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The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27
MUST OBEY THE LAW.
The Striking Miners at Weir city, Has.
Warned by the sheriff Foreigners Manu-
featuring Dynamite I;ombs.

The striking Miners Mt Weir city, Has.
Warned by the sheriff Foreigners Manu-
featuring Dynamite Bombs.
KANSAS Cry, Mo-, July 24.-The
situation at the mines at Weir City and
Pittsburgh Kas.. is more hopeful for
the operators and consequently more
gloomy for the miners than at any
time since the strike began. Icster-
day shaft No. - at Weir CITY started
mp. The non-,rnion miners We're pro-
tectcd by force of deputy sheritrs.
Shaft No. Is was started this morning.
The sheriff made an address to the
strikers. He told them that he was
under orders from the governor to
keep the peace and protect the men
who are working. and that he would
certainly obey. lie also said that if he
found that he did not have and could
not obtain a sufficient number of dcpu-
ties to protect the non-union men he
would call upon the governor for
troops "Therr are, he said, 500
military stationed within three hours
ride on the ears from Weir City. II
brought there they would soon deci-
mate the ranks of the strikers" In con-
clusion the sheriff said the only thing
that now causes him to apprchcnd
further trouble is the fact that foreign
erS in Weir City are manufacturing
dynamite bombs.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

IN the River Danube, near Vienna
twelve men were drowned by the up
setting of a boat. +,
FLAMES destroyed thirty warehouse
buildings in London, causing loss of
$500, 900.
CAPT MAXwELL's British bark Pin
more, which arrived at Queenstown,
was one of the four contestants in the
long race from San Francisco, and was
the first of the racers to arrive. The
vessels left San Francisco March o.
last.
THE cholera is rampant among the
lower classes in Moscow. 1t has also
appeared in Naples
The village of st. Anne dc la Parade,
Cam. was destroyed by fire and fully
sixty families were homeless.
THE officers of the revenue cutter
Rush reported the discovery of an
active volcano near Cape st, John,
Alaska.
THE Canadian exports for the fiscal
year ended June 80, 1893, exceeded
those of the previous year by 81, $50, 900,
and are tine greatest on record, aggregat.
ing sii5, 5,iST, ,6G5.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27
THE EAST.

FIRE destroyed property valued at
hundreds of families were homeless as
a result OF the blaze.
Is coal mine at Edwardsvillc, Pa,
an explosion fatally injured William
Jones, Martin brennan, B. Wilson and
Patrick Malai.
THE run from Southampton to New
York was made by the American line
steamship Paris in days hours and
10 minutes, breaking all previous rec
ords.
Misses MABEL iTALLETT and Eliza beth
Walters, OF New York city, were
drowned while bathing in the surf at
Shell Bank. Long Island.
In the National league the percent
ages of the baseball clubs for the week
ended on the 2?d were as follows: Phil
adclphia, .Gio; Boston, .G39; Pittsburgh,
.5T8; Cleveland, SOS; Brooklyn. .5OT;
Baltimore, All; Cincinnati, .4Gi; st,
Louis. .t63; New York, 44i; Chicago.
AS; Washington, .4O3; Louisville, 1861.
The doors of the New Hampshire
Trust company at Manchester, the
largest financial institution in the state,
made an assignment.
Az explosion of dynamite in New
York killed Marie A. Posey and her
little girl and two more of her chill
drcn and Mamie McAdam were fatally
injured
Mrs. w. C. CoSSELLY and her adopt
ed daughter were fatally burned
yyhilc burninu Y-,bbish at pi,ts shuruh
Ia.
AT Belvidere, N. j., the Oxford Iron
g. Nail company failed for s225, 900.
EAST of Deer Island, Mass, an IN
known yacht was capsizcd and John ".
johnson, Albert II. Scott and Joseph
Murphy We're drowned.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27
NEST AND SQuTH

