The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-01-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
| THE increase in Germany's armament
continues to excite comment. The gun
factoriesat Spandau are still running
night and day.
THE Queen Of Saxony, the Queen of
Roumania, Baron Mohrenheim and DR..
Dollinger are among the latest victims
Of the influenza.
THE United States ship Richmond,
| aagship OF the South Atlantic squadron,
sailed, on the 3D. from Bahia, Brazil,
Tor Montevideo. All were we'll.
HENRY M. STANLEY departed from
Zanzibar for Cairo, on the I'd, on the
steamer Mansourah. The Sultan OF
Zanzibar has decorated Stanley with the
order OF the Blazing Star.
ONLY one vote was cast in the LINER
ick Qreland) corporation, on the I'd,
against the restoration Of continued
confidence in Mr.. Parnell.
THE vessel with which the City Of
Paris collided in the Marsey, on the 1st,
was the British steamer Birchfleld,
bound from Liverpool to Cardiff. The
bowsprit of the City of Paris was not
carried away, as at first reported, but
only slightly damaged. The Birchfleld
lost her starboard fororigging and
sprung her foremast.
JOHN RUsKIN is again i'll.
Hon. T. q. POWER was chosen as the
second Senator from Montana by the
Repu blican members of the Legislature
| In joint session on the I'd.
HIRAM HOWE, the famous horseman,
During his life he brought out many Of
the most famous trotters.
THERE are 400 cases Of 'la grippe"
among the prisoners in Clinton IN. "
prison. The warden, clerk and assist
ant clerk are confined to their beds.
Fon the first time since tho National
lists had majority in the Drogheda
| (Ireland) corporation the Queens health
was drunk at tho mayoralty New Years
banquet on the 1st
THREE prisoners escaped from the
Ohio penitentiary on the night of the
Sd. They concealed themselves in the
kitchen at locking-up time, and then
,rawled through a ventilstor, thus gain
ing the open courtyard inside the walls,
whence they escaped by means of q
rope.
| IT Is said that the President hos fin-
ally decided to adopt Secretary Win
| 1om's recommendation that the Govern
ment shall accept silver bullion and is
sue certificates therefor at the market
rate, the certificates to serve as our
! hot hn 1nytl1
send message to Congress on the sub
ject
| Hr 2R BAUMANN, the explorer, will
shortly proceed to Zanzibar and other
parts Of Southeast Africa in the interest
Of German company.
THE postal authorities OF Austria are
violently agitated over the theft Of a
letter containing 100000 in transit be-
tween Pesth and Vienna.
AN eminent Paris physician concurs
in the belief expressed by Lord Sails
bury that the lattcr's influenza was
transmitted from Russia in dispatches
which came to the London Foreign Of
fcc from st. Petersburg.
JOHN LILLE. at present register Of the
land-ofiice at Guthrie, is being pushed
! by Indiana friends for the position Of
| Governor of Oklahoma.
THERE is movement on foot to or
ganize National loan and savings as
ISOLATION with headquarters at Buffalo,
| N. Y, and branch offices in several
Northern and Eastern cities, with o
capital of $50, 100000.
CHOLERA is raging frightfully at Ham,
MADAM, Persia. Many deaths have oc-
Cured and it Is feared that the disease
will spread to Teheran in the spring.
TIE Russian Government has ordered
the manufacture Of 1900, 900 magazine
rifles in France, the delivery Of the
weapons to be made as speedily as pos
sible.
THE steamship Brittanic, New York
for Liverpool, ran down and sunk the
brigantipe Czarowitz, on the night Of
the I'd, in the Irish sea off the Mersey.
The Captain OF the Czarowitz was
drowned. All the others on board were
saved by the crew of the Brittanic,
though the work of rescue was rendered
difficult by the severe cold weather.
Two editors of Vienna, named Tonnes
and Dimitrevics, fought duel at Neu'
satz, Hungary, on the 4th, as result OF
a newspaper quarrel Dimitrevics was
killed.
THE Pope has given his approval tc
the appointment of Father 0'Doherty as
Bishop of Derry, Ireland.
CLARK HOWELL was, on the 4th, ap
pointed managing editor Of the Atlantis
Constitution to succeed tho late Mr.
Grady. He had been night editor and
assistant managing editor Of that paper
for some time.
VOTE taken by employees of Scotch
railway lines on the ten-hour question
shows that majority of the men are
opposed to strike and in favor Of 9
conference with the managers with {
view to relief from excessively long pc
riods of work.
| THE astronomer, Perry, who was SEN
to Demarara at the head Of British
Government expedition, died on the
4th.
THE split in the German Nstiona
Liberal party has become serious
Many OF the prominent members haya
fatly refused to vote with Herr yor
| Bonnigsen, hitherto the leader Of tha
party, or to support his return 10 thu
Reiohstag.
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