The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-05-01
THE worlds fair Slt was signed by

President Harrison 11s Me 95th.
HEAVY rain had dnthe 25th caused
loss Of hundreds Of t61usands of dollars
In North and West T5xas. Crops had
been ruined and re1lFay bridges and
tracks destroyed. M
DANIEL RErrrAxsn Altoona pal
brewer, shot his wife bn the 25th and
then killed himselE&H
DR.. THOMAS Hkft<ARD of Milwau-
.;ee, was on the 2 charged by his
wife with having mN< erred more than
twenty infants. SE
KANSAS farmers 1jprted on the o5th
that the prospects, 81 he winter wheat
crop had been groa$}y improved by q
heavy fall of rain dutipg the three days
previous. N4
MHs. CHARLOTTE HMEKsoS BRowN,
Of Orange, N. j., wkso on the 25th elected
Women's Cubs In itsnefhvention at New
York.
WORK on the University of the South.
land was begun on the 25th at Bluffton.
Ala. The institution is founded by the
Northern Methodist Episcopal church.
AT Wilmington, Del, three young
men, guilty of horse stealing, we're on
the 26th pilloried for one hour, given
twenty lashes each and sent to prison
for one year.
AN overflow Of the Trinity river on
the 27th caused the most destructive
food ever known in the history of North
Texas. The city of Dallas was partly
under water.
The Government printing office at
Washington on the Goth completed the
printing of 20, 900, 900 census blanks, the
largest order for printing ever given in
the world.
Mis-. GRANT and her son Ulysses
placed cluster of roses on General
Grants tomb at Riverside Park in New
York on the 27th. 1t was the 6Sth an
hiversary of his birth.
INDIANS at Tongue river agency were
on the Goth looking for the speedy COM
ing of messiah who would roll the
earth over upon the white people
THE exchanges at the leading clear.
ing-houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Goth aggregated
81, 026, 469, 1854, against SILL, 14o, 900, the
previous week. AS compared with the
corresponding week of 1880 the increase
amounted to 2o.3.
OVER hundred thousand panes of
glass in skylights and windows were
smashed on the 27th by hailstorm that
swept over Baltimore, Md.
A CHILD born on the Goth at White
hall, Ill, had full set OF teeth. 1t
| died soon after birth.
IT was announced from the flooded
district in the South on the 26th that
the appropriation of s150,O0o by Con-
gress woulI prevent any actual suffer
ing.
THE village of Yorkville, Ark, was
almost entirely destroyed by tornado
on the 26th, Aouses. barns. fences and
structures Of all kinas were taken up by
the wind and carried some distance, and
hundreds of cattlo we're killed.
PHILIP VAssEN, . plumber of Fort
Wayne, Ind, upset pot Of molten
solder on the Goth, some OF which spat-
tered in his face and burned out both
his eyes.
THE percentages Of the baseball clubs
in the Players League for the week
Boston, 1865; Chicago, 900; Philadel-
phia, 800; Brooklyn, 400: Pittsburgh,
400; New York, 400; Cleveland, 200.
The clubs in the National League stood:
Philadelphia, .750; Boston, .6G6; Pitts
burgh, 900; Cincinnati, 600; Cleveland,
400; Chicago, 400; New York, 1888;
Brooklyn, $50.
NEAR Rolling Fork, Miss, seven
negroes were drowned on the 26th in
the flood which covered that country.
In New York on the Goth Mayor Grant
was charged with having been guilty Of
wholesale bribery and corruption.
On the 2sth Chief OF Police Jansen
issued an order that all tho gambling
houses and pool-rooms in Milwaukee
must be closed. -
EDWARD o. LEACH, Director OF the
Mint said on the 2Sth that the gold
product of the United States in 1889 was
S32 500, 900, against s33 600, 900 in 1883;
silver product, S64,G4e, 464, against s4S,-
O2O, 200 the previous year. The total
metallic stock Of the United States on
January l, 1890, was estimated at ST.
127, ,663, 631.
THE Boston Police Board on the 2Sth
notified the saloon-keepers in that city
to remove their bars within twenty
days. A new law provides that liquors
may only be sold as an accompaniment
to food.
IT was announced on the 2Sth that all
the starch works in the country, with
two exceptions, had united in a trust,
with capital Of S11 900, 900.
THE levee at Crosse Tete, La, broke
on the 2sth and that town was inun-
dated. The people we're in distressed
situation and needed aid.
AT Findlay, o., William Flannery
struck his wife on the head with beer
bottle on the 2sth, causing fatal in
juries.
A TRAIN was wrecked on the 2sth al
Staunton, Va, and seven members oi
the pearl of Pekin" company were in
| jured and Miss Myrtle Knox was killed.
IT was reported on the 2Sth that a
movement was on foot to have the cap.
ital of Missouri moved from Jefferson
City to Sedalia.
ABOUT twenty well-known pedestrians
began six-days' walk on the 2sth al
New Haven, Conn.
THE bonded warehouse of Dickinson
Bros, & King, in Chicago, was burned
on the 2Sth. Loss, S100,000
REPRESENTATIVES, OF ten of the sew
enteen nations participating in the in
ternational American conference al
Washington on the asth signed the
agreement drawn up by the conference
for the settlement by arbitration of diff.
| ferences and disputes batween than