The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-03-20


Miss ALLIE ATKINSON, the eighteen
year-old daughter of wealthy farmer
residing near Pleasant Hill, was brutally
assaulted by a tramp the othcrday whilc
returning home from a neighbor's. Tho
young lady dragged herself home and
gave the alarm, when hundreds of armed
men went in search of the villain, but
seemed unable to run him down.
DIR. j. w. JACKSON, president of the
faculty of the University Medical Col
legc OF Kansas City, for many years
chief surgeon of the Missouri Pacific and
Wabash railways and one of the best
known physicians in Missouri, died at
Kansas City the other day from the
effect of blood poisoning contracted last
November while performing surgical
operation. He was fifty-five years old.
Mrs. WILLIAM ROGERS recently
|. created stir at -BeHne>r by fSiaiag
one of the "blind tiger saloons running
there in violation of law. She has two
minor sons who night or two previous
had been cnticed to the place and made
drunk. The mother learned the facts
and Fastening to the saloon, after
brief but interesting interview with tho
proprietor, she demolished every win
dow in the place and partially wrecked
the interior before she could be re-
strained.
TIE large warehouse of the 3. c.
! Clark Crockery Company, at Kansas
City. was destroyed by fire the other
morning. The building was owned by
Friedman & English and the loss on it
! - hn OF aS.
timated at S65,000. Partially insured.
| TwENTY-Two s.. Joseph bakers re-
Gently struck for higher pay and shorter
hours.
WHEN Mrs. Michael R. Morgan re-
| turned to her home at Kansas City
from church the other evening as
she opened the front door she stumbled
over the body of man lying
in the hall. She gavo the. alarm
and when a light was procured
the body proved to be that Of her hus-
band, who, it was supposed, had come
! home, gone up stairs in the dark and
losing his footing had fallen down tho
stairs fracturing his skull. He was
dead when found.
A LATE fire at Webb City destroyed
the livery stable OF Ward & Thalbarn,
the Buffalo Hotel and five one-story
structures. The total loss was about
81 GOO. There was no insurance except
5000 on a carpenter shop. The fire
originated in the livery stable. Twenty
two horses persisted, fourteen belonging
to the firm and eight to hoarders. Six
buggies and carriages, two transfer
wagons and sprinklcS owned by the
firm, and ten vehicles owned by board
ers were destroyed.
JAY BoRIGuT, Kansas City real
estate man and woud-be sharper, was
recently indicted by the grand jury OF
Jackson County for attempting to swim
die an old colored couple by the name of
Sweeney out of their land, which they
bought twenty-five years ago and which
is now part of Kansas City and valued
at $500 Boright attended to business
for the old couple, who can not read nor
write, and under pretense of writing a
will for them got them to sign deed
conveying all their real estate to him at
their death. The fraud was accidentally
discovered and he was indicted Boright
had removed to Chicago, but an officer
was sent after him with requisition.
HENRY PARKER, charged with the
murder of Emma Reichels, in Macon
County last January, and concealing hel
body in her fathers well, and who
escaped from the county soon after The
murder occurred was recently arrested
at Canton, Ill, and taken back to answer
the charge. Parker denied any knowl
edge of the crime.
A FIGHT recently took place in thc
little village of Sebree, ten miles cas-
Of Fayette, between John c. Thier, thc
village merchant, and Dr. G. NJ. Nichols
During the difficulty Nichols threw {
bottle at Thier, who, in turn, fired {
: pistol at the doctor, the ball striking ;
bystander named John Gilmore, produc
: ing fatal wound.
THE jury in the Francis M. Wrigh
case, recently tried at Clinton on
, change of venue from Bates County re
, turned a verdict of acquittal. Wrigh
fred on charivari party last fall tina
persisted in annoying him at the mar
! riage of his daughter, killed one OF tn
party and wounded several others,