The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-08-14
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.


tory Of u big case which originated in
Kansas City. In May or June last the
Mooney & Roland agency received a
number of forged checks from bank at
Newton, Kan, with instructions to fer
ret out tho forgcr. Detectives vcro at
once put on tho trail, and after time
learned that tho checks were put out by
JIrobst
j. j. BAKER, a lawyer of Troy, Kan,
was found in the railroad yards at st.
Joseph the other night his.right arm
cut off at the elbow and his head gashcd
in several places. lie was taken to the
hospital and next morning recovered
consciousness long enough to stnEn ihat
he met n stranger in n saloon in the
south part of the town with wholr lie
took several drinks. At night, rhilu
walking along a dark Tart of Sixth
street. the stranger stepped behind him
and struck him crushing blow on tho
back Of the head. This was the last he
remembered 1t was supposed that after
robbing Baker the man took his body to
the tracks and Ia d it across the rails,
where train passed over him.
SAMUEL NELSON, a gambler, shot and
killed Mrs. Clemcntinc Manning at n
house of ill-reputo in st. Lou th" Other
morning. She was disSoluto woman
who had been intimate with Nelson,
but had broken off the relation.
The other day a watcrspout drcnchcd
the country south of Ozark. Fisher and
Collins valleys were flooded and great
damage done to the farms and crops
Eascn an old man, who carries thr mai
from Ozark to Galena, Stone County
was caught by the storm in Elk val cy
and narrowly escaped being drowned.
His wagon was overturned. Fences
whole fields of growing corn and stacks
of wheat and hay were washed away by
the flood.
THE Republican State convention to
nominate Cand date for JTdgc of the
Supreme Court, Superintendent of
Schools and Railroad Commissioner will
be held at jefferson CITY August as
The convention will cons st Of $40 dcl.,-
gates, tre ratio being one delegate for
every 500 and fraction OF 150 votns cast
in lSSS for Il l.. Kmball for Governor
JESSE STI rIIENS died at Chlicothc
the other day at the age OF Ia years.
lie was the first white settler of Living
ston County.
HANNIBAL is kicking on the census
returns. The count gives her 12.sl3
population when she is confident it
ought to be l5, 00O.
The National Dental Association, re.
Gently in session at Sweet Springs,
elected the following officers: President,
DR. A. W. Harlan, OF Chicago; first vice
~-pres dent, pr,J D. Patterson of Kan
sas CITY; second vicc-prcsident, llr. II.
B. Noble, of Washington, d. c.; record
ing secretary, DR.. George II. Cushing,
of Ch cago: corresponding secretary,
Fred A. Levy, of Orange, n. j.. treas
urcr, A. II. Fuller, of st. Louis: cxccu-
tive committee, l.. d. Shepard, Massa-
chusetts; H. a. Smith, Ohio; c. \.
Pierce, Pennsylvania
JoHN j. MASrIS, one of the carly set
tiers Of JACKSON County, died recently
at Kansas City after a brief illness,
aged about sixty years. His estate is
sad to amount to about S3, O0), 600
GEORGE lIEIMEH applied at the mayors
Office at st. Joseph the other day for as
sistanco. His left eye was blown olt,
the right one was almost blinded and
his right arm was horribly manglcd.
He stated that while walking along the
B. & NJ. railroad tracks he picked up
what appeared to be a box of backing
and upon opening it there was an cX-
p'osion, which caused his injuries. The
box contained dynamite.
NrwMAN IlrEpN gnvnntnnn unnrC ,II
employed by tho electric light com
pany at Kansas City, while recently
tr mining n tree to receive the wires
fell and received fatal !niur 5.
CLoUs RoENFEIp, Il st. Louis saloon
keeper, recently got into a quarrel with
several partes and commenced shoot
ing. One of the bullets struck col
ored man some distance off and killed
him instantly. Roenticd was arrested.
TIE bonded debt Of Missouri in 1850
was SlG,97 900 In 1899 it is IS. 7s3 900,
showing reduction in ten years of s..
l05, 900. The cash ard funds on hand
in 1850 were 50, G?G, ,GT0; in 1899 they are
S4,0lI250.
THE other day Mrs, Abraham Mcuscr,
an old lady living near Green Ridge,
was thrown from a wagon by n runaway,
and fell against barb wire fence,
which cut her neck horribly. She may
die.
Il. III. RoGERs, a Kansas City stock
man, on July al started for ChiUu go
with several cars of cattle, and on tho
night of August 1 a farmer in Warren
County, H., found in a grain stack
hatless, dcmented man in a pitiablc con-
dition. Letters found on him showed
that he was the Kansas City stockman.
How he came there no one know, he
could answer no questions intelligently.
His fam ly was communicated with and
in short time Rogers was returned
home, a mental and physical wreck.
HoS. RICHARD b. BLAND, who was re-
Gently renominated by the Democrats of
his district for Congress, has been NOM
mated ten times in succession.
The Democrats Of the Seventh dis
trict have renominated Hon. r. ii. Nor
ton for Congress
A HURRICANE recently passed over
Boonv!llc, doing considerable damage.
THE old plant of the Laclede fire
brick works at ST. Louis was recently
destroyed by fire Loss, 500, OO); insur-
ancc, S4S, 900.
PAUL GAGER, a Hungarian seventy.
three years old, feeble and about crazcd
with an unsat able thirst for whisky
committed suicide the other day about
noon by hanging himself to the limb Of
a tree in tho woods near Kansas City.
The deed was prompted by the refusal
of his daughter-in-law to give him
money to purchase whisky
SAM BEAGLE, twenty-four years of