The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-01-05
The News Condensed.
Impotan' Intelligence From All Parts,
boMESTlo.

DOMESTIC.
GEofeE FAUST, who murdered his
mistress, Laura Day, at Omaha. was
sentenced to the peuitentiafy for lie.
TERRIBLE losses among stock owing
to cold weather and deep snow were
reported from Englewoot, Kan.
HELEN GouI.D, dnughtcr OF the late
Jay Gould. is snid 10 have decided 20
give away the greater portion OF her
income TO charitable objects.
THE Western Commercial Travellers
association 10 session at ST. Louis
elected David w. Caruth, Of that city,
as presidsrt.
Dr. A. LAooRIo, the director Of tho
Chicago Ppsteur institute, says that he
is the disaovcrer Of new cure for epi-
lepsy.
Jons q. RocKErEbLsn made the Uni.
''erstyTf Chicago d Christmas present
OF sl,0oo oJo, making total of 50, 6oo,- :
600 that he has given TO that institution.
FIRE destroyed the new music hall OF
Pillsbury academy at Uwatonna, Mimi,
which had just been completed through
the generosity of George A. Pillsbury,
of Minneapolis.
iNcEnDIARY fires in Milwaukee de-
stroycd the tannerics of the William
BECKER Leather company and Conrad
Bros, causing a loss of $3.50, o,0je and the
death Of three men. and the street car
barns and electric plant of the Willard
limo, the loss being $780, 900.
JOHN JACKSON, q colored man who
elopcd with Lessic Ilinlsle, u pretty
white wuitress, was taken from the
jail and tarred and feathcred at West
Liberty u.
AT jacksonville, Fla, the business
of Charles Da Costa, large printer
and publisher, was closed by the
sheriff.
THE Delaware county courthouse at
Muncie, Ind, was burned, the loss be-
ing $500, 900.
DAHTMotiTit college at Hanover, N.
H., has received II bequest of 5000, OOC
from the estate of the late Ralph But.
terdeld, NJ. d., of Kansas City, Mo-
The proposition advanced by the last
Michigan legislature to hold consti-
tutional convention, which was voted
on Mt the November election, was car
ried by n majority OF 600.
AT Omaha, Neb., Is. Ewing, his wife
and son were fatally poisoned by drugs
placed in their coffee by son-in-law
with whom they had quarrelcd.
THE house of Isaac Irwin at Kirklin,
Ind, was blown into lsindling- wood by
the explosion of natural gas, and Mrs
Irwin and her daughter Retta were fla
tally injured.
A NEGRO who assaulted Miss Ander-
son (white) at Bowling Green, KY,
was taken from Jail by mob and
hanged.
AN explosion Of dynamite in Long
Island City, L. L., killed Mary Garden,
Henry O'Brien, Mrs. Rocco, John Hop
kins and Nicola Lodano,
JAMES DUNLAP, who, In 1877, was SEN
fenced with Robert Scott to imprison-
ment for twenty years in the state
prison for robbing the Northampton
tMass.) National bank of nearly s2,-
ooo,00O in cash, has been pardoned by
the governor.
THREE dwellings in Ossawatomie,
Kan, owned by William Chestnut.
caught fire from natural gas and
burned four persons to death.
The Bank of Fairfax, Mimi, j. A.
Beard, president, and f. A. Gray,
cashier, closed its doors and it's officers
left for parts unknown. Depositors
will lose over $4,000.
IN fight among miners in the San
Juan Coli mining camp over claims
eleven men were killed and many 9TH
ers were wounded.
ANDREW DIEHI, of Columbus, o.,
aged 70, choked to death on piece of
bread while eating breakfast.
The African Press association of
Georgia has issued an address which
recommends, along with other reforms,
that the word negro" be given pref
erence over "colored," and that it be
spelled with a capital IN"
THE house of Thomas Griftiths at
Leon, Kan, was burned during his alb
sence and his three children perished
in the flames.
Mrs. JOHN GRIFFITH, who resides in
Cropsey, Ind, presented her husband
with three girl babies.
A PARLoR car on the cast-bound Lake
Erie & Western passenger train blew
up near Lima, O., fatally injuring the
conductor and "a passenger.
ERNEST CRUISE and Andrew Falls,
two convicts, died at the penitentiary
in Little Rock, Ark, from the effects
of the poison taken while at Helena.
These deaths swell the number of VIC
tins to thirteen.
THE inspectors of the treasury de-
partment in Boston have discovered an
opium smugglers' rendezvous.
BY the breaking of n levee in Sutter
county, CAL, over $4,000 acres of the
most fertile land in the state were
several feet under water, md the dam
age was estimated at 81, 900, 900.
WAyLAND, TRAsK & Co., New York
Secret speculations of one of the firm
caused the suspension.
Mrs, JAMES BuFoRD, wife of u prom
inent politician at Springfield, o.,
dropped dead from the shock of discov-
ering in room the dead body of u
relative, who had died suddenly.
G. w. PoMEROY and c. M. Howe,
Brooklyn Center (Minn.) farmers, were
struck by passenger train and killed.
THE report of Pension Commissioner
Raum shows that twenty widows of
soldiers OF the revolutionary war of
1776 still live and draw pensions.
THE boiler OF the saw mill OF Duke &c
Blurus at Jalscn, Ga, exploded, kill
ing three negroes, James Wilbanks,
Gutiin Phillips and Joe Smith.
AN engine on the Fort Wayne road
ran into crowded street car ut the
Forty-seventh street crossing in Chi
cago, killing four persons and injuring
eleven others
J. II, TODD, cashier of the Ut, Paul q
Duluth depot mt West Duluth, Mimi,
left for purts unknown with s2, 600 be-
longing to the company. Htl
l'BREE worklnen were fatally injured
and five others received serious wounds
as,the result of a dynamite explosion