The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-07-17
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

and mind.
GREEN CLARK, farmer residing ten
miles south of St. Joseph, was stung on
the left temple tho other night by
honey bee and died from the effects OF
the sting in less than eight minutes.
EIzo ALLEN, the young clerk of the
Austin Investment Company, who re-
Gently skipped from Kansas City with
S24, 600 OF tho companys cash and was
soon after arrested, pleaded guilty when
his case was called the other day in tho
criminal court at that city, and was
given two years in the penitentiary.
His wife and babe were in court when
he was sentenced.
WILLIAM SMITH, of Warren County,
was waylaid when he went to his spring
for water the other di.y by man known
as "Blind" Walker and a woman by the
name Of Jemima Coleman, and fatally
stabbed Smith has wife and four
small children, and is peaceable farmer.
Smith had ordered the woman from his
house few days before.
u. AMOS and James Basket, residing
in Dade County, met at a picnic on the
Fourth and proceeded to settle an old
| fcud with pistols. Amos shot Basket
twice and jumping on his horse escaped.
A VEIN of zinc ore four feet thick has
been struck at the Big Three mine in
Morgan County.
| Mrs. SAMUEL HAYS was recently
thrown from wagon at Milo and fatal
ly injured.
RoBEnT REIDENBAU was lately thrown
under threshing machine on his farm
near New Frankfort and killed.
TIE new steamer A. i. Mason was
4 greeted at Kansas City on the eth with
the booming of cannon and huzzas of
multitude Of people. The initial trip
was a great success.
THE celebrated case, in which Rev.
Carmichael, pastor Of the Baptist
Church at Lathrop, sued for divorce
from his wife, was recently tried at
Chillicothe and Mr.. Carmic hacl granted
a divorce.
TIE Railroad Commissioners recently
rendered a decision in a case in which
the Memphis system was charged with
manipulating coal rates. The railroad
company was found guilty and fine Of
$1,000, to be paid into the school fund
OF Vernon County, was imposed. 1t is
said the company will re use to pay the
fine, and when sued for the money will
carry the case to the highest courts.
This is the first instance in which the
Commissioners have imposed such a
fine and the road will contest it upon
the ground that nearly all of its line in
question is operated in the State Of
4l,, CiA Of
the Interstate Commerce law the Mis-
souri, Commissioners are powerless to
BURLINGTON, who assasslnaJeu s,nor'
iff Cranmer, of Cooper County, has made
confession that he committed the
train robbery at Pryor Creek, Indian Ter
ritory, and that he also was concerned
in the robbery of tho Wells-Fargo eX'
press two days later when the robbers
secured $40, 900. One of his accomplices
was w. L. Smith, who was coming
West with burlington, when they were
arrested for firing at brakeman wh'
put them from train
A LATE fire at Callao destroyed ever,
business house and contents in th'
} town. The total loss was about S35, ,O0O
} The total insurance was about SIG 00O
t The other night Mrs. John Hudson
| the wife of well-to-do young farmer o
Boone County, took dose of rough o.
rats that killed her in a short time. Sh
leaves a baby four months old, and wa
. evidently insane at the time.
w. w. PAYNE, of the grocery firm c
:. Scott e. Payne of Columbia, recent
y purchased two ounces of chloroform, re
tired to his room and took the entir
dose. When discovered no was uncor
ucious, but physicians thought he coul
;, be saved. No cause could be assigne
;, for the act,
: THE census gives Hannibal popul
: ton of 12,5OO; Mobcrly, $500; Brool
" field, 4,50O; Kirksville, So, $50; Mace
City, $3.50; Canton, ., 200; Fayette, 2,aO
Palmyra, ., 5OO Salisbury, 1,70O; Brun
d wick, 1, $50; Kahoka, 1, 400; Edna, l, As
. Glasgow 1,s)O; Monroe City, 1,7oO.
. r. NJ. YARNELI, a prominent farm'
'. of Howell County, recently took his tv
- daugters to Bandsville for passeng
- train, and after putting them on boal
undertook to step off after the ira
b started when he fell between the car
IN which ran over him, severing his hei
- from the body.
!. TIE State Board of Equalization ne
- a meeting recently to consider the pr
. tests against the valuation of the pro
erty of the Wabash, Missouri Pacific al
burlington systems, All of the roa
IL named wanted reductions, but the boa
IN refused to accede to the requests III
III is final. The increase in the valuati
10 of the Missouri Pacific over last year
~ 81, 100 per mile and that Of the Waba
d. 81 900 per mile. There was also cons
w cradle increase on the Burlington.
no TIE Commercial Club of Kansas G
iA employed Edward A. Chambers to b,
y, out all persons who had been ov
hu looked by the census enumerators, a
two weeks later the club employee
NO detective to make a still hunt for
ON Chambers, who had decamped W
"a ia money belonging to the club.
'h' By the recent explosion of thre
= ing machine boiler on James M. ca
rA hans farm near Wellington, an
OF man named Shaw was fatally and tn
On other men badly scaided.
III THE bridge across the Grand river
the Missouri, Kansas e. Texas railro
er- about thirty miles north OF Neva
ne was wrecked the other afternoon.
are first section of freight train so,
as bound was passing over the bridge W
0 telegraph pole dropped of fiat
VI tearing out the supports OF the brl
my and letting it down with the train
o" eral cars and the caboose were der
ished and Conductor John Dean al