The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1892-03-24

THE worlds conference of Mormons
Is to be held in Independence, Mo-,
April @.
The whisky trust officials filed mo-
tions TO quash indictments against
them.
IVES has beat Schaefer and won the
worlds championship at billiards.
PRESIDENT OAKEs, of the Northern
Pacific, has denied that his road was
In any way connected with the Chicago
boodling scandal. He speaks of the al.
legged bribery of the Chicago council
by the Northern Pacific as ''gross exag-
geration, nnd not only that but an alb
surdity."
THE president has approved the most
urgent deficiency bill; the act in re-
gard to Arizona's exhibit at the worlds
/ Columbian exposition and the agricult-
/ ural appropriation bill.
The comptroller Of the currency has
declared first dividend Of 5 per cent.
in favor of the creditors of the Chey-
enne national bank, Of Cheyenne,
Wyo, on claims proved, amounting to
S24s,s ,s42.
PREPARATIONS are being made for the
great naval display in 1898.
TIE Big Four will run trains be.
tween St Louis and Chicago. utilizing
the Chicago & Eastern Illinois from
Shelbyvile.
THE Canadian Pacific has given
notice that it will build a second line
across the Rockies, utilizing Crows
Nest Pas for that purpose.
= hoe haap 10 oiyn1 nt Wash.
ington from the Italian director OF
posts inc osing $50 confederate note
and asking, If it was still valid, that il
be redeemed and transmitted to him
by money order.
THURMAN DwYER will be stakeholder
in the SulivanCorbett match.
THERE have been received by the Ar
gentine republic forty-cight krupp fielt
pieces with 5000 proiectiles. Eigh
batteries of mounted guns will be re
ccved shortly.
GREAT anxiety is felt throughout Tho
Indiana belt for fear of the exhaustion
of natural gas, at least for manufactur
ing purposes. The big window-glas'
works at Spiceland, in Randolph coun
ty, have been compelled to shut dowr
on account of total failure of tie ga
supply. New wells recently drilled il
that field did not materially increase
the supply, and the old wells failing
their shut down became necessary.
SEVEN Chicago aldermen were in
dicted on the 2lst for corruption il
office.
THE Standard Oil trust has formally
dissolved.
THE St Louis Methodist Episcopa
conference has protested against legis
lation to exclude the Chinese from thi
country
ARTHUR GoRING THOMAS, the wei
known writer OF operas, committed
suicide in London on the 21st by throw
ing himself in front of u traiu on tn
Metropolitan railway.
THIRTEEN boys, all under Is years O
age, were arrested in Chicago bu Ike
shop and pool room recently.
MINNIE JOHNSON, an Indiana femal
convict, has confessed that she set fir,
To the Indiana woman's reformator.
March /, because separated from Pats,
Williams. colored female convict.
Mrs SARAH ALTHEA TERRY, since he
, incorporation in the asylum, has bee
l very violent and leads her attendant
5 a life of misery. Refusing to conforr
to the asylum rules and discipline,
l was recently necessary to use som
, force with her, and she became so II
fractory that she has since been put i
S straight jacket.
: IT Is reported that Molten, EIerrar
and Gueyerand, directors of tn
n Banque des Chemins de Fer ct II
= dustrc of Paris, which failed tn
Y other day, fled to America.