The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-04-24
DOMESTIC,

MARTIN FUTRELL (colored) was hanged
on the 10th at fernando, Miss, for the
murder of his wife.
News reached Minneapolis on the
10th of the death of Eugene NJ Wilson,
Of that city, at Nassau, Bahama ISL
ands, April 10. Mr.. Wilson was MEM
ber Of Congress in 1853
IN the prison at Montpelier, VT, on
tho 18th James S. Caswell, life con-
vict, married Mrs. Laura Gould, widow
of the man he murdered.
EXTENSIVE forest fires were raging
on the 18th on the mountains north of
Pine Grove, Pa, and hundreds Of acres
of tip.heG ,wern beina DESTROYED.
Sharon, Ia, was burned on the 18th, and
sixteen valuable horses were cremated.
THE Dutch village three miles south
of Port Republic, N. j., was entirely de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th.
THE Masonic committee of the dedi-
cation of the Garfield memorial at
Cleveland, O., on the 18th extended an
invitation TO all Masonic bodies to par
ticipate in the ceremonies May 30 next
THRTY-oSE young preachers were
graduated on the nth at the twenty
third annual commencement of the
Baptist Uuion Theological Seminary at
Morgan Park, Ill.
WILLIAM TuoRNE, fruit dealer, COM
mitted suicide on the 18th at Albany,
N. Y, by jumping from tho Senate
staircase in hhe Capitol to tho floor be-
low, distance of seventy feet.
FRANCIS MURPHY, the temperance
| evangelist said at Creston, Ia., on the
| 18th that since he commenced his cam
paign in Iowa last winter over 10000
persons had signed the pledge.
Louis FRAME & Co., silk merchants
of New York, failed on the 18th TO
100000.
THE report that Oscar Neebe and Sam
ucl Ficldcn, the Chicago Anarchists
were treated with great cruelty by tn
prison guards at Joliet, was denied b.
the prisoners on the 18th.
THERE wero 2l4 business failures il
the United States during the seven day
ended on the 18th, against 200 tn
previous seven days. The total OF fail
ures in the United States from Januar
to date is 3,s31, against 4,064 in 1882
THE wife and two children of u. L
Tells (colored) at Berlamont, Mich
were burned to death in their home o
tho 18TH
A FIGHT was reported on the 18th bt
tween outlaws and detachment {
State troops seventeen miles east {
Harlan Courthouse, Ky. The soldier
were fired on from ambush and five {
them wounded.
AT Vandalia, ILL.,, family name
Grupp ate poisoned sweetmeats on tf
18th, and tho father, mother and or
son we're not expected to live.
Mrs. KEMpFER, of Mishawaka, Ind
while embracing her sister on the 1st
who had just arrived from German
fell dead from heart failure.
REPoRrs OF the 18th from the foode
districts in the South were that IL
Mississippi was slowly but steadily fal
ing.
JAMES DENNIS, who died at Wayn
town, Ind, on the 18th, confessed b
fore his death that he was the murder
of Mr.. and Mrs. ii. r. McMullin, I
which act John f. Coffee was hanged
1855.
fatally burned on the 18th at Elbridg
n. Y, by the dropping of lamp, whi'
set fire to their clothing.
BEN ELsEY (colored) was hanged
the 18th at birmingham, Ala, for XII
ing j. w. Meadows, a railroad co
! tractor, last January. He had murder
: four other persons at various stages
. his career.
UPoN orders from Washington T.
landing of immigrants was stopped
the 18th at Castle Garden, New Yor
Debarkation would in the future
made at the barge Office.
TwENTY-oNE imported breeedil
mares on the farm OF N. p. Clark
: Brockway, Minn., were burned in the
2 barn on the 18th. Loss, s25, 900.
+, Mrs JOHN CLARK and her daught
y Ida, aged IL years, were poisoned on t
18th at Canton, O., by eating raw gree
which they were gathering for dime