The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-02-19

informing All pthnioh ubNofieNh ana
agents that circulars proposed 10 be
issued by them TO solicit pension bust
ness must be approved by The pension
office before distribution.
-- Ar Austin, Pcx., san Alexander vas
fined $3.50 for mailing lottery tickets.
IN the United States The business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 18th numbered 297, against SOG the
preceding week and 802 the correspond
ing week last year.
CHARLES RITTER, teller Of the First
National Bank of Evansville Ind. was
reported short $50, 900.
JESSE II. PRooroR and Frederick
Young were hanged at Dover, Del, for
murder.
AN the Ieading clearinRsnnuS -.z.x :
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the nth aggregated
sl.O47, ,oss. .597, against si.isiqo7, ,574 the
| reyisus.weslS As .eomRnfi with the
~, bsttihg'Nvect Of 1900 Pic decrease
amounted 10 90.
The total production ot pine lumber
IN Michigan during 1890 was 4, ,ess, s,5e7,
$40 feet
CAPTAIN FRANCIS L. NoRToS's steam
life-boat the f. l.. Norton, in which
the captain with his wife, niece and
hrrfin men hifI Ndm L.nnddn, Mass. fnr
Toulon, France, November %, has been
giSdn II r.s,s. ghucA .,'.s-i,iiil. - lsli !,
GEoRGE- -RousIs.. aged ia Fears,. ac-
cidentaliy shot and killed his. brother
Edward, aged oyear-, az Leavenworth,
Kan.
IN a railway accident,near Columbus,
o., Engineer Charles Bartwell and two
brothers named johnson were fatally
injured
- A BoNT capsizcd-uu the ocouce river
at ArmoFs Ferry, Ga, and four colored
men were drowned.
THE United States Consul at Zurich,
Switzerland, reported to the State Dc
partment at Washington that the ex.
pertinent of importing live cattle from
America TO that country for beef was a
success.
Ir was reported that syndicate
headed by the Ndndcrbilts, of New
York, had purchased for $1,000, 900 five
of the principal iron mines in Northern
Michigan
ONE of the most intimate friends of
the poet Whittier confirmed the report
that the poet had finally decided 10 lay
away his pen for good.
'TnE stallion Elector, valued at SIS, OOC
and owned by J. Il lIarnes, died nj
| Springfield, Ill.
Snow 10 the depth of over two feet
fell at Bozeman. Mont, and vicinity
A FIRE at Rochester, n. Y, destroyed
st. Mary's Hospital the $50 inmates
barely escaping with their lives -
SENATOR QUNY, Of Pennsylvania, Il
a statement before the. United State,
| Senate denied the charges made agains
him from time 10 time of malfeasanc,
in Office, etc, and said all the charge
we're false and foul TO the core.
A TRAIN Of twenty oil cars wa
burned at philadelphia aud several per
sons were badly injured.
WILLIE ZINN, aged 16 years, and hi
father were arrested for a long serie
of mail rnhheries at Wheeling- AZ. va
Two FREIGHT trains collided on
bridge at Erie, Pa, and an engine an,
six cars were precipitated into the wa
ter, cnusing a loss Of 10000. Thre,
trainmen were hurt.
Az untimely frost ruined the winte
crop Of Strawberries in southern Cali
fornia i-.
c. I.-MARrISa fled from Beatrice
Neh., aftnr rubbiug Mrs IA. Camp
bell, whose agent he was, Of 100000 o
moro.
THE Meyer mine near Scottdale, Pa.
was set on fire by an explosion, AM
four bumpers were known TO have beer
killed and six or seven men were re
ported missing.
JoHN B. RAE, of PENNSYLVANIA, wa
reelected president OF the t-ntted Min
Workers at their session in Columbus, q
WOMEN in Ohio have begun a crusad
against obscene theatrical posters. Ii
Springfield white paper was paste
over pictures Of burlesquers.
4 -'ruR visible supply Of grain in tn
United States on the 10th was: Wheat
20, 1862 053 bushels; corn, 400, Sol bush
els; oats, 2,922, 461 bushels
Ar bridgeport, Ind, George Gil
lespie and a man named Money wer
: arrested for the murder OF Charles An
derson, who disappeared five years ag'
A ROCK weighing $50 pounds fell fror
Duquesne Heights, near Pittsburgh, o
10 passenger coach on the Pan-llandl
road, and one passenger was killed an
several others were injured.
DAVID THoRNELL, a shoemaker c
Scott County, Ind. who had been sicl
apparently of consumption, for som
time, coughed up a peg and was reeo'
ering.
The committee on the revision of tn
besbyterian confession of faith con
pleted its work at Washington after a
eleven days session and adjourned.
$. Il. COwLEs, a banker of Clark
Neb., was arrested for the murder
his wife a short time ago,
MANY houses in Johnstown and Can
bria, Pa, were flooded, owing to heav
rains, and in some instances peop
were leaving their dwellings in boat
But one bridge remained unwrecke
Floods hadRlso caused heavy damal
in EASTERN Ohio and West Virginia.
: PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
SAMYEL MoREY, who came into prof
inence during the Presidential campaiq
} of 1880, and who was arrested in col
nection with the "Morey Chinese lie
. "a. lf.a - N.ah,,af N II .w.I 4