The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-02-13
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

tiary at Jefferson City the other morn
Ing, and celebrated his freedom by get
ting drunk. In the afternoon he fell
from a freight train and was cut to
pieces.
AT the village of Eola, Pike County,
the other day, Joseph Bacon, a negro
boy twelve years old, deliberately killed
his sister and brother, aged respectively
eight and three years, as they we're at
play in bed. The former he shot with a
gun and the latter no dispatched with
an axe, severing the head from the body.
The boy iiend then walked to Louisiana,
a distance of fifteen miles, and told his
grandmother how he had accidentally
killed his brother and sister with his
fathers gun which went off before he
knew it.
EMMA MYERS, a dissolute young
woman, nineteen years old, took NOR
phine with suicidal intent at Kansas
City the other night and died next morn
ing. She came from Davenport, Iowa,
where she is said to have respectable
and wealthy parents.
ADAM KRoENKE lived alone at Utica
with his idiotic daughter, aged twenty
years. The other day IA neighbours at
tention was called to the house by the
starving condition of the cows. Break
ing open the door of the shanty in which
krOenke lived the neighbor was over
powered by the horrible smell.
Kroenke's body was found on a miscr-
able bed badly decomposed, having evi.
IDENTIFY been dead for a week. Close to
the side of the dead body was the idiotic
daughter, but the girl could give. no ac-
count of his death, either as to time or
circumstances
j. Il. HORNE, q young real estate
dealer, was recently arrested at Kansas
City on a charge of swindling the First
National Bank of Frankfort, Kan, out
of $500. The warrant for Iorine's ar
rest vas sworn out by II. d. Stringer
and j. S. Worden, the latter being con-
nected with the bank. When arrested
HORNE protested his innocence and de-
clared hat he was the victim of q con-
spiracy. The alleged swindle consisted
of an exchange of land in Texas for a
livery stable in Kansas City.
HENRY c. NICHOLS, a real estate
broker, was arrested at Kansas City the
other day, charged with embezzlement
committed four years ago in Illinois.
DANIEL BARTLETT, division road
master of the Kansas City, st. Joseph ~
Council Bluffs railroad, fell from q
bridge near Beverly, the other evening
and was probably fatally injured.
LAST November Simpson Younger.
colored. who appeared to be almost
white, purchased two reserved
seats in the Ninth Street The
alter at Kansas City, but when
he claimed the seats with his companion,
a negress of darker hue, ne was refused
the right to occupy the seats. He COM
planned at the box office and the treas
urer offered to refund the money or give
him seats in the balcony. This Younger
refused to accept, and brought suit in
the circuit court for S., 900 damages
against 4. Judah, the lessee. The ease
was recently tried in Judge Fields court
at Kansas City, when the Judge rendered
q decision in which he took the advanced
ground that a theater was a private in
stitution, and that its proprietors could
exclude from it any and all persons they
chose.
WILLIAM MITCHELL, who killed
''Voiceless Nike at the Fountain
Theater in Kansas City two years ago
and who was to have been hanged on
the 18th, has had his sentence committed
by the Governor to life imprisonment.
SELovER & ~GETscHMAN, proprietors of
a large cigar factory at Boonville, have
Rade al assignment.
The Governor has pardoned Darwin
w. Pratt, who was convicted several
years ago at st. Louis of embezzlement
from his employers, the Mccormick
Harvester Company, mainly upon the
testimony Of an alleged confederate,
and sentenced to the ~penitentiary. The
~accomplice, Post, has since confessed
that his testimony was false.
IN a recent family rumpus at st. Jo-
seph William Davis stabbed Charles
Miller in the breast, inficting a mortal
wound. Miller had driven his sister out
of the house almost without clothes and
she took refuge in the house of Davis, a
neighbor, and when Davis went to the
house of the woman for clothing Miller
attacked him and was stabbed by Davi
IT is reported that the Farmers A
lance people will o establish
Chillicothe a savings bank and loan and
trust company with n capital stock of
500, 600, to be managed by good bust
ness men. 1t will be conducted after the
fashion of the savings banks of New
England, paying interest on large and
small deposits.
SAM SMITH, colored, was SEM to Jail
from Forestel to await the action of the
grand jury on a charge of forgery. 1t
seems that San concluded TO try and
live without working and passed several
forged orders on some Of the merchants.
STATE TREASURER holland has pre-
pared a very interesting review of the
transactions of the Treasury Depart
ment for the past year. 1t is more of a
new items. The recapitulation is as
follows: State revenue fund, $2,007,-
667. so; State interest fund, ST., $3.50, O7s. ss;
State school fund, 81, $50; State sinking
fund, IS, 900; State school moneys, $685.;
road and canal fund, So, 1874. 9S; insur-
ance department fund, $50, ST.. 20; earn
ings OF penitentiary, SITS, ST.. OF; exec.
utors' and administrators fund, 81, TAO. rs.
Total actual receipts for year 1889, SO,
572, 061. 90.
GEORGE THEFT, a st. Louis baker,
was troubled by rats, and he put some
poisoned cakes under his counter to kill
them. Two neighboring children, girls
aged eleven and four years, went into
the shop and going behind the counter
picked up and ate the poisoned cakes