The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-11-19
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

man, was u over by a switch engine
In the Missouri Pacific yards at Sedalia
the other day and his remaining arm
and one leg were cut off. He could
not live.
NEAR Holden the other day j. R
Nicholson, n young farmer, got into a
quarrel with Mike Davis about q girl,
when Davis struck Nicholson with a
wagon side stake, killing him almost
instantly.
A RECENT collision Of two freight
trains on the Frisco road near Spring.
field resulted in the killing of N. G.
Jones, conductor, and L. NJ. Smith, en-.
ginecr, both OF Springfield. Brakcman
I. ii. Musick was badly injured and
may die.
HuouEs, the printer evangelist who
had beoh in Jail at Sedalia for several
months for bigamy, pleaded guilty
when arraigned for trial the other day
and made a pathetic as well as effect
ual appeal for mercy when brought up
for sentence. lie got off with a sem
tence of three months in Jail and 500
fine.
Z. G. SurroN committed suicide at
Kansas City on the 9th by shooting
himself, He was thirty-three year
old aud had a wife and small daughter.
He left a note saying he was tired of
this life and vas willing to try another.
The note closed with the grim joke.
Some people may think / am full I
AMI have just eaten a hearty supper"
FRANK II. WsssEt, Il German aged
hfty-nine Years, committed suicide at
bis room in Kansas City the other day
by shooting himself. Vessel was n
carpenter and had lived in Kansas CITY
for ten years. His wife died several
years ago and he had since been board
ing, He brooded over his wife's death
and every Sunday visited her grave. He
had been drinking of late and was
somewhat in debt. but still up to the
time Of committing the act appeared
quite cheerful.
ABOUT six o'clock the other night two
masked men took possession of the Chi.
cago Il Alton depot at independence
and compelled the agent to open his
money drawer, from which they took
$50. They also robbed the agent of
$40 which he had in his pocket. They
were looking for a valuable package
which they supposed was there, on its
way to Chicago, but the agent con
WINGED them that the package was not
at the depot by showing them his route
book.
TWENTY years ago Howard county
voted S400. 600 bonds to the old Tebo &
Ncosho Railroad Co. Six years later
tw~enty-siX of the bonds disappeared,
and Notwithstanding the repeated call
since made for them, they have not
been presented. The time allotted for
their payment expired some ten years
ago. The county court recently de-
cided that the bonds were debarred bv
the statute of limitations. The money
to pay them has been in the treasury
for years.
PROF. JESSE, president of the State
university, says: Education is progress
ing we'll in the state and everything is
in good condition at the university.
There are $50 students now and so at
the school OF mining and metallurgy at
Rolla- This is 80 more than at the uni
versity at this time last year and the
iuiGNSt u pSiU CNCl III ~ SClOOl HI
one time. Improvements in every di-
rection are being made at the %univer-
sity. The agricultural college feature
has just been opened and is working
finely"
AT Kansas City the other day Judge
Henry rendered a decision favorable to
the defendant in the l~ong-contested
electrical patent case. The decision
is worth thousands of dollars to Ed
ward R. Gill, the young inventor of
what is apparently one of the most re-
markable electrical con~trivances ever
given to the world. The principal uses
to which it was expected to put the
machine was to automatically signal
and switch trains at any point along n
line, the entire line being under control
of one man.
BIsuor kEssLER, OF Salt Lake CITY,
was in st. Joseph the other day search
ing for the remains OF hts wife's broth
er, Orson Pratt, who died in that city
in 1919 OF the cholera, while en- route
to Utah. Pratt vas a prime mover in
Mormon affairs, and although he was
buried with hundreds OF others who
died at st. Joseph, his grave was
marked with headstone, Bishop Kess-
Ter succeeded in finding the headstone,
but the bones of Pratt were gone. The
old cemetery has been dcsecrated
lately by medical students, and it is
supposed the remains were carried off
by them.
PATENTS lntaly issued to Missouri in
ventors: L ectric car brake, l.. C. AT
wood, st. Louis; railway hand-car, j.
II. Baker, st. Joseph; driving gear for
velocipedes, j.. II. Baker, st. Joseph:
sand pump or other pipes, C &. Choen,
St Louis; Misunderstanding device, A.
Billion, Canton; fare receiver and
register, I" Ehrlich, st. Louis; bal
anced slide valve, C. Eversol, Spring.
field; wire stretcher, w. r. Hayden,
New Hartford; covering for steam
pipes, b. f. Hurst, St Louis; fruit
evaporation, S. A. Latimer, Long Lane;
feed trough. w. A. Lecch, Lamar,
pulverizing attachment for plows, j.
M. Pirtle, Arbela; attachment for
straw stackers, s.. q. Scholtz. Billings;
vapor stove, l.. Stockstrom, st, Louis;
steam engine, A. j. Vandegrift, st.
Louis; automatic sash lock, c. F. Var
ney, St Louis; hay rake, M. Whites,
Woodville.
INFATUATED with n st. Louis dry
goods clerk, who did not return her af~
lection, Miss Maggie Matthews S, former.
ly we'll known in st Louis society,
ended her life with a dose of morphine
nj 81 Chnrloc tho othnr 6oy Che 1aft