THE two children of James Wits were
killed by Lightning while they were
standing under tree during shower
at Sadlcrsvillc. Tenn.
THE J. l.. WHEELER Banking COM
pany at Aspen, the Bank of Sterling at
Sterling, and the Bank of Lovclaud at
Loveland, all in Colorado, have as
signed.
AT Toledo, O., the Milburn wagon
works, employing 800 men, the largest
institution of its character in the
United States, closed down for six
months.
The three sons of Mr. Lave, of Gregg
county, Tex, robbed their father of
$4,000 and fed. Two were caught.
The explosion of gasoline stove near
Cincinnati fatally burned John ulrich,
his wife and child.
The State national, the German ma
tional and the Peoples national banks
in Denver, Col, closed their doors.
IN Denver the Flanders dry goods
house failed for $3.50
on. was found in immense quantities
In territory near Toledo, o., abandoned
thirty years ago as practically worth
less
IHE following oank iaiinres were re-
ported: FIRST hauonai AT HARRISON
viiie' MO- okianoma nationai At Okia-
homa' flrst natiohal at hnthohy' Kan,
Bank of Belleville, Kan, First national
at Greeley, Col, National at Grand
Junction. CoL' FIRST hationai NJ Chey-
enne, Wyo, and FIRST national st Can
yon City, Col.
Bi sudden now OF ignited OIL at
wells near Toledo, o'' three men were
burned 10 DEATH
IN Colorado over jo'ooo men were idle
ns result OF the closing down of the
silver mines.
AN incendiary fire nearly wiped out
the town OF Even, Mich, and man
believed to be responsible was said to
have been lynched
THE firm Of E. ii. Taylor, Jr., & Sons,
whisky manufacturers, failed at Frank
fort, KY, for 100000.
SAM STOUT, Tad Prior and Edward
Bronson were acquitted by jury at
Waupaca, Wis, of the murder of Sam.
uel Mead on the night OF Octobcra, 1883.
On the charge OF embezzling $4,000
James Bowling, cashier OF the mint in
New Orleans, was arrested.
FREIGHT trains collided at Tiskilwa,
III, and George Hickey, fireman, and
Henry L. Strong, engineer were killed.
The doors OF the Commercial bank in
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27
LATER NEWS.

THE District of Columbia grand jury
found true bills, on the 24th. against
Col. Fred c. Ainsworth, chief Of the
record and pensions division of the
war department; George w. Dent, the
contractor employed to make the cX.
cavation for the electric light Tlant:
William +. Covert, superintendent, and
Francis Sasse, engineer of the build
ing, holding them responsible for the
Ford's old theater disaster of June .
last, in which twcnty-threc persons
Others were injured.
MCBRIDE BROS, of Philadelphia,
owner Of the yacht Yankee Doodle"
announce tnat they will match their
craft against the Rex. Vamoosc, Nor
wood, Javciin or any other yacht in the
world, for 81 200 side, distance from
one TO fifty miles, in either smooth or
rough water, on n river or ut sea.
FIRST COMPTROLLER RowLER has de-
cided that congressman are authorized
to employ clerks during an extra ses-
sion OF congress-; that any number of
congressman may employ and pay the
same clerk, II they so desire, and that
clerks so employed do not have>to take
the oath of Office.
REFERRING to the report that he was
dying from a cancerous affection in the
neck, Mr.. Joseph jefferson said to II
United Press reporter on the 24th:
You may deny the story. 1t is abso-
lutely false. l never was in better
health and spirits than at the present
tiine.r
FRE broke out in the north end of
the Transportation building at the
World's fair at 1880 p. m. of the cath
1t was extinguished before much dam
age was done, but for few minutes
the crowds in the building were almost
panio-Btricken.
THBRE was mild sensation at the
morning service in the Central Congre-
gations1 church Mt Fall River, Mass,
on the 24th, created by the first ap-
pearance there of Miss Lizzie C. Bor.
den since the tragic even, at her home
last August.
The bonnet-wire covering factory of
Moses r. Clark & Co., at Medtield,
Mass., was struck by lightning, on the
2sd, and together with its contents, de.
stroyed BY FIRE. Loss, 100000; insur.
ance, $4,000.
I'M quhwel, on the cath, about the
fee for pnlling tooth, DIR. Hirshberg,
of Colufnlus, o., shot and instantly
killed Theodore X. Meisse, grocer
Auau9r 30 Is the date fixed for the
election Of members of the French
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27
The Campania Hustiing.

