The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-12-10
TIE worst storm in years swept down


the Cumberland valley, in Pennsyl-
vania, doing great damage.
THE missing skull of Hiram Saw
telle has been found near Great Falls,
N. H., at the spot indicated by his
brother Isaac, who Is awaiting eSeau-
tion for the murder.
THE United States training ship
Monongahola has sailed from Gibral-
tar for the West Indies after cruise
in the Mediterranean.
Gov. HoGG, of Texas, has offered
reward of 500 for each of the men who
recently tarred and feathered j. H..
Dean, the alleged Dallas. correspondent
of the Kansas City Sun.
THE tendency of the London stock
exchange is upward, but Americans are
quiet The continental bourses are
quiet but not weak.
SEvENTY-THREE French miners lost
their lives as the result of an explosion
of fire damp in mine near St Etienne.
PROF w. II. McCUBBINs, promi-
nent citizen of Maysville, Ark, shot
and killed his wife and then turned the
pistol on himself with fatal results
The double tragedy was on account of
jealousy,
THE identity of the New York dyna-
miter has not yet been positively fixed,
though a museum lecturer claims that
he was an anarchist. One man has
been arrested on the charge of knowl-
edge of the crime.
THE sugar house of the York planta-
ton, near Paquemine, La, belonging
to Mrs. Louis Woods, was destroyed by
fire together with 100 hogsheads of
sugar
THE snow blockade of the Northern
Pacific and Great Northern In North
Dakota has been raised and trains are
running practically on time.
On the same day that the Dellard
murder occurred in France two others,
aged ladies, were murdered, one at
Poissy and the other at Lassarts, and
numerous robberies were committed at
Luzarches, Merry. 1t seems evident
that all these crimes were the work OF
an organized band of outlaws.
THE Union Pacific Railroad Co. has
begun suits to recover some of the Sc
curities placed by it in the hands OF
Field, Lindlcy, Weichers &; Co., and re.
hypothccatcd by that firm, against
Kuhn, Loeb & Co., II. Thorton & Co.,
Field, Lindiey, Weichers & Co. and
Charles W. Gould, as assignee.
TIE great Japan earthquake was
predicted in advance. The latest theory
is that it was due to the sinking OF
mountains. To November there had
been 7?O shocks.
A coLIIERY explosion at NiflSa, Rus.
sian-Poland, resulted in the loss of 1SC
lives, The killed were all miners en-
ployed in the shaft, which was almost
entirely destroyed.
Ar least - lives were lost on the
French coast near Calais by fierce
gale on tine tn.
ANOTHER terrible massacre of Chris
tian Chinese has occurred at Tien Tsin
The report of the defeat of the Man
churla rebels is fully confirmed
TIE boiler in Houston's sawmil a
Collingsville, Tenn, exploded, instant.
ly killing John Smith, the engineer
and Ed Downs and destroying the en-
tire plant. Loss, $1,000.
TIE latest theory in regard to the
New York dynamiter is that the dead
man was Prof" Denton, crank
Southworth, his alleged accomplice
has been held for examination as to hi;
sanity.
FoUR men were killed and about
twenty injured by an accident on the
Memphis road near West Plains, No,
ADM BELKNAP, commander of the
United States squadron in Japanese
waters, has sent to America an u-gcnt
appeal for assistance for the sufferers
by the recent great earthquake.