The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-10-16
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

municatcd to a coal oil tank, which eX-
plodcd and blow the store to pieces,
seriously injur,ng G ght persons, se'-
eral it was thought fatally.
DEMOCRATS Of the Ninth (St Louis)
distr ct have nominated Seth W. Cobb
for Congress-
DURING the Priest of Pallas parade
at Kansas City the other evening Cap"
tain Cannon, who commanded the Flam-
beau Club, struck Phillip Barnhardt, Il
boy of eighteen years, over the head
with his sword and inflicted a serious
wound. The surging crowd had pushed
tho boy into the street, which caused
the assault Later Captain Cannon was
arrested and gave bend to answer to the
charge. lie is president OF The upper
house of the Common Council and presi-
dent of the Board Of Public Works of
the city.
THE charred remains of man were
recently found in the ashes of brush
/ heap near Wellsvillc, and the coroner's
jury, after an investigation concluded
that an old resident by the name of
Dusten, who was a crank on the subject
OF cremation, had for some reason be-
cGme tired Of life, had erected his own
funeral pyre of brush, seated himself
upon it and lighted the dry wood, then
stabbed himself with the knife found on
the body and thus was cremated.
THOMAS s. WEAVER has been dis
charged from the Missouri penitcntiary
under the thrce-fourths rule, having
served three years and nine months of
his five years sentence. lie was an ac-
complice Of Fred Wittrock, or Jim Cum
mngs, in the Adams Express robbery
of 1856 on the St Louis IL San Francisco
railroad. He was convicted of having
received some of the money after the
robbery. He declares he will hereafter
live an honest life.
GOVERNOR FRANCIS recently pardoncd
George fainter who was convicted at
the March term, 1883, of the circuit
court, OF Carroll County, of murder in
the second degree, and sentenced to
thirteen years in the penitentiary.
Tainter is haif-breed Indian, and shot
and killed George Williams while try
ing to shoot a man named Anderson,
who had threatened his life In the
papers submitted to the Governor ask
ing his pardon, it was shown that preiu-
dice against Tainter caused the excess
sivc punishment dealt out to him.
Two Santa Fe freight trains collided
near Mexico the other morning, one be-
ing cattle train. Several steers were
killed and others escaped from the
wrecked cars. The latter became
enragod upon seeing the dead
ones, and the train men, though
escaping from the wreck unhurt,
had hard time to get out of
the way of the wild steers. The cattle
had to be shot before tho railroad men
could go near the wreck to repair it.
Thousands of dollars worth of freight
and rolling stock were destroyed.
/, AUGUST NIcoLAI died at Kansas City
the other morning from the effects OF
poison, taken accidentally. lie swal-
lowed half pint of poison thinking it
, was medicine He was fifty years old
and leaves a widow and three daughters,
TIE wife of Wesley Hensley, prom
inent jackson County farmer, recently
left a tub of water standing in the yard
while she was doing some work. After
; an absence of few minutes she found,
on her return, that her fourteen-months'
old baby boy had fallen into the tut
, and was drowned.
WHILE Mrs. Christian Gabriel and
her five-year.old daughter Alice were
crossing the Missouri Pacific track al
st Louis the other morning, a construc
ton train rolled towards them. Whcr
they saw the train they attempted tc
get out of the way, but the child slipped
and fell under the wheels Of the ap
preaching engine. The mother sprung
to save her child but was thrown some
distance and perhaps fatally injured
while the little g.rl was crushed t,
death.
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lottery law is in force. Nearly nOt
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