QUEENSTOWN, July a5.-The Cunard
line steamer Bothnia, Capt. Mckay.
from Boston July IL, for Liverpool, ar.
rived here at 7 a. IN. She reports that
at $50 p m. Sunday evening she
passed the Campania, of the Cunard
line, which sailed hence for New York
at l:O5 o'clock Sunday afternoon with
the intention Of attempting to break
the western record. The Campania was
then l40 miles west of Queenstown,
having covered the distance in six
hours and twenty-eight minutes. II is
predicted here that the Campania will
take big slice off the record.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27
FIRE swept away the entire business

FIRE swept away the entire business
portion Of Edgcrton. o., town of 200
inhabitants. the loss being 500, 900.
LAWSUIT caused w. r. Shoemaker,
OF Metropolis, H., to kill George and
RICHARD Lukcns and then commit sui
eide.
In Cincinnati defective sewerage was
causing dangerous landslide nnd.
many houses had already been com.
tle'elt wrecked
in Detroit Mascot defeated lIal Point.
er and Flying Jib, pacing five heats in
loss than 2:OS and breaking the worlds
record.
MOB in Lafayette county, Fla,
hanged negro who assaulted and muir
dered the 9-year-old daughter of Carr
Elliott.
FLAMES burned block at Paulding,
o., and part of another, causing a loss
Of s9p0, 900.
The death of Gen. William Vandcver
occurred at his residence in Ventura,
eai., aged rs years. He was elected to
congress from Iowa in 1858 and re-
elected in 1860, but resigned his seat to
enter the army.
Ex-Gov. GEORGE C. PERKINS, of San
Francisco, has been appointed United
States senator to succeed the late Le-
land Stanford.
A MOB lynchcd Lee Walker. negro
who assaulted Miss Mollie McCaddcn
(whitel and four colored girls at Mem
phis TENN, and then his body was
burned:
WHILE temporarily insane Allen Z.
Jones, aged 40 years, living near Tex
arkana, Ark, beat out the brains of
his wife and three children with an AK
and then hanged himself.
Two SISTERS named Plant, of Nuncia,
Mich; arrived at the worlds fair
grounds, after walking all the way
from Muskegon, Mich, 2aO miles. The
journey was made in ten days.
A FIRE in the Keifer building in New
Orleans caused a loss of 500. 900 and
J. Z. Mcdonald, fireman, was suffo-
Gated.
c. w. DE PAW, the millionaire man
ufacturer at New Albany, Ind, made
an assignment with liabilities Of
$400, 600.
IN oCpioiu W dllNlt VI lnNldld
broke the 25-mile bicycle record, maxi
ing the distance in hour 6 minutes and
10 seconds.
In San Francisco ground win he
broken this week for the California
Midwinter exposition which is to fol-
low the worlds fair.
In the records of the state auditor Of
Kansas an apparent shortage of $50, 900
was discovered in connection with the
sale Of public school lands
THE Milwaukee national and the
South Side savings banks in Milwaukee,
closed their doors. and the State ma.
tional bank at Knoxville, Tenn, and
First national at Russell, Kan, were
forced to suspend.
THE worlds fair gates were closed on
Sunday.
The sawmill owned by Duncan,
Bremen e. Co. ut Duluth. Mimi, was
burned. causing loss of 800, 900.
MRs. Mcdonald and her two chill.
dren Sgere carried away by masked
men from farmhouse near Fort Wayne,
| Ind
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27
Pressing for Payment,

= PiTTsBuBGH, Pa, July 94.-There has
been great throng pushing and strug-
Cling for admission to the office of Up
perman Bros, on Butler street, where
a payment of 10 per cent. is being made
to the depositors of the unfortunate
Lawrence bank, which failed in 1880.
The payment is made under the direc-
tion of the assignee. The crowd was
largely composed of the poorer classes,
and large proportion of them were
women. This is the second payment
TO depositors, making ss per cent In
all. There are in all about 1000 dc.
positors
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27
t6tetyD f0H MURDER.

