The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1892-01-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
rEnsoNAL avn roIIrIcAL.


PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
BRrrIsH conservatives affect TO be-
Heve that the Dublin castle explosion
was the work of fenians. MeCarthvi,es
lay Tito Parnellits adherents.
sEkAroR STEWART, Of Nevada, has
written TO Senator Hill, of New York.
asking him TO define his exact position
on the silver question.
IT was reported from Santiago that
Chilli was ready to do her utmost 70
terminate peacefully the trouble with
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The Rome Messa ero'I q politic6i
newspaper, states thai Sc. Fcrraris5
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that tho Aiarqlfla ~ Rnts n ~ T,fis.ss4
niipister. viii fill the office ad interim.
AN engagement occurred betweeu
United States troops litd aarza,s men
on the Texas Mexico border, but the
result was not known OF the 1st
GOVERNOR HUMPHREY of Kansas has
appointed =ex5Congressmnn Bishop w.
ParlTins United Btaies .scIaior Al siie-
ceed Senator Plumb. The appointment
sswi3l.-isuid until the .nexty ienislature
shall meet In january, 1899,
THE president aud cabinet and their
ladies held the usual New Years re-
ception. There was little out OF the
ordi ary.
IT Is reported that the United States
supreme court has agreed TO render a
decision declaring Governor Boyd of
Nebraska a citizen and entitled to the
Vovernorship.
UNITED STATES CoNsuI. BEpIoE, of
Annoy, China, reports the situation in
the Flowery kingdom as serious Amer
leans were especially warned
Ex-CoNsREssMAN THoMAs h. WARD
died at Plainville, Ind
Tux continued illness Of Archbishop
Kenrick, of St Louis, has caused the
priests to agitate the appointment of a
coadiutor
JAMES p. COOPER, proprietor Of the
Adam Forepaugh show, died at his resi-
denee in Philadelphia of Inflammation
of the stomach. lie was born in Phi a.
delphia November 4, 1889.
Roswell B. MASON. mayor of Chi
caRo at the time of the biz fire. died Of
congestion Of the brain Mr. Mason
was born in New Hartford, N. Y, in
1905.
AFTER a long illness w. W. Wander
biit died at Vallejo, Cal. -IfG was born
in New York in 1915 and was for many
years in the service of his cousin, Com
modore Vanderbilt of New York.
Mrs. MARTHA MooRE committed sui-
eide at MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, by pouring
kerosene oil over her clothes and then
setting it on fire. She had been suffer-
ing from melanchola caused by the
death of her husband
Col FREDERICK MEARs, Fourth in
fantry, u. s. A., died at Fort Sheridan,
Idaho, of gastritis.
JAY GOULD has been threatened by a
German who demands $40, 900 for the
killing of his parents in a wreck years
ago The police are at work
ENGLISH investors are buying Amer
lean securities steadily. The rise has
been steady
THE bishop Of Carcassonnen, France,
has left his see in defiance of the orders
of tho French government
REV. THOMAS d. SKINNER, n D., pro-
fessor OF divinity at TIE Mccormick the =
logical seminary, Chicago, died of pneu-
manin.
MAYOR GRANT, Of New Yerk in his
annual message indorsed the Columbian
exposition most heartily.
THE reported death of ex-Cheroltee
Chief Bushy head was denied.
REV. DIR EDWARDS. independent re-
publican senator of New York, holds
tlfe key to the state senatorial sitaa-