The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-11-05
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

Buchanan county.
THE fifteenth annual convention of
the Y. M. c. A. of Missouri began in
the Broadway M. Z. church at Hanni-
bal on the evening of October 90.
A woman at Carthage re-
Gently attempted to fill a burning lamp
when it exploded, probably fatally
burning the woman and destroying her
house and furniture.
DAVID HILL, the farm hand who so
brutality assaulted Mrs Moreland Mt
her home near Edgcrton Junction, was
later captured while trying to cross the
Missouri river at St Joseph.
THE governor has granted a respite
until December 4 TO Charles Seaton, of
Jasper county, recently sentenced by
the supreme court, on affirmation OF
the finding of the lower court, to hang
October 81.
A FIRE recently broke out in the lum-
Der yard of Ii. II. Lincoln & Co. at Holt
which destroyed the yard, the post
office and other property to the value
of $50, 600. Supposed to have been the
work of an ~incendiary.
Gov. FRANcish has appointed delegates
to the road congress that meets at At
lanta, Ga, the national farmers meet
ing to be held at Sedalia November 10.
and the mining congress to be held at
Denver November is.
WHILE Luke Wright, n st. Charles
county farmer, was recently returning
from church with his family, the team
ran away and threw them out. Wright,
his wife and one child were fatally in
jured and another child thought to be.
JosEpH HOWELL, the school teacher
who murdered Mrs. Minnie Hall and
her four children in Linn county in the
winter of 1889, and who was recently
convicted at Trenton, has been
sentenced to be hanged February 8,
1892.
JAMES CALLAHAN shot and killed
Frank Hitler at Clarence the other
evening. A woman was the cause Of
the ARRAY. The sheriff summoned a
posse of fifty armed men to go in pur-
suit of the murderer. L%ynching was
strongly talked of.
THE state treasurer has forwarded to
the National Bank of Commerce, New
York, n draft for 500, 900 to take up
state refunding bonds called for re-
demption November /. lie also for
wardcd a draft for s.. 24t. o5 to pay the
fractional interest.
THE state insurance comm ~issioner
has forwarded to State Treasurer Ste
phens the schedule of taxes due from
foreign insurance co m panies doing
business in Missouri The total is sl75,-
40 So, of which 500, G76. 10 has been paid
to counties and municipalities
THE Pearson creek bridge op the
Kansas City, Springfield & Memphis
railroad, near Springfield, gave way re-
Gently while a freight train was pass
pletely demolished. A passenger
named Cotton was seriously hurt
BECAUSE of fancied neglect from the
ma, she loved Mary ~Schlecdcr, a good
looking maid servant employed in the
family of DR.. William Cummings, OF
st. Louis, ended her life the other
morning by jumping into a cistern in
the rear of her employers residence.
WILLIAM JOHNSON vas shot and killed
at Hartvillc, Webster county, the other
day by his father, Sol johnson. The
young nan was on a spree and tried to
compel his father to drink and when
he refused knocked him down and was
beating him, when the father shot
the son. The dead man had been shot
twice before while playing the bully.
WHILE Mrs. Sadie Kicker and 6
friend, Mrs, DAILY, were passing the
corner of Tenth street and Clark ave
nue. in st. Louis about eight O'Clock
the other night Joseph Farley stepped
out from a crowd of toughs who were
loaiug on the corner and struck Mrs
DAILY in the face with his clcnched fist
| Mrs. Kicker intcrfered, w%hcrcupon Far.
ley threw her down and commenced
beating her most numerically with his
fists and finally stamped her to death,
He then jumped into a buggy and drove
away.
AN explosion took place at the
Chester & Keller manufacturing com
pauy's works in st. Louis the Other
day, as n result of which two men will
probably die. The concern is a handle
mandatory and employs a large
number of men. Edward Weilcn. the
engineer, and Henry Kosher, the fire
man, entered the dust room with {
torch when the dust ignited and in
stantly there was n terrific explosion
followed by flames. Three men rushed
into the burning oom and dragged the
fireman and engineer out, but they
were SO terribly burned that they could
80 h. ,1-
badly burned.
The bulletin issued by the state
agricultural department for the week
ending October "a, says: THE con
tinued absence of sufficient rain is hav,
ing n serious effect on the wheat Be.
| cause of this the acreage will be less
than that of last year, whereas If the
conditions for seeding had been good i,
would have been increased. OF thai
sown the general complaint is that II
has come up ~unevenly or still lays in
the dust. The conditions prevail more
or less in all parts Of the state. TIL,
week has been favorable for gathering
corn and the crop is being secured il
good condition."
HARRY REED, of Bogard, who hat
been visiting relatives at breckenridge
boarded tho Brooltfield accommodation
the other evening just as the train wa
leaving, but in leaning forward to Sc,
his friends, whom he was leaving. fel
under the wheels and was crushed t.
death. He was about twenty years old
The body of a well-developed infant
with the head crushed in, was recent,
found in a we'll on a farm in Sullivan
county lately occupied by a famil,
named Hutchinson. The family ha'
| fed hut unrrants for thair arrast war