The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-02-12

TIM gunboat Concord vas accepted
| jy the Government and vas being fit
led out at New You'd
TIE bolt and nut Manufacturing
plant Of j. Henry StcrIt 4gh & Son at
Reading, Pa, the lar11 y its kind in
Kmorica, was burned tutailing loss
1f S275. 600.
THE weekly tfade rtr 4 Of New
York business agency @1'f phat through
out the country bus'noIs continued TO
exceed last years On ~ whole, and
was in character mon 1eaithy and con-
servative than usual Money was easy
and collections Generally fair.
OvEB 0. 600 casos of Ihs grip were re-
ported in California.
THE notorious mo1nshiner. Harvey
\ Reynolds, was Captured pear Florence,
sAll,As DE Is the most noted moonshiner
IN AIabama' and 'rIhnIssbe
4. THE village Of Eli|I.iile Ill, suf-
fered frogns ftrc, ps.rIr tter lytsine1s
4 ilouses tssing canssunlt - "a
FouH picn a'trrrtet (. rob an rx-
press train at Delano, Cal, and in the
fight that followed'the express messen-
ger aud another train man were seri-
ously wounded.
AN examination into the accounts Of
flefHnltinP State Treasurer Woodruff, of
Arkansas, by his bondsmen, showed a
shurtnge Of spB. 600.
| ,, u. Ellis, a eonsumptiYe who. was
treated with the Koch lyInpifht 'kansas
4 tity, No al.,L
"A FTEE Ht CaietiuHiHy NJ ", tlusttuyegl
business blocks and residences valued
| at 500, 900.
THE amount Ct cotton brought into
sight during the seven days ended on
the 9th was 1876, ,S79, against 1s7,6s9 for
the corresponding period last year.
Two MEN held up clerk in II. L.
Wilsdorf's jcwelry store at Cleveland,
%, and took si,000 worth Of watches.
IT was reported that the American
Express Company had secured control
| Of the National Express Company.
AT the leading clearinghouse in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 7th aggregated
sl,l28,G9 ,51i, against 81 900, So, ,0Og the
previous week. As compared with the
corresponding week Of 1890 the decrease
amounted to 6.S.
PRESIDENT ffxHR1sUN has approved
the act granting a pension TO Major
General Franz Sigel, and the act MAX
ing an apportionment Of Representa-
tives in Congress among the several
States under the new census.
-- GoyERNoR PECK of Wisconsin, has
signed the bill passed by the Legisla-
ture repeating the Bennett school law.
BY an explosion Of gas in the new
shaft at Simpson & Watkins mine at
Wyoming, Pa, two men were instantly
killed and two fatally injured.
Ten THOUSAND DOLLARS, half of
which was in bills and half in Govern
ment bonds, wps found in Pullman
car in Chicago by Henry Prentice, an
employee Of the company.
A. o. HOWARD, Of New York, says
that Robert Ray Hamiitdd. the wealthy
young New Yorker supposed to have
been drowned in Nez Perces County,
Idaho, August 81, 1890, is stiH alive.
GEoRGE SLAYBAoK, OF Cincinnati,
shot his wife, who had left him because
of abuse, and then killed himself.
1T was estimated that during the past
year damage aggregating $3.50, 900 was
the settling of the surface
The fruit steamer Simon Dumois,
valued at 100000 from Matanzas,
Cuba, foundered near New York, and
her crew OF sixteen men we're lost.
THE explosion of boiler in Giles
-steam, saw-mill near Reidsyille, Ga.
killed six men.
Four ineendiary fires were started. in
Sioux City, Ia. and as result prop
erty valued at $3.50, 900 was destroyed,
TREADwAY's livery stable at Huron,
S. D., was destroyed by fire, and
tMcntY-four horses perished in the
flames.
ELEVEN prisoners were whipped in
the Newcastle DELI jaa and two stood
in the pillory for an hour.
A TERRIFIC blizzard ragged in Mime
sofa and North Dakota with the ther-
mometeF way below zeFO, -.
CATHERINE EGAN, OF Chicago, the
widow of a New York soldier, con-
fessed to having drawn pension of ss
per month for twenty-five years after
remarrying. John Ash, her accomplice,
was fined $1,000, but the woman. owing
TO her age, was not punished.
WILLIAM II. ARNouk chairman of
the Pan-Republic congress, has issued a
call for a meeting Of the general com
mittee of two hundred TO take place at
Washington April 10.
A PASSENGER train was thrown from
the track near Randalia, la, by a
broken rail, fire Immediately broke out
and the entire train was consumed
No one was injured.
HELENA, Ala, was swept by a cy'
clone, several buildings being wrecked
and three persons badly injured.
rnREE miners intoni bed by the rusl
Of water in the snsqnehanna coal col
liery at Grand Tunnel, Pa, were res
cned after going nve days without
food
Y OVER 1900 miners in the Connells
viT1e-ePa.) coke regions struck for al
advance OF 12 per cent In wages. Th'
fight promised 10 be a long and bite
one. ---------.....
CHARLES MowRY, imprisoned for for
gerry at Columbus, Ind, was fatally
shot while attempting 70 escape.
ExPLoRER STANLEY denied at Akron
o., the story ehat he Intended TO pre-
sent 10 the Salvation Army all the val