The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-01-30
OK the Gath George H. Lounsberry,
cashier Of the New York post-ofiice, com.
mitted suicide because shortage In his
cash had been discovered.

cashier Of the New York post-office, com.
mitted suicide because shortage In his
cash had been discovered.
On the oath Mr.. Glynnpetre, British
Minister to Portugal tclegraphed to the
Admiralty that the presence Of the
British war-ship Enchantress was no
longer required at Lisbon.
The Brazilian Minister Of Finance
oabled the Brazilian Minister at Berlin,
on the gath. that the Bank Of the United
States Of Brazil has been established
with capital OF 200, ,0O1 900 contos, all
Of which was subscribed in four hours.
THE Iron Hill Company's hoisting
works at Carbonate, s. D., were burned
on the Gath; loss, 100000.
A. M. SAWYER, inventor Of the Sawyer
gun, used during the rebellion, died at
Athol, Mass, on the oath, aged sixty
four years.
II. s. PIERCE, ex-collector OF internal
revenue for Western New York, died on
the Gath, aged ffty-four years, from
rheumatism and influenza.
SopPo-Vo-NA-O, chief of the Utes and
the most influential Indian of his race
since the departure of Ouray for the
happy hunting grounds, is dead.
HERR RNoTuE, German cloth-maker
at Tomazow, Russian Poland, has failed.
His liabilities are half million rou-
hles. Herr Knothc's embarrassments
were caused by the withdrawal Of Rus
sian trade and the enormous export
duty imposed upon his products.
A SWISS Catholic congress will shortly
be convened at Freiburg 1t will be
the first conference of tho kind ever
held in Switzerland.
The founding hospitals in Russia are
to be reformed. Investigation discloses
that seventy-seven per cent. of the in
mates die in infancy and another eleven
per cent. before they arrive at the age
Of twenty-one.
EMPEROR WILLIAM is devoting several
hours each day to the practice of fenc-
ing.
PETROLEUM has been struck at Johns
town, N. Y, at depth of 915 feet.
THE Netherlands Government is medi.
tating a considerable increase of its
army, and two new French regiments
have been stationed at st. Etienne.
The Austro- Hungarian Railway Com.
pany is about to issue three per cent.
debentures to the amount of 800, ,000,-
900.
UP to the Goth there had beou twenty
three wrecks within three weeks on the
Savannah & Western railroad.
CANADIAN farmers want more protec-
| ton against American dressed beef.
CONSIDERABLE surprise and dissatis.
faction was expressed at tho British
| Legation, in Washington, on the 27th,
over the premature publication of the
Anglo-American extradition treaty.
THE funeral of Adam Forepaugh, the
Snowman, took place, on the 9th, from,
his lato residence in Philadelphia.
| The interment was at the Laurel Hill
Cemetery.
| GEO. MILLER, lodger at the Barrett
House, in New York, was found dead in
his room, on the morning of the 2Tth,
from asphyxiation. Two gas burners
were found turned on full force and not
lighted.
THE schooner G. c. Kelly, from Bos.
ton, went ashore at Tusket, n. s., on
the 27th. Three of her crew were
drowned.
| HUNDREDS OF people sitting IN 1arm
houses on the snow-covcrcd plains Of
South Dakota are going mad from want
and starvation.
AN explosion of natural gas, on the
night of the Goth, in one of Root & Keat.
ing's tannery houses at Olean, n. Y,
shook the entire city. The house was
badly wrecked and several Italians were
| injured