The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-03-26
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

| of nearly 1000 in favor of the admission
of women to the general conference was
shown by the laity on the vote reported.
The Legislature passed the antitrust
bill, which makes it a misdemcanor
punishable by fine of 500 day for
each day that company or corporation
is a member of trust that has in view
the raising of prices.
FIRE at St. Louis the other night to-
tally destroyed st. Georges Episcopal
church. 1t was one of the finest church
edifccs in the city. The cornerstone
was laid May 30, 1873. The church cost
Sis, 900 and was insured for $50, 900.
THE stock of the George A. Kennard
wholesale grocery company at st. Jo-
seph was entirely destroyed by fire the
other night Loss. Sl2O, 900; insurance,
900. The building was valued at
S35, 600, and was damaged to the extent
of Sl2,O
II. II. DAY, of St Louis, was recently
arrested at Milwaukee upon the charge
of attempting to pass Il forged draft for
50, 700. lie confessed that he had OBJ
tained draft for 50, taken it to Chicago
and employed an expert forger to coun-
terfeit the signature.
RECENTLY Is. f. Whitener, Il farmer
residing near Marquand, was engaged
in repairing his fence, and while digging
post holes discovered a vessel contain
ing 81, 900. Some of the coins were of
very ancient date. The treasure is
thought to have been buried during the
late civil war.
THE other morning two farmers
named Osborn and Wilson, living near
Cameron, became engaged in a dispute
over a rip-saw, probably worth about
Sl.5O, which resulted in Wilson shoot
ing Osborn in the head with "A shotgun.
Wilson skipped for parts unknown and
Osborn will probably die.
THE Musicians Protective association
OF Kansas City has been suspended from
connection with the national league of
musicians on account of the demoralized
conditions of its affairs One of the
Kansas City musicians went to Milwau-
liee to attend the convention, but was
refused a seat as a delegate.
JAMES S. ENsoR, notary public ana
attorney at law, well known in busi-
ness and social circles, has disappeared
from St Louis and, it is said, has mis-
appropriated some $1,000 loaned to him
by friends to whom he promised re-
turn on their Investments. The money
is supposed to have been squandercd on
gambling and dissolute women.
SIXTY of the Louis Fisher heirs had a
meeting at Independence the other day
to take steps toward securing legacy
of about ST5, 900, 600 which Is said awaits
the legal heirs of Louis Fisher, who
; left Germany and came to America in
) l74O. He died in Virginia in 1913, lcav-
ing only four children, but the heirs
now number up in the hundreds.
A LITTLE boy near Crescent recently
: tagged a Frisco passenger train and
saved it from being wrecked by horse
, that had fallen through a trestle, and
at the same time saved the horse (Which
' was valuable one) from being killed
lie was promised by the passengers
that he would be remembered" and
later received the munihcent reward of
one dollar from the owner of the horse.
D EARLY the other morning there was
Il terrific landslide on the bluff opposite
Eighteenth street, between Terrace
q and Mercier streets, at Kansas City, by
? which probably thousands of tons of
u rock and earth were loosened and came
c down the steep hill, forming an ava
I lanche that swept everything before it.
l. Three houses were partly DESTROYED
= and several colored families lost every
+ thing they had.
TnE local pool room men of Kansas
City do not appear to be much disturbed
over the passage of the anti-pool room
r bill by the Legislature. Nearly all of
u them say that the pool rooms will be
/, removed across the state line into Kan
% sas. Others say that as the bill does not
q forbid betting on the track, race
q course will be established in Kansas
i, City and races run all year. round. At
least four books or pool rooms will be
# allowed the privileges of the track
a 1o,,x Nr1rp colorod was recentlv
j., soptenced at Noxico to thn nonitcntiarv
h for n t,ru of civ reors on t,,n c,unt.
!. for burglary hovi,m entered n plca OF
"a ,,,,ut,, 7,.hiol, ,,,s . oo,onr,,oita On ,
:, 'b,rrn of murder In 1Ss1 the prisoner
Il ,,.os fnrrd C,,iIt,, of +bo r,urdnr ~ sam.
# roI An,,or a,,d vas condrmncd 70 death
# No stranrost orid,rn, ornin,t NIiIlc,
4 =. a., erIt .rio, ,,,os ,,;,,en nv, an ac.
",,r,1ino ,,,hn ,,,os .ont.ncod for At y
y uoar. Tbe srnrena cnnrt reversed th,
: oasn and sen+ II hack for another trial.
;, ND nc tbore was M wov 10 convict
q M;Ila, of ,nrr5er bc was ncrnitt ID tn
,,lo,d c,iltv of BURGLARY