The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-02-02
FROM WASHINGTON.

Ing the FIRST SIX months OF this fiscal
year the receipts from all sources we're
S?Si, 4l9,2l5 and the expenditures $780,
57l,00G, leaving an excess of revenues
over ordinary expenditures of S3, s4S,-
200. The total estimated revenues for
the fiscal year crdiug June so, 1893,
arc $500, OIL, $50 and the total estimated
expenditures SiJ4,67l, $50
The president and all the members
of his cabinet had n large group pho
tograph taken preparatory to their Of
fetal separation in little over five
weeks time.
In congress leading men were said
to be quietly considering Il plan to an
mex Canada to the United States and
for the acquisition of the Sandwich
islands
The leading clearing houses in the
United States reported exchanges
amounting to s1,3T3, ,S29, 663, during the
seven days ended on the 27th, against
81, AGA, ,62G, $50 the previous week As
compared with the corresponding week
of 1892 the increase was 1871
Ar ii O'Clock. ~ .LT morning OF Liz
9Th james Gillespie Blaine died at his
home in Washington, surrounded by his
wife and children. The immediate cause
of death was exhaustion. The disease
which brought about his end was u
chronic affection of the kidneys, COM
plicated with resulting ailments. Death
came without pain and he was con-
scious to the last. Mr.. Blaine was born
Janu ary 81, 1880, nt West brownsville.
Pa. A proclamation issued by Presi-
dent Harrison announced to the coun-
try the sad news of his death.
DURING the seven day ended on the
27th the business failures in the United
States numbered 295. against $50 the
previous week and a07 for the corrc-
spending time last year.
INTERNAL revenue collections for the
first half of the present fiscal year ag-
gregated Ss42o7, 4as, against SIT, 1874
754 for the corresponding period of the
last fiscal year, an increase of 81, Ira
G74.
PENSION payments in January
amounted to $4,000, 900, a decrease as
compared with last month of 81, 600, 900.
THE EAST.
TIE legislature of New Jersey in
joint session chose James Smith, Jr.,
as United States senator to serve for
six years from March 4, 1898.
A PETITION has been sent by the Ad-
vance Labor club of Brooklyn, N. Y,
to the national house OF representatives
favoripg the passage of Representative
Chipman's bill for the exclusion from
the United States of nonresident alien
workmen.
In mail car at Deans, N. j., flames
destroyed large number of letters,
some containing drafts and checks
and coupons for collection, represent
ing over $1,000, 900.
In a fire ut their home in Brooklyn,
n. Y, Thomas Larkin, his wife and s.
year-old son Hugh were fatally burned.
Doc. a wonderful trotting dog valued
Mt $1,000, was crushed to death in a
railroad wreck near Brunswick, N. ].
A RESOLUTION was adopted at the ma
tional conference in Philadelphia OF
Christian prohibitionists declaring that
the attitude of the church toward the
traffic in alcoholic beverages should be
one of uhcompromising hostility and
opposition to liquor license and all or
ganizations which do not oppose license.
BISHOP PmIIIPs BRooKs' funeral
took place in Boston on the Goth and
10000 persons followed the remains 10
Mount Auburn cemetery.
THE steamship Doanti, which left
New York December 10 for Lisbon with
load Of wheat and crew of thirty
three men, was given up as lost.
xx,l,
master general in President Piercc's
cabinet, died in Philadelphia of heart
failure, aged so years.
AT Stamford, Conn, Joe Donaghue
? skated 100 miles in hours IL minutes
and 3s seconds, lowering the 10o-mile
record four hours
STATE troops were ordered out to
quell riot caused by strikers at the
Brooks locomotive works at Dunkirk
N. Y.