The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-10-08
THE Farmers Voice counsels holding


TERRIBLE forest fires have been rag
ing for over week in L dorado corn-
ty, CAL, and moro than forty square
miles of country have been burned
over.
INDIAN AGENT COLE, who went to tho
scene of the reported Indian trouble in
the Calispel valley, in Idaho, says there
was no trouble, but that greedy whites
were trying to dispossess the Indians
Of their lands.
THE boiler Of tho tug c. w. Parker
exploded at Chicago. At least seven
persons were killed and ten injured.
BY an explosion in Richardson
collicry, Potsville, Pa, John Magaslsy
a Polander, was killed and James
Grant and Thomas Conville seriously
injured Six other men were cntombed.
There was no hope of recovering them
alive.
THE president has ordered the return
OF Chong Sam to China, instead of to
Canada, unless habcas corpus proceed
ings were Immediately instituted.
FIFTY houses were destroyed by a
dynamite explosion at Butte, Mont
Many persons were injured.
THE exhibition of the holy coat at
Trcves was closed On the 4ih. bishop
| Korum pronounced the bencdiction.
Many aristocrats were present, in
cluding an Austrian archduchcss and
the Duke and Duchess Paul of Neck
lenburg-Schwerin The total number
of pilgrims who viewed the coat was
1923, 1870.
The bodies of Horace IIamlin and his
three children were founl floating in
the bay at Corpus Christi, Tex.
Whether he had drowned himself. and
the children or it was an accident will
never be known.
ELEVATOR A, belonging to the Balti-
moro & Ohio at Baltimore, Md, has
been destroyed by fire.
JOHN Crow and Sam Wheeler, both
colored men in jail at Princeton, Ky,
were recently aoggcd on the bare back
at the whipping posi- for stealing a
turkey.
THE Alabama oyster law test case
has been decided by Judge Scmmes on
habeas corpus proceedings. The judge
decided that prohibition was unconsti.
tulionul as violative of the freedom of
| Interstate commerce.
AN American named John II Parton
reports massacre of 200 persons by
Indians in the state of lIidalgo. Mexico
AT the funeral of Nicholas Hemstret
at Des Moines, Ia, a series of runaways
occurred One man was killed outright
and four fatally injured
THE seizure of Canadian schooner
for having irregular papers in Behring
sea is liable to cause diplomatic con-
troversy.
ABURNING bomb was recently found
in the bishops palace at Trieste, Hun
gary.
FoUR tramps were drowned in the
river at Memphis They were in box
cars which were being ferricd across
and which slipped off into the water.
A TENEMENT house at Dominicls and
Hudson streets, New York, was de-
stroyed by fire on the morning of the
9Th. Five lives were lost. A peculiar
circumstance was that four of the vic
time belonged to Matthew Murphy, q
member of the fire department, who ar
rived with ladder truck to find his
own dwelling in flames.
A BOILER of the Tudor iron works,
East st. Louis, exploded the other
morning, wrecling the boiler house
and fatally scalding John Thouse, fire
man, and George Webster.
THE famine in Poland is growing
worse. Workmen paraded the streets
of Zawirke and looted the baker shops.
Troops were summoned to the scene
and fred upon the mob, killing one
workman and wounding several others.