The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-03-05


not q building was lefkstanding on it's
foundation and se~e1l persons were
drowned.
THOMAS BAKER, afeuscd of having
killed six men in KertAcky was arrest
ed at Amigo, Wis.
THE schooner Robert McCurroll of
Charleston, s. G., was reported lost with
crew of five men.
AT Yuma, A. T.. 9el houses were
ruined by flood, f,fq0 persons were
penniless and homeless and not busi-
ness house was left ftanding. 1t was
feared that hundredsof lives had been
lost. up pthe ella vnliey, and it was
known that thousands Of cattle horses
md mules had been drowned. =,
A REGULAR exodusfef Mormons from
Utah to Mexico was, fid to be quietly
| trlsing piast, and Was + the next three
would have left.
lN San Francisco Russell S. Thomp-
son, aged % years. conductor, was
shot and killed by A. ii. Cochran. his
insane father-in-law, who afterwards
killed himself.
| WILLIAM BROOKS. who escaped in
1868 after being convicted of the mur-
der of Theodore Brodhead at Della
ware Water Gap. was captured in
Washington, Pa.
THE municipal reform bill that be-
came law in Cleveland, o.. wipes out
the whole city government, and new
one would bc elected
a SEVERE blizzard swept over the
| ,,i, ,1,il ,lrpt
were reported as frozen to death.
THE sum of $50, 900 had been raised in
New York for the widow of eX-Secre-
tary of the Treasury Window, and So
900 more would be secured.
THE boiler in sawmill at Charles
ton, Mo-. exploded. killing Jeff Cobb,
Charles Cobb and John Dawdy.
AT Birmingham. Ala, an unknown
man broke the windows of Il icwclry
store and stole tray containing SO, 900
worth of diamonds.
Ir was announced that all the min
ing property on the lower part of
Aspen mountain, Colorado, had been
sold to an English syndicate for Sl7,-
600. 600.
JOHN COPELAND, wealthy store
keeper at l'drldSSuS, fd.' iuIdily SllOt
his wife and then tried to kill his two
children and himself, but was pre-
vented.
TWENTY business houses ut lIermon,
n. V, We're burned by an inccndiary
fire. Loss 100000.
A FIRE which started in the dry goods
house of Byram & Sullivan at Indian
apolis, Ind. caused u loss of 100000
MILTON and :. f. Smith brothers
were killed by officers at Temple. Miss
while resisting arrest.
By the breaking of Il cable ut the
coal mines at Whitewell, Tenn, two
miners were lSilieif and seven fatal,
injured.
A BILL before the North Dakota leg
islature to repeal the prohibition law
was indefinitely postponed in the houso
by vote of 30 to 81
A TREMENDOUS series of thunder
showers passed over the cape district
and Elizabeth islands in Massachusetts
and many churches school houses ant
other buildings Were struck by light
ming and destroyed
The public debt statement issued or
the I'd showed the total debt to be 81,
543, 100, Sjs cash in the treasury, S693
520. 062: debt less cash in the treasury
SSi9,5S9, T95. Increase during February
S2,994, $50. Decrease since June 80
1890, SD, GG7, $50.
The Tooth anniversary OF the dealt
of John Wesley was commcmorated or
: the I'd by the Methodists in America
and in England it was observed by th
unveiling of statue erected in hi
honor in London.
THE Arkansas legislature passed {
law making the punishment for murde
in the first degree optional with juries
SECURITIES belonging to the state O
Delaware and worth over S50O.OO sup
posed to be in the state treasury, wer
missing, and no clew to them could b
obtained.
AT the mouth of the Warwick rive
: in Virginia twenty-four oystermen wer
drowned in gale.
Mrs. FRED NEIHAU ,MYER jumped int
a cistern at Lima, o., with her sic
; babe, both being drowned. The lon
continued illness of the child caused tn
mother to become insane.
THE visible supply of grain in tn
United States on the I'd was: Wheat
23,25O, 093 bushels; corn, 2,S07,21 busl
els; oats, 2,94s, ,O29 bushels.
THE Kansas legislature passed Il bill
prohibiting aliens from holding land
in the state, and providing that all land
held by aliens at the end of seven yeal
shall revert to the state.
l HANS p. JACOBSON, aged . years, an
his sister Mercy, A years old, wei
burned to death in their home in Oh
cago during the absence of their parent
G The Louisville Ministerial associ
ton, by vote of IA to l2, decided
+, exclude from its membership Catholic
L Unitarians and Jews
0 Ar Adams, Mass, the Renfrew MaI
ufacturing company lost S5OO,00o b
fire.
: The five glass factories at Findla.
4 O., said to be among the most prom
nent in the country, have entered TIL
3 great table glassware trust.
. DURING February the mints coine
S3,4l4, 400 of gold, S3,073, 900 of .silve
I and S123, 900 of nickels and pennies.
# ED JACKSON, of Greenup county, Ky
d confessed to having four wives, to xii
ing a man in Logan county and to stea
II ing several horses,
X Mrs. SALLIE DAWSON, of Picker
!. county, s. C., choked her baby to deaf
:, and crushed in the skull of her 9TH
u child with an AK
g New YORK business men took stcl
for the erection Of an equestrian stat'
a | 81, ID u,