The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-01-29

Il. A. STRRiif, u atalsaraRh operator
at Helena, Mont, sold to ex-senator
Tabor for 500. 900 placer claim which |
was said TO be worth $4,000, 900.
THE 200 Indians on the Red Lake |
reservation in the vicinity of Thief !
River Falls, Minn,, were engaged in
ghost dances and had ordered all set
tiers TO leave the country under penalty |
Of death.
LYMAN j. GAGE, president of the |
board of wolAds fair directory, an
nSnneed nf,'no his in'SfSli3f re'igniDg the
DURING fire in Jersey City, N. j.,
Chief Engineer Henry f. Farricr and
Daniel Dinan, foreman, and Mr..
Gooseman were burned 10 death.
A. IIARRIs, a Jewish rabbi, fell dead
in his pulpit at Richmond, Va just
after delivering Sermon.
JoHN KREssNER, an Omaha (Neb.l
pattern-maker, received word that he
would on May be the possessor Of
$500 OO0 his share of an estate that had
been.in chancery i'm the English courts
since 1910. --' '-
A sKIFF containing four persons up.
set at Carneys ford near Grayson, KY,
and John Metcalf and Mrs. Mary
Waters were drowned
A HORSE belonging TO Joseph Penrod,
of Elkhart, Ind, fell dead from fright,
at the first, sight of an electric street
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A MAN supposed to be C. E. Stanley,
of Cleveland, o., dressed in wellmade
black suit and wearing a silk hat, de
liberately jumped over the falls from
the Goat island bridge at Niagara Falls
THE city of New York was visited by
terrific wind and snow-storm on the
25th which filled tlfe streets with fallen
trees and telegraph poles and stopped
all traffic. No such work Of devasta-
tion had been known in that city since
the great blizzard of March, lsss.
IN collision on the Northern Pacific
road near Butte, Mont, II, W. Lord,
of DEVILS Lake, n. d., and formerly
member of Congress- from Michigan
was killed.
THIRTY disguised men took John Bar
Der and James Ballard from their homes
in Writ County, w. Va, tied them to
trees and beat them numerically No
cause was known.
A TRAIN on the Michigan Central road
struck a carriage containing Irwin Teal
and Ezra Moore, two well-known citi=
zens Of Fort Erie, Ont, and both were
| killed.
fRK Moss returned TO his home at
/ MinonlS, H., after an absence of TWEEN
| ty-three years, during which time his
parents had never heard from him. He
ran away when he was 10 years old and
now resides at Tacoma, Wash, having
acquired "A large fortune.
A SEVERE wind and snow-storm ex-
tended over the entire region from Bos-
ton through the lower Eastern States,
Southern New York, New Jersey, Penn
sylvania and. Delaware.
1T was reported that trains collided at
Irving, Kan, and that both engineers
and their firemen were killed and sew
eral passengers injured.
lr was said at Lewiston, Idaho, that
Robert Ray Hamilton. of New York,
was still alive, and that the whole story
of his death was carefully-prepared
plan to get rid of his mistress, the ad-
venturess, Eva Mann.
AT the leading clearinghouse in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the gath aggregated
81, ,067, ,77s, ,555, against 81, ,24O, Os6, ,632 the
previous week. As compared with the
corresponding weelt. Of 1890 the decrease
amounted TO 81.
CHRIS ABRAMsoN, aged 35, wanted TO
marry Mamie Ronningan at Westport,
Mimi, and because she refused he shot
her dead and then blew out his own
brains
WILLIAM EVANS, Of Lima, O., was
gored TO death by an infuriatAd bull.
IoHN s HoLLERBAcK, Sh,, of Hart
well o., committed suicide Jealousy
of his wife was the cause.
MILTON TooIE. JR., Of st. Joseph
Mo-, heir to million, eloped with Belle
Gordon, aged 10 years, the daughter Of
a poor farmer.
WHEN a new administration took
charge of the land office at Austin,
Tex, the accounts of the receiver, O. H.
Hoilingsworth, were found TO be short
sl2, 900.
JomN KELLY shot and killed his
father, aged 20 years, during drunken
row at Boston.
In Mercer County, KY, mad stal.
lion attacked iacl1ass, and after a
long struggle the jack killed the stal
lion, but was himself so badly hurt that
he had TO be shot.
A HUMANE bureau has been estab
lished at Kansas City. No, TO prevent
the shipping of hogs and cattle In the
same cars, resulting in many of the an
imals being MANNED or killed.
HARRIS A. SMLER, a New York wife
murderer, was sentenced TO die by cleo
tricity during the week beginning
March 10.
TRADE In the Monongaheia tfa.1 val
,ey was reported to be paralyzed owing
70 the strike of 1000 miners for an Nd
'ance In wages.