The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-03-19
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

man who was found dying in the road
near Kansas CITY the other night leads
to the conclusion that Eaton shot him
self 40 cause could be given for such
an act
THE president of the senate has APP
pointed as delegates to the commercial
congress at Kansas City Senators Teas
dale, Clay, sta Ike and stone, and the
speaker Of the house selected Mcssrs.
Patrick, Dalton, Church, Florcd and
Weeks on the part of the house.
a DEFY laid and cunning plot, by the
execution of which at least twenty-five
desperate criminals would have escaped,
was discovered and frustrated at Kan
sas City, the other day Small saws
had been conveyed to prisoner. hidden
| between the leaves IF magazines, by
woman who had been admitted to his
cell
AT n recent meeting of the board Of
managers of the state insane asylum at
Fulton DR.. Young, second assistant.
was deposcd and DR., sexton elected t"
fill his place. DR.. Kaber. Of hannibal.
was elected to fill the place Of DR.. Sex
ton. i. /. Bailey, of Fulton. was Sc
lccted rs steward. DIR. Rode. supcrin-
tendcnt. rendered his resignation, which
was accepted.
Mr. viz, of Phelps, wants the ma
tional capital removed t. Missouri. and
as tho first preliminary step has intro
duced the necessary resolution into the
Legislature. a sort of enabling act as it
were. lie is not particular whether
St Louis, Kansas CITY, Springfield,
jefferson City, st. Joseph or Rulla Sc
cures the prize. if it is only brought to
! Missouri
The residence of Mrs. :. j. Burks. at
Sedalia. was burned to the ground at
an early hour the other morning. The
fire was believed to be Of an inccndiary
origin. Mrs. Burls and her two chill
dren escaped with difficulty i'll their
night clothing. after having been almost
asphyxiated The house was worth
! 81 200 and was insured for 500. All
the household effects, valued at 500,
were lost.
MRs SOPHIA RAUH was arrested at
Hannibal the other day on the charge
of placing a quantity Of drugs in the
cistern of r. B. Warren, with the pur-
pose of poisoning the members of his
! family. All were taken i'll, hut rccov-
cred after time. The bucket in which
! the drugs were miXcd was discovered.
Mrs. Rauh is a ncirhhor OF the Warrens,
| and n fcud has existed between the fam
! lies for some time.
SOMEBODY has been comparing the
salaries Of Kansas City officials with
the salaries paid the highest officials in
| the federal government. The city
treasurer seems to be getting as much
as the treasurer of the United States.
The shovel brigade" is paid twice as
much as other common laborerS. The
chief of police draws the pay of "a
| brigadier-gencral, and the city engineer
the pay of the first assistant postmaster
| general An ordinance has been intro
duccd in the city council which lops Off
about $50, 900 in salaries
The other day an unknown man en-
tered building at st. Louis in which
some plaStcrcrS We're at work. lie had
a revolver in his hand, and the plaster
ers asked him whore he was going, tn
which he replied: IL am going down
in the cellar" They told him he could
not do So, whercupon he placed the re-
volycr to his right temple. and before
he could he stopped fired two shots
into his head and dropped dead. He
had il small sum of money in his pocket
and several receipts for money, hut
there were no initials on his clothing
or anything that would lead to his
identification.
JuHN SrURGEuN, II prosperous young
Putnam county farmer, was recently
arrested upon the charge of making
counterfeit dollars He was tried be-
fore Judge Phillips in the United States
cour, at Kansas City and sentenced to
one year in the pcntcntiary. While ut
the government building t. receive sen
tence he wrote note anl handed it tn
friend to give his relatives. The note
contained Il threat to commit suicide,
and an examination disclosed the fact
that Spurgcon had poison with which
to execute his design. 1t was taken
away from him and he was hurried off
to the penitcntiary. lie is IS years OF
age and always bore the reputation of
being an honest and industrious farmer
until the present difficulty arose
The total appropriations RECON-
meudcd by the house committee on ap-
preparations to meet the requirements
of the state for two years is S',TsO,-
O7g, 80. OF this sum S5,0l0,2475 50, or al'
most one-half, is payable from the state
interest and sinking funds to the cNtin-
punishment of the state debt, and ,I66,'
So is chargeable to the revenue fund.
From this latter fund should be deduct
ed about 81, 400, 900 the estimated APP
portionment of school moneys, leaving
a total of So, 1866. s31. Stitl another de-
duction should be the sum of S19,94+,94
deficiencies in the appropriations OF
the previous general assembly, for
which the present assembly Is com
PEELED to make provision, and still
further deduction of S42l, 600 appropri-
alton of the earnings of the Missouri
penitentiary, which are not taxes col
lectoi from the people. This leaves
the actual amount of appropriations
from the revenue fund for the next two
years as reported by the committee,
81, s65, SS7 .O6, while the appropriations
for the same purposes two years ago
were S9,919,+ AS, making balance III
favor of the present general assembly
of S1l3, ,59094.
On the night of March 10 Nicholas I,
Eaton, a wealthy stoelkman. was found
diving in the road near Westport with
n bullet in his brain. He lived only
few hours. He had been shot while rid
ing in his buggy. His pistol was found
near with two chambers empty, and
the coroner was investigating as to