The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-10-15
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

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heart disease near his home in Kansa
City the other day.
WILLIS CHAPLAIN, in the employ o
the Kansas City Electric Light Co., wa
instantly killed by an electric curren
while rene wing the carbons of lam,
In that city the other afternoon.
ST. Louis enjoyed the veilet
PROPHETS parade on the evening OF tn
9th and on the following evening th
people OF Kansas City and adjacen
country flocked to the parade of tn,
Priests of Pallas.
On Buffalo island twelve miles ives
OF kennett the other day John Gibb
and j. j. Bolin had trouble about ;
church building that was being erected
and in the affray Bolin struck Gibb
with fence rail, death resulting In ,
few hours
| A PACKAGE containing So, 900 in cur
rency was stolen from the Office of the
Adams express company at the north
side depot in Springfield few nights
ago and no clew TO the thief has been
obtained The money was placed by
the Exchange bank in the office for
shipment
THE salvation army, growing tired
OF repeated arrests and refusals OF the
city officials of Moberly to try their
cases before The circuit court, recently
turned the table on the city by having
the three policemen who arrested the no
arrested in turn and sent to Huntsville
jail, where, failing to give bond, the
policemen were locked up
CHARLES +. VAIL, of st. Louis, whose
trial for the murder of his wife at OIL
Monroe, in February, 1890, resulted in
a mistrial at the last term of court, has
| teen rearrested on new indictment,
charging him with numbering his wife
to secure large amount Of insurance
mooey which he had placed upon her
life. lie was taken to the st. Charles
| Jail
On the 5th Gov. Francis appointed
hfteen additional delegates to attend
the commercial congress at Omaha,
making Missouri's delegation sixty-six.
lie has also appointed eighteen dele
gates to the western waterways con
vention, to be held at Evansville, Ind.
October Is, and fourteen delegates to
the national prison association at
Pittsburgh. October 10 to Is
MONTAGUE BAYNE, the young man
recently arrested in New York for en-
bezzling 50, 800 from Marks & Co, a
Chicago clothing firm, is also wanted at
st Joseph for embczzling $500 from
The Lyon Judson Hardware Co. two
years ago. after leading a dual lifo
turing whi.h he became engaged 10 a
prominent young lady to whom he was
afterwnrd quietly married in Illinois
WHEN Cashier Diffendorfer, OF the
bank OF Lebanon. entered the bank the
other morning he found lot Of bur-
open. The cracksmen had attacKeu
the safe, but could only open the outer
door, the burglar proof inside door be-
ing imprcgnab'c. The thieves rum
maged among the papers in the vault,
but did not carry away any OF them.
THE other night as Detectives Gaff-
ney and Mcclure were passing a saloon
1t Broadway and Biddle street, in St
Louis, they met Mike Cavanagh and
Mike Burke, both notorious criminals.
The officers attempted to arrest them,
but cavanagh got away and Burke
drew n pistol and levelcd it at Gaffney.
The latter knocked the gun out of his
hand and picking it mp shot Burke
twice, both bullets entering the head.
A RUNAWAY cable car dashed in the
crowd at Tenth and Main streets dur
ing the parade of the Priests of Pallas at
Kansas City on the evcning of the nth.
People were knocked down by the car
and by one another and number were
trample under foot and two or three
run over. -Four soldiers from Fort
Leavenworth. lady ma ne Mrs Peer
and George Rice, a colorcd man, were
the ones injured. One OF the soldiers
had leg broken.
Miss BECCA BIswEIt. aged about
eighteen, left her home at browning
the other evening for parts unknown.
She disguised herself and boarded the
west bourd passenger train on the Chi
cago, burlington & Kansas City rail-
way. Her parents, who, it is said, have
| always been kind to her, are almost
distracted. She has, previous to this
time, made several attempts to abandon
her home and friends, but was each
time thwnrted in her design.
AN attempt was made at train wreck
ing on the Wabash at Renick, six mi. es
east of Moberly, at 1880 o'clock the
other morning Several cross ties were
placed across the track. The ties were
discovered and smashup avoided by
the train crew of an east-bound stock
extra. The stock extra had orders tc
side-trn at Clark, three miles east o.
Repicls. but for some cause stopped IL
the latter place and thereby prevented
what might have been serious wreck
RICHARD WooD, bookkeeper for tht
Schoffield, Schurmer e Tengler Oil Co.
of St Joseph, was arrested the
other day for crime committed
three months ago. At that time thu
safe OF his firm was robbed o
cash and the books It was supposed
that the work was done by some on,
familiar with the combination Of tn,
safe, and Wood was watched. WheI
charged with the crime he confessed
saving he had thrown tho books int
the river to cover up a shortage. Woot
Is only nineteen years OF age and hi
parents reside In Nebraska City, Neb
The preliminary trial Of Terry Camp
bell, at Ritchey, charged with the mur
der OF his thirteen-yenr-old daughter
ended In his discharge from custody
The complaint was made by tw
amateur detectives and was considere,
an outrage by the whole community
There is a rev ard OF $1,000 for the rea
murderer.
DEh ELpKIpGE, brakeman, wa
struck by water tank spout nea
Laredo the ptNer day and Instant