The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1892-07-07
DOMESTIC.

AT tne NOTlOlk nuVy yuru tue sue.
cessful launching OF the big battle ship
Texas was accomplished.
A DOZEN houses were wrecked and
several families were made hpmelcss by
landslide in Cincinnati.
THE supreme court of Ohio has de-
clared the Massie law constitutional.
The law requires the secretary of state
to retain rs fees for the state onc-tenth
of 1 per cent. of the capital stock Of
corporations for issuing certificates of
incorporation or consolidation.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has issued .
proclamation declaring reciprocal trade
relations. with Cuba under the reci,
procity clause of the recent tariff lnw,
J0HS TiIORTOS was hanged at Fort
Smith, Ark, for the murder of his
daughter, and Henry Black lcolored)
was executed at Pine Bluff. Ark, foY
the murder of Georgia Smith, q young
girl.
AT ST. Mary's, O., Clark Stewart,
aged o., the oldest resident in Miami
county, was attacked and killed by
hogs while he was walking through the
barnyard and his body was partially
fHtPn ny tne animals
Ton itlLI,ARR tcolored) was lynched
by mob at Woodbury., Tenn. for as
saulting young white girl named Nc
Knight.
GEORGE VI. IIREiDNER, bool<lseeper for
Wil5e, Bicdlcr x Co., wholesale dry
goods merchants at baltimore, was ar
rested on the charge of embezzling
S34, 600.
Is Fleming county, KY, Blue Rice, a
farmer, and Ieck Turner, farm hand
In his employ, fought over difference
in their accounts and both were killed.
TIMorny O'J,RIEN and Martin Costello
were roasted to death ut the solar oil
refinery in Lima, o., by the explosion
of n steam valve.
A CYCLONE passed through the south
western part of Crawford county. Mo-,
destroying many buildings and doing
immense damage % crops.
MASKED burglars entered the home
of Farmer Joseph Foreman at Fair.
| field O., and secured 1000,
THE Louisiana legislature has passed
| bill whereby lotteries will not be al
lowed in the state after December 81,
| 1893.
FIRE in San Francisco destroyed two
and sixty-eight horses pcrished in the
! flames.
REV. SHELBY HARDY and his two
daughters were killed by lightning
near Ridgcville, Tenn.
THE business portion of Olin, Ia, was
destroyed by fire.
By the upsetting Of skiff in a
| crevasse near New Orleans two daugh.
ters of DR., llimel, aged respectively II
and 10 years, and Misses Hamilie and
| Angelo Lambert were drowned.
JOHN W. FOSTER, of Indiana, was
nominated by President Harrison for
the vacant position of secretary of state,
and the nomination was promptly con
| tirmed by the senate.
THE wall of n new building fell al
Lynchburg, Va, and ii. c, Winston
the owner of the building, and two co..
pred men were killed and seven colored
men badly injured.
CABMI, Ill, was visited by heavy
wind and hailstorm, doing much dam
age.
FIVE passengers were killed, 6vs
fatally injured and several others les,
seriously hurt in u collision on the Cot
ton Belt road ut Altheimer, Ark.
SUITS against twenty leading lumber.
men of four states for conspiracy tc
raise the price of lumber have been be
gun In the United States court at st
Paul.
THE ninety second commencement OF
Yale university was held at New
Haven. Conn, and degrees were con
ferred in course upon 422 candidates.
Mis- SUSAN SEwALI, aged % years
while insane threw her 9-months-olt
baby out of fourth.story window il
Boston and then jumped herself ant
both were killed
PRESIDENT HARRISON has signed thu
Joint resolution of congress making
October II, 1899, the 40Oth anniyersar,
of the discovery of America, a genera
holiday.
THE number of miles of railwa,
built In the United States the first hal
of this year was l.l90, 800 miles les
than for the same period last year,
OATS will harvest eighty-fve bushsl
to the acre in Illinois, so says the stat
board of agriculture.
A DISTRICT 10 miles wide and 40 lon
In Catahoula and Concordia parishes
Mississippi has been inundated fo
weeks and large numbers Of the popu'
tion are in great want