The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-07-10
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
FOUR Chicago dressed beef houses in
Boston, Swift, Armour, Hammond and
Morris, suffered an aggregate loss Of
500, 900 on the I'd by Arc.
The Peabody Institution at Danvers,
Mass, was burned to the ground on the
I'd. Loss, $4,000,
GRAIN shippers met at Topeka, Kan,
on tho I'd and formed the Kansas and
Nebraska Grain and Elevator Mems
Association for the protection of mem.
bcrs,
By a lamp explosion on the I'd in the
house OF Adam Steinler at Bradenville,
Pa, his little son and daughter were
burned to death and Mr. Steinler was
fatally burned.
A. & T. LEE, dealers in wools in West
Manayunk, Pa, failed on the ed for
100000
You've Wallace and his accomplice,
who robbed his uncle, John ii. Wallace,
Of $780, 900, was on the I'd sentenced in
New York to eight years hard labor in
State prison.
A STARCH trust was organized in New
York on the I'd under the name Of the
National Starch Manufacturing Com
pany with capital of $40, 500, 600.
NINETY-Two cars Of coal belonging
to the Reading Company were lost on
the I'd at Elizabeth, N. j., by the col.
lapse of pier.
THE Standard Oil Company's ware
house at New Orleans was burned on
the I'd. Loss, 100000.
JUDGE KAvANAUGH, of the district
court, sitting at Des Moines, Ia, de-
cided on the I'd that aliens could not in
herit land in Iowa.
On the I'd Haverhill, Mass, cele-
brated the 250th anniversary Of its set
tlement, q poem by Whittier being the
feature.
THE National commissioners of the
Worlds Columbian Exposition voted on
the I'd as to ny to accept the lake front
and Jackson Park site as proposed by
the local directors.
A TERRIBLE storm prevailed on the I'd
along the Ohio river and Muskingum
valley. The big Government dam at
Marietta, O., which has cost the Govern
ment already over $3.50, 900, was torn to
pieces and carried away. At Church
Vile, O., tho whole village was badly
damaged. Crops over wide area were
ruined.
THE entire business portion of Pull
man, Wash, was burned on the Sd.
THE annual relnion of veterans oi
the Army of the Potomac commenced al
Portland, Me-, on the Sd with over 1,0oC
members Of the association in attend
ance.
A cLoUD-DURsT over Coshocton Coun
ty, O., on the cd caused the loss OF thou
sands of dollars.
SAMUEL BLACK, an aeronaut, made 6
balloon ascension on the 4th at Boards
town, ILL.,, and the air-ship took fire
when at height of 400 feet and Blacl
fell and was killed.
PRESIDENT HARRISON signed the act
for the admission of Idaho as a State o
the Union at 10 o'clock OH the morning
of the Sd.
AT Buffalo, N. Y, on the Sd Kemmle
was resentenced to die by electricit,
during the week beginning August 4.
The cornerstone Of the new capito
of Colorado was laid at Denver on tn,
4th by the Masonic fraternity
THE first general reunion Of Confed
crate veterans commenced at Chatta
nooga, Tenn, on the 3d.
The National Columbian Commission
appointed committees on title and Judi
ciary in Chicago on the Sd and ad
journed to meet on October next IL
that city.
ADvIcEs Of the Sd say that the rail
way track built up to July in tn
United States was 1900 miles, as com
pared with 1,4S0 miles in the FIRST hal
Of 1885,
The National Music Teachers Asso
citation in session on the 4th at Detroi
elected j. II. Hahn, Of Detroit, presi
dent
For the week ended on the 5th tn,
percentages of the baseball clubs II
the Players League were; Boston, .6O7
Chicago. 600; brooklyn, 1913; Philadel
phia, .50s; New York, 800; Pittsburgh
.49i; Cleveland, .486; Buffalo, .315. TIL
clubs in the National League stood
Cincinnati, .672; Brooklyn, .812; Phila
delphia, COB; Boston. .571; Chicago
,525, New York, .413; Cleveland, 1925
Pittsburgh, .262.
AT the leading clearinghouse in tn
United States the exchanges during tn
week ended on the 5th aggregate,
81, 1888, III, ,0S5, against 81, ia. 667, ,581 tn
previous week. AS compared with tn
corresponding week OF 1880 the decreas
amounted to La
IT was discovered on the 4th that al
organized band OF desperadoes had ra
off with 500 fine horses, which they stol
near Spokane Falls, Wash, and mad
for the British Columbia line.
The i14th anniversary of the Nation
independence was celebrated through
out . ,,,dntry on the 4th.