The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-06-19

STORM III Cpntral new NorH or the
18th Hooded portions Of Norwich, Oneida;
Solsvillc and Rome, causing a loss of
over $500, o00
TIE percentages OF the baseball clubs
in the Players League for the week
ended on tho 14th were: Boston, .G2S;
Brooklyn, $50; New York, 1856; Chicago,
.512; Philadelphia, .512; Pittsburgh,
.4G4; Cleveland, .42t, Buffalo, 1921. The
clubs In the National League stood.
Cincinnati .601; Philadelphia, .B5i,
Brooklyn, .595; Chicago, 1850; Boston,
:4G5; New York; .4Se, Cleveland; 1893;
Pittsburgh, 225i
AT the leading clearinghouse in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on tirc 18th aggregated
s1,e4s, 9t7, Gao, againss 81, 46s, 27s, s9s the
previous week. As compared with the
corresponding week Of 1889 the increase
amounted to 1919.
DURING wind and rain-storm on the
18th in Cincinnati thirty-three houses
were unroofed and three persons were
killed.
ALoIsE and Annie, aged and 12,
| daughters Of Mr.. Fellker, of Wilson
Vile, Conn, were struck by train on
tho 14th and killed
Two BROTHERS, William and Preston
Ea ton, while walking on the railroad
track near Belleville, Kan, on the 14th
were struck by an engine and instantly
killed
OTro and Herman Berta (brothers)
were killed by the cars in Chicago on
the 18th.
AT picnic on the 18th near Knox
vile, Tenn, number of persons were
poisoned by the ice-cream, which had
stood too long in the freezers. Sixteen
women and children were critically i'll.
AT Me nasha, Wis, fire on the 14th
destroyed the sawmill and immense new
dry-housc of the Woodenware Company.
Loss. $780, 900.
THE Carter white lead works at
Omaha, Neb., were burned on the 14th.
Loss, S15O,00
f. II. RoDERTs & Co., proprietors of the
Utica IN. W Morning Herald, failed
ON the 14th for $40, ,000
Three young men while bathing in
the river at st. Louis on the 14th were
drowned.
A CYCLONE swept over portions OF Illi-
nois on the 14th, doing great damage to
property at Frederick, Bluff Springs,
Monmouth Rock Island, Aurora, Elgin
and Beardstown. At Rockford high
water inundated the city, causing q loss
of $500, 900.
SEVEN bodies OF unknown dead were
taken out Of the river along the city
front in New York on the 18th.
AT Anoka, Mimi, Lizzie Murphy,
Nellie Mahoney and tho latter's TO-
year-old brother were drowned on the
18th.
OVER 200 persons were hurled from a
broken foot bridge a distance of sixty
feet in Cleveland, O., on the l5th and
forty were injured, some fatally.
HOMER E. NEWTON, one of the most
prominent farmers of Northern Ohio,
died on the 14th at his home in West
Reichfleld from the effects of eating
twenty-six hard boiled eggs on a wager
FIVE tons of nitro-g glycerinc in Caster
line & Co. s works near Findlay, O.,
exploded on the 14th. The factory was
blown to atoms and hole big enough
to bury four-story business block was
torn in the ground. The shock was felt
|
was no loss OF life.
THE principal coat manufacturers in
New York City locked out their 10000
employees on the 14th.
DURING picnic on the 10th near Elm
wood o., a drunken riot occurred in
which two men were fatally hurt, four
dangerously wounded and score, in
aluding several girls, badly cut and shot.
A baby was killed in its mothers arms
by stray shot.
RICHARD GLASS, living near Beatrice,
Neb., died from hydrophobia on the 10th
caused by the bite of mad cat.
THE visible supply of wheat and corn
in the United States on the 10th was,
respectively, 21,57s,14l and l6,2Gi,2a4
bushels.
AFTER eating canned beef on the 10th
at a boarding house at Detroit, Mich,
four persons were taken i'll and two
would not recover.
A GENERAL strike of the switchmen
at Cleveland, o., was inaugurated on
the 10th. They demand more pay and
fewer hours.
AT Mason City, Ia, j. L. Upton and
Mr.. Hubbard, Of Clear Lake, were
fatally kicked by horse on the 10th.
EEGINEER PERKINS and a negro boy
were crushed to death and Rush Mar
shall, fireman, fatally injured in a rail
way wreck on the 10th at Kerryville
Tenn.
A CYCLONE on tho 10th at Lincoln
Neb., destroyed several houses, causing
a loss of 500, 600.
ONE of the peaks of Mount Shasta, ir
California, disappeared from view or
the 10th. Fire had long been known te
exist in the crater and the formation:
of tho valley and the ridges below are
partly Of volcanic origin.
GEORGE SwAYZIE (colored), formerly
leading Republican politician o
Louisiana, was lynched at Black Greek
on the 10th by political enemies
Two ORIGINAL package houses were
opened at Newton, Kan, on the 10th by
Kansas City liquor dealers.
IT was said in New York en- the 16tl
by President Gompers, OF the American
Federation Of Labor that since the
eight-hour movement 100, 600 new mem
bers had been admitted to the fedora
tion.
PERSONAL. AND POLITICAL.
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