The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-11-26

tlOu 10 tHke tne Iuitut bbcpS toWaVa |
having Oklahoma admitted to the SIS
terhood Of states.
tufN WHAtEN and John Walsh were |
found murdered in b fosui ef hotel |
At ST. PauI, Mimi,
tT was said that an attempt would |
be made at the coming session Of con-
Vress to have the remains of Gen.
Grant removed to Washington. '.s
AT the annual meeting In Chicago Of
the fair managers Of the western cir |
cult Il WAS decided to hold state fairs
rs follows next year, Mississippi, Au.
gust Is; Iowa, August 0eI Minnesota
and Nebraska, September 81 Wiseon-
sin, KANSAS and Ohio, September 1s;
indiana, September 10; Illinois, Sep
tember 90; Missouri, October "a In
the nine states represented no state
fairs would be held in 1898.
CHARLES FEIsSER shot Andrew Stohl
fatally ut Carver, MINI, and then shot
himself.
INFORMATION has been received at
the navy department of the death of
Lieutenant Commander Joseph Mar
thon on board his ship the Palos, at
Shanghai, China
CHIEF H. M. LI.LIs and Assistant
Chief Buckingham, of the fire departs
ment at Tacoma, Wash, were run over
by hose cart and fatally injured.
The Rockdale Mining & Manufactur.
ing Company of Columbia, Tenn, made
an assignment, with liabilities Of Sl91,.
900; assets, $780,
The secretary of the treasury has Is.
sued a circular calling attention to
law which prohibits publishing cuts of
coins.
PRoF. BLAKE, Of Kansas, was re-
ported as saying that minute particles
of dust thrown into the air by mortars
would produce rain.
THE immense crop of Florida
oranges. estimated at $500, 900 boxes,
has begun to flow northward.
WILLIAM NIBIsCH and his wife were
killed at Allentown, Pa, by William
Keck, a quarryman.
SHIPMENTS of ore from Ashland, Wis,
for the season now ended were 1, ,249, 900
tons, a decrease of 100000 tons from
last year.
AT the leading clearing-houses in the
United States tho exchanges during the
week ended on the 10Th aggregated
s, ,253, O34, 1856, against Sl,3l5, ,321,2 232 the
previous week. The decrease rs COM
pared with the corresponding week Of
1890 was 1873.
TWENTY buildings in the business
section of Correctionvile, Ia, were de-
stroycd by fire, causing loss of 500,
900.
A COMMERCIAL agency in New York
says that although much has happened
| of late to reprcss business and shake
| condolences, yet confidence is not
shaken, and the volume of business
throughout the country is still close to
| the greatest ever attained.
ELIJAH JETT, teamster, cut his
wife's throat with razor at Decatur,
ILL.,. and uthen cut his own. Family
trouble was the cause.
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the Goth numbered 2s5 against e91
the preceding week and Pa for the
corresponding week last year
| The annual report of Redfeld Proc
tor, secretary of war, shows that the
| expenditures of his department during
the past year were SOL, ,45O, 7GI.
1T was alleged that unless special
sessions Of the Kansas and the Missouri
legislatures were called to rcdistrict
the states each one would lose presi'
| dental elector.
THE correct estimate of the worlds
wheat crop for this year is 10000, oo(
bushels more than that of last year,
while rye is 224,00o,0 900 bushels less
than last year.
HILEY CREMANs, a farmer living nea,
Rockford, o., was deeced out Of 81, OoC
by two sharpers
GIACINro EPIFAIRIo, an Italian, who
for the last six years has carried on
steamship agency in Philadelphia, ha'
absconded with $4,000 belonging t.
his customers.
AT Menlo, Ca, the boiler of saw
mill owned by 7. P. Batten exploded
killing two little sons of the employer
MARY SCHULTzE, of Pierre, 5. d..
has been sentenced to pay fine of 81
for sending letter through the mail
in newspaper wrapper.
UPWARD of 10000 acres of land II
Pike and Perry counties, Ind, hav
been leased for oil purposes by Gin
cinnati syndicate.
Two MASKED men robbed Northern
Pacific express car near the Montan
and Idaho line of $4,000.
The American Express Company ha
revived an old order requiring agent
on railroad trains to wear their re
volvers in plain sight on their persons
Mrs. MARY McVAy, aged 70, of Brad
dock, Pa, has been voluntarily fast!n
for l42 days. During all that time sh
had taken no food but buttermilk, an
no drugs but opium and cocaine.
DURING the past eleven years Tn
water in Lake Michigan has decrease
8 feet
JOHN KoNOLp, president Of the Kt
mold & Parker Produce Company !
Chicago, was charged with swindlin
over forty firms out of about $40, 900.
NEAR Richland, Minn,, Joseph Co
burn and his stepson, Charles Peasle,
quarreled, and the latter shot the fo
mer, killing him instantly.
WILLIAM II. FRIzzLE was hanged J
the Jail yard at Abilene, Tex, for tn
murder of his wife in Camanche coun
ty in 1891.
THE general lumber season OF tn
northwest is over, and the cut in Mil
nesota for the year reaches 447,7lS,st
feet. 207, ,221. 900 shingles and 97,697 81
lath. This beats all records.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
HEaRY RopEs, of New York, forme
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