The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-08-21
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

agent was recently overtaKen Dy
storm near Lexington and drove onto
covered bridge over the Little Sni creek |
for protection. His horses became |
frightened and ran away The night |
was dark and the team dashed over a
bluff fifty feet high and Coulter was
terribly mangled. His body was found
next day The horses were not killed.
Coulter leaves wife and three children.
IN consequence of the drought there
will be no fair at Hannibal this fall.
THE first lady elected member of the
American Dental Association was ad-
m tied at the recent session at Excelsior
Springs. The lady is Mrs. Emma
Eames Chase, daughter OF w. Eames,
of st. Louis, and wife of Mr.. Harry
Chase, the distinguished marine paint
er, recently deceased. Mrs. Chase Is
practicing with her father in an Office
in st. Louis, and has acquired consider
alb @ reputation as a dentist writer and
artist
THE steady rise in wheat has caused
the bucket shop of Shredder & Co., of
Kansas City, to fail again.
WHEAT reached 92 cents at Kansas
City on the llth; corn As cents.
JAMES WAUKERT, a German, forty
years of age, in the employ of Helms
brewery at Kansas City, was recently
horribly burned during fire at his res
idcnce lie and his wife occupied tho
second story of a tenement which took
fire while he was asleep and his wife
was absent at a neghbor's. When the
fire reached his room he attempted to
escape and rushed out of the house and
through the crowd with agonizing yells
and jumped fence into an adjacent
field, where he dashed blindly around
in circle for some moments before
several men caught him. lie had pre-
vious to the fire long, bushy beard
and luxuriant hair, but every vestige of
1t was burned Off His body was terri
bly, burned and eyes destroyed. He had
saved 5000 which was also lost
CHARLES You've, a brakeman on the
Chicago e Alton railway, was run over
and killed the other day while coupling
cars at Grain Valley.
THE State Anti-Liquor convention
met at Pertle Springs the other day and
organized the Anti-Liquor League of
Missouri There was n large attend
ance of delegates from all parts of the
State A constitution was adopted and
Howard II. Russell, of Kansas City, was
elected president
THE Democratic convention of the
Twelfth district nominated Judge De
Almond for Congress, after balloting
over five hundred times lie succeeds
Representative Stone.
: THE Republicans of the Eleventh dis
tr.ct have nominated John L. Erwin, of
Galloway for Congress, to oppose Mr.
Bland.
Miss AUGUSTA HOFFMAN, aged twenty
years and eldest daughter of NJ. Hof-
man, a distiller and wholesale dealer in
8 liquors, Kansas City, was recently
drowned while fishing at Tacoma, Wash,
by the capsizing of boat Mr.. II. E.
Waldo, who was with the young ady,
3 was also drowned. Miss Hoffman, with
. her mother and sister, had been spend
ing the summer in Tacoma and was to
l have started for their home in Kansas
! City the following day.
! WASH WATERMAN, the notorious
horsethief, was recently released from
7 the penitentiary at Jefferson City after
i serving two years for stealing horse
0 and buggy at Kansas City. Waiter
b man, who is now nearly eighty years old
and crippled, has been horsethicf from
: his youth up, and has served four terms
> in the Missouri penitentiary, two terms
at Leavenworth, Kan, and one at Joliet
Ill. In less than two days after he was
q liberated he stole team and is now il
, jail in Kansas.
SAM SwETMAN, dissipated white
barber, aged twenty-six, was recently
. killed by Frank Cameron in quarre
= at Kansas City. Cameron struck Swet
: man with a piece of scantling, fractur
a ing his skull.
a THE Randolph County fair opened a
I Moberly on the 18th with good crowC
, in attendance.
. HENRY RoHAN, of the iron foundr,
:, firm of Rohan Brothers, of st. Louis
:. : which had done some work for an elec
, trio light plant about which there wa
, some dissatisfaction, the other evening
= went to the plant to talk over the mat
). ter with Chief Engineer Bruce. A quar-
= rel followed and Bruce struck Rohan
blow on the head with a hammer
, fracturing his skull 1t was though
his injuries were fatal.
- ELMER DURGAN, about thirty year
y. ;. old and employed by the Deering lmplt
~ ment Company at Kansas City, recent
. fired a bullet into his left breast at hi
u room in that city and inflicted woun
y that would prove fatal. The young ma
. had been ill, which brought on desponc
!" ency and led to the act lie was froi
,, Rochester, N. Y.
10 The other night Express Messengt
"a :, George A. Taylor had to fight for h
u life with a wild cat on his run to S
Louis from Kansas City over the Alto
s. Among the packages placed in his CT
IS was box containing two wild cat
shipped from the Indian Territory ar
a. consigned to the geological gardens
10 St Louis. An hour after the train lie
B. Kansas City he found that one of tt
10 wild cats had broken out Of the bo
He picked up piece of tarpaulin al
o, when the animal sprung at him
L, claws became fixed in the canva
s, While suspended in this way the me
+, senger gave the brute kick. Aga
ID and again the animal returned, but W
r beaten off by Taylor, and after de
i'd perate struggle finally subdued.
AT a picnic near Hume's Mill, Morg
IS County, the other day, Babe Cable,
a Camden County quarreled with Emme
IS. Fits, colored, and after some wor
IN struck him. An elder brother of Fit
lis struck Cable and pursued him, but W
stopped by constable, Emmett tn
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