The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-11-20
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

author OF tho Railway Manual, the rail-
roads OF tho United States carried 0l0,-
1877, a37 tons Of freight Deducting 25
per cent. for duplication, this leaves
46s, 352, o2s tons of merchandise. At an
average OF $50 per ton this merchandise
would reach tho enormous aggregate
value OF Sl3, $50, ,5s7,S $50. This takes no
account of the huge amount of water
borne freight on our lakes and rivers,
or of other methods of domestic trans
portation, and thus giees only an mad.
equate idea of the renl dimensions Of
our domestic commerce.
CHARLES NJ. WHITNEY, Frank M.
Larcher and Edwin q. Larcher, the
three members of the New York brokor-
age firm OF G. NJ. Whitney & Co., which
assigned, on the 10th. have filed sepa.
rate assignments to GEORGE II. Quintard,
who is also assignee OF the firm.
The court-martial proceeding, atthe
recent trial OF First-Lieutenant George
M. Turner, Adjutant of the Eighteenth
Infantry at Fort Clark, Tex, on the
charge of embezzlement of band funds,
have been made public. Lieutenant
Turner was found guilty and sentenced
to dishonorable dismissal from the army.
EMpERoI WILLIAM has consented to
the marriage of his sister, Princess Mar
garet, to the Prince of Naples, the heir
to the Italian throne. The marriage
Will take place within year. Princess
Margaret will become Catholic.
AT meeting of the board of man.
ayers of the Adams Express Company
in New York City, on the 18th, reso-
luton was adopted making the regula-
tions of the Post-oflice Department in
regard to the enforcement OF the Anti
Lottery law applicable to its employees.
THE Treasury Department has de-
cidcd that fish caught in fresh water
can be imported into tho United States
free OF duty. provided tho nets and boats
used in the catch arc owned by citizens
of tho United States
ADJUTANT-GENERAL KELTON, who has
been very i'll for some time past, has so
far improved in condition as to be able
to be about, and hopes to resume the
duties OF his Office in few weeks.
PROF. Koch, the eminent Germ an
physician, will found a hospital for the
treatmentoi consumption by his method.
Tho building will We located in Berlin
and will contain enc hundred beds.
THE remains of tho late General
George Crook arrived in Washington,
on tho l2th, from Oakland, Md, and
with military honors, were laid at rest
at Arlington. Near tho last resting
place OF General Belllnap, not far from
the auditorium, the fallen leaves had
been brushed away and a grave dug.
Here the rcmains of the hero wero laid
away. Then there was vollcy fred
and taps called.
| In row at Ann Arbor between Com
pany A, First regiment Michigan State
troops, who had turned out, on tho
evening of the 12th, to serenade mem
bcr just married, and party of stu
dents, in which the soldiers used their
guns and the students piled rocks and
clubs, ono of tho latter was so badly in
iured that he died of his wounds, and
one or two others are likely to share a
similar fate. Several of tho soldiers
were hurt by stones thrown by the stu
dents.
The condition of DR.. Windthorst, the
leader of the Catholic party in the
German Reichstag, is such as to create
some uneasiness among his friends and
followers. lie suffers from heart
| trouble, and his physicians insist upon
his withdrawal from active participa-
tion in political duties, and taking alb
solutc rest
Detective WATKINS arrived at Fargo,
| n. D., on the 18Th, with j New
! berry, one of the New Salem (N. D.
train robbers, whom he had tracked
| over 1000 miles and finally caught
near Philadelphia. The prisoner had
over So worth of diamonds in his
| possession.
| EX-MAYoR CHARLES A. CoLIINs,
| senior member of the firm of Collins &,
! Co, carriage manufacturers, of Akron,
O., was, on the 18th, arrested on the
charge of robbing the till OF Werner
T. -Gille, who had been systematically
robbed for year. Collins is seventy
years old
On the cyoning of the 18th the over
land Southern Pacific train, south.
bound, went through long trestle over
Lake Labish, about, five miles from
Salem, Ore. The train carried over one
hundred persons, nearly all of whom
were more or less injured.
AN epidemic of typhoid fever is rag
ing at Clementville, o., where, up to
the 18th. there had been eighty-nine
cases, of which twenty-five were fatal.
Forty new cases were reported and bus
mess was entirely suspended.
THE Norwegian ship Terpsichore,
Captain Sorensen, from Quebec. October
IL, for Newcastle, England, was on the
18th, reported sunk by collision in the
English channel. Tho fate of the crew
was unknown.
BY an imperial decree of the Porto
the right to construct quays on both
shores OF the Golden Horn has been
awarded to French syndicate, which
was the first to apply therefor.
M. L. RIGGS, of Manistique, and j.
Brown, Of ST. Ignace, were tied for the
office of prosecuting attorney of School.
craft County, Mich, at tho recent elec.
ton. They drew lots for the office, and
Riggs won.
THE coroner's jury, impaneled at
Salem, Ore, to inquire into the cause OF
the death of persons killed In the late
accident on the Northern Pacific rail
road, returned verdict, on the 14th,
that the accident was the result of an
unsound and unsafe bridge, and that the
Northern Pacific Railway Company was
guilty of criminal negligence in allow.
ing such structure to stand and be
used for the passage of trains.
THE jury in the case of Asa Water.
man, THEATRICAL manaPer charrad with