The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-03-12
DOMESTIC.

| A PARTY of United States officials
have completed n raid through West
| Florida, resulting in the capture and
destruction of twenty-six Illicit stills
and the arrest of thirty men.
THE fruit-preserving and canning es-
tablishment of the j. o. Schimmel Pre-
serving Co. at Philadelphia was burned,
causing n loss of $50, 600.
CHARLES CoRYELi, a jackson county
Und) farmer, attempted to take his
child away from his wife, who had left
him Arthur Burdell, his brother-in-
law, intcrfered, whereupon Coryell shot
him dead.
IN an avalanche near Alta, Utah, two
men were killed and two were fatally
injured.
SIXTEEN horses were burned in a feed
stable at Dcs Moines, la.
THE first of series of meetings to be
held throughout the country by union
prisoners of the war to raise money for
II memorial hall at Washington was
held in New York.
THE National league made public its
schedule of baseball games for 1891.
The season opens April - and closes
| Octobcr3
THOMAS PEMBERToN. of Little Rock,
Ark, and Albert Bost, of Bosts Mills,
n. C., were burned to death in fire
that destroyed the high school in Mon
roe. \, G.
lr was announced that the legisla-
tion enacted by the last congress would
result in the opening up of over s,o0O,-
600 acres of the public land to settle
ment.
THE race question was said to be as
suming serious phase in Oklahoma
territory, and fighting between black
and white people was reported to be
imminent
THE schooner Elsie Smith of Port
land. was wrecked off Cape Cod and
eighteen lives were lost.
The buildings of the Worlds Column
bian exposition in Chicago will be dedi-
Gated in October, 1892, with imposing
ceremonies, the exercises to extend
over four days.
THE passenger boat City of Rich
mond and cargo burned at New York.
The loss on the boat was Sl25, 900; fully
insured.
A REUNION of the founders of the re-
| Will Dc
temple in Boston April 10 next.
IL fit of jealousy Daniel Mcmahon
killed Miss Annie Murphy near Port
Huron, Mich, and then took his own
life.
HUNDREDS of ranches in Yolo conn
ty, Cal. were under water, and the loss
to property was estimated at 81, 900, O0O.
THE savings bank. at Freeport, Pa,
was robbed of so, ,OOO in money and Sc.
curities.
Ar the Ives sale in New York Mr.. j.
w. Ellsworth. of Chicago, secured the
famous Gutenberg Bible at cost of
Sli,S00.
DANIEL MCMAHON was given ii life
sentence ut Port Huron. Mich, for the
brutal murder of Annie Murphy.
A COMPANY has been formed with
$500, 900 capital to develop rich deposits
of onyx in Pulaski and Crawford coun-
ties, Mo.
NEAR Ellis, Kan, the body of sheep
herdcr, frozen to death in the recent
blizzard, was found The body hat
been nearly devoured by coyotes.
SECRETARY PRoCroR has authorized
the enlistment of 1000 Indians for the
army.
j. NJ. FORBES, of Boston, paid Sll l,O0(
for a 2-year-old brown colt at the New
York horse sale. The animal was siret
by Stamboul.
The first colored bar association in
America was organized at Gainesville
Miss.
The Baltimore Methodist conference
has by vote of l+j to 30 decided not tc
allow women delegates to the general
conference.
JOHN OSCAR BURLINGTON was hanged
at Bonneville. Mo-, for the murder o.
Sheriff Cranmer, and Shakespeare
Reeves, alias Jacob Sharlley (colored)
was hanged at Newcastle. Del. for al
assault upon little Grace Clark, a whit
girl of II years.
Four men committed suicide in st
Louis on the 9th.
J AT meeting of the worlds fair di
rectory in Chicago the eight-hour day
for exposition labor was adopted
Mrs. BoDENBER, aged 81, died a
Hamilton, o., and John Hopple, he
aged brother, was so overcome by grie
that he fell dead across the corpse.
NEAR Lima, o., Lyman Hyde, farm
err, and his 23-year-old daughter, Ju
dith, lost their lives and Emeline, a is
ycar-old daughter, was fatally injured
by the cars.
The treasury department at Wash
ington has reatiirmed it's decision tina
Koch's lymph is dutiable at the rate O
25 per cent ad valorem.
The census bureau announced tn
population of the state of Missouri b
races as follows: Whites, 1924, 48s
colored, l54, 1871; Indians. l6s; Japan
ese, 4; Chinese, 4l3; total 2,G79, 1874.
THE ten weeks strike of 5000 Goa
miners in the Monongahela (Pa.) val
| ley ended in a victory for the men
] their request for an increase of pay be
7 ing granted
BIZ an explosion of gas in coal min
at Shamollin, Pa, John Llewellyn, hi
son Frank and son-in-law w. j. Smitl
were killed.
The courthouse at Archer City, Tex.
, was burned, together with nearly al
/ the county records
, In the United States the busines
> failures during the seven days ende,
n on the 9th numbered 265, against 30
the preceding week and 20O the CORE
spending week last year.