,., ,,,,,. ,'rorgt N. badt. ". y.
Coysr, ,,d ~. ,,.,, !" ..r- .sas-a FtcscRtod for
the N,rdcr NJ ,hs Twenty-Ttrte vIC-
tins OF The 1 ord's hrcater Collapse ~
Jnn", by the Grand J%' o' 'he oiS'r'ct
of Columbia,
WASHINGTON. July a5.E The grand
jury found true bill agninst 'oI, FRED
{. AinSworth. chief of the r%"r" "hu
pension division of the war "cParI-
ment: George ". Dant, the contractor
employed to make the excavation Tor
the clectric-light plant! William I.
Covert. superintendent. and Fra hhf
Sassc, engineer of the building. holding
them responsible for the Fords old
thcater disaster of juno q last. in
which twcnty-thrce persons lost their
lives and large number of others wGrd
injured.
The indictment sets forth the crca-
tion and organization of the record
and pension division of the war de-
partment under an act of congress and
the appointment by the president Of
Frederick {. Ainsworth u captain and
assistant surgeon in the army. as the
head Of the division, with the rank
of colonel, and that he was given
charge of Fords old theater
building and of the persons
employed in it. and was also in charge
on the 9th Of June when portions OF
the second and third floors of the build
ing fell.
The indictment describe in detail the
excavations that were ih progress for
nf "a, al, a.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27

WASHINGTON, July 25.-A period Of
fair weather has sot In at the weather
bureau. Prof. Harrington in reply to
statements sent out that he felt ag-
greved by the recent action of Secre-
tary Morton and himself and the
weather bureau makes the explicit
statement; while ! am chief of the
bureau l shall have no policy of my
own other than that outlined by my
superior officials. In the meantime |
shall lend my loyal support to the sec
retary of agriculture in his efforts tc
make the bureau more valuable to the
public"
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27
A FATAL BLOW.
A Coachman Killed by His Employer at
OconOmowoc, Wis.

UCDnDm0WDT, IS.
OCoNoMowoC. Wis, July 25-Wm.
Schumacher. coachman for Vim. A.
Thompson, Of Chicago, was Instantly
killed this morning hya blow struck ny
his employer. Young Thompson is a
son of Vim, A. Thompson, who died last
year, and lives at his summer residence
in Islandale, on La Belle lake. MIR.
Thompson had occasion to visit his
stable when he found his coachman in
an alteration with another cmploye.
Mr., Thompson interfered and struck
Schumacher blow under the ear from
the effects of which he soon died.
The trouble seems to have originated in
dissipation on the part of the coachman
and in bearing on the part of the
other employe.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27
Military Operations In Slam to he Opened
Shortly.

PARIS, July 95.-The Temps says the
beginning of the blockade will be de-
fcrrcd until Thursday or Friday to en-
able France to take the steps pre-
scrbed by international law. Besides
the blockade military operations will
be opened shortly. The details of
these operations are still undeter-
mined, They will be settled at a
cabinet council within day or two.
The native military will be reorgan.
lied and together with the imported
companies of the foreign legation will
cooperate with the force at hand.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27

AN ingenious automatic switch Is
now applied to the electric lamps in tho
guests room in hotel, whereby the
locking OF the room door from the out
side tbut rot from the inside) turns off
the lights. Many travellers. it seems,
doubtless with the philanthropic idea
OF helping the business of the local
electric-lighting company, are accus-
toned to leave the lamps burning at
full head when they vacate their rooms.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27

STATISTICS show that in the older
states of the union the females pre-.
dominate, the percentage in Massa-
chusetts being 5l.42; in Rhode Island,
5l.37; Connecticut, so. 4S; Montana, 33. 80;
Wyoming, 1919; Nevada, 3l.1s, and
Washington, 37.73 In all countries
there are born more boys than girls, in
the proportion of about 1O5 boys to 100
girls, but the boys die much faster
than the girls in the earlier years of life.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27

A PRIZE parrot was recently bought
by Arehaachess Stcphanic, of Aus
sria, FOR s4oo An evidence of its ability
as linguist was given when she heard
it recite the Lords Prayer in six differ.
ent languages. The man of whom she
bought it was vrntriloquist, who had
taught the bird to open its mouth,
while he did the talking.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27

