The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1892-05-05
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
FERDINAND WARD, the notorious Wall
street swindler, has been released from
Sing Sing prison.
FIRE insurance losses in st. Louis
during the year 1891 amounted to SO, 719,-
ore, and greatly exceeded those of any
previous year.
IMPRESSIVE ceremonies wpre held in
Riverside park, New York, when the
corner stone Of the Grant monument
was laid on the 2Tth. Addresses were
made by President Harrison and Chaun-
coy NJ, Depew. 1t was the seventeen
annIyersary Of the birth Of Gen. Ulysses
y. Grant. L-----.
A PINE that started "a the central
theater in Philadelphia destroyed prop.
erty valued at 81 1000, 900 and injured
over sixty persons in the thcater, some
probably fatally.
BHKr4fg BpsBY, for the murder OF
Deputy United Statss Marshal Barney,
was hanged at Fort Smith, Ark.
The Commercial bank Of St Paul,
Mimi, closed it's doors and temporarily
suspended payment, with liabilities of
81, 900, 900,
The Thompson Houston and Edison
electric companies have formed corr
poration 70 be known as the General
Electric Company, with capital Of
$50, 900, ,O0o,
WIND destroyed 700 feet Of the worlds
fair manufactures building in Chicago,
NEAR Heelyville, Mo-, two men
named holland and Wilkinson fell from
D logging railroad car and wers killed
Mis-. CATHERINE MOORE and Mrs. II.
Alexander lsisters) were burned to
death in o -afe which destroyed the
"pRyuga" Nat building at New York,
pEOHqE WHIIAM CURTIS addressed
the Civil Service Reform league al its
annual meeting in baltimore.
THH village of Chase, Mich, was al
most wiped out Of existence by fire,
RIx members OF the theatrical cons
pany which was performing at the Cen
tral theater In Philadelphia lost their
lives in the fire which destroyed the
building.
AN incendisry fire burned the prin-
cipal business houses in Tchula, Miss.
Ar Gracey, KY, a cyclone wrecked
the Presbyterian church and several
other buildings
The business portion of the town of
Hudson, O.. was destroyed by lre,
Il FOUBnegrocs were lynchcd by a mob
near Goodlettsville, Tenn, two of whom
T 49,. a-d assaulted Moilie and Sadie Bruce.
THE three children OF .. a.. .s,,''''' y ~
were fatally injured by n runaway
horse at Brazil, Ind.
a. - ,..l..
hanged at IInrriston, Miss, April 90,
was said to be alive and at the home OF
relative in Franklin county, After
the execution he was pronounced dead
by three physicians and his body was
turned over 10 his relatives
AT the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the Goth nit aggregated
loss, 019, ,7l0, against S1,043, 1893, 235 the
previous week. The increase as com
pared with the corresponding week Of
1891 was 1870.
THE Arlington and the Germania,
seaside hotels, were burned ut Hull.
Mass.
sGnEkr suffering was reported among
the people Of southwestern Texas,
along the Rio qrande river, owing to
the drought.
THE volume of business throughout
the country was said to surpass all pre-
yious records.
FIRE destroyed half Of the business
portion of Fall River Kan.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS was reelec.
ted president of the National Civil
Service Reform league at the annual
meeting in Baltimore.
rREroRTs FROM all parts Of Illinois in
dicated the crop season to be three
weeks late.
HEAvmY-ARMEp Mexicans, supposed
10 be Cara revolutionists, were invad-
Ing Texas.
dentally suffocatcd by gas in room at
81. Paul, Minn.
CHARLES W. DoERR, prosperous
farmer living near Brownstown. Ind,
was wayiaid and murdered by robbers.
An express train was thrown from
the track by train wreckers near
Myrtle Point, Ore, and the engineer
and fireman seriously hurt Robbery
was supposed 10 have been the object
REy. w. w. DOWNS recovered $500
damages from three memlors OF the
Dowdoin Baptist church OF Boston for
slander.
BECAUSE students at a minstrel per-
formance burlesqued Prof. Dwight T.
Carroll, OF Lehigh university at 1lethle-
ham, Pa, the affair so preyed upon his
mind that he became insane,
ANOTHER earthquake shock occurred
At San Francisco with vibrations north
and south.