The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-04-02
Croner uAnnts. Of Newbur,. Mo-,

adjudged insane. ~
THE California Legislature has ad-
journed sine die. Before adjournment
8O5 bills were passed by both branches
and sent to the governor.
JACK KENNEDY, millman ut Eliza
beth, n. j., devoured fifty fried eggs in
ten minutes for bet of $50. s
BUSINESS throughout the country was
said to be quiet, but crops were re-
ported to be in an exceptionally good
condition. "a
The application of Ohio for Der share
of the direct tax, 81 1889, ,O25, has been
received at Washington. af
JUDGE TuTmILL granted o motion
for new trial for George Hathaway,
convicted in Chicago of the murder of
ex-Alderman Whclan and sentenced to
imprisonment for life. g.
FIRE at Camden, n. j., destroyed the
depot, ferry slips and housesiand eight
cen passenger cars of the=Philadelphi
road. causing Ia ;.oys oi 5000
LESLIE ELLIS, of Bangor, Me-, on a
wager drained Il quart bottle of whisky
without taking the bottle from his lips
and died in short time.
Ar Little Rock, Ark, fire wiped out
some of the most imposing buildings
on the principal business street. Loss,
500, 900.
AT Praire du Chicn. Wis, u yonug
son of A. Niclcrson and u son of Mr..
IIarget, each aged IA, died suddenly of
nicotine poisoning after smoking Gig
arett"s to excess.
Louis MONDAY and William Hall
were killed by a premature blast at
Gheen,s quarry near Jetfersonvillc,
Ind.
ENGINEER FRANK Wakes, Fireman
John Ochcs and Frank Myers were
killed in railroad wreck on the Phil
adelphia road near Ashland. Pa.
A SENSATION was caused at the treas
ury department in Washington by the
discovery of counterfeit two-dollar
silver certificate so nearly perfect in all
its parts as to be almost impossible of
detection.
THE Charles Rohr Company's pack
ing-house at Baltimore, Md, was de-
stroyed by fire, causing loss of 500, 600.
ELRop HUDSON and Jeff Dinsmore,
the two negroes who burn n portion
of Russellville, Ala, wer ken from
Jail by mob and hanged.
GEN. JoHN w. FOSTER, special envoy
of the United States to spain, is conf
dent that he will succeed in negotiat-
ing favorable reciprocity treaty.
DIRECTOR OF THE MINT LEACH said
in Washington that after July next il
was probable no more silver dollars
would be coined, but silver certificates
printed instead.
AT the leading clearinghouse in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 2Sth aggregated
$50, 055, 800, against Sl,032. 42S,G60 the
previous week AS compared with the
corresponding week of 1890 the decrease
amounted to 1872.
II was said that the patent medicine
manufacturers in the country were
com mbining to advance the prices from
25 to 40 per cent.
Til v'sible supply of grain in the
United .ates ON the Both ult was:
Wheat, y, ,745, 2G0 bushels; corn. !,sss,'
O42 bushels: oats, 2,sOS, ,o21 bushels.
Ar Sumptcr, 5. c., George Elliott
tloggcd his wife, and his mothrr-in-law
coming on the scene drove the blade OF
a hatchct into Elliott's skull.
THE foreman of a gang of Italian
railroad laborers in West Virginia was
killed by the men for saying the citi
zcns of New Orleans did right to lyncl
the Malta.
A COMET with tail II minutes
long was discovered by Prof. Il. +
barnard at Lick observatory in Sar
Francisco. This made the fifteenth
comet discovered by this observer.
A sEvEN-DAYs' sleep-fastlng contes
began in Detroit on the SOth ult. at
o'clock p. m. There were six con
testnnts.
\ PoNTooN bridge was swept ava,
at st. Charles, Mo-, and five men wer'
drowned. They were John Coleman
: Fritz Weeks, Louis Robinson, Jane
Spark and John Enoch.
WHITE CAPS assaulted a man named
Baker at Fairland, Ind, and whipped
him numerically.
GEN. CHARLES A. JOHNSON, a retire'
army officer, who served in the Mex
lean and civil wars, committed suicid
: at New Haven, Conn.
JAMES c. YOUNG, OF kenosha, Wis.
22years of age, who had been an invet
crate cigarette smoker for two years
averaging four packages u day, has be
come raving maniac.
AT Mobile, Ala, the worlds hall
mile walking record was broken b.
Henry q. KlinlS, Jr., the present cham
) pion one-mile walker of the world
Klink did the half mile in minute
and 55 seconds. The previous recor
: was minutes 1874 seconds.
NINE Apache Indians have been al
Y rested at San Carlos, A. T., for CON
p'icity in recent depredations.
FATHER CRAFT, the missionary a
Il Pine Ridge agency, has written n lette
r in which he stated that unless the Ii
I dians were placed under control of tn
war department there would be al
II other uprising.
The house of John Ankney nea
g Sycamore, o., was blown up by dyni
n mite, and the members of his famil
were more or less severely injured.
q STRIKERS attacked Tricks coke work
at Morewood, Pa, demolishing severe
s coke ovens and destroying other proI
erty.
PHILIP SLATTERY, a farmer livin
Il near Peoria, ILL.,, has discovered ric
J. lead of silver ore.
S PETER ESDRIs, Floyd county Qnd
farmer, had $1,000 in the Schwart
o bank of Louisville, KY, when it faiet
o The news of his loss caused paralyti
% stroke from which he died.
o FOURTEEN persons in an audience a
l. tending a school exhibition in Libert,