The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-01-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
NEAR South Louisville, Ky, on the
I'D, Lille Van Arsdalc, a girl sixteen
years old, was struck by Il train and
killed. She was on her way to school,
walking on the track. which is double,
and when she heard the train approach
ing stepped on the wrong track.
THE East-End strcet-car stables at
Fort Wayne, Ind, We're burned on the
night of the odd Sixty head of horses
perished in the flames This, with har-
ness and a large amount of hay and
grain, makes the loss foot up about
$50. 900.
THE Congo Technical Commission has
formally agreed that Amrrca shall
have the same rights as other powers in
the Congo State, although the United
States Government did not ratify the
Berlin act.
THE condition of =. r. I,alnum, the
veteran Snowman, is much improved,
and his friends are beginning to be
more hopeful. He rests Il great deal
easier and takes considerable food.
JOHN BRENNAN, station agent at Bays
Station, o., on the Toledo, Findlay &
Springfield railroad, was murdered and
robbed on the night of the I'D, and his
body thrown into the depot, which was
then set on fire. How much money was
secured by the miscreants, or who they
We're, is unknown.
THE Masonic Temple at Baltimore,
Md, was destroyed by fire. on the 18th,
just before the opening of the afternoon
matinee in Forcpaugh's Theater, en-
failing loss of $1,000 900.
ENGLISH manufacturers declare that
the new French tariff will practically
put an end to the trade with France in
certain lines of textile goods.
THE residence of Peter Ermirc at Will
mot, Pa. was burned, on the 9th, and,
Mr.. Erlnire was burned to death. His
wife and children escaped.
In Il case at Philadelphia, on the 2ith,
before Judge Reed, the Oloomargarinc
law of Pennsylvania was declared to
be unconstitutional.
A LITTLE child, the daughter of Oliver
Bectwith, was burned to death in its
bed at Bolivar n. Y, ON the morning
of the oath.
NEvIN JACKSON, employed at Nichol-
sons Brick Works, in Steubcnvillc, o.,
attempted to remove an obstruction
from the crusher on the 24th, lie
stopped over to reach for the stone
while the mill was revolving rapidly
and fell in. The immense wheel ground
him to pieces.
DIR. JoHN DAVIS, one of the most
prominent physicians of Cincinnati, and
president of the Law and Order League
of that city, died suddenly, on the 26th,
aged sixty years He was an intimate
personal friend Of cX-Presidcnt Hayes.
FIRE at plainville, Ind, Oh the Goth.
destroyed Jenkins Hotel, Littrll's store
| and other buildings. Loss, $1,000; in
surancc, $1,000. James Mcbride, Il
prominent citizen of the town. is under
arrest charged with firing the block.
JoHN X. JOHNSON and Mahlon Sperry,
workmen, We're literally blown into
fragments by an explosion, on the 26th,
in the cartridge-house of the American
Forsythe Powder Company, at Lake
Hopatchong, n. j.
THE Erie railroad depot at Port Jer-
Wis, n. Y, was totally destroyed by fire
on the 2Gth. 1t was one of the hand
soonest passenger depots on the line OF
the road, and had been built only about
three years
MRS. ELLEN GIBBONS, aged eighty
years, was burned to death at her home
in Saratoga, n. ", on the 2Gth 1t is
not known whether her death was acci
dental or case of self-murder.
ORRiN ENNIS, who was carrying
goods from Il burning saloon in Ere
mont, Wis, on the Goth, was caught il
the fall of the building and burned tc
death.
Mrs. JOHN DIEDRICu and three of her
children were burned to death in the
destruction of their home in Rochester
N. Y, early on the morning of the 26th
IT was reported, on the 25th, that the
town of Rec Heights, S. D., had beer
wiped out by fire.
THE thermometer registered 40 de
grees below zero at Lyndonville, Vt.
Christmas night
Two schooners were driven ashore
during the gale, on the Goth, on thu
Rhode Island coast, one near Narragan
sett Pier and the other at Black Point
Both vessels were wrecked, but thu
crews, with the exception of three wh'
were washed overheard, were rescued
by the life-saving crew.
THE renegade Sioux who took refug,
In the Bad Lands are reported to hav'
held council, on the 26th, as the resul
of which general return to their res
ervations was decided upon, and thu
only real danger of further bloodshe'
seems to rest upon the attempt to dis
arm them.
THE "Old Curl osity Shop" in Fette
Lane, ondon, made famous by Charlie
Dickens, is to be torn down to maxi
room for modern improvements. Th
house was the home of Praise God Bare
bones and Damned Barebones, well
known characters Of the time OF Crom
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