The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-09-25
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

Transit railway, was run over and in
stantly killed by train on that fodd
near Kansas City the other night lie
wns thirty-fve years old and leaves
wife and three children.
MRs lIEsThR REED, colored, was shot
and killed by her husband, Martin
Reed Mt Kansas City, the other day.
Reed also shot himself and will prob
ably die. Reed is forty years old and
his wife thirty-fve, They had been
separated several months each accusing
the other of inhdelity.
TIE Republicans Of the Fifth district
have nominated Colonel ID. $. Twitcbsll,
of Kansas City, for Congress
CitaToN HARLAN two years old, drank
a lot OF gasoiho from can at the homo
of his parents, in St. Lofts, the other
day and died in short time
WUtLB on his rounds at Joplin the
other night oe'cer May discovered
burglar in hardware store. The
3 burglar fred at the officer who re-
| turhed w. The officer had the bone OF
his left leg badly shattered, and it was
thought tho thief had escaped, but later
he was found several blocks away dead.
/ i1H DTONtu 10 Dc IL CrOOh Ny Juc Va
Noland from Kansas City. just one
week previous the sdme officer shot and
fatally wounded negro burglar by tho
name D! chids,
TIE south-boufid express on the Chi
cago st. Paul & Kansas City road the
other day rail into wagon occupied by
|. Ferdlcton and wife at IA crossing three
ard half niles north of st. Joseph,
tearing the wagon to pieces and killing
tho man and woman and the hcfses.
Pcndletor was scvcnty-siX and his wife
fifty.six years old They were on their
way to st. Joseph to visit a son.
WHEN Prosecuting Attorney watts,
OF Douglas County, opened the front door
of his house n Ava the other day he
found a bundle of switches and coil of
rope with a rude hangman's moose lied
at one end. Attached to these Signifi IL
cant symbols was fiotn warning Watts
not to receive pleas of guilty from cer-
tain parties charged with having fired
to school in Douglas County few
days previous The ruinor that the at
torney had agreed to compromise with
the men accused of shooting into the
school and accept pleas of guilty for
misdemeanor, instead of prosecuting
them to the full extent of the law, it
was said provoked this exhibition of the
1Iald Knobber spirit.
A TRAMP visited the house Of John
Williams at Marshall the other day,
while no one was at the house but Mrs
Williams, and demanded admission.
Upon being refused, the intruder pushed
open the kitchen door and walked in
threatening to kill the lady If she made
noise Mrs. Williams walked quickly
to a shelf in the room, secured pistol
and shot at the man. 1t was at close
range and although he fled it was
thought the bullet took effect.
G. w. ROPER, aged sixty-fye years,
disappeared from his sons home at
Kansas City some time since and week
later hs body was found floating in the
Missouri river. 1t was thought he
drowned himself while insane.
THE Southern Hotel at Springfield,
the oldest and one of tho largest hotel,
in that plrt OF the State, burned tho
other night. Cause unknown; insurance
slight
TIE Cookson Iron Works, located a
Ccntropolis, near Kansas City, failed
recently because of the foreclosure of /
chattel mortgage.
DREwRY JONES, principal of the pub
lie school at Ferguson, committed sui
eide the other night by shooting him
self. Mr.. Jones had been sick for scv
eral days and his school had been sus
. pended. lie had been suffering from
neuralgia and seemed very dcspondcnt
He was quite we'll known in the educa
tional world.
JONATHAN FORD, an aged and re
, srccted citizen Of Kansas City, died tn
other day at the age Of seventy-hv
, years. lie was a noted phianthropjst
who spent about as much as he made il
assisting the needy.
, p. ii. PHALoN was recently arreste
+ at St Joseph for enbezzlng jewelr
I from w. j. Connaton, of Kansas City
Only few days before his arrest he wa
| horsewhipped by his wife and sistor-ir
law for writing scandalous articl
about them to IA sensational sheet
CHARLES SEAToN, who murdered Levi
Channel at Joplin about fifteen month
ago has been sentenced to be hange
| December 81. He is only seventee
years old.
J. r. FARRELL, clerk at the Par
J Hotel at Hannibal, dropped dead th
, other morning. He had been in ba
, health for some time, caused, it is saiC
, by excessive cigarette smoking.
THE other morning John johnson
colored, employed by the contractor
who are tunneling under the river ft
! the new waterworks at St Louis, fe
down shaft, distance of eighty fec
, and was instantly killed.
THE Democratic convention of til
, Eighth Congress onal district split or
, faction nominating John j. O'Neill fC
, Congress and the other Patrick O'Mall
, The jackson woodenware factory
Randolph, near Kansas City, was struc
, by lightning the other morning, too
fire and was entirely destroyed, III
loss was about SIS, 600, with only So, o.
insurance. Fifty men were thrown ol
, of employment
A YOUNG man named Harry Throc
, morton, while recently decorating Il
.. interior of the. Exposition building
Kansas City, fell from scaiiold, di
tance OF about fifty feet, and was pro
, ably fatally injured.
FIVE men were buried by the caviI
in OF sewer at St Joseph the 9th
morning, and when taken out of Il
trench Louis Erickson and Villa
: Fraser were dead. Fraser was brio
y mason from Kansas City, The mi
were working in the sewer and q bra