The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-10-09

week ended on the 4th aggregated
$3.50, $40, 1893. against $l,174 ,ol2 the
previous week. As compared with the
CORES ponding week of 1889 tho in
crease amounted to 8.5.
WILLIAM ODoNNEfL and John Fee
ney fought about woman named Mrs
Anna Myers at her house in st. Louis
and both men were killed.
THE GermanaAmericaus in Bt Louis
celebrated OH the och tho anniversary
Of the landing of the FIRST Germans in
this country. Fully 10000 men were in
tho procession.
CAPITALISTS have ofganizod TO build |
q railroad from Fort Wayne To fcrfe
Haute, Ind, and ihte Southwestern
Illinois
TBk police of Nesafi. NJ b., elected
Herr. Most, from q lalt where hb wis
about I'd address some fabid Socialists
and forced him t6 leave the city.
FIVE pefs6ns were killed and thirty
injured near Toulon, France, by the
bursting Of reservoir.
THE u. $. Heath oatmeal mill at Des
Moines, la, was burned, causing loss
of S125,000
ANBnEW YERHEs died suddenly at
Nashville, Mich, and his Uncle, Clark
Griswold, while standing gazing at the
corpse tottcred and fell dead.
TEN THOUSAND miners in Marquette
County; Mich, struck for reduction OF
working hours.
A LARGE portion Of the town OF Law
renee, Grant County, Mimi, has been
devastated Ly prairie fire.
THE residence of John McBee at
Dubuque, Ia. was destroyed by fire, and
his wife and three children perished In
the flames.
TIFF dead bodies Of negro man aged
10 years and his daughter, aged 40, were
found near Belleville, III. They had
been murdered.
THE Census Bureau gives tho popula-
tion of indianapolis, Ind, at t07, 445, an
increase Of SO, $50 in the past ten years.
The patent-medicine firm Of Fleming
Bros. at Pittsburgh, Pa, has failed Tor
$500, 900.
A CIRCULAR was read in the Catholic
churches Of the Covington (Ky.) dio.
cese stating that the church's objec.
tions to secret societies would not be in.
sisted upon with reference to any ek-
cept the Masons
j. ii. KAISER, an aeronaut, made
balloon ascension at Louisville, KY,
and when half a mile high dropped
from his air.ship, but his parachute
would not open and he was fatally in
jured
TOMMY O'RouRKE, a child who was
lost in the woods of Benton County,
Mimi. was found nearly starved, no
having eaten nothing but acorns for
nine days
JOHN RoAcH's ship-yards at Chester,
Pa, have been sold to an English syndi-
cate for So. 500, 600.
BILL HOWARD, under sentence of
death for murder, escaped from the Jail
in Greenville, s. c., by donning his
wife's clothing, she having been per-
mitted to visit him.
WHILE trying to arrest some colored
toughs who were fighting two st. Louis
policemen were killed and two negroes
we're fatally hurt
THE visible supply Of grain in store
in the United States on the 9th was
Wheat, 17,050, ,092 bushels; corn, s,721,-
so DuSnelS-
DURING fire in a St Louis grocery
store atwenty-fve gallon tank of coal oil
exploded, blowing an entire wall into
the street and injuring eleven persons,
two fatally.
The annual report of Commissioner
Green B. Raum, of the Pension Bureau,
shows that there were at the end of the
last fiscal year 1919 pensioners borne
upon the rolls.
THE issue of silver from the mints
during the week ended October was
S2O1, ,594. The issue of standard silver
dollars during the corresponding period
OF last year was 81, ,2b4, 025.
THE foundation of the first German
colony in America, 207 years ago, was
celebrated by people Of that national
ity throughout the country on the 9th.
THE Census Bureau gives the popula-
tion Of the following States: California,
1,2o4, 0o2; increase, 339, ,30s. Michigan,
2,0S0, 792; increase, 452. .S55. Indiana.
Q, ls9, $50; increase, 2lO, 72o. Territory
OF New Mexico, IA, s62; increase, 35,-
297.
In a shooting atfray growing out Of
politics at Livingston, Tex, one man
was killed and three fatally injured.
PRESIDENT WOODRUFF, OF the Nor
man church, issued an order torbidding
further polygamous marriages in the
| church.
| AT St Louis Alice Grabriel was run
over by construction train at d cross
| ing and ground to pieces and her mother
in trying to rescue her was fatally hurt
A SALOON at Morgantown, Ind, was
blown up by a heavy charge of dyna-
mite said to have been placed by resi-
dents Of the village.