The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-03-12
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.


AND now st. Louis dairymcn have
formed trust with capital of S3OO,0oo.
TIE social science club of Kansas and
Missouri will meet at Kansas City early
in May
THE collections in Vernon county FIR
the Confederate Nome amounted To
S9402a.
DImSa the last decade the colored
population of Missouri decreased e,INl,
and the white population Increased 5Oi,'
6I2
TnE governor has appointed Thomas
| b. Wheeler prosecuting attorney, OF
| Benton county, vice james II. Lay, re-
signed to accept the judgcship of the
| Twcnty-sccond judicial circuit.
TnE Missouri house on the 9th had II
| lively debate over resolution congrat-
| ulating the country over the adjourn
ment of Congress, and denunciacory "f
| Speaker Reed as Il presiding Officer.
The resolution was adopted
TnE state conference of the Mnthod'
list Episcopal church met at Irookficld
recently with 100 ministers from Mis-
souri, and Kansas in attendance. bishop
Vincent was given Il public reception
which was largely attended,
TnE clectrotypers and strreotrprrN
of Kansas City have organized union
| the second organization of tn" kind III
the state and sixth in tnc nitrd States.
| The Kansas City union gave bail On
the evening of March that ncttcd
| about Sl95.
AIArE poll of the Missouri house for
presidential preferences gave Cleveland
| 35 votes; John VI. Palmer. 10; Gov.
Boise 4 Bland, ,; Weaver, /: Gray, !.
There were II democrats against ClcvC-
land and II who had no choice. The To-
publican members were solid for
| Blaine.
WILLIAM MITCHELL. who murdered
''Voicclcss Mike" at the Fountain
theatcr in Kansas City. August, 1sSN.
and whose sentence to hang was COM
mutcd to life imprisonment only day
before the trap was To- be sprung. died
the other night at the pcnitcntiary of
consumption.
THE brick factory of the Srhclt wagon
and carriage works at st. Louis was al
most completely destroyed by fire the
other night An employe of the adjoin-
ing wagon company named Jacob
Bornecli, was severely injured hy fall
ing bricks. The total loss was placed
at $50, 900: fully injured.
THE body of Robert i. johnson was
found in Scott county the other day by
two men who were going from oran to
Little river. Johnson was last seen
alive ut still house on Little river on
February 81. when he left there i'll an
intoxicated condition. 1t is supposed
that he fell down. and being unable To
rise froze to death.
THE big pontoon bridge across the
Missouri river at st. Charles, which had
Just been repaired from the wreck of
the week before, was totally destroyed
by the heavy flood and lee the other
morning -Four men were carried away
with the wreck but We're subsequently
rescued. The damage amounted to
about S15. 200 or 100000.
D. F. STARNEs, II Kansas man, called
upon Gov. Francis the other morning to
ask him to otfer II reward for August
ScholtZ Il Dutch Snowman. StarncS
was nearly crazy over the loss of his
two girls, whom he charged ScholtH
with abducting January 10. StarncS'
st nv is that he was travelling from
Kansas to st Louis with the Snowman.
and that when near Holden the latter
stole the children.
The other morning young man
bought a ticket at the Frisco depot
at Carthage and took the wcst-hound
cannon ball train. Two hours later II
tclcrram was received saying the same
person was killed while trying to climb
ON a south-bound freight at Oron"g".
He seemed to be in hurry to get 10
Webb City. He was apparently about
10 years old OF ruddy complexion. and
shahbily dressed.
i YuUNG man who was known as
Joseph Edward Lake committed suicide
at Montreal. Can. the other day in Il
}. disrrputahlc house. and the dispatches
spoke of him as the "hlacli sheep of a
prominent st. Louis family and had
always led a wild and dissipatcd life
Subsequent developments proved him
to have been Russell Brown, who in
lss3 murdered his grandmother, Mrs.
Doris, in st. Louis, and who was sent
to the pcnitentury for the crime and
escaped about three years ago.
Tue jury in the Vail murder trial at
st. Louis, after trying two days II rra'h
a verdict, failed to agree. The jury II
the first eight ballots stood eight Tor ac-
outal to four for convictions; on all
other ballots eleven for acQuittal to one
for conviction. While Vail was helping
his wife in o a wagon near st. Charles
about year ago pistol in his ovcrcont
pocket was discharged and the ball
killed Mrs Vail. The young man al
ways declared it to have been an acci
I, dent but certain suspicious circum
stances led to his arrest and trial to
murder.
), THE governor recently sent the fol
I lowing nominations to the senate; w
;, C. Hall, for labor commissioner, to sue
coed Lee Merriwether. Reform schoo
: board of managers, W. NJ. Williams, o
Boonvillc, and X. L. Leer, of Monroe
: deaf and dumb asylum at Fulton, j. a
. Leavcll, of Galloway, q. i. Dunn, o
!, Lincoln, Frank Dessert, of Macon, am
4 NJ +. Bell, of Fulton; curators of tn
state university, j. r. Rippey, of Schuy
p Ter county, j. Il. Rothwell, of Rando 'pl
!, county, c. NJ. Woodward, of St Louis
and B. f. Cuthorn, of Audrain.
Ar a party at John IIildebrandt
house south of st. Joseph the othe
night a number of children were play
? ing hide and seek, when a shotgun wa
knocked down from hooks on the wa
:. and discharged, the shot striking IL siN
;. teen-year-old son of the host above tn
8 right ankle, almost severing the 10,