The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1892-06-09
DOMESTIC,

grounds Of the Columbian exposition.
DOMESTIC.
TIE public debt statement ISSUED on
the 1st showed the total debt TO be
Soe9, 1853. 258. cash in the treasury, $780,
oO5, ,ss5; debt Less cash in the treasury,
ss4B, 3b3, ,s88. Increase during May,
$4,82S,s74.
A CONSERVATIVE estimate Of the
amount of damages caused by the loss
from the high waters from Kansas City
to New Orleans reaches the enormous
figure of $50, 100000.
A CYCLONE destroyed several houses
at Lott, Tex, and four persons were
killed
THE coinage of the mints during May
aggregated 5,3sS, 900 pieces, valued at
Ss,oT9,27o. OF this amount $4.115, 900
wore in gold pieces, S0lG, 110 in silver
and SAT, 400 in minor coins.
FIRE at Trinity, Tex, swept away all
the business houses on the north side
of Main street.
A MAss-MEETING was held at Louis
Vile to celebrate the Tooth anniversary
OF the admission of Kentucky into the
anion.
The Chicago board of trade appointed
soliciting committee to aid the food
sufferers. Fully 5000 persons in Illi-
nois have lost everything and are in
destitute circumstances
MOSES TAYLOR, farmer living at
Neadmore, ILL.,. in a fit of jealousy shot
and killed his wife and +. Foster and
then took his own life.
TIE Michigan Mutual Benefit Life
Insurance association OF nillsdale has
collapsed. Members will be trans-
ferred to the Odd Fellows Mutual Of
Galesburg. Ill.
THE river at New Orleans was higher
than ever known in its history. and tlla
water was finding its way over the
ferry landings into the city streets.
BOB JAcKsOs, a negro ut Port Jervis,
N. Y. was lynchsd by mob because
of brutal assault on bliss Lena Me-
Mahon.
C. g. WILSON, superintendent of the
e iowa division of the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy, was drowned at Abba,
Ia.
THE total money circulation OF the
country is placed at 81, $50 O1o, 229-a
per capita circulation of S24. II, or Si15,-
27S. 800 more than June l. 1891
CHARLES LYTTLE and Ben Yelly quar-
relied AZ Ammonia, Tex, and Lyttle shot
and killed Eelly. The latters son
thep shot and lsiliad his fathers slayer
Work has begun on the Wolfy canal
Sp Arizona. 1t will I've 70 milss in
length. and the largest irrigating canal
in America, opening to cultivation SO0,-
600 acres of desert lands.
Mis-. SARAH WARDE and Mrs. Albert
Gest committed suicide Mt Lima, o. Do
mestic troubles were the cause.
Four persons were sunstruck In New
York city and one died.
Ar the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended GE the 3d aggregated
sl,O19, 465, ,sTs. against 81, l46, 500, COS the
previous week. The incssGse as COM
pared with the corresponding waolS of
1901 was 6.1.
FouR men were drowned by the sink
ing of the steamboat John Matthew in
the Arkansas river at Van i'uren. Ark.
in the United States the busipcss
failures during the seven days ended on
the 3D. numbered 20I, against 10s the
preceding week and pa for the corre-
spending week last year.
A CYCLONE passed over Moorefield,
Harmony apd Springfield townships in
Ohio, and tis damage TO crops, for
ests, farm buildings aaa orchards would
run mp into the tens VI tilopsands.
A rRAIx onthe Allegheny Valley fail'
road was wrecked near Oil City, Ia,
and Engineer Alex Reed was killed and
twenty messengers injured.
FRANK q. LESZ, n whcelman, started
at New York on a trip around the world
on bicycle. He expects to reach New
York again by June I, 1908. The dis
tance he will cover is 1000 miles,
N,,RK on the East river tunnel began
at Long Island City, and it is hoped to
complete the work in two years.
EXPORTS OF wheat land Hour as
wheat) from tho United States during
the past seven days aggregated s's9l,-
900 bushels, or about 100000 pssIplS
more than the previous week.
REroRMED Presbyterians have been
pledged by their synod not to visit the
worlds fair IL the gates are opened on
Sunday or if liquor Is sold on the
grounds.
IT was reported that tornado swept
over Reading. Pa, killing several per.
sons and destroying a vast amonnt Of
property.
NEPTUNE MILLER OF Lapagcvillc,'
Ca. shot and killed his wife. He was
cleaning his gun and she nngered him.
THE winery ut Santa Rosa, Cal. on
the celebrated ranch of Thomas Lake
Harris, widely known MS the Mystic,
Syns DESTROYED by fire cnIlsiup n Ices of
100000.
Two BI.oTuERs named Scott were rcr
united Mt Guthrie, o. T., after II separ.
alton Of fjfty-nine years.