The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-04-16
Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.

hlf w Els ENN lille, VI w lnu.S
who disappeared twenty-five years ago,
has returned home, having made fort
une in business in western town.
TIE second annual election of the
Worlds Columbian exposition was held
in Chicago and ticket composed of
thirty-onc old and sixteen new directors
was elected.
HARRY KAUFMAN committed suicide
by taking arsenic at Lancaster, Pa.
His brother died in the same manner
ten days before. They had agreed to
die together. ...
Ina wreck on the Wisconsin central
railroad near Vernon, Wis, an engi-
neer, fireman and brakeman were pin
ioned under the engine and fatally
scaldcd.
Mrs. JOHN OLIVER, of Martinsville,
Ind, committed suicide by hanging her
self because her granddaughter had
disgraccd the family.
Boys smoking set fire to the stock
yards near Cincinnati and property
valued at $3.50, 900 was destroyed.
CAPT LoAR and thirteen of his depu-
ties who shot and killed the striking
coliemakcrs at the Morewood mines in
PENNSYLVANIA have been arrested for
murder.
THE cotton sheds at Memphis were
burned, with s325, 1000 worth of cotton.
THE city of Spokane Falls, Wash, has
changed its name to Spokane.
JUDGE JOHNSTON, of Valparaiso, Ind,
decided the law prohibiting the pump
ing of natural gas from the state un-
constitutional.
STEPS were taken at Philadelphia for
the formation of copper trust that in
extent and Importance promises to
eclipse the sugar trust.
OVER 1000 immigrants arrived at
New York from Europe ON the 9th.
IN the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 10th numbered 243, against 243
the preceding week and 2O9 for the cor
responding week last year
CHRISTIAN PREIsE, aged IS years, and
his wife, aged ~ years, were found
murdered in their home at Waukesha,
| Wis.
CYCLONES, hail and transforms were
reported throughout western Missouri
and Kansas.
WILLIAM RoIEs. who killed police
man ut Kenton, o., on March 81, was
taken from the jail at that place by a
mob and hanged,
THERE was current in Washington a
rumor which originated in Rome that
! Premier Rudini had made demand on
| the United States for a concession not
heretofore granted, the demand being
supplemented with Il notice that if it
was not complied with at once Italy
would sever all diplomatic relations
with this country. The rumor was gen
orally discrcditcd
Mrs. ROBERT IloUsToN was drowned
at Bathgate, n. d., in an attempt to
save her young son, who had fallen into
the river.
THE strikers in the Conncllsville
(Pa.) coke region held a convention and
passed resolutions to fight to the end.
HORACE CLARK, of MattoOn. H., was
elected at Decatur commander of the
Grand Army of the Republic for the de.
partmcnt of Illinois.
GENTRY BUTLERand Hampton Nelson
Were hanged at Sumter, s. c., for the
murder of Capt. John MaXey in Janu.
AIRY last.
A NATIONAL. association of inventors
was organized at Washington. with DR.,
Gatling as president.
a CALL has been issued for n ma.
tional temperance congress to be held
August Is and 10 in the auditorium of
the National Prohibition park at Staten
Island, n. Y.
APRIL returns to the department of
agriculture show that the condition of
the growing wheat crop throughout the
entire country is the best since 1882.
THE New York Tribune was fifty
years old on the 10th and the event was
tittingly celebrated by IL jubilee at the
Metropolitan opera house.
=. ii. Roy, II prominent citizen, was
burned to death in San Francisco in the
destruction of the Occidental hotel.
SEVEN persons were injured in a
collision on the Chicago, Rock Island
~ Pacific railroad near McJunkin, la.
FIVE THOUSAND brotherhood car
pcnters in the Pittsburgh district have
decided to strike for eight hours day
on May l.
The firm of Baumgardner, Eberman
d Co., coal and lumber dealers at Lam
caster, Pa, failed for $400, 900.
JONI ii. KINcLE, admitted to the bar
at Savannah, Ga, is the first negro al
lowed to practice in that state.
A BAG containing $1,000 in silver was
stolen from an express wagon at the
Water street station in Louisville.
ANN BAKER (colored), of jackson,
Miss, has confessed to numbering her
husband because he made her cook
breakfast too early.
ANNA DICKINsoN's sister and friends
Indignantly denied the published story
| that the distinguished woman had been
sent to the insane asylum through jeal-
ousy and that she was not insane.
AT the leading clearinghouse in the
| United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 1lth aggregated
| Sl,079, ,95G, 933, against $500, ,S19,9Sl the
previous week, AS compared with the
corresponding week of 1890 the decrease
amounted to 0.4.
THE percentages of the clubs in the
American baseball association for the
week ended on the 1lth were: Louis
| Vile, .666; ST. Louis, .6G6; Baltimore,
800; Boston, 800; Athletic, 800; Wash
ington, 800; Cincinnati, 1888; Colum-
bus, 1888.
AT Orange, Mass, four Italians were
boat-riding at Miller's river when they
were swept over the dam and drowned.
REPORTS received at Denver, Col,
from the southern Ute agency were to
the effect that the Indians had lost
nearly all their stock by recent snow