The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-08-13
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

anu the trdCR tOrn up uSluyinS tu'eS
other trains An unknown person who
was stealing a ride was seriously hurt
RoY'SCoTr, fourteen years old, living
near Louisiana, Pike county, was re-
Gently the victim of singular and
fatal accident His horse stumbled and
fell, throwing the boy, and rolling over
on him crushed his breast and skull.
lie died in a short time.
WHILE the nine-year.old son of James
Gahrean, night machinist Of the Mis-
souri, Pacific round house at Nevada,
was recently playing with other chill
dren under fiat car the train star ted
and the boys foot and leg were mashed
to pulp He could not recover.
THE worlds fair commissioners met
recently at Jefferson City and elected
officers as follows: N. II. Ge ntry, Of
Pettis county, president; Hon. Nathan
Frank, of st. Louis, vice-president;
DIR. j. McD. Cnffee, of Platte county,
treasurer; Charles w. Green, of Linn,
secretary.
IN the criminal court at St Joseph
on the 7th Louis Bulling, the wife mur:
dcrer, was sentenced to be hanged
September at Savannah. This was
his third sentence to death. lie es-
capped from Jail some time ago, few
days before the date of his execution,
and was subsequently captured in
Chicago.
AS the steamer Grand Republic was
pulling away from the wharf at st.
Louis the other night with a load of
eNcursionists, man, supposed to be
George Miller, printer twenty-onc
years old, ran down to the levee and at
tempted to jump aboard from the
wharfboat. His leap was short, how
drowned
THE Home Fascinator Co., of Mont
real, Canada, is fascinating fraud.
1t recently attempted to work a conf
dence game upon several ladies of Mar
shall, notifying them that they had
drawn the third prize in word contest
| and asking for remittance of S4 30 to
cover cost of packing. Investigation
showed the concern to be fraud.
WILLIAM JACKS, an engineer of the
st. Joseph waterworks company was
directing the moving of some water
pipe rp hill the other day when one
of the pipes broke loose and rolled
down, passing over his body, reducing
it to a shapeless mass, so that the re-
mains were not recognizable. Jacks
left wife and three children at
Leavenworth.
NJ. X. McGRATU, cx-secretary of
state, was recently in consultation with
the school book commission in regard
to the publication of history of the
state and its civil government, for use
in the public schools and colleges.
William Hyde has a manuscript history
of the state edited by him down to 1876.
| Mr.. McGrath has a manuscript copy OF
state history prepared by him from chat
time down to 1890. From these the
history proposed to be published is to
| be compiled.
| THE assignee of the late Citizens
| bank at Nevada recently received no
tice of a note for $50, 900 held against
the bank by the st. Louis Trust Co This
is the first intimation the assignee has
had of such additional indebtedness,
and there is no knowing how much
more the bank owes. This knocks the
last hopes entertained by depositors of
ever receiving anything. The capital
stock and deposits aggregated nearly
5000, 900, not dollar of which is likely
to be recovered. The feeling is grow
ing bitter against the officers Of the de
funct bank.
The crop bulletin for the weel
ended August |, issued by the state de
partment of agriculture, says: Corr
is suffering for rain in the southeas
section and in localities elsewhere, ou
generally fine in the northern sections
Returns from correspondents of tn,
board of agriculture for the MONTH,
bulletin, soon to be issued, show tn,
following percentrg ge condition of crop
for the state: Corn, 81 per cent; oats
n per cent; potatoes, 100 per cent.
hay, yield 100 per cent; quality 92 pc
cent; apples, ~ per cent Return
from threshermen indicate an averag
yield of fifteen bushels of wheat to tn,
acre for the state"
In February, 1891, Lueila Murray wa
convicted in the circuit court of Ran
dolph county of larceny and sentence,
to two years imprisonment WheI
committed she had with her a child
which was represented as being sever
months of age. The warden of tn
penitentiary protested against the re
ception of children and, as the count.
refused to pay for the care of tn
child, Gov. Francis pardoned the baby
mother, saying: "The penitentiary i
a penal institution not maintained 70
the confinement of infants, and as tn