The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1892-03-31

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ANTHONY GOULD, n well.known law
yer and ex-rccorder of Albany, N Y,
was found guilty on the oath, of aiding
and abctting cx-Booklsecper George p.
Whitney, of the Albany city national
bank, in cmbczaling the banks funds
and falsifying its accounts Sentence
was deferred. Whitney is serving
seven years term of Imprisonment for
bis crime.
THE Paris Dcbats says the anarchists
of that city are experimenting with
poison with u view to substituting it
for dynamite.
THE house committee on appropria-
tions, on the cath. completed the sundry
civil appropriations bill. The whole
amount recommended in the bill is
Sa5, l57, ,7s7, being slO,O26, lGs less than
the estimates and Sl3, ,237, 574 less than
appropriated for the current fiscal year.
THE senate committee on territories
has ordered Il favorable report on the
house bill providing for the refundipg.
of the debt Of Arizona at per cent.
interest.
RETURNS compiled in Chicago show
that the total increase in registration
in the thirty-four wards of the city and
Cicero is 42,220 over last year. Thou
sands of names are said to have been
illegally added to the registration
lists"
THE Tennessee Rifles colored com
pany Of Memphis, disbanded, on the
25th, as result of the action of Judge
Dubois in ordering the arms of the COM
pany confiscated during the excitement
following the lynching of the three me-
groes recently. The judge feared the
| members of the company might at
tempt to avenge the lynching and use
the guns at their armory to that end.
THE Prussian government has pro-
hibited all Russian Jews from crossing
the frontier, owing to the prevalence
OF typhus fever among them. The de-
cree is to be stringently enforced, and
it is reported that the guards on the
border have already shot four Jews
who tried to elude them.
JOEL l.. HART, prominent citizen of
England, Ark, and Sheriff ]. w. Will
Jams, ordinarily the best of friends,
quarreled, on the night OF the 24th,
while drunk, and Williams shot Hart
dead
THE importation of cattle form
SPAN, Portugal, Sweden and Norway
! has been prohibited by the English
government owing to the prevalence
of the foot-and-mouth disease in the
| former countries.
SIXTY houses in the village of Leve-
| len, Switzerland, were burned, on the
Goth, and hundreds CT people are home
| less.
THREE more OF the ringleaders of the
recent riots in Berlin were sentenced,
on the 25th, one to four years, another
to three years and one to two years at
hard labor.
A MORMON family named Young was
| driving along behind another wagon
near Palomos, Mexico, on the 26th,
when gun fell from the first wagon,
discharging as it fell. The ball pierced
Young's shoulder, his sons hip, going
through the baby's head and into the
body of Mrs. Mary Roberts, daughter of
| Young. The baby was killed and fa-
ther and son were seriously wounded.
PRINCE KRAPoTRIN, the noted Russian
nihilist in Paris, is reported to have said
| that the social revolution is on the point
| of breaking out, and that the oppressed
would make extensive use Of dynamite
| In the cause Of freedom.
WALT WHITMAN, the poet, died at his
homo in Camden, N. j., on the goth,
aged rs.
The Iowa house has passed a bill
making silver full legal tepder ON all
contracts hereafter made within the
state.
The bloody engagements recently be.
tween imperial troops and rebels in
northern China resulted in the slaughter
of several thousand rebels. The i'm
perial army lost only five killed and
forty-fve wounded. Over 5000 rebels
We're put to death with the sword and
900 were actually burned alive,