The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-06-18
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
GEN. JoHN Mcneil dropped dead at
st Louis the other day. lie was II
years old
LorIs RrTLING, the St Joseph wife
murderer who was under sentence to
hang and who escaped from the Jail at
Savannah "A few days before he was TO
have been executed, was recently lo-
Gated in Chicago by detective.
THE secretary of the treasury has an
nounced that the government has ac-
cepted for the new public building at
Kansas City the site bounded by Eighth
and Ninth streets and Grand avenue
ana McGec street; price Sij0000
WILL MCDONALD, a young Audrain
county farmer, was recently stabbed
perhaps fatally, by Ed Hall, dissolute
young man, at Centralia. Hall was un-
der the influence of liquor at the time,
and the assault was unprovoked.
DIR. j. E. ROBERTS, pastor of All
Souls Unitarian church, at Kansas
City, has declined an official call from
the church of the Messiah in Chicago,
the most influential church of the Uni
tartan denomination west of Boston.
A ST. LOUIS lady made cake which
was rallied off for the benefit of the ex-
Confederate home near IIigginsville
and brought $l41. The cake was then
sent to Kansas City and again rallied
OFF for the same purpose and again
netted handsome sum.
1r is stated that bryant college, a
popular school at Sprague, which was
virtually wrecked short time since by
strife between the leading professors of
the institution, has been purchased by
the Southern Methodists and reorgan-
lied as denominational school.
The rumor that Hon. John j. Ingalls,,
Of Kansas, had been rendered the chair
nanship of Washington university, at
st, Louis is said to be without founda-
ton, the senator's name having proba-
bly, been confused with that of his
brother, Rev. +. T. Ingalls,, of SPRING
field.
The judges of the supreme court
met recently at jefferson City for the
purpose of electing clerk for the en-
suing six years After taking many
ballots Capt. d. Connor, of Lexington,
was chosen. Henry w. Ewing, the
present clerk, was not d candidate for
re. election.
LEWIS DAVIS and Thomas hughes
were instantly killed the other after
noon at Belleville, six miles from Jop-
lin. They We're working in the Buck
eye shaft and had nearly reached the
surface of the earth when the tub be-
came detached and they were prccpi-
tated to the bottom of the mine; dis
tance of III feet.
THE other morning Mrs. c. X Jaynes,
wife of a wealthy Chicago turfman left
the home of Mrs. S.hulte, in St Louis,
where she and Mr.. Jayncs had been
stopping, to go down town. The last
seen of her was at the four courts,
where she reported that she had been
robbed of pocketbook containing
some currency. She carried So, 900 or
SIS, 900 worth of diamonds in chamois
bag, which she had placed in her
bosom. The police were at work on
the case.
Two boys, Claude Franklin, white,
years old, recently got into a quarrel
over game of marbles at Fulton, when
Franklin drew from his pocket a knife,
the blade of which was about four
inches long, and as the Kibby boy turned
to run, thrust it to the hilt in his back
Just under the shoulder blade, the in
strument entering the lungs, from the
effects of which the wounded boy may
die. Franklin only short time since
attempted to stab one of his playmates.
SHERIFF DAY laft Springfield the
other night for Williamson county,
Tenn, with j. M. Green, a well re-
spected farmer of Greene county for
more than fifteen years, charged with
stabbing to death Billy Henry in Will
hanson county, Tenn, seventeen years
ago. Green has never denied doing the
stabbing, and he and all his friends say
it was in self-defense, and that his ar
rest now can be accounted for only on
the theory that some detective has
worked the matter up in the hore of
getting fees
The general manager of the Kansas
City, St Joseph & Council Bluffs rail
road estimates that the cost of making
the repairs necessitated by the recent
washouts between St Joseph and Kan.
sas City will be equal to at least one
half of the original cost of construction
of the road.
w. w. MoIR was recently arrested AT
Kansas City for variogs forgeries. His
'plan of campaign to systemat
.cally go into stores, buy small bill
and present a check, signed by some
prominent. business man, for Sl2 and re-
ceive the change. Ho passed more than
dozen such checks before being r'ln
down,