The state capital., 1892-02-27

GEORGE HUDSON was acquitted al
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 iGO wolves and 1900 jack rabbits
in Crawford and Bourbon counties,
Kas., on the GOTH One man was ia
| tally bitten.
NEAR Wheeling, w. Va, Baltimore
& Ohio locomotive, thrown from the
| track by q bowlder on the a1st, tore
itself loose from the train and plunged
down ravine, leaving the passengers
safe.
| The Russian student Kotchurikin,
who made murdcrous 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.
AT a tenement-house fire In New
York, on the 22d, a panic-stricken
mother wrapped her babe in bed cloth
ing and threw it 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 to
the 22d, owing to heavy inundations
which swept away the tracks and
bridges in many places.
A MRS. ROBERT REINs, living a few
miles from Seligman, Mo, across the
Arkansas state line, is charged with
having poured coal oil over her swear
old stepson and burned him to DEATH
The Brazilian government has taken
energetic measures to suppress the lat
est revolt in Rio Grande do Sui
TIE lower branch of the New Jersey
legislature has passed bill appropri-
ating $4,000 more for the states ex-
hibit at the Worlds fair There was
no debate. This makes $40, 900 in all
for the New Jersey exhibit
THE czar has appointed Prince Galit-
zen to restore order in the administra-
tive branches of the government at
Tobolsk, the capital of western Siberia,
where considerable confusion exists
BENJAMIN ELJER, of Philadelphia,
aged 81 years, died, on the 3d. from the
effects of laudanum taken with suicidal
intent because of his rejection by his
sweetheart.
A Moscow dispatch says the Rus
sian government has ordered Count
Tolstoi to return to his estate, being
displeased with his letters in regard to
the famine.
A PARTY of young people who had
been attending a dance at Braddocl,
Pa, on the night of the 22d, were run
down by train on the Pennsylvania
road while ON their way home. One
was killed and two others seriously in
jured. The party had missed the train
and were walking home.
CUSTOMS INSPECTOR DoNoHUE stroked
the hump on an immigrants back on
board the steamship La Bretagne, in
New York harbor, just for luck, and
his luck came Immediately, as he dis
covered that the protuberance was an
artificial one, and was deftly stuffed
with valuable lot of jewelry, which
the cunning passenger was endeavoring
to smuggle.
A VAST crowd surged through the
White House from until II o'clock on
the night of the 23d to pay their re-
spects to the president and Mrs. Harri-
son. 1t was the closing reception of the
season, and was given in honor of the
public. Mrs. Morton and the ladies of
the cabinet assisted the president and
Mrs. Harrison in receiving.
THIEVES at st. Joseph, Mo-, on the
night of the 22d stole about two miles
of trolly wire from the Union Electric
line in the suburbs of the city. They
must have understood what they were
about, as the wire was fully charged at
the time they cut it. The loss to the
company is about $1,000.
Two MEN dying and two others badly
wounded was the result of desperate
fight with burglars at Beaver Falls,
on the night of the 23d. One of the
wounded men is an officer.
III the Mitchell case at Memphis,
Tenn. on the 23d, the motion of Miss
Mitchelrs counsel to compel the state
to show certain letters was overruled,
and testimony was taken in the appli-
cation of Miss johnson for writ of
habeas corpus.