The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-12-17
JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, DECEMBER H. 1891

BURTON FORD, nPeu 10 years, Of
Crystal, Mich, Is missing and is be-
| lieved to have been kidnapped.
DETAILS Of the quadruplo murder
near New Smyrns, Fla, show that the
crime was most horrible one all the
victims being shot aud beaten and their
throats cut. There II fear that n nth
person was killed
EURorEs stock markets were rather
firm last week. London is waiting on
| New York TO push American railroad
securities.
VtsrnyMEN OF Protestant Anglicnn
church nt Ncwry, Ireland, seized the
communion cloth during services aud
cut ont and burned the letters ~. II. s."
embroidered on IL The rector resisted
| In vain.
THE Illinois club, OF Chicago, held n
largo meeting against the Garfield race
track iniquity Editor Carter Harrison
and prominent clergSmcn were the
speakers ~,
BUSINESS In the Havana sugar mar
kct during the week was restricted ow-
ing TO the fact that the prices asked by
holders were too high for buyers and
the sales made were In significant
A BARN on the dairy farm OF Jacob
Kicker, near Loclshavcn, Pa was
burned with It's contents, including
seventeen cows five horses, three colts,
700 bushels of wheat, forty tons of hay
and l., 800 bushels OF corn.
THE kenova bridge Of the Norfoll, &
Western Railroad Co., which Is the first
crossing Of the Ohio river above Gin
cipnnti, has been opened for traffic
THE London advisory board OF Vir-
gipia state debt bpndholdcrs have de-
clined to recommend that holders nc.
ccpt the American committees scheme
for the settlement Of claims against
Virginia Holders representing So
900, 900 will, however accept
THE British ship Entcrhin, Capt Sin
clair, bound from Hull, England, for
| brisbane, Australia, WINS driven upon
the Gallopers, south Of the port of
RnmsRate Thirty lives were lost,
every person on board except an up-
prentice boy being drowned.
THE head of the Russell Sage dynn-
inter was examined in New York and
the Filings OF the teeth were found to
correspond to those Of r.orcross, Of
Boston. There is little doubt now
that the note broker was the man.
Two gamekcepcrs on the estate of
Lord Brownlow at Ailesbury, county
IIuchs, England, have been found muir
dcrcd 1t was the general opinion that
they were killed by prachers.
THE north bound passenger train on
the Santa Fe, en- route to Kansas City,
was badly wrecked near Paul's Valley,
Tex Many passengers were injured.
T. MORROW, United States engineer
In charge OF tho Ohio river and all its
navigable tributaries, dropped dead on
an Ohio e Mississippi river train near
Edgehcld ILL.,, while en- route to Shaw
nectown on business.
COMMISSIONER LANE, OF the depart
II ent OF agriculture, has issued n cir
cular calling n convention for the pur-
pose of considering the practicnbiiity
of reducing the acreage oC cotton in
the south. lie names the city of Mont
Romcry, Ala, ms tho most suitable
place and Wednesday, January Il, ;>D2,
as the time.
j. ID. CorEAu, general freight aud
passenger agent OF the Monterey n
Mexican Gulf rond, says the drought in
Mexico has caused such dislrcss that
appeals for aid have been sent ont from
various points In the states Of Durango,
Coahuita, Nuevn Leon, Tamaulipas aud
san Luis potosi
EDWARD NJ. FIELD, son of Cyrus W.
Field and head OF the dcfunct New
York brokerage firm of Field, Lindlcy,
Wcichcrs & Co, was arrested Mt the
asylum where he was confined, charged
with larceny in the first degree.