The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-06-25


da for $4,000, 600.
THE percentages Of NJ baseball clubs
In the National leaa for the week
ended on the 20t were: New
York, .61T; Chicago, h{2; Boston, 500,
cleveland, 400; BrodNkyn, .4SO; Phil
hdelphia, .46o; Pittsh Bh, 4l3; Cincini
hati, .4Os. The perd htages of clubs
In the American S)ociation wcrei
boston, .642; st. I3ais, GIG; Balti.
more, .600 CinciDpat 300; Columbus,
.4oI; Athletic, .4oiS louisville, 1893;
Washington, 226.
Ar the leading elc4 ng-houses in the
United States the extpAnges during the
week ended on th4 20th aggregated
81, 02O, 913, 5S2, againsE 1907, a61. .3Os the
previous week. "A dbznparei with the
corresponding weelrd 1880 the decrease
amounted to t1.2. HJM
AN excursion trfi}sof fifteen cars
which left Clevelaf pn the Nickel
Plate railway jumped the track near
Dover, o., and seven cars were wrecked,
killing seven men and injuring fifty
other persons, twelve probably fatally.
ANOTHER embezz 'cment of 1924, 900 of
state funds by John Bardsley, ex-city
treasurer of Philadelphia, has been dis
covered, making grand total of SGJ9-
900 stolen.
For years Mrs. Margaret Kchoe. of
Everson, Pa, had saved her money
Her affections ran to $40 gold pieces,
and her hoard footed up So, 900, when it
was stolen by some person unknown.
A CYCLONE at Cairo, ILL.,, did consid-
cradle damage, unroofng great many
houses, tearing up trees by the roots
and blowing cars off the railroad tracks.
A MAN named Granodo was hanged
at Solomonville, A. T., for the murder
of his wife and daughter.
A CYCLONE passed over Nokomis, H.,
hnroofing houses and barns and damag-
ing orchards. Crops were seriously in
jured
THE six soldiers on trial at Walla
Walla, Wash, for the lynching of A. }.
Hunt were acquitted.
A DESTRUCTIVE cyclone passed 10
miles southeast of Etiingham, H., car
fying houses, barns, fences and grow
ing crops before it.
THE southeastern corner of Kansas
was visited by terrible storms, causing
some loss of life, much damage to
property and enormous damage to
growing crops.
THREE servant girls-Jcnne Gross
man, Katie Keefc and Agnes Sears-oc-
cupying the same room in New York,
were suifocated by blowing out the gas
SEVEN colored persons employed AS
berry pickers on a farm in Anne Arun-
del county, Md, were drowned 10y the
capsizing of a boat in Curtis creek.
In Kentucky tornado at Lewisport
destroyed several houses and the
Methodist church and killed George
Ray. At Boaz several small houses
were blown away. At Bcvier seven
houses were wrecked and four persons
! injured. one, aslMrs.sMiller, fatally. AT
Campbellsburg several houses were de-
stroyed.
Two NEGRO men were shot and fatal
ly wounded near Rome, Ga, by Dr. II.
w. Clayton, who was insane.
In fracas at Winston, n. c., John
Smith and Mary Coins were killed by
unknown persons.
THE eighth American Derby was run
at Washington Park, Chicago, and won
by Strathmeath. Distance, | niles;
time, 2:49>1; purse, S2l, 500.
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 22d was: Wheat,
l4,657,217 bushels; corn, AIS, 293 bush
els; oats 4,02S, 1872.
CAPTAINS LAWYER and Andrews
started from Boston on the 22d for II
race across the Atlantic ocean in l5-foot
| fu f,,,. 90 (
PENNSYLVANIA expended 81, ,o20.22 in
suppressing the recent riots in the coke
region.
WALTER G. SHAW, of Beverly, Mass,
in a fit of anger at his daughter shot
her and two young men, who were
boarders, probably fatally, and then
killed himself to avoid arrest
JOSEPH DEMoElTT, 10 years old, of
| Key West, Fla, murdered his father for
| having accused him of stealing SO.
| THE Florence national bank at Flor
ence, Ala, and Sax Brothers savings
bank at Nashville, Tenn, have failed,
the latter with liabilities of S6Oo oOJO.
ELIZABETH McVEY, of Rosehill Ind,
who was suffering with some unknown
disease of the stomach, had on the 22d
gone forty days withou taking nour-
ijhment of any kind.
AT Washington, Pa, John McKeown,
Walter Jones and John Chanlis, boys
from to IS years old were drowned
while bathing, the two former in trying
to save the latter.
NINETEEN head of horses were burned
at w. IL. Moreheads livery stable in
| Chicago.
AT convict camp at Cole City, Ga,
the prisoners attempted to escape, re-
sulting in the death of two guards ant
two convicts.
Mrs. j. ELY KELLOGG, a prominent
society lady Of Kalamazoo Mich, com
mitted suicide. Loss of money was tn,
cause.
A FIRE in the Border City mills al
Fall River, Mass, did about $4,000
damage.
MANY valuable manuscripts have
been stolen from the New York stat,
archives, among them several colonia
documents
A TORNADO in southern Kentucky de
stroyed about fifty farm houses and die
great damage to crops.
A FIRE at jefferson, Tex, destroyed
one of the principal business blocks.
WILLIAM CALDWELL, of Houston
Tex, has been sentenced to hang Jul,
81 for the murder of DR.. Shamlin
whom he shot while he was realm!
his Bible.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
OHIO republicans in convention a
| colnmhu nnminated the following