The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-12-03
THE 800 elevator at Escanaba, Mich,

THE 500 elevator at Escanaba, Mich,
has been destroyed by fire. Loss,
S250,0dd.
FRrGHTFUb excesses are reported TO
have been committed by the Chinese
during the latest outrage. Children
were roasted alive; nuns horribly mall
treated, and a priests tongue and heart
torn out.
TTiB terrible effects Of the famine in
Russia are becoming more and moro
marked all along the RAILROAD over
which ths czar is travelling from the
Crimea to St Petersburg starving peas,
ants present petitions to him.
AT the opera house at Jackson, Miss,
just after the curtain rose for the Bill
Nye-Burbank combination entertain
ment, Nye fell out of the back door of
the opera house, q distance of fifteen
feet and landed on pile of lumber, He
was 30 badly hurt that he could not ap.
pear and the audience was dismissed.
Mrs. T. IS, WEEr.. lady principal. OF
Rutgers female college, New York city,
has been dismissed. She confessed
having embezzled over So, 600 of the col.
lege's money.
HENRY NJ. MONROE has begun two
suits against DR.. Kelley for damages
caused by injuries without good results
inflicted by the so-called bchloride of
gold cure.
THE post office inspectors OF the
country have decided that Flash litcra-
ture" might be forbidden the mails.
They will also advocate penny postage.
YELLOW fever is prevalent to an
alarming extent at Rio Janeiro.
THE strikers in the French coal min
ing district threaten to use dynamite.
IT is openly charged that the firm of
Field, Welchers, Lindley & Co. of New
York, which failed the other day, mis-
used Union Pacific securities held by it
as security for loans.
SAMUEL LAYMAN, a theatrical man.
ager, whose company is stranded, and
who left wife to elope with girl, Is
under arrest at Pittsburgh, Pa, for
grand larceny.
The westbound passenger train on
the Frisco road was robbed by masked
men ut Glendale, twelve miles from St
Louis, on the night of the 3Oth. A large
sum was taken from the Adams ex-
press.
A MOB attempted to storm the Jail at
indianapolis, Ind, on the night of the
3Oth, for the purpose of lynching
Charles Brissow, charged with outrage
on little girl.
THE court of claims at Washington
gave Judgment for $S24, 900 in favor of
the old settlers or western Cherokee
Indians in their suit against the United
States to recover money alleged to be
due them under the treaty of 1916
Two Berlin merchants, partners in
the watch business, committed suicide
| together as the result of ruin caused
by the Friedlander e. Sommerfeld
| bank failure.
Gov. BUCHANAN, of Tennessee, de-
clares positively that convicts must and
will be returned to Briceville and other
east Tennessee mines. Militia will be
put on duty.
TIE liabilities of Field, Lindley
Wcichers & Co., of New York, are
placed at $500, 900, about half of which
| the Union Pacific will have to bear. No
criminal prosecution has been begun.
ALL the money secured by the Rio
Grande railroad express robbers in Col
orado two months ago hiss been recov-
cred; thanks to the confession of one
of the men.
The Vossiche Zeitung, commenting
on the coming Russian prohibition of the
expectation Of horses, says: "The
measure is one that has never been re-
sorted to by Germany except when
fearing war The prohibition will be
severely felt in Germany, which has
been accustomed to import 20, 900 horses
| annually from Russia alone"