The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-01-23
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
M. Floquet, the eminent French
statesman, is dead. e
For the first time In the history OF =
Bell county, Kentucky, black man 4 Z
Is on jury. =
Ex- President Harrison announces
that he will be married to Mrs.
Dimmick after Lent. .
A runaway box car struck . pas .
senger coach near Victor, Colorado. 7
Twenty-Five persons were injured. :
The cha plain OF the house recently
referred to Cuba's struggle in the
prayer and was cheered to the echo. n
Fourteen persons were accidentally
poisoned at dinner given by farmer :
II. J. Merryman, living three miles !
from Dixon Springs, Tenn.
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DR.. Hsygood, bishop Of the M. e. I
church, South, prominent church.
man, educator and author, is dying
at his home in Oxford, Georgia. n
Rev. M. X. Whttlesey, registrar G
of the Congregational church, and n
an old friend OF Henry Ward G
Beecher, died recently at Ottawa, +
Ill. y
Bill Doolin, the noted Oklahoma
outlaw, has been captured, after
the expenditure of $4,000 by the
government and months Of hard i,
work.
A gang Of fourteen counterfeiters I
have been arrested In New YorS' {
Among them, Nicolo Toranto, said 1
TO be the chief Of the Malta In the
United States.
Secretary Smith has advised con-
gress against passing Flynn's bill re-
lieving Oklahoma settlers from
paying for lands they have purchas.
ed from the Indians.
The bond syndicate, with Mr.. j.
Pierpont Morgan at its head, has
been dissolved. This is said to be
due to the fact that the new issue is
offered for popular subscription.
One of the richest strikes of gold
ore made since the discovery Of the
Holy Terror mine has been made
in the Sunny side mine, two miles
north of Hill City, South Dakota.
Winfield Scott Stratton, the owner
Of the famous Independence mine OF
Cripple Creek, and said to be worth
s20, 700, was . poor carpenter four
years ago. He says that he has
enough. g .ts7Rssssss,
Word has been received from
Progresso, Mex, that the British
steamer Oxford had been totally |
wrecked on Alacrane reefs in the
Gulf OF Mexico, and that IL of her
crew were missing.
Three hundred employees at the
estinghouse Electric Works, East
! Pittsburg, Pa, struck against work.
ing half time on reduced basis of
pay. The strike will affect 200 en-
+ ployees in other departments.
Robert r. Smith pleaded gull
ty at Colorado Springs, Col, to
. having he ped to rob the Wells-
' Fargo Express company Of SIC, 200,
r near Victor, some months ago. he
, received . six years sentence.
Fifteen hundred Of New York
city's saloons are likely to be
y knocked out by Judicial ruling Of
the court Of appeals forbidding the
= licensing OF q saloon within 200 feet
: of church or school building.
:. An imperial decree has been issued
from st. Petersburg, announcing that
:. tho coronation of the Czar will take
" place at Moscow In May next, and
ordering that the municipal and
other representative bodies of the
Russian empire be invited to attend.
II Commander Ballington Booth and
!. his wife have been recalled from the
Y command OF the Salvation Army In
the United States. In the phrase
! ology OF the army they have been
"ordered to farewell" The order
was issued by Gen. Booth at inter-
= national headquarters in London.
:, Brigadier General Charles A.
ID Peckham, . veteran Of the Mexican
= war and the rebellion, died at his
% home in Germantown. He was 20
l. years old. He took part in all the
rs battles in General Scott's campaign
l. from Vera Cruz to the City Of
Q. Mexico. He had q brilliant record
l. In the late war.
On small farm, near the center OF
y Wayne county, and but short dis
tancs from the little hamlet OF Olive
" Hill, reside John and Martha Gates,