The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-04-02
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

of n total of 1,03G introduced.
The governor has granted d stay OF
execution until April IS to Webster
Jackson, who had been sentenced to be
hanged at Washington March ~.
The American Baptist educational So
ciety has given William Jewell College
$40, 900, on condition hat the Bap-
lists of Missouri raise $40, 900 to add to it.
THE governor has signed the bill re-
curing employers of female help to
provide suitable seats orthcm, also the
bill to protect hotel keepers from dead
beats.
WILLIAM GARNER, Of Mexico, who
was recently attacked with hydro
phobia, died in Il few days in great ag-
ony. He was bitten by Il dog about
twenty years ago.
Gov. FRANCIS has received Il United
States treasury warrant for s6iG, 05S. 23,
the amount due the state under the pro-
visions of the direct tax bill. lie signed
the endowment act and the money vas
passed to the credit of the university
endowment fund.
Mrs. MARY Il. CUSHING. mother of
the late Commander Cushing, the hero
of the Albermarle affair, died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. +. II.
Boutcn, in st. Joseph the other day,
aged So years.
y SUIT in II Justices court at Bunce.
ton, IL small village near Boonvillc, ter.
minated in Il free fight the other even.
ing, in which the Dratfcns. Robert
Davis and Pete Arnold figured pro-
rn1SAI1nlA1y u'1n 1n.t ,,,,,N,1 ,,,- .ul.
ably injured fatally.
JAMES KIRK, under sentence to six
years for burglary, recently jumped
from a train while being taken from
Springfield TO the ~pcnitentiary. The
train was running at the rate of forty
miles an hour. A large reward is of
fcrrcd for his recapturc.
TIE Legislature completed its work
on the oath and adjourned sine die. Be.
fore adjourning the Judiciary commit.
tee of both houses made reports sustain.
ing the position of the g~overnorin rcfus-
ing to recommend the ccssion to tho
United States of certain military rcser-
vations.
CHARLES NJ. CHAPMAN, of Chilli.
Gothic, has won the West Point cadet
ship in Il competitive examination for
that appointment. He will be appoint
cu by congressman Mansur. This
makes SIX Chlllicothe boys who have
Wen military cadctship honors during
the past eighteen years,
The executive committee of the
Southwest Missouri press association
met at Springfield recently with Fred
King, of the Marshticld Standard, as
president and sam Kcllar, of the Leb-
amor Republican, as secretary, and ar.
ranged Il programme for the next an
nual meeting of the association, which
Will be held ut Lebanon Nav II to 90.
HE jury in the case of William Price,
the negro on trial at Marshall for rape,
returned a verdict of guilty and as
ScSsed the prisoners punishment Mt
death. The assault was made last No.
vember on Miss Alice Ninas neal Sweet
Springs, while she was returning home
from school. The young lady, who was
recently married, committed suicide
several weeks ago.
PATRICK HoREN, an eX-policeman, was
h o and killed at Kansas City the other
evening by John Malone. The killing
was the result of an old grudge, Horen
having been several times discharged,
the last time as a fireman, which he at
ipute to Malone, who was then fore
man of the company TO which Horen
belonged. Both men were drinking at
the time of the shooting.
IL. >. MEACHAM, senior member of the
firm of II. 5. Meacham & Co., importers
ana manufacturers agents, was arrest
cd at Kansas City the other day on the
charge OF embcz2lement. The COM
plant was from n. & q. Taylor, tin
plate importers, of Philadelphia. Tay-
lor charged Mcacham with not making
proper returns ON sales. The latter,
however, claimed that his itcmized
statement would show everything COR
rect.
MRS a.. D.. RUSSELL, of st. Joseph,
was found lead in a room with Reuben
>. l~latton, a prominent citizen, at Des
MONIES, Ia, the other morning. They
had been asphyXiated by escaping gas.
Mrs. Russell was well known at st.
Joseph and her two SON did not know
she was in Dcs MOincs until learning of
her death. Her husband obtained a di-
vorce several years ago on account of
her relations with Hatton.
CHARLES +. SMITH, some time ago
married n Mrs. Greene, near Dawn. He
TOOK n great dislike to her fvc-year-old
son, and the other day in Il fit of rage,
he beat the child SO severely that it
died the next day. An examination cf
the body showed it TO be covered with
bruises, and one side of his head was
crushed, A lynching was threatened
II Smith fled, Mrs. Smith was sub