The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-03-12

ington has been officially notified
that an international Congress of geoa.
raphy will he held Fat Tc,nc from
August 10 to 10 next,
tT was stated that the total number
of sheep in the country was i3431, 13d
against ~, 800, orr IN 1890, and consc-
quently the wool clip would he 5,OOO,-
900 pounds less than last year. when it
was 2T6, 100000 pounds.
THE two little children of George
White were burned to death in their
home at New Limerick, Me-. during the
absence of their parents.
EVA BLOCH, a yonng Polish girl
hanged herself in room in the Union
depot at Pittsburgh, Pa A note was
found in her purse saYng that she com
mitted suicide becat;le she did not stay
in her native land.
A FIRE at Wellstowu, O., destroyed
ten business houses
4 CYCLONE which struck the region
ii Newport, Attala county, Miss, made
a clean sweep of houses, barns and
trees, and two colored persons--a
woman and boy-were killed
A MEXICAN woman and her five chill
IL
T., while endcavoring to cross the Gila
| river on raft.
THE verified population of the United
States in 1890 is shown to be 62 G12 go.
QUITE severe earthquake shock was
felt In Tacoma, Seattle and several
other places in the state of Washing.
ton.
THE census office announced the pop
hlatioh of Texas by races as follows!
| Whites. l,T4l.l90: colored, 492. .S3I: In
dians, 7G6; Chinese, 727; Japanese, 3;
total, 2,233, 532.
LENA CuNNINGuAM Of Rochester, ~
Y, threw vitriol into the face of her
sleeping sister and the latter was ter
ribly burned. Jealousy prompted the
deed.
A MAN named Fowler was killed in
Faulkner county, Ark, by the acci-
dental discharge of gun, and one of
his sons was drowned in trying to Sc
cure the body.
A LONGTIME quarrel between DR..
George j. Garrison and DR.. George
Baird, prominent citizens Of Wheeling,
w. Va, resulted in the fatal shooting
of the latter.
A PASSENGER train on the Santa Fc
road was dcrailed near Havana, ILL.,,
and destroyed by fire. Nine persons
were injured and James Sadler. the
fireman, was killed.
The drumhcad of the steamer Buck
eye State exploded when opposite Pat
riot, Ind, and james Jones. Ash
Wheelock and Sam Hamilton were
fatally scalded.
FIVE members of the family of Chris
Weinberg, of Ida county, Ia, have died
of trichinosis.
HANNAH WILLIAMS, aged 7c, and her
son David, aged 80, were found dead in
their house ut Philadelphia. They
were misers, worth S15,ODO, and had
starved themselves to death.
A NEGRO named William was given
800 lashes on the bare back near
WILLIAMSON, S. c., for an attempt to
assault white woman.
H. L. SIMMONS, of Lexington. KY,
lost by death the stallion Ferguson, II
years old. and valued at $4,000.
Mrs. SARAH BELKNAr. of Darden,
Tenn. killed her two little daughters
and then took her own life. No cause
was known 1Or the crime.
The Cumberland river was doing
considerable damage at Nashville,
Tenn, and vicinity, and 800 people had
been driven from their homes.
In a fit of jealousy John Dirsshere. Il
hotel keeper at Batesyille, Ind, shot
his wife seriously, killed his little
daughter and then took his own life.
STEAMERS landed or immigrants in
New York on the 7th.
The worst blizzard of the season pre-
vailed in Iowa, Minnesota and Ne
braska on the sth, and railroad travel
was suspended on many lines.
HARRY NJ. CRAWFORD IL commercial
traveller aged "a, was sentenced at
RondOut y. u, to five years in Clinton
prison for bigamy. He had three wives.
NEAR Shaftsburg, Mich. William Me-
Laughlin and his son were instantly
killed and Mrs. Mclaughlin fatally in
jured by a Grand Trunk passenger
train
AT Lexington, Oklahoma, Brandon and
other Mississippi towns great damage
was done by floods, many houses and
outbuilding were washed away and sew
eral persons were injured.
THE resignation of John G. Mac
Gregor, chief of the customs division in
the treasury department at Washington
was reported. MacGregor had held the
position since 1885.
GOLD was said to have been found or
the farm of John Milman, Of Hen
bricks county, Ind.
IT was reported at Seattle, Wash
that the steamer Buckeye went dowr
in Puget sound between Edmunds anC
Apple Tree Cove with twenty passen
gers
AT the leading clearinghouse in til,
United States the exchanges during tn,
week ended on the 7th aggregated
Sl,O7s, 1O3, 7O5, against 1865, ,O36, 734 tn,
previous week. AS compared with tn,
amounted TO l.3.
THE printing house of Gibson, Miller
; & Richardson at Omaha, Neb., was de
stroyed by fire, causing loss of slOO,
600. .
EIGHTEEN sacks of letters and thirty
five sacks of newspapers bound ives
in a baggage car on the New Yorl
Central road were burned near Cranes
vile, n. Y,
GEORGE REESE, aged II, and Alber
Weeks, aged Ii, We're killed on the rail
at Penn Haven, Pa, by an expires
train.
DAVIS SEARBURY and two brother
named Vanwormer, Hudson river fish
, ermen, We're drowned near Albany, N. Y
THE visible supply Of grain in tn