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


DOMESTIC.
REPORT was made to Governor Jack.
son, of Maryland, on the Goth that the
State Treasurer. Stevenson Archer, had
misappropriated the securities in his
possession.
IT was reported on the Goth that an
English syndicate had obtained options
on several large tobacco factories in
Lynch burg Va, and was negotiating
for eight factories in Danville, Va.
Rev. DR.. JOSEPH II. RYLANcE, Of
New York, on the Goth recovered YER
dict OF $40, 900 against Nicholas QuaclS-
cnboss for malicious libel.
THE Philadelphia mint force was on
the Goth working night and day to meet
tho demand for silver dollars, of which
it was expected to turn out 1,s00, 600 dur
ing March.
THE old chestnut horse Jack" that
carried Brigadier General Geddes
through several campaigns during the
war, died at Des Moines, Ia, on the
Goth, at the advanced age of SO years.
IT was reported on the 27th that Me-
tropolis, small village in Illinois, had
been destroyed by cyclone and that
several hundred people were killed and
injured. Many buildings at Olney and
Nashville, III, were also wrecked.
SHORTLY after 0 o'clock on the even
ing of the 27th tornado swept over the
western portion of Louisville, Ky,
wrecking 200 or 800 houses, and killing
200 or more people and injurirg many
~ ha
about square and half in width.
A TORNADO at Birds Point, Mo-, on
the 27th blew down several houses.
HUNDREDS Of houses at Jetfersonville,
Ind, wore wrecked by cyclone on the
27th, and the loss of life was estimated
at from $50 to 200.
The colored mon of Battle Creek
Mich, organized protective league OF
the 27th.
The tug May French was wrecked in
Maumee bay, near Toledo, O.. on the
27th, and Captain Tom Cary, Engineer
George Reynolds and two deck hands
were drowned.
TIE Kansas State fair is to be helt
September l2 to 20, inclusive.
An extensive forest fire was raging
on the 27th near Egg Harbor, N. j., ant
it was estimated that fully 1000 acre
were in flames.
ELEVEN men were killed and seven
teen wounded in mill-dust explosion
at the Chicago sugar refinery, Taylo
and Beech streets, on the 27th.
WILLIAM SLATTERY and his wife AM
Edward Spaulding were arrested on tn
27th at Buffalo, n. Y, for counterfeit
ing. They had been flooding the cit
with bogus ten-cent pieces.
OFFICERS of lower Mississippi steamer
arriving at st. Louis on tho 27th re
ported much distress in the ovcrhowe
districts south of Memphis, and the Out
look for their next crop was discourag
ing.
JOHN A. DAVIS, city treasurer c
Rochester, N. Y, who embezzled $50
900, pleaded guilty on the 27th and wa
sentenced to five years in Aubur
prison.
A cAvE-IN Of the Conygham mine q
Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the 27th caused tn
sinking OF several houses. The damag
was large.
THREE brothers named Deidrick, job
and Henry Bakeslee, all of New Yor
City, were killed by the cars on the 27t
at Red Rock, Pa.
COUNTERFEIT ten-dollar bills on tn
Germania Bank of New Orleans were i
circulation on the 27th in Cincinnati
Louisville and st. Louis.
FURTHER advices of the 2sth say ths
the number of lives lost in the recer
cyclone at Louisville, KY, was prett
definitely known to be seventy-fivt
The property loss would be about So
500, 900. The wrecked portion of th
city lies between Eighteenth, BroaC
way, Seventeenth and Main street
The storm passed diagonally across tn
section, which is probably mile squar
Some $500 buildings were wrecked.
ADvIcEs of the 2sth say that in til
recent cyclone twenty five persons wei
killed in Jackson County, ILL.,, over II
/, were killed and injured in Posey Count
Ind, and many lives were lost in NJ
tropolis, Ill. The town OF Bowlir
Green, KY, was wiped out, and mar
buildings were wrecked and sever
lives lost at Evansville, Ind.
THE worst blizzard of the season pr
vailed on the 27th throughout the enti
Northwest
!, ApvIcEs of the 2sth from Alaska 50
: that four whisky-smugglers = Fran
= Muzzy, John Ackerson, William Benne
and man named Mitchell we
drowned near Douglass island.