern telegraph tour
nement at New Orleans on the 2lst w.
S. Brewer won the first prize in the
sending contest, his record being 2l1
words in five minutes.
BY the breaking OF a levee on the 21st
the city of Bayou Sara, La, was Hooded
70 depth of from two to seven feet
The tour of the Pan Americans
through the South was abandoned or
the 2lst.
HUNDREDS of cattle in New Mexico
were dying for want of water on the
21st, and tho loss would bo enormous
unless rain came soon.
For the third time in three years thu
business portion of Knightsville, Ind.
was burned on the 2lst
+. f. WEAVER started from New
Haven, Conn, on tho 2lst for trip b.
bicycle to San Francisco which was ex
pectcd to occupy 200 days.
! REIIc-HUNTEns have so mutilated tn
Lincoln monument at Springfield, ILL.,
that it was decided on the 2lst to erec
large iron fence around it.
AT Galesburg, ILL.,, the house of q. L
Arnold was entered by burglars on tn
2lst and pocketbook containing S2'so
was stolen.
The visible supply of wheat and cor
in the United States on the slst was, n
spectively, 24,5lS,272 and 17,So5,5C
bushels.
THE King & Hamilton Company
large wagon and farm implement work
at Ottawa, ILL.,, valued at 100000, wer
burned on the 21st-