The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-07-24

fortunc-,eller that Jenni4 McDowell's
wedding dress would be hbr shroud was
fulfilled by the girls suicidr on the 18th.
For tho week ended 0H the 10Th the
percentages Of tho 'baso-pnll clubs in
the Players League wore:A Boston, GOO;
brooklyn, .5sI; Chicago. ,bS5; New York,
.5i2; Philadelphia, .5sSt9 Pittsburgh,
.45o; Cleveland, 1926; Budhso, .2T3 The
clubs in the National League stood:
Philadelphia, .654; Brooklyn, .G4o Bos-
ton. .6lS; Cincinnati, tp;. Chicago.
.507; New York .447; CleScland, .202;
Pittsburgh, .233. EW
DURING a fire in the Commercial
Hotel at Denver, Col, on The Goth John
johnson saved the live4fof dozen
girls, but lost his own lifein trying to
save two drunken men.
ANOTHER outbreak Of the Smith
Messer feud in Knox COUNTY Ky, oc-
CURED on the 10th, and four mon were
killed. -
A CYCLONE on the 10th at Pacific
Junction, Ia, destroyed etseral build
ings and did other damage. One man
was killed.
IT was announced on tho 10th that
the Kansas corn crop had been entirely
destroyed by the hot, dry weather.
A GIGANTIC system of counterfciting
rare coins, with headquarters in New
York and branches in various other
sections of the United States, was dis
covered on the 10th.
FIFTEEN buildings at Shcrrodsvillc,
o., werc burned by an inccndiary fire on
the 10Th.
IT was reported on the 10Th that FIVE
Of the Apache Indians who murdered
Sheriff Reynolds and deputy recently
in Arizona had been killed by cowboys.
Mrs. WILLIAM PRAIRIE and Mrs.
Henry Rivers were fatally burned by an
explosion Of q kerosene stove on the
10th at Three Rivers, Mass.
THE machine works of j. c. Todd at
Paterson, n. j., were burned on the
Goth. Loss, Sl5o, OOo
WINsLow HARMON was killed and his
wifc and daughter fatally hurt by their
wagon being struck by New York
Central train on the 21st at Wcedsport,
N. Y.
JOHN CARROLL and Daniel Wilt were
killed and two others were injured by
the explosion OF can Of gunpowder in
Carrolls store at Logansport, Ind, on
the 2ist.
A CLouD-BuRsT on the 2lst in the foot.
hills of the Santa Rita mountains in
Arizona covered an area of square
mile. The Schofeldt ranch was com
pletely devastated of crops, orchards
and houses, and many horses and cattle
were drowned.
TIE Centropolis Car &c Machine Com
pany of Centropolis, Mo-, failed on tho
2lst for 500, 900.
TuIRTY-FIvE houses at Poplar Bluff
Mo-, were destroyed by fire on the 21st
including tho Methodist church and thu
principal hotel.
HARSH treatment by her husband wa'
the cause of Mrs. Cora Cary's suicide Il
Gosh on, Ind, on tho 2lst She wa
'lfnarrtecsiastsysipg =, ,,..:sez,, 4s...
THE Government timber agents were
on the 2lst preparing an expedition
against Canadian timber thieves in tn,
norttrorn portion of Minnesota.
JouN MCCfEE, of the Sixth Alabam;
regiment, supposed to have been killed
at the battle of the Seven Pines in thu
late war. surprised his relatives ant
friends on the 2lst by turning up at hi'
old homo IN Cham bers County, Ala
JouN SPRINGER & Co. IS Saw-mill ant
sash, door and blind factory at Brush
Creek, CAL, was burned on the 2lst
Loss, 100000.
BY the explosion OF threshing en-
gine on the 21st near Princeton, Ind.
Andrew Kretsinger and Charles White
were killed, two men were fatally ant
ono seriously injured. Several horse
we're also killed.
THE visible supply of wheat and corr
In the United States on the 2lst was
respectively, 1850 19l and 13, 1873, 10
bushels.
THOMAS FARQUHAR, of West Bergen
N. j., was run over by the cars on tn
2lst while walking on the track. III
saved his three children by throwin
thcm down an embankment, but it wa
then too late to save himself.
Two HUNDRED babies, including tel
pairs Of twins, wero wheeled in thei
carriages at Asbury Park, n. j., on tn
21st. Fifteen thousand people witnesse
tnc proccSSlon, WuiCu WAS Heducu ny
band Of music.
IN drunken spree on the 21st a
Rushville, ILL.,, James Denny and Mrs
S. Wilson were fatally shot. 1t wa
claimed that Mrs. Wilson's husband di,
the shooting.
IT was announced on the 2lst that tn
recent death Of Mr.. Walker, OF Missouri
the ninth member of Congress who ha
died this session, made the greatest RET
ord of mortality in Congress ever known
THE climax of the recent sensationa
} murder OF Engineer Vandevender in hi
, cab near Van Vert, O., was reached o
, the 21st when Fireman Roadhouse cor
fessed that he killed the engineer, bu
claimed he did so in self.defense.
, A WHITE frost spread its mantle owe
the lowlands OF Perry County, Mass
on the 2lst.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
ALBEIT f. ALLEN was nominated fo
Congress on the nth by tho Farmer
Alliance OF the Second district of Kai
sas, and John NJ. Weaver was nom