THE electric light is generally be-
lieved to generate but little heat, but
NJ. Voille, a noted French physicist,
having made large number of expert
ments to determine the temperature of
the voltaic arc Of street lamps, finds
the hottest part Of the positive carbon
to be $500 degrees centigradc, which
is hot enough for all practical purposes.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27

WILLIAM STEISwAY, of New York.
has been decorated by the emperor Of
Germany with the star of the Order ct
the Red Eagle (third'clasal, carrying
with 1t the rank of knighthood. As
MIR. steinway is only third-class
knight, his friends will continue to
call him "I3ill."
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27

A DENIzEN of the Catskill mountains
sold his wife for forty-five cents the
other day and now he wants her back.
At least he pretends to, but he may be
trying TO wiring another nickel out of
the purchaser 10 make it an even half
dollar
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27

The fact Is shown in the emigration
and immigration returns of Great
Britain and Ireland for last year that
while the native population is leaving
In hundreds Of thousands for this coun-
try and the British colonies, there is a
considerable influx of immigrants into
the United Kingdom Last year el0,-
042 British and Irish left their homes,
the great majority, 15o,OS9, coming TO
the United States In the same period
%, 1877 aliens, from the continent of
Europe, arrived in the United Kingdom
Many aliens pass through England ci.
route TO America, but tho %, 1877 took up
their permanent home in that country.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27

WOMEN average no higher than men
In general roundup of all the virtues,
but, as tho New York Recorder says,
they're SO strong where the men arc
weak that the men think 'em angels,
And so they ure, bless en-,
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27

1T is said that Columbian guard un.
dertook to close up the nursery in tho
Children's building at the worlds fair
on the ground that the people couldn't
hear the band playing yogner's DER
observation-disclosures"
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27

BRUSSELS and Antwerp are both to
have International exhibitions in 1895,
and expect to be connected by electric
trains running 10 miles an hour These
cities are 81 miles apart.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27

SMokISa compartments for ladies
have been provided on Russian trains,
And hereafter men who object TO to-
bacco smoke will be able to travel in
comfort through the cars dominions.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27
PAPER stockings are a new German

PAPER stockings nre new German
invention. Berlin shoe trade journal
says that the stockings are made of
specially prepared imprcgnated paper
stock, which, it is claimed, has an ex-
traordinary effect on perspiring feet.
The moisture is absorbed by the paper
ns rapidly as it is formed and the feet
remain dry and warm, while the con-
slant temperature maintained in the
shoes is said TO be great preventive of
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27

a hiiowER of one million toads is re.
ported from Grand Falls, Nc. Those
Yankees are always exact. even at the
risk of spelling q good story.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27

THE ballot for national flower has
been opened in the Woman's building
at the worlds fair and great interest is
manifested in this method of obtaining
the expression OF the public upon so inn
portant Il matter The Indian corn, the
flower known as the cosmos, as well as
the pansy and sunfiower are becoming
rivals for favoritism. Iowa women vote
for corn, Arkansas ladies vote for the
passion flower, Kansas favors the sun
flower, California her poppy and Ne
brasla the goldenrod. Whether any
one flower will receive sufficient sup.
port to consider it popular choice is q
question.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27

THE Cleveland Leader says that cleo
tricity promises to revolutionize the art
of brickmaking by greatly reducing the
amount of labor required. Instead of
laboriously building kiln, all that is
necessary is to fit the clay into set of
iron molds with covers that contain one
thousand bricks each. The covers are
fastened on, the current applied and
the work of burning is done in very
short time. The covers detach them
selves automatically, and the brick is
ready to be tnmbled on the stock for
sale. At this rate electricity promises
soon to be the greatest servant of man
kind
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27

EPHRAIM W. BULL, the originator of
the Concord grape, is still living at
Concord, Mass lie is 81 years old,
and one of the prominent men of the
historic town. He was friend of EN-
crson and Alcott, and has been greatly
honored by distinguished visitors to
Concord and by hor,iculturists at home
and abroad. In his garden in Concord
ho still shows the old mother vine OF
the Concord grape, which he developed
from the seeds OF u native wild grape
planted just fifty years ago.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27

TIVE financial uncasiness has gone
north. Iccbergs have been making u
run on the banks of Newfoundland.