The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-11-20

MiscellNntOuS
In the Kansas City Court Of Appeals d
decision was recently rendered confirm
ing q Judgment in Saline County by
which school commissioners or teachers
had a right to cXpel Objectionable pupils
whether formal rules existed or not,
In this case n boy carried brass
"knucks" to school and defied the
teacher and was expel ed.
TnE residence of C. ]. Walrulf, at
Kansas City, was destroyed by fire on
the morning of the 9th, together with
his barn, " carriage, buggy, etc. The
house was a now n and tho furnace
fires had been lighted that morning for
the first tine. One of tho fues was
defect We and the flames were thus con-
veyed TO an upper room. While at
breakfast Mr. Walruf smelled the odor
Of fire and go ne upstairs found the
who @ upper part of the house abla2e,
The fire had cut off his retreat by the
stairway AMI he escaped by way Of a
window, but not before his hands werp
seriously burned. Loss, SILL Ol
a RECEIVER has been appointed for
tho Kansas City Artisans Mutual Build
'ng & Loan Association. The a~ssocia-
ton was Incorporated in 1858 with ST.
0CG 600 capital stock. The last state
ment showed assets of SIS. 900. The ex-
animation of the hooks lately showed
assets of only 5000, mostly in notes.
SE1.Rr Jon u prominent business
man of Kansas City, and a member of
the wcll-known hard ware firm of Hall,
Willis & Co., committed suicide at his
residence in that city the other night
by shooting himself. In settling up the
affairs of the firm MI. Jones appeared
to be short over S75, 600, and when one
of the stockholders, who had been in
vestigating the management of the con-
cern, made known his belief thattbere
was a shortage, Jones vent home and
committed the deed. lie was about Is
years old and leaves Il wife and two
sons, aged Il and 10 years. lie was a
pab ic spirited man and previous to this
had been considered quite wealthy.
CONGRESSMAN TAEsNEY, of the Fifth
district, may MOI take the pennant for
having the largest majority but he
shows up we'll in his per cent, of gain,
his majority at the late election shou ing
a ga n Of 26S per cent. over that OF two
years AGO, HIS plurality in the district
is ) 500.
Tom KEITH, who was making q dis
turbance on n st. Louis suburban tram,
was shot and xii ed at Ferguson the
Cther afternoon by Waterman j. 5.
Davis, who boarded the tain, and to
restore Keith to order placed a revolver
to his head, but not, he says, with tho
intent IN of shoot ng. lie claimed that
the weapon was discharged accidental
ly. Davis was arrested.
YVES HENSIhY the accomplish OF
burlington n the Cranmer murder,
pleaded guilty to murder in the second
degree, when the case was called for
trial at Roonvillc, and was sentenced
by Judge Edwards TO ten years in the
pen Tertiary. His sentence was made
light because of his youth, he being
only Is years of age, and because he had
been led into the act by n shrewd Grim
!nal.
{. A FEIGEI, II brakeman recently
fell from "a fire. ght train at st, Paul, a
small station on the Missouri Pacific
road east OF Pacific, and was killed by
the cars,
S, W, LomNG, OF Maysville. has been
appointed a cadet st West Point from
the Third district,
BURLINGTON, tho murderer of Sheriff
Cranmer, and under sentence Of death,
who escaped from Jail at Boonville some
time since, was recently captured at
Auburn KY, where he had gone to see
II former sweetheart.
The dwelling of n. Il. Talbot, near
Mt. Leonard, burned the other morning.
Loss, %, 900; partly insured.
Mrs. MILLER, q widow residing with
her son-in-law at Glasgow, was horribly
and perhaps fatally burned the other
night. She was IN invalid, and while
in bed her clothing took fire from the
upsetting or eXp'os on OF n lamp.
The Governor has p%ardoned Henry
Johnson, who was convicted in Roy
mods County in May, 1855 of burglary
and larceny and sentenced to the penn
Tertiary for ten years. johnson has
been in bad health, and longer confnc-
mcnt would have endangered his life.
CHRISTIAN MILLER was fined 5000 n
the Marion County circuit court the
'NH'i '"J op'iihS ''4uot III dfSuJiu
contrary to the local option law.
Two of the men thought by the de-
tectives to have been implicated in the
"Robbers' CUT train wreck were re-
Gently arrested neal Pilot Grove. Cooper
County. They gave their names as
Bob Ferguson and Charley Charters,
ind CLAIMED that they were on their
way to the East from Albuquerque,
n. NJ
ID. A. GREEvEg, the stockman who
WAS shot by the sporting man Clifford,
at Kansas City, died two days after
wards The coroner's jury he'd both
Clifford and his wife to answer the
charge of murder, the evidence going
tj show that 1t was a case Of attempted
biackmaiL
IL $, Mills, q we'll known banker OF
Kansas City, died at Chicago recently
while en- route home from New York.
JAMES J. LIIIIE, tho ball player, died
Of typhoid fever at Kansas City, on the
0Gh.
COLONEL PRICE who was shot by j Judge
II ggins on a train between Sedalia and
Sweet Springs, d ed the same evening.
GOVERNOR FRANCIS has signed the
rommisS IN Of Mrs Anna Raytor n,