The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-04-02
Epitome of the Week.
yNlEREsTINo NEWS COMPILATION.
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adian river in the Cherokee strip. Tho |
robbers escaped
4 FIERCE snowStorm in the Texas |
panhandle would result in heavy losses
to cattle men.
A SYNDICATE of Ohio capitalists has
purchased 40, 900 acres of timber lands
in Clay and Nichols counties, Va, at
$40 per acre.
JouN HAZEL and his 1i-ycar-old son
while crossing the Grand Trunk track
in Chicago were struck by an engine
and killed.
u. Ii. MoRRIsoN, deputy clerk of the
Scott county court in Virginia, was
alleged wronfully to have appropriated
so 200 and Gecamped, ..s
ORDERS were issued from Gen. Mer-
ritt's headquarters at st. Louis to be-
gin enlisting Indians in the regular
army. The Indians are to be enlisted
for five years.
II. j. & &. Il. CRUMp, hotel men in
Philadelphia, have asked their credit
ors for an extension of time. Their liza
blitics were S2G0.000.
Ar Willicsbarre. Pa, George w.
Moss was hanged for numbering his
wife; and at Mauch Chunk, Pa, Oliver
W. Stangley was executed for killing
his landlady, Mrs. Sybilla Walbert.
THOMAS IIuNTER, who shot j. A.
Burke at Cumberland Gap, KY, was
forcibly taken from the authorities by
IA mob and hanged to tree.
A ELL to pension confederate. dis
ablcd soldiers and the INDECENT widows
of confederate veterans has passed the
Ark; legislature.
Al second trial of Daniel Drew of
LafaS cute, Ind, for the murder of John
Mackcssy, the prisoner was acquitted.
A LONE highwayman held up the
stage between Comfort and Frcdericks-
burg, Tex. but secured less than four
dollars.
W. d. DowELL, state treasurer of the
Arkansas Farmers Alliance, was
bunkoed out of 49, 900 at Fayetteville
by three sharpers.
Ar lIazleton, Pa, Millic Capecc. IL
iG-ycar-oId girl, shot herself through
the heart with revolver rather than
marry an old man, the choice of her
parents.
REPORTS that Italians employed on
the Pittsburgh, Ohio Valley & Cincin-
natl railroad were drilling under arms
were fully verified.
FIRE on the lumber docks of lIovcy
& McCracllen ut Muskcgon, Mich, con-
sumed 1,500, 600 feet of Ehite-pine lum-
| Der
A KEG of powder exploded in Rulcy's
grocery store at Madisonvillc. Ky, and
j. Il, Stewart, IL clerk, and ID. \. Bon
| durant were fatally injured.
TIE Maine legislature passed II bill
providing for $500 fine or two years i'm
prisonmcnt for preventing by intimida'
ton or force any person from entering
| or remaining in any mans employ.
| THE St Louis stamping Company
has begun the erection of the first tim
plate works in this country. The
capacity will be between 400 and 300
boxes Il day.
Miss SopuIA G. HAYDEN and Miss
Louisia Howe. both of Boston, were
awarded first and second prizes for de-
signs for the woman's building at the
worlds fair
ABoUr onc-half of the 2i,0O0 people
in Wallace county, Kan, were said 10
be in destitute condition.
GOV. pATTIsoN. of Pennsylvania, has
designated Friday, April 10. and Friday
May /, to be observed as ArbOr days
Is the nited States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the eth numbered 256, against ~
the preceding week and ~ for the cor
responding week last year,
Il ,,,.t- 1,, IL
Kansas share of the direct tax fund
amounting to SG0,9S!.
PRESIDENT GAGE and the worlds fai
board of directors in Chicago have com
pleted the term of Office for which the,
were elected. In his valcdictory ad
dress President Gage reviewed th
work accomplished by the board, gav'
Il synopsis of the financial status of th'
exposition and drew picture of tn
future strong with assurance of success
CHARLES ELLIOTT, who was occupy
ing box in II thcater at Spokane Falls
Wash, drew a revolver and fire.
several shots at the performers, killing
Mabel Debabian and Carrie Smith, AM
then shot himself. Jealousy was tn
cause.
A PASSENGER train IN the Chesapeake
& Ohio road was consumed by fire re
sulting from wreck at Charleston
w. Va. Several persons were slight.
injured.
The first anniversary of the great cy
clone in Louisville, KY, by which sew
enty-siX lives were lost and propert
valued at 81, $50, 900 was destroyed, wa
observed in that city on the 27th.
HILL liuDGlNs, aged 22 years, arreste
at Paris, Tex, was charged with fou
murders committed during the las
year
OVER foot of snow fell on the 27t
in portions of Maryland and Virginia.
A WRECK occurred on the Readin
road near Ashland, Pa, and three me
were killed and three injured.
Two MEN and n woman were burne
to death in hotel at Austin, Pa.
THE Norwegian bark Dictator wa
wrecked off the coast of Virginia an
eight lives were lost.
THEODORE THOMAS has been selecte
ms musical director and William L. Ton
Inns as choral director of the world
fair.
Miss ZOE GAYToN, the actress, wh
on August ~ last left San Francisco
reach New York afoot inside of ..
days on wager of $1,000, walked int
the Grand Central depot on the 27tl
She had accomplished the distance
2l3 days
THE National Editorial associatio
will meet in st, Paul July II to IS.
Mrs. EDGAR w. HAssLER, of Pitt