The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-02-26
DOMESTIC,

GEORGE j. Unison the indicted Sec
rc.ary of the whisky trust, gave bond
in JUDGE ,,hcparl's court in Chicago in
the oum of S2a, 900.
RoBnRr MEREDITH, of Center. Wis,
las returned from trip around the
world began u year ago. He started
with $i& and came back with 81
Ar Little Rock cX-Trcasurer Wood
ruff paid into the State Treasury of
ARKANSAS S13, 40. 80, the full amount of
his shortage.
R!vEE'IDE, a suburb of Parkcrsburg
W. Va. was destroyed by a food. No
lives were lost.
An express train struck and killed
Mar,ha Moore and Sarah Mules (col-
o.,dD at Lake Station. Md.
e, V. MC(IIEsNEY. OF Cincinnati, was
presented the Wanamalier gold medal
pHcrrd to the postal clerk in the Fifth
division railway mail service making
the best record during 1880
THE census bureau announced the
population of Tcnnrssec by races as
follows: White t,31!.01 colorad. i3i,
800: Indians, ii3; Chinese, 81; japanese,
l.; total. l..IjI,jls. The population of
West Virginia was given rs follows
Whit. 7!9, ,2G,: colnrcd 3j.5JS; lnlians,
); Chinese, 10: total, TG.,1.a,
ANrEUp (3:l5l.1, by Eicctioneer. was
purchased at Lexington. Ky, by 5. A.
Brown, of kalamazoo, Mich. for $50,
900.
\ FIRE at Rochester, \. Y, destroyed
the Grand Opera House. valued at
800, 300. and damaged the Windsor
Hotel $4,000
FIVE horses valued at $4,000 were
burned in the barn of c. l.. Butler. ncaI
Paris, Ky.
Mrs, JAMES BASS was murdered by
Anderson Rosell. Il negro. at IIartonin
Ind. She knew of forgery which
Resell had committed.
TIE remains of the late General Shcr
man were on the 10Th borne from the
family residence in New York to thl
depot and embarked on a train for st
Louis. The ceremonies were attended
by President Harrison and his Cabinet
and many other distinguished persons
| and thousands of old soldiers were in
| the line of march.
Ar Martins Ferry, o.. an explosion
If natural gas in the house of william
Kuntz burned nine persons, two %
them, Mrs. Kuntz and Miss Graves ia
tally
JoHN BULL, an Indian, was hanged
| by n mob at Battlefield, Miss. for th'
murder of Ben Pierce. a farmer,
\ STORM of slect and snow did grea
damage to the telegraph service in thu
! Northwest.
| Is the United States the business
| failures during the seven days endet
on the Goth numbered 205. against 20,
| the preceding week and 21l the CORE
| spending week last year.
WILLIAM MCCrBpIN, II wealthy an,
prominent citizen of Leigh, Neb., an'
| well known throughout the State, sho
and killed his wife and his hired maj
and then cut his own throat. Jealousy
was said to have prompted the crime.
THE Lake Front was abandoned by
the worlds fair directory. There vii
not he II building placed upon it anc
the Worlds Columbian Exposition vii
be held in jackson Park. 1t was saiC
the expenses of the fair would he Sl7,
G25, 4I3, and the receipts were estimated
ut S2l 900 900.
SIX trainmen were killed and sever
injured by IL collision of railway train
on the New Haven railroad in New
York City.
THE Standard Oil Company has pur
chased 20, 900 acres of oil lands in Greer
County, Pa. This corporation now owl
nearly all of five counties in Pennsyl
vania.
THE total production of white pin
lumber in the Northwest during tn
past season was LOGS, 2s5, 5s4 feet. NJ
increase over the previous season o.
500, 700, li6 feet
NINE miners were killed by ava
lancheS in the Colorado mining camps
iN bulletin issued by the Censu
Office il is stated that the center o
population in this country on June !
1890, was in Southern Indiana, nea
Greensburg, and twenty miles east o
Columbus, Ten years ago it was eigh
miles west by south of Cincinnati
| New IORK brewers, representing So,
600, 900 capital, who were left out of tn
combine of 1886, formed pool.
THE bodies of two victims of the 1888
flood at Johnstown Pa, were found il
the Conemaugh river. They were sup
posed to be the bodies of females.
THE blanchard river at Findlay, o.
overilowed its banks, driving all tn
residents of the lower section from thei
homes.