The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-04-03

the recent cyclone. 2SSsS
THERE we're 1s9 business failures in
tho United States during TIM seven days
ended on the 2sth, against 300 the
seven days. Tho tptal Of fail
ures in the United States from Janu-
ary to date is 1856, against 3,846 in
1889.
NATURAL gas was strnckpn the 2sth
at worthington, Ind, at n depth Of
/, 375 feet.
AT Staunton, Va, a heavy wind-storm
on tho 2sth unroofed houses, uprooted
trees and blew down fence%4
IT was reported on the 2Sth that Brid-
get Sweeney, trusted old servant in
the Tracy household st Washington,
had confessed to setting he fire that
burned up the Secretary home and
killed his wife and daurhfTa
News OF the 30th ult. says that in the
recent cyclone every building between
Bledsoe and Eulia in Macon County,
Tenn, was blown away, the town of
Dixon Springs was entirely destroyed,
and many persons were killed. The
property loss was estimated at $1,000
900. In jackson County over sixty per-
sons were killed.
AN earthquake shock was felt at Con-
toocook, n. H., on the 29th ult.
A FIRE on the Goth ult. at Mitchells
Station, Va, almost destroyed the town,
and Marshfeld, Mo-, met like fate.
THE five-story elevator Of the John
w. Huffman Milling Company at st.
Louis was burned on the Goth ult., caus-
sng a loss of $3.50, 600.
DISPATCHES of the Goth ult. say that
hundreds of houses in Jeffersonville,
Ind, were wrecked in the recent cy-
clone. causing a loss Of S750,000. No
lives were lost. In Gibson County fifty
buildings were destroyed and much
stock killed.
THREE miners were killed on the Goth
ult. by a cavern at the Prince of Wales
mine near Negaunee, Mich.
Two coLoRED men, Ben Easton and
Hedge Townsend, got into fight in
Lcavenworth, Kan, on the Goth ult.,
and both were killed.
JAMES p. DAVIS was hanged on the
2Sth ult. at Pittsboro, n. c., for the
murder of John Horton. He confessed
his crime, said his real name was Shack
ford, and that while living in South
Carolina several years ago he murdered
his six children
THE latest estimate on the 30th ult
placed the number of persons killed by
the cyclone at Louisville at 1o3, and the
number CT injured at 800, of whom
about sixty were expected to die from
| their wounds. Dispatches from othel
/ points in the State report great damage
and some loss of life. The towns o
| Caledonia and Grand Rivers were en-
tirely destroyed; in West Louisville
every business house and half the resi-
denccs were wrecked, and Blackfort
was nearly wiped out's'
THE changes at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during th'
week ended on the Goth ult aggregated
81, ,045 ST., 3S9. against 81, ,045, 81, $50 th'
previous week. AS compared with thu
corresponding week OF 1889 the de
crease amounted to 4.6.
JoHN OwsLEY, of st. Joseph, Mo-,
man 7Oyears old and ten years ago mill
ionaire, was on the goth ult. sentenced
to the pcnitiary for burglary.
THE people of Johnstown, Pa, on th
2glh ult. sent $500 to the Louisville suf
ferers.
THE town OF IIuntins ton, Miss, wa
from five to seven feet under wator Of
the 3oth ult. and the water was still
rising.
MASKED men on the Goth ult. robbe'
C. d. Miller, farmer living near Lima
he 80, ,irnr pri A.
$500 he had drawn from the bank
ADvIcEs of the S0th ult. from Boone
Lincoln and adjoining counties in Yves
Virginia was to tho effect that hundred
of cattle were dying from want OF food
FHANK YoUNGLEY, aged 30 year;
quarreled with his wife on the Goth ult
at Pittsburgh, Pa, and then shot hin
self dead.
TIE defalcation of Archer, Stat
Treasurer of Maryland, was on the got
ult. said to be nearly S500,000
IN fight between negroes and white
at Brantley, Tex, on the 3lst ult on
negro and one white man were kille
and four negroes were fatally wounded
JOHN RICHTER, of Toledo, O., Will
going into a saloon on the 3lst ul
missed his footing and hung by tn
chin on the railing until dead. He wa
: drunk.
DYNAMITE exploded in the Coalbur
(Ala.) mines on the 31st ult., KILN
: four men and wounding eight others
THE visible supply Of wheat and cor
in the United States on the 31st ul
was, respectively, 27,1l4,093 and 2o,aO4
6S6 bushels.
HoPsoN HURD, of the wholesale gr
Gerry firm of Babcock, Hurd & Co.,
Gle seland O., committed suicide on I'll
3ist ult. by shooting himself. Po'
health was the cause.
The city of Greenville, Miss, wi
under water on the S1st ult., and evel
thing was afioat at Ashport Over 1l,0
! square miles in the vicinity Of Mer
) phis, Tenn, were also inundated, az
portions of Arkansas near Helena we
7 in the same condition. No lives h;
been lost, but there was great sufferir
among the residents of the overflow'
: country.
In the Auburn IN. W prison KemI
ler is to be executed by electricity du
: ing the week beginning April 2s
: GRANT ADsIT and his 2-year-old chi
and the 13-year-old daughter of Elmo
l. Thomas were drowned on the 31st u
while attempting to cross Sugar ere,
near Milford. Ill.
Q FIVE persons we're injured, two fati
ly, in a fire on the 3lst ult which (
: tally destroyed st. Joseph's convent,
j Catholic institution in Milwaukee.
g THE safe in the Office of the Nilsson
! Kansas & Texas road at Fort SEQ
i Tex, was blown up on the S1st ult a