The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-04-23

Tn executive COMMITTEES Of the Ma
tiopal Association Of Democratic clubs
convened at Warrington, on the 18th,
and called national convention Of tho
clubs, to meet ut ST Louis on. Septem-
ber 40.
THE organization Of = Dunkard colony
has been completed at Anderson. Ind,
taking In IS families. They have closed
q lease ON 1900 sores Of land In North
Dakota. and will move June to their
new home.
{ WAhRAxfs wefe issiied, oa tie 18th,
from the United States district at
torney's Office In Philadelphia for the
arrest Of John d. Hart, owner Of the
steamer Bermuda, and the ships Of
fcers, on the charges Of filibustering.
JOSEPH ZLAMEL was electrocuted in
the state prison at Clinton, N. Y, on
the 14th. He murdered his sweet
heart. Theresa Kamora, by cutting her
throat At johnstoWh On August sd,
is95.
Ar Central City; Col, during = ease
In court; on the 18th; Smauel Coving.
ton; Visitor charged with endeavor-
ing to intimidate witness, denied the
assertion hotly, and being threatened
with arrest, pulled q gun and killed
ex-Mayor Williams and mortally
wounded City Marshal Kehler. Cev-
ington while endeavoring to escape,
was shot dead by Henry Leaman.
BURGLARS blew up safe and
wrecked bank building at Diagonal,
Ia, at a. m. of the 18th. Citizens
were awakened and opened fire, and
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without booty. A bottle OF hnex.
ploded hitro-glycerin was still inside
the safe, and the bankers feared to
open it.
BuRatARs looted the private bank in
Pioneer, O., on the night OF the 18th.
They succeeded iii opening the vault
without the use OF explosives; and
then, after probably taking all that it
contained changed the combination SO
that the vault could not be opened:
Two EXPLOSIONS Of powder in o1ie 0f
the buildings of the Chicago Fireworks
Co., near Crosse Point, ILL.,, on the
18th; killed three employees and in jhfed
q humber of others. The building
was badly wrecked. and the ruins were
almost entirely destroyed by fire.
H 10 S<1iu W NC I1uPJSSiOAC W VoVAhuoVC
the numbers Of the belligerent Mata-
beles in South Africa. The whole
country is now in the hands of the
febellious natives; and they are mass
ing In great force.
A JURY in the New York city supreme
court, on the 18th, rendered a verdict
of S21 900 for Mrs. Kate Mcmahon, in
her suit against the New York &
Brooklyn Ferry Co., to recover $50, ,OOO
for the death of her husband.
CHARLES NORRIS, the confessed MUIR
derer of Mr.. and Mrs. Douthetts, com.
mitted suicide in Jail at Xenia. o., on
the 18th, by cutting his throat, when
told to get ready to go to Columbus to
be hanged.
A LANDSLIDE occurred at Trubbach,
Switzerland. on the 10th, as the re-
suit of continuous rains. The damage
to property is very heavy.
CAPT. JOHN CALHOUN SHEPHERD, q
veteran of the Mexican war, a Califor.
mia forty-niner, and one of the most
noted characters in Montana, died in
the county poor house at Butte OH the
18th.
Rev. GEORGE P. KNAPP, the Ameri-
can missionary who was recently ex-
PEELED from Bitlis by the Turkish au:
thorities, arrived at Aleppo in good
health on the 10th.
A DISPATCH from Havana to the
Madrid Imparcial, on the 10Th, said
that the insurgents had hanged %
Spaniards in the Sagua district.