The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-03-20
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Ala, and five men were killed.
HARRISON &c LoDER, Wholesale dry
goods merchants of New York, failed on
the 18th for $3.50, 900.
A THIEF threw rock through jew.
eler's window in Dallas, Tex, on the
evening Of the 11th and carried away a
trayful of diamonds worth $1,000
FoRTY women gradua ted as doctors at
Philadelphia on the 18th from the
Women's Medical College of Pennsyl.
vania.
THE Treasury Department at Wash.
iugton issued a statement on the 18th
showing that the exports of breadstuffs
from tho United States in the month OF
February amounted to S3,903, 72G.
Two LABoRERs wcro blown to pieces
and two others fatally injured by an ex-
plosion OF dynamite at the water works
at Rockville Center. n. Y, on the 18th.
Snow sixty feet deep was reported on
the 18th on the Denver &c Rio Grande
road in the San Juan mountains.
The Indiana Supreme Court rendered
decision on the 18th upholding the
school-book law enacted by tho last Leg
islature providing for uniform school
books for the entire State.
VS. At the state encampment III Quincy
ILL.,, of the Illinois G. A. II. on the 18th
William r. Distin, Of Quincy, was elect
ed Department Commander.
THE Boston league and brotherhood
baseball clubs have forty-fve conflict
ing dates on the home grounds.
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Loan Association was organized at Ian
sing, Mich, on the 18th, with capital
stock of $50 900, 600.
THE strike of the 5000 miners in the
Norrie and Ashland mines at Ironwood
Mich, came to an end on the 18th, the
men and bosses having come to an
agreement.
The defalcation OF Colonel Heming
way, recently State Treasurer of Mis-
sissippi, was on the 18th placed at S3l5,'
s35.9O.
NEAR Brown, Ia, Henry Nurre, q
wealthy farmer, was murdered on the
18th by unknown persons, who also
fatally wounded Mrs. Nurre. Burglary
was the object.
THE situation in tho flooded Arkansas
district was alarming on the 18th. A
Black Rock there was six feet of watel
in hotels and places Of business and tn,
destruction of property would be heavy
The lower part of Iiatesvillo was flooded
and the country round about was en-
tirely under water.
MORRISON BAILEY, leading ant
wealthy citizen of Plainwell, Mich
hanged himself on tho 18th. No caus,
was known.
JAMES S. Cross, formerly superin
tendent of the Southern railroad at st
Louis, was fined 500 on the 18th TO
vagrancy. Whisky caused his downfall
M. A. CoIToN, an old soldier of Par
kcrsburg, Va, was drugged on the 13tl
and then robbed of his pension money
amounting to $500.
MAYOR PoND, of San Francisco, OF
the 14th approved the ordinance requir
ing all the Chinese of that city to NOV,
to a designated section of South Sal
Francisco within sixty days.
GOVERNOR HUMPHREY issued proc
lamation at Topeka on the 14th naming
April 10 as the one to be observed il
Kansas as Arbor day.
LAMpsoN Crook, of Monticello, Ill.
who weighed over 400 pounds, died OF
the 14th of strangalation. lie increased
in flesh so fast that he could no
breathe.
AT Pleasant Hill, NO., Eli Stahl
maker, an insane man, fatally stabbed
Constable Prater and then killed him
elf on the 14th.
Two MEN were burned to death anC
several injured by the burning of
frame building six miles east of Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 14th.
A CONSOLIDATION of the cracke
bakeries of New York and New Jerse,
was perfected on the 14th, with a capi
tai of $1,000, 900.
THERE we're 209 business failures IL
the United States during the seven day
ended on the 18th, against 215 tn,
previous seven days. The total OF fail
ures in the United States January t,
date is 2,967, against 3,143 in 1889.
MRS. HARRISON, wife of the President t
and party Of friends, en- route to Flor
Ida, were given a hearty reception OF
the 14th at Charleston, s. c., which wa
attended by the elite of the city.
The women Of Atchison, Kan, OF
the 1tth placed in nomination full
ticket for tho school board.
THE wife of w. j. Dayball, a st. Loui
printer, smothered her fourmonths'-olc
,hild to death on the 14th and then ia
tally cut herself with razor. She wa
Insane from Insomnia