The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-07-09

kiled'by lightning Ia 81. fnrs's coun.
", Md, nnd five men ind4 Heath In the
same manner at Fernandits, Fla.
W, +. BAKE, the. .icad{,ig hardware
dealer at Fort Worth, Te has failed
for s25O,00 X
Four blocks of buildings at La.
grandc, Ore, were burnes the loss be-
ing s125, 900.
FOURTEEN persons wey1 killed and
fifty-eight injured several fatally, by
the two rear coaches 0X an express
train plunging through a8restle S5 feet
high at Farm, W. Va,
HENRY HARMS, bf Qulncy, NIihn.,
who had slept almost i1ces sanity for
sixteen years, awoke frdri his slumbcrs
on the 4tb. XII
MAssAchusErr's new isw regulating
drunkenness has gone tlts effect. 1t
provides that q person. arrested more
than twice for drunkenn5.s in year
shall be sent to prison for Ihe third Of
fense.
THE Chiliau transport Itata and the
United States cruiser Charleston ar
rived at San Diego, Cal, from Iquique.
In n balloon accident at New Lisbon,
o., William Hcnncssy and G. j. Jones
were killed, and at Elyria, o., Mile,
zoetta Bentley fell from balloon and
was dashed to pieces.
WHITE and negro miners at Sumter,
Ala, quarrelcd and in the row which
followed one negro was killed and five
others fatally injured.
7 A BULLETIN from the census office
gives the population of Nevada at 49,.
78i, decrease of 1896 since 1850.
The population of Idaho is shown to
be "a, 3s5, which is ain increase during
the decade of 5l.T75.
IN the tnitei States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
The Sd numbered 237. against PA
the preceding week and l9g for the COR
responding week last year.
THREE children Of James Curran, of
Bird Island, Mimi, were poisoned by
eating some roots they found on the
prairie.
THE fast express train on the New
York, Lake Erie & Western railway
was run into while standing at the de.
pot at Ravenna, O., by fast freight
train and nineteen persons were killed
and twcnty-three badly injured Care
lessness of a brakeman was the cause
THE exports of specie from the port
of New Y Yorlk during the six days ended
on the 3D. amounted to $2,s39, OO5, of
which S5,s22, 700 was gold and Sl6, 305
silver.
CHARLES STAFFOID, n farmer living
near Napiersvillc, H., lost sixteen
head of cattle by one stroke of light
ming.
MAGGIE ZABLE, of Shclbyville. Ind,
killed herself because of hopeless love
for Henry Cowein.
Two YOUNG men named Kane, of
Roseville, ILL.,. ard Thomas, of Gales.
burg, ILL.,, were drowned while boat
riding at Lake George, near Galesburg
FLAMES in w. 4. Harvey's lumber
yard at Columbus, Ga, cause loss of
800, 200.
ELI MULIINAX, a noted horse thief,
shot and killed John johnson and his
son at Lakeside, Minn. johnson was
a prominent farmer.
Mrs. JANE DAVIS died of starvation
at Kansas City, Mo. She had 81, 800 in
a local bank, but refused to draw any
of the money to supply her present
needs.
HENRY c. ADAMS, treasurer of the
fund for the relief of disabled Univer-
salist ministers, was arrested at New
York charged with deficit of $l7,7OO
in his accounts.
]. d. SHAW, editor of the Bishopvillc
Is. CO. Eagle, was killed at a picnic
while trying to quell row among some
drunken rowdies.
CAPTAIN LUTHER MARTIN, of Bruins
wick, Ga, drowned himself at the same
point where his wife committed suicide
ten years ago in like manner
f. 0. FYFFE was sentenced at Fair
Play, Col, to thirty years imprison-
ment'for the killing of A. c. Scribner
on April "a.
CYCLONE at Baton Rouge, La, de-
molished one of the penitcntiary build
ings, killing ten convicts and injuring
thirty-five, five fatally. In the city
fifty houses were unroofcd and a num-
Der of persons hurt.
CROPS were suffering seriously from
drought near Jcffersonvillc, Ind, and
several fields of wheat had been de-
stroyed by fire.
AT Altus, Ark, twelve persons were
poisoned at picnic, four fatally.
IT was reported that all the barbed
wire interests of the country had been
merged into trust to be known as the
Columbia Patent Company.
The press mill of the Moosic Powder
Company at Jcrnyn, Pa, exploded,
killing two men.
JAMES j. SLoCUM, who murdered his
wife in New York ON December 81,
1889, was taken from his cell in Sing
Sing IN. W prison and executed by
electricity.
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 9th was: Wheat,
IL, $50, ,G01 bushels; corn, 4,020,2 BUSH
els; oats, 4,5G3,3l0.
Two WHITE men and two Indians
desert, California. An attempt was
being made to arrest the Indians for
burning haystacks.
The Gank of Moses Brothers at Mont
gomery, Ala, suspended payment, with
liabilities of S500,0O0.
The grading for the site of the
worlds fair buildings in Chicago has
been finished, and work has begun on
the buildings.
MRS. HANS YEPsoN and her 14year-
old boy Louis were drowned in the
Little Beaver creek miles south Of
Fort Morgan, Col.
EIGHTEEN Mormon missionaries left
New York for Europe, their object be-
ing to make converts for the Mormon
church in Utah. They will remain