The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1892-02-11


the seven days ended February num-
befed Sia, compared with sg1 the prevt |
OTIS Week and 800 the corresponding
week Of last year.
bNLf two OF the first twenty bust.
ness centers Of America show decrease
In clearings for the week ended the
4th.
EMrN PAsuA, writing from Msua,
Africa, toiiArhis The stories Of ctuettas
praeticed by slave hunters. He says
that he pursued one hunter for six
days diirinf which lie couated fifty.
ohe bodies OF slaves recently killed.
They were worn to skeletons and the
skulls Of thirty.nine had been beaten
in.
1T was reported from San Antonio,
Tex, that the fugitive Nihilst Padlew.
sjii, found dead there recently, was as.
sassinated by agents Of the czaf.
THE bond1h stock exchange was de.
pressed all iast week because of nd.
verse rumors Americans were gen.
orally lower.
THR Hotel Royal, Sixth avenue. New
York city, burned on the 1th and at a
late hour that night 100 people were
still unaccounted for. Five dead bodies
had been recovered. There were many
thrilling escapes
AT Coal creek the other night the
militia was surrounded by many min.
ers. who opened an ihdiscriminate fir.
ing, hoping TO put the soldiers to flight
They were disappointed; however; as
the troops Returned the fire and the
miners dispersed. Several hundred
shots were fred, but no one was hurt
TWENTY-FIVE customs inspectors at
New York have been removed for ac.
cepting fees, for drunkenness, for dis
courtesy and for other offenses
THE "Kansas City Hummer" plunged
into freight on the morning of the
Tth on the Chicago Il Alton near Cen
tralia, Mo-, AMI three men were killed.
An open switch was the cause.
A PRIVATE dispatch received at New
York from New Orleans stated that
the anti-lot,eryites did not have much
reliance on Morris promise that he
would not try for charter for the
Louisiana lottery. That the aati-lot-
teryites would push the fight to finish
and that 1t was war to the death.
ThB Seattle (Wash.) National Bank
Building Co. has entered suit against
the Western Farm Mortgage & Trust
: Co. for $40, 900 alleged to be due on
bonds placed By the mortgage com.
pany. The total issue of the building
company's bonds was $3.50, 00J, and it is
alleged only S2s, 900 was received.
Tie report of the carrying off of 9
: white girl by Indians in Arizona has
been confirmed.
A MALICIOUS person has been at
work in the larger cemeteries in Now
York defacing the most costly shafts
and blocks with a hammer and chisel
The authorities are on the watch fol
5 him.
: The large iron works OF Haugh
Ketcham & Co. at IIaughville, Ind.
|. were almost completely destroyed b!
: Are the other morning, The company
n was engaged solely in the manufacture
of architectural ironwork and had il
4 the course of construction larg,
j. amount of material for the governmcn
= building at the worlds fair, while con
Q siderable work was under headway fo
|. government and private buildings il
Buffalo. The loss was S150,000; ipsur
:, ance, STs,6O0.
g CHARLES MCILvAINE was electro
i cuted in Sing Sing prison, New Yorl
= on the sth. Two brief shocks wer
IS administered.
It The Romanuel Of Bucharest report
}, that first class carriage attached t.
b an express train bouni for Braila wa
d burned and that eighteen passenger
IS who were asleep when the fire brok
o out perished in the flames, the doors O
the carriage being locked.