The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-04-09
EpitOme of the Week.
NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.

tile sale of the land owned Jointly by
them and the Choctaws. They will re-
ccivc over 100000.
WHiTEMAN & KETTu's shoe factory at
Brockton Mass, was burned. causing a
loss of 500. 900.
NINE rtoting strikers Of n mob of 500
wGo attacked the Morewood coke
works of f'ricic & Co. at Mount Pleas
ant, Pa. were killed by deputy sheriffs
and from thirty to forty others were
wounded, some of them fatally. Only
few deputies were hurt
JOE and Dave Nicely (brothers) were
executed Mt Somerset, Pa, for the mur-
der of Farmer Umbergcr February 81,
1889.
IT was discovered that G. w. Porter,
of Kansas City, Gto. .,,high ranger OF the
Independent Order of Foresters, who
had abscondcd, had four living wives.
IN a collision of two freight trains
near llornellsvillc, n. Y, Fireman
Morris and Brakemen Moon and Con-
roy were killed.
THE wife of Rev. DR.. Atkins, of Dem
ison, Tex, greved herself to death
because her son Frank ran away from
home.
MISS HATTIE FoRD, of Lake City,
Mo, was burned to death, her clothing
catching fire from stove.
lN u street fight at Ranger, Tex.
three McXicans were killed
ApvICEs from Monroe county,W Va,
say that the laboring people, principal
ly farm and timber workers, were suf-
fering for food.
IN the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the Sd numbered 243, against 256
the preceding week and 2OG for the cor
responding week last year.
THE direct tax claims of New Jersey,
SSs2,Gii, and of Ohio, 1,432, OPS. have
been paid by the treasury department
p Ar bloomington, Ind, Ward DEM
arec, aged -, cut his sick mothers
throat and then his own. Both died in
stautly. No cause was known.
The superintendent of immigration
at New York ordered that twenty 1tal-
ian immigrants be returned. Pauper.
ism and loathsomc diseases were givcr
as causes for the order.
MARTIN 'MAYBERRY was found hang,
ing to II tree near Bryant station, Tenn.
A note was left by the lynchcrs, say
ing: This is done for the protection o.
our wives and daughters.
Henry :. COCHRAN, prosperous
business man of st. Louis, preferring
death to continued sickness, sent u bull
let through his brain.
DURING the month of March ~, 167
immigrants arrived at New York, or
1913 more than in Marcl., 1889. Italy
leads the list with 1859.
\ HEAVY gale did great damage in
Boston and other New England cities.
lr was announced from Washington
that no law had ever been passed by
congress making the violation of
treaty punishable offcnse.
OVER 100 miners in the Holmes mines
at Candclaria, New, have died of the
grip.
Ar the grave of his daughter at
Savannah, Ga. Thomas .Gadsden, Il
prominent citizen, committed suicide
THE Columbia Iron 4 Steel Company
and the Pennsylvania Construction
Company of Uniontnwn, Pa. made as
signlncnts, with total liabilities of
$1,000, OOo
DETECTIVE O'MALLEY, who was
charged with packing the jury in the
Malta cases at New Orleans, has sur
rendered himself to the authorities
SUPERINTENDENT PORTER has made
public the result of special count by
races of the state of California. as fol-
lows: White, 1,lll,j5s; cUlored, ll,43e;
Chinese, 7l,Gsl; Japanese, l,O9o: Indians,
1l,355; total, l,a0S, l3o.
Mr. S. NICELY, the mother of the two
boys hanged at Somerset, Pa, for the
murder of Farmer umbergcr, has be-
come a raving maniac.
ERNEST Forbes, colored boy who
committed an assault on Bertha Phipps
in Anne Arundel county November
last, was hanged at Annapolis, Md.
AT Wapakoneta, o., the west bank of
reservoir was nearly washed away
and houses for miles around were flood
ed, causing loss Of over S2jO,000.
THOMAS FrTcH, II wealthy resident of
San Francisco, was swindled out of
$1,000 by the gold brick scheme.
THE wholesale boot and shoe house
OF Smith. Blastard & Co., of st. Joseph,
Mo, has failed for $780, 900.
CORA Roberts, an actress, was taken
to Bellevue hospital in New York in
de'ncnted condition caused by smoking
cigarettes.
The international American none
tary commission which organized in
Washington last January has come to
an end, 1t was decided that the fixing
of ratio between gold and SILVER and
the adoption of common monetary
unit did not seem at present feasible.
AT the leading clearinghouse in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 4th aggregated
Ss96, sl0,0Sl, against $780, 1869 the
previous week. AS compared with the
corresponding week of 1890 the decrease
amounted to 1879.
JosEpm Conn & Co., wholesale
clothicrs at Kansas City, NO., have as
signed with liabilities of 5000, 900.
BUSINESS property valued at Sl5O, 900
was destroyed by fire at Memphis,
Tenn.
The steamer Ileclila reached New
York with 800 scandinavian immigrants
bound for Chicago,
THREE men named Shoup, Wood and
Peterson, were arrested at MINER, H..
on a~charge of counterfeiting nickels
ITALIAN quarry laborers near Kings
ton, n. Y, after adopting denunciatory
resolutions concerning the New Orleans
lynching, hoisted an American flag and
then riddled it with bullets The
qnarry owners discharged the for
eigners.
The tug Tempest went to the bottom