The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-07-02
The News Condensed
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

& Hartford railroad were acquitted in
New York of responsibility for the nc,
cident in tunnel by which eight lives
were lost.
A TERRlBhs wind and rainstorm
swept over northwestern Iowa on the
oath. At Cherokee four persons were
drowned and eighty houses destroyed.
At -Correctionville four more people
lost their lives. The Floyd river val
ley was inundated for over 80 miles.
Many houses in lie Mars were flooded
over the first floors, while the towns of
Merrill, Hinton and James were com.
pletely submerged, A cyclone ut Suth.
erland destroyed thirty dwellings, four
warehrnises and several barns
AT New London, Conn, the eight
Dared race between the freshmen crews
of Columbia, Yale and Harvard col
leges was won by Columbia by three
lengths; time, 9:4l.
ADvICEs of the 25th say that the
damage and loss of life caused by floods
in Iowa was much greater than ut first
reported. Ono hundred houses were
swept away at Cherokee, the village of
Neville was entirely destroyed, and it
was feared that many smaller villages
had suffered similar fate. Bridges
were gone, railroads washed away and
crops destroyed and over 1,20O persons
were homeless. No estimate could be
made of the loss in crops through the
Little Sioux and Floyd valleys. Seven
~ miles of Illinois Central track was
submerged by water, causing loss of
100000. Not a country bridge remains
in Plymouth and Cherokee counties.
A CYCLONE in Mower county, Mimi.
destroyed houses and barns, and at
Marshall Mrs. John Fordahl and her
daughter were fatally injured.
EMILE MARQuEsE & CO., leather deal
ers in Boston, have failed for $3.50, 600.
THOMAS THURMAN. Joe Zins and his
sister Edith, Miss Catharne Cox and
Miss Kate Riddle were drowned in the
river at Cincinnati by their boat being
run down by a barge. All were promi-
nent people.
THE total value of the exports of mer-
chandisr from the United States during
the twelve months ended May 81, 1891,
was SS70, 064, S9i. The value of the i'm
ports during the same time was SS45,-
T.032.
THE Connecticut supreme court
has handed down an opinion in the suit
of Gov. Bulkeley's secretary, recogniz-
ing Bullsclcy as governor, and that his
acts stand.
AT New London, Conn, Cornell won
the eight-oared Smile race in 14:27lf,
Pennsylvania second by four lengths
and Columbia a bad third. Cornell's
time beats the record.
EDWARD MCMILLAN, OF Wilkes barre,
Pa, who murdered. his wife last Feb
ruary by boring holes in her flesh with
a rcd-hot poker, has been convicted Of
murder in the first degree,
A ClouDBURsT in Cherokee county,
n. c., flooded farms for miles, and Har-
vcy Agnew and Jack Newton were
drowned.
A FREIGHT train plunged into a
swollen creek near York, Ncb., and
Engineer Delaney, Fireman Bean and n
brakeman were killed.
a COMPANY was organized at Dam
vile, ILL.,, to dig for gold in that vicin-
ity.
THE discovery has been made that
thousands of feet of pine have been cut
on the public lands of Wisconsin.
Prominent lumber companies were said
to be involved.
AT Middletown. n. Y, Herman Horn
lein and Josie Gibbons took poison
with fatal result because of lovers
quarrel.
UNITED STATES officers captured a
dangerous gang of counterfciters in
Bollinger county, Mo.
HARVEY MULLENs and Riley Cooper,
two notorious West Virginia moon
sinners, We're captured by government
officers in Buchanan county.
JULIA ADAMS, of Readfield, Me-, had
on the 25th taken no food whatsoever
and only one swallow of water for
twenty days and suffered no incon.
venience.
AN old family feud resulted in fight
2 miles from Lewisville, Tenn, and
James Taylor, John Taylor Bine Tay-
lor, Mrs. Annie Nix and Miss Nora AL
eSander were fatally wounded.
e. w. STETsoN & Co., iron dealers in
New York have failed for 500, 900.
REPoRTs from the interior of Ne.
braska indicate great damage to the
wheat crop from heavy storm. The
Platte basin suffered the greatest dam
age.
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the Goth numbered 23f, against 25S
the preceding week and 207 for the COR
responding week last year.
The Patterson Coal Company's
breaker at Natalie, Pa, was destroyed
by cyclone and six men were killed.
AT meeting of the cabinet in WASH
ington it was decided to discontinue for
the present the coinage of silver dollars
owing to the great demand for small
coins, principally dimes, which the
mints had not been able to supply. ?
HIGH water flooded the streets in the
lower portion of the city of Omaha,
Neb., to Il depth Of Ave feet. Heavy
rains had done great damage and en-
tirely suspended railway traffic in the
state.
The gold shipments from this coun-
try to Europe during the siSdays ended
on the 26th reached total of IS, $50, O00
The firm of Kimball Bros, manu-
facturers and dealers in carriages at
Boston. has failed for 800. 900.
AN excursion train was wrecked at
Van Buren, Ark. and child was killed
and twenty persons injured.
MRS. q. Il. HANEY and Mrs. A. M.
Tatro while crossing trestle at Graf
ton, Neb., were struck by train and
killed.
A SLEEPING car was derailed near
Rosebud, Mont, sixteen persons being