The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1892-02-25
JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI, THURSDAY rs,

with United States silver until the free
coinage question 10 settled by congress.
The New York city banks now hold
$40, s57, $50 In excess Of the requirements
Of the % per cent rule.
AARON HAMACHER, q keeper in the
state prison at Jackson, Mich, convict
ed of furnishing clothing to several
prisoners and assisting them to escape,
has been sentenced to seven years i'm
prisonment--the full limit Of the law.
THE man found dead beside the rail-
road track at Braidwood, ILL.,, on the
Goth, proves to be Albert M. Howard,
Of Schenectady, N. Y. He was on his
way TO Colorado Springs, Col. At the
inquest It was shown he was blown of
the train while going from the sleeper
to the dining car. Howard was past
commander and prelate Of Brown Post,
q. A. R., of Schenectady, TO which
place his body was sent.
The ice gorge reached Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 2lst, about daylight and
caused rise Of three feesfn an hour,
but the ice was badly broken by its
journey, and IL passed down the Ohio
river without doing any damage.
GEORGE HUDSON was acquitted at
Rolla, Mo-, on the 21st, of the charge Of
numbering DIR. Howard in 1886. The
verdict also exonerates Peter E. Blow,
Of st. Louis, of the insinuation that he
had procured the killing of Howard.
FIVE THOUSAND people Of both sexes
killed 200 wolves and 1000 jack rabbits
in Crawford and Bourbon counties,
Kas., on the 2oth. One man was ia
tally bitten.
NEAR Wheeling, w. Va, Baltimore
& Ohio locomotive, thrown from tho
track by bowlder, on the a1st, tore
itself loose from the train and plunged
down q ravine, leaving the passengers
safe.
DIR. ]. r. CRAWFORD, well-known
dentist of Haverstraw, N. Y, disap-
peared from his home, on the slst,
leaving note to his wife saying he
would not return and that his body
would not be recovered. He was last
seen walking toward the dynamite
works.
THE man who tried to rob the Amer
lean express car on the New York Cen
trail on the night of the 21st, has
been identified by j. Is. Prentiss, agent
of the express company at Rochester.
N. Y, as Perry, who committed the
| robbery on an express car near Utica
several months ago.
The Russian student Kotchurikin,
who made a murderous assault on the
governor of Kazan last January, has
been sentenced to be hanged. His ac-
complice, a boy named Akhangetsky,
was sentenced to fifteen years penal
servitude in the mines.
| JOHN GILMARY SHEA, the well-known
lrish-American author, died at his
home in Elizabeth, N. j., on the 22d.
He was 81 years old. His principal
work was "Iiistory of the Catholic
Church in the United States"
AT q tenement-house fire in Now
York, on the 22d, a panic-stricken
mother wrapped her babe in bed cloth.
ing and threw 1t from the window.
The little one was caught by fireman,
but was mortally hurt.
THERE had been no railway commu
nication between Constantinople and
western Europe for several days, up tc
the ED, owing to heavy inundation'
which swept away the tracks ant
bridges In many places.
A MRS. ROBERT REINs, living few
miles from Seligrnan, Mo-, across the
Arkansas state line, is charged will
having poured coal oil over her 3-year
old stepson and burned him to death.
The Brazilian government has taker
energetic measures to suppress the lat
est revolt In Bio Grande do Sui.