The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-03-26

au increase of S209,745 as compared
with the corresponding month of last
year.
MooNsnINERs killed officers r. J.
Barnwell and 4. L. Brine near Green's
boro, n. c., while they were attempting
to make some arrests.
ELEVEN greenhouses belonging to
William X. Vanderbilt at Islip, L. l.,
were burned, causing loss of 500, 900.
PETER RICHMOND, living near Wheel
ing, w. Va, chopped his wifcs head off
because she did not obey one of his
commands with sufficient celebrity.
THE Tompkins Machinery & Imple-
ment Company at Dallas, Tex, failed
for $1s6, 900.
ELMER COLLINS, of Allegheny City,
Pa, finished his thirty days of fasting.
A CYCLONE at Wilcox, Fla. tore up
many trees by the roots and did other
damage. The storm extended over a
mile east and west.
TIE report that w. Il. Bartlett and
G. w. Freese, editors of the Monmouth
Ull.) Atlas, and two daughters of a
man named Kmes, of Huron, 5. d.,
were drowned in Puget sound, was un-
true.
MANY Louisiana cotton fields were
flooded by breal; in the East Carroll
parish.
AT st. Cloud, Mimi, two sisters
probably the oldest twins in the coun-
try -- celebrated their S1th birthday.
They are Mrs Crcsccntia Fritz and Mrs.
Rosina Smith. Both are widows and in
good health.
For the month of February, 1891, the
| export of merchandise from the United
| States aggregated Si4, ,592, 500 and the
imports SG5 02G.IiS making the excess
of exports over imports Ss,GG6, ,O93, as
compared with an excess of S7,2ls,34d
in February, 1890.
THE visible supply of grain in the
| United States on the 23d was: Wheat
23,0l2, 435 bushels; corn, 2,9G0,6S7 BUSH
els; oats, 2,SO9. $50 bushels.
| A LIMITED mail train ran into d
freight at Conesvillc. o., and Fireman
| Dickson was fatally, and the engineer
and number of postal clerks were
badly hurt.
THE exports of gold from the United
| v
| 1891, were S4,0l0.liG, against Sl,1I0G9
in February. 1890 and of silver 81 ,G23,.
OBS, against S2,3Oj, l35 the preceding
| year. The imports we're: OF gold, S5G5
304, against Sl,41G. 1873, and of silver
S976, 9G6, against Sl,O1S,9l4 the preced
ing year. 49,
FIVE steamers landed 3,143 immi
grants in New York.
| THIRTEEN horses were burned t.
death in a barn at Clinton. Mo-, be
longing to Carl Shy. a farmer
A HEAVY snowstorm prevailed
throughout Colorado, and railway mel
said they never saw SO much snow ol
the mountains before.
THREE mcn--John Hayes, Michae
Haley and George Gregory--wer
killed by an explosion in an oil re
finery at Constable Hook. n. j.
EIGHTEEN head of cattle, forty hog
and other stock have died of hydro
phob!a near Arkansas City, Kan.
The Washington national bank o
New York has been closed by the banl
examiner.
THE Milwaukee (Wis.l bridge an,
iron works assigned with liabilities o
100000.
II. S. HATToN, a wcll.linown mer
chant of Des Moines. la. and Mrs. A
j. Russell. of st. Joseph, Mo. were
found dead in the apartments of Mr.
Hatton, having be en- asphyNiatcd.
SCHALI * DoNNER, bankers at York
Pa, have failed for large amount
with limited assets.
Ar Vicksblrg, Miss. Ernest Harden
stein was killed by j. q. Cashment in
quarrel over the New Orleans lynching
Both were newspaper men.
THREE young men We're fatal.
poisoned by eating wild parsnips nea
Wilkesbarre, Pa.
PROF. d. S. JORDAN, president of tn
Indiana state university. has acceptc
the presidency of the Leland Stanfor'
university of California.
SCHwAB BROS, dealers in cloaks AM
jerseys in New York, failed for $3.50,
000
SIX white convicts. under sentence o
from five years to life, escaped from
working gang at jackson, Miss.
w. NJ. MOORE, wealthy farmer liv
ing near New Vienna. O., was killed b.
his son Oscar. The boy claimed to hav
acted in self-defense.
THE surplus in the national treasur
on the cod was about $4,000, 600.
IT was reported that II cracker trus
embracing every cracker manufactu
ing firm of Importance in the countr
and capitalized for 81, O0o 900 had bee
formed at Wheeling, w, Va,
S. NJ. GARRATT, an attorney of kaI
sas City, Kan, was found in his office
raving maniac from lack of food. II
was too proud to ask for assistance.
AFTER a separation of twenty-on
years, during which they thought eac
other dead, Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard d.
vine, of Scxauton, Pa, have been r.
united.
; NEAR Arkansas City, Kan, a numb,
3 of farms were burned over by prair
fire, and many horses and cattle pc
ished, and it was reported that nun
ber of lives were lost
AT .Bastrop, Tex, Bob Jenkins an
his father-in-law Henry T. Chamber
were found dead, They had been mu
,, dered.
, PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
, BENJAMIN FARkBEE, of Old Concor,
, Pa, and Miss Mary E. Inlay eloped (
Pittsburgh and were married. III