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


EXTENSIVE prairie fires ragged through
out Hale and SYisher- counties in Tax
as and thousands of acres Of range were
totally destroyed
AT Kearney, n. j., non-union en-
ployes Of ClarlO's thread-milr were at
tackled by crowd Of men, women and
children, and nearly every window in
the mill was smashed by stones thrown
by the mob
JuDGE WILLIAM LEWts, Of Pmeyille,
KY, who had been suppressing bloody
feuds in that region, was shot and
killed by his own son.. Sidney Lewis,
whom the judge lad put under bond as
one of the unlawful gang. -
THE Lake Superior & Northwestern
railroad has changed its name To the
Duluth, Mesabic a Northern.
BY an explosion OF natural gas at La
fayettc, Ind, four persons were in
jurod, two fatally
A FIRE at Aurora, Ill, caused loss
of slO5, 00O
Ar Wichita Falls, Tex, a fire d.
stroycd Eve hotels and four business
houses.
ONE HUNDRED certificates for 100
shares each Of the American Sugar
Trust, aggregate face value Sl.OOO,OOO
wcrN pronOunced m New YORK 70 be
counterfeit.
1uE river which was rapidly rising at
Cincinnati drove out of their homes
sixty fumilics.
Ar sumner, Ill.,, John Graham was
sentenced to thirty years in the peni-
tentiary for killing Duane Johnson, Of
Russcllviile
ARrnun McALHsrER, Of Cleveland,
o., was elected president of the Ma
tionnl Builders Association at their ans
nual session in New York.
AT the meeting in New York Of the
American Newspapee Publishers Asse-
citation James W. Scott, Of Chicago, was
reelected president
THE mines recently discovered at
| Fl0rissant, Coli, prove TO be rich in cop
per instead Of gold,
--TIlE entire editinn of the Steamboat
Springs Col Inter Mountain was ex-
cludcd from. the mails because il con,
tained an item pertaining to an enter
| tainment 10 be given by school chHdren
in which watch was to be given u
the person holding the lucky number.
Ar Guthrie, o. r.. Mrs Frank Alcorn
killed her three children by accidental
! lY giving them an overdose Of medicine.
siSGLE man held up the assistant
| cashier and a clerk at the Citizens
Bank of Minneapolis, Mimi, and swept
| the cash into a bag, but he was capt
ured as he was leaving the building.
NEW counterfeit IS Treasury notes
have been found in circulation inNew
York. The bill is signed w. 5. Rose
Grams as Register, j. n. Huston as Treas
mer, aud the work is poorly done.
liY the explosion of a boiler in a flour
ing lpih at Windsor, Mo-, II. L. Smith
fhsIaas Ghiiiberry- Walter Beamar
and Charles Sturteyant were instantly
killed.
A BANK vahlt at Sheparlsville, KY.
was blown up by burglars, who go
| sl00, hut overlooked 500, 900
PRESIDENT HARRISON has signed tn,
act for the construction of tunnel un
der the waters Of the bay Of New Yorl
between Staten Island and Long Island
MRs. KEHoE, 60 years of age, ant
Mary Ann Roardon, ten years hei
| junior, were suffocated by smoke dur
ing fire IN their home in Chicago.
DAVID Fox, the only survivor Of th'
nottingham mine explosion at Wilkes
-harra- La a year ngn.- -Vns killed by
premature explosion Of a blast.
AT the Passavant hospital in Milwau
licc Mrs. Hedwig rWendland died from
the effects of the Koch lymph treat
mcnt.
| TnE Census bureau announced tn,
population Of Arkansas by races as fol
lows; White. S6,bi1; eolored. 81, 1921
Indians. g0i; Chinese. i3l; total, 1,l2s,
40.
ELEVEN persons in st. Louis wer'
poisoned by head-cheese purchased of
farmer. One would die.
JAMES STOREY, of Parsons, Kan, ha
been granted a patent on an artificia
cgg. The cost OF manufacture, II wa
said, would not exceed three cents pc
dozen
OSE man was killed and three fatal
injured in boiler explosion In boar,
mill ~ Elkhartr Ind