The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-06-04

AT Campbell, small place about e1X
miles southwest of San Jose, Cal, on
the night of tho 26th, Col. R P. Mo.
Glincy and wife, their daughter, Mrs.
James Dunham, James Wells, . son Of
Mrs. McGlfncy; hired woman, Minnie
Shesler, and hired man, James Bris-
coe, were killed by James Dunham, q
son-in-law of Col. McGlincy, who made
his escape.
JUDGE Cole, of Washington, ON the
9th. sente need Irving Ford, colored, to
be hanged at the district Jail on June
16next for the murder of Elsie Kreglo.
On the 27th, the Sherman statue
commission selected the design sub
mitted by Carl Rohlsmith, OF Chicago,
and awarded him the contract for
completing the statue.
THE seventh national convention of
the prohibition party met in Pitts
burgh. Pa, on the 9th.
A SON was born to Count William
Bismarck, youngest son of Prince Bis
marck, and his wife on the 26th.
Prince Bismarck has four grand
daughters, but the child just born is
his first grandson.
CARL BAILEY HURsr, United States
consul at Prague, informed the state
department., on the Goth, that an inter-
national pharmaceutical exhibition
will be held in Prague from August
Is to September Is next, and that the
attendance of persons in the United
States interested is desired.
A CIRCUS that was exhibiting in
South st. Louis, on the 27th, was
struck by the cyclone and destroyed.
Canvas, wagons, animals, everything
vanished. A few of the performers
show itself was annihilated.
HARRY RITTENHoUsE, IL years old,
committed suicide at Barberton, N. j.,
on the 28th. His parents wanted him
to go to school. The boy refused to
go and hanged himself in the barn.
A NEW edict issued by Capt.-Ge
Weyler suspends for one year all ju-
dicial proceedings against planters
with regard to their property, and
their creditors will not now be able to
secure payment of interest or be
permitted to sue in the Cuban courts
or to institute foreclosure proceedings
upon any mortgage they may hold.
AS many Cuban plantations are mort
gagged to American creditors, Secre-
tary of State Olney is expected to en-
ter very forcible protest with the
Madrid government against the exc
cution of the decree.
WHILE Madison Square garden, New
York city, was filed, on the night of
the 27th, with soldiers and other per.
sons interested in the Cuban-Ameri.
can fair, volley of stones thrown
against the side of the building shat
tered four windows. The attack was
made when the crowd was greatest by
four well-dressed Spaniards, who fed
and made their escape in a trolley car
when the Cuban guard, in uniform
and armed with machetes, rushed out
to capture them.
LAFAYErTE PARK, the pride Of all
st. Louisans and a gem of rustic
beauty, was reduced by the great
storm of the 9th to the condition of
a tangled jungle. Not a tree or build
ing was left within the entire inclos-
ure, while tile beautiful residence
neighborhood surrounding it was
equally q mark for the furies of the
upper deep.
AT st. Joseph, Mo-, on the 2sth, the
temperature dropped 30 degrees in an
hour. About five o'clock low clouds
appeared from the north and east, and
the temperature fell fast. BY evening
people were shivering. There was no
precipitation. Considerable wind ac-
companied the appearance Of the
storm