The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1892-01-07


1T is said that flaw has been discov.
cred in the title to the land upon which
the town of Avalon is built, and the
citizens are not certain if they owh
their homes or not
h, NJ. THOMPSON has been appointed
oil inspector at Columbia, and A. T.
Fleischmann, of Sedalia, and A. r. Ed
monds, of Miami, members of the Mis-
souri, board of pharmacy.
HIRAM II. WEsTMoRELAND, a leading
ine-stoek dealer-af Springfield has
made an assignment for the benefit of
creditors. His liabi tiles are estiml lted
at about 500, O,OOO and assets at half that
amount
THE ether day while two sons OF
Edward Dunlany, a farmer residing near
Paris, were skating on a pond, the ice
broke with them and both were
drowned They were aged six and
eight years.
FIRE at St Louis thesother night de-
stroyed sixteen hundred bales Of colt N
in the railroad yards at the foot of
Rutga street The loss is estimated at
$50, 600. The cotton was the property
of The st. Louis Compress Co
THE large warehouse of Scruby Bros +,
dealers in general farming implements,
at Chillicothe, was totally dc stroyed by
fire the other night, entailiug heayy
loss The fire is supposed to have orig
mated from an electric light wire.
The dead body of Judge George W..
McClain was discovered lying in the
open court at the county building in
- a. Al. Il. ~ l..
who had been drinking, is supposed O
have fallen off a high stone wall sur.
rounding the jail. The deceased was
an, old settler OF Buchanan county aud
lived at Wallace.
The saloon at the southeast corner OF
Third and Locust street. Kansas Cit 4,
was the scene of fatal shooting affray
the other afternoon. The victim was
Giuseppi Manchirechni and the sh OF
ing was done by Antonio Slnsons. or
Capiloni, as he is sometimes called.
Manchirechini and Saasone vera pr Am-
inent in the local circles # their race.
The wounded man lived only few
hours Sansane eseapetl,ss
ABOUT three o'clock on New Years
morning Wronl1er's novelty store aul
Mrs. Campbel's millinery establish
ment at Marshall wers totally de.
stroyed by fire The formers loss was
about 81, 900 ami the latter's about 81
-OoO.-a-Ths stocks were well.-iniured.
Mrs. Campbell and family, who were
occupying rloms on the socold floor f.
the building, escaped from front WIN
dow in their night clothes.
AT an early hour the other morLi z
two freight trai IS on the Hannibal ro ID
collided near Wheeling The two en-
| gines went down an embankment aud
the cars were piled in a heap, including
several cars of cattle. The wreck ok
| FIRE and was cJnsumed, Brakeman
Gilmore, Fireman bingham aid .lin-
gineer Busby were killed and Brake
man Bell, Fireman Price and Enginesr
Hammond were ba lily injured. The
accident was the result OF the misread-
ing.of orders by Cond uctor Bozarth
AS DR. j. B. Freeman, OF Livings.
ton county, was returning from visiting
a sick lady at three o'clock the other
morning, while passing through some
heavy timber he was fire at by a man
not ten feet away, the ball grazing his
whislsers II is said that threats had
been made to kill him in orler TO sup
press. his professional evidence in a
case in the circuit court
RoBERT BRowN and Lincoln White,
two shot frers in Keith & Perry's m ne
No Z, near Rich Hill, were killed tine
other night Ia an explosion OF gas and
coal dust, caused by the discharge Of a
blast The miae was severely aam'
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