The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-11-13
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

| In Congress solidly democratic.
| LOUIS NARDTN, d travelling man from
st. Louis, went into a Kansas City sa-
! loon the other morning and laid his
overcoat on the bar for few minutes.
When he picked it up again a pocket.
book con 0ntaining $500 in notes had been
removed from an outside pocket He
reported tho matter to the police, and
two mon who were in the saloon at the
time were arrested One Of them, John
Warren, q glass cutter, confessed that
ho took the pocketbook, and fnd.ng
nothing Of value but the notes he cast
them into the stove.
JonS BURLINGTON, under sentence of
death for the murder of Sheriff Gram
mer, recently escaped from the jail at
Boonvile One evening he secreted
himself under the bed OF Deputy Sheriff
NICHOLSON In the lower hall of the jail
and when, short time after supper
n Nicolison went into the ia and up
sta rs to sec every thing was all right
burlington d 1iberately walked out
]. W. WAGNku one OF the most promi-
ncnt undcrtakers in Kansas City, was
arrested the other day under an indict-
mcnt by the grand jury for completely
in recent daring grave robbery at
I'm on cemetery in which the bodies of
a crippled white man and a colorcd man
were stolen for use in II medical college
There arc other indictments. The
bodies were taken from the graves very
myster ouIly and the next night were
returned in the same quiet mysterious
manne;. The pena. ty, upon conviction,
Is five years lmpriSo1mpnt
THE other morning the engine room
of Dold's packing house at Kansas City
was the scene Of the awful death OF
Ernest Cook. Cook was employed as
wiper in the engine room, but on that
morning was told to whtewash tho
wall in the r,ar of the immense twelv-
foot fly wheel. He erected low scat
fold and p,accl his BUCKETS upon it, but
had hardly begun work when he lost his
balance and threw out his arms to save
himself The result was that he was
caught in the machinery and mangied
to death lie leaves family vel pro-
vided for his life being insured for
$1,000
TIE wife of d. y Mitchell, promi-
ncnt farmer liv ng near Marshticld, in
recently attempting to eXtinguish
burn ing chimney Of their residence, fell
from the roof of the house and received
injuries which resulted in her death.
FIRE in a Kansas City boarding house
the other morning cut off all exit by
the doorways and stairs. A. 5. Wood
ruff Jumped from the second story and
was badly injured. lie may die. Samuel
Martin also jumped from second-story
ndow and broke both ankles, George
Slower slid down a rope from the third
story and dislocatcd an ankle. The
other boarders were rescued from the
windows by the tiromen.
MARY BRYAN, aged IA years met
with a horrible death at the home of
|, her mother in Higginsville the other
day. She was TAX ng ashes from stove
when her dress caught fire. Not MOTTO
, ing tn s she went out into the yard and
in few moments was wrapped in
flames Her cries for help attracted
. the attention of the family, but she
was so terribly burned that she died in
, q short time.
THERE was an interesting scene al
, Columbia the other day when the last
!, OF the Boone County bonds were burned
. The debt was originally $3.50, 900, o
which $500, 0J0 was for tho construction
OF a railroad, Sl51, 900 for three grave
, roads and $50, 600 for the purchase Of tho
agricultural farm. The debt was created
in 1866 1868 and 1870, and the people
have paid since that time in principa
!. and interest nearly Sl,000 00) Boone
a County is now entirely free from debt
In the case of Edison Gregg, the st
In, hrol bp lnp in
, dictment at Chicago for securing Slg OO
. under false pretenses from the Board o
, Trade firm of w. I. johnson n Co., tn,
! States attorney entered nolle pros
The false pretencos charged were tn
. alleged Misrepresentation OF his tinap
clal standing fer the purpose of securing
credit Gregg was arrested in Sal
Francisco, taken to Chicago and tried
= the jury disagreeing.
The Missouri Pacific train from Jop
|, lin was fired into the oti or night b.
n some miscreant two miles south of But
Ter. The conductor and the porter re
:, ported that the train had been fired int
four or five times at this point With
the last few weeks
'' TIE other afternoon ID. A. Greever, q
old settler and we'll known stockman q
% Kansas City, was shot in room or tn
l. second floor of the Andrews Hotel i
/. that city by Charles c ford sportin
,, man by profession, and who had been il
town but short time, Greever ha
not been living with his wife for som
c. time past owing to divorce suit pend
It ing, and which Mrs. Grcever institute
ID two months ago He had been stoppin
I'd at the hotel. Growers wound wa
70 thought to be fatal, and in his state
O. ment to the coroner he declared that |
was a case of attempted blackmail; tina
IS Clifford's wife entced him into he
n room ond made an outcry when Cliifor
10 entered through a window and shot hin
ig The woman tells an entirely differer
IN story.
I'd FIFTY-sIx counties outside Of Kansa
City and St Louis gave 9,22G majorit
r. against the Supreme Court amend
IL ments In Kansas City and St Lou
n the amendment received majority
10. over SO, 900. The indications are thf
re the amendment has been adopted b
$4,000 majority,
ry The population OF the First Nilsson
ve district which contains the city of S
ar Louis. is as follows: st. Louis, 46S, ,e5
700 Jefferson County, %, 452, an increase
3,716; St Charles County, 22,9iO, d
IN, crease of 150; st, Louis County 1928
S. an increase of $40 The complete Gel
on sus gives Missouri population OF 2, ,e7'