The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-08-27
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

WILLIAM WORKMAN, brakeman on
the Frisco railroad, accidentally fell
before the wheels at Phillipsburg,
forty-five miles east of Springfield, tho
other day and his body was cut in two.
The other day Silas Alderman, OF
Dearborn, while on a spree went TO
drug store at Edgerton, where he stole
bottle Of poison, believing IL TO be
whisky and drank it. He died in a
short time
A TERRIFIC electric storm recently
startled the people Of Louisiana and
other portions Of Pike county. On the
farm Of Judge T. ]. MaclSey two valua-
BILE Clydesdale horses were killed by
lightning.
SEVERAL hundred feet OF the track
of the main line of the Wabash railroad
tumbled into the river at Missouri City,
few miles below Randolph, during
the storm on the 2Ist Travel for
time was completely blocked. .----.....,
~ sew EgANcIs has granted six
weeks respite 70 NJ. V. nathen, thq
murderer who was to have been hanged
at Poplar Bluff ON the 21st The ground
on which II was granted is that con-
Wet has confessed to the murder for
which Harden was sentenced to be
hanged.
-o--k.- CALDWELL cashier, William
Christian, president and w. II, Robin
son, q tiireetor, Of tlee defunet bnnI nj
NeTaia,Twers rscentlY arrested. upon
eomplninl .of a deposstof atid Rave
bonds for appearances for trial. II Is
charged that they knew that the bank
was insolyent a year before it closed.
1t is said depositors will not realize ten
cents on the dollar.
A MAN supposed to be an escaped
lunatic from Kansas asylum was re-
Gently found in the brush near Nevada.
lie could not give-his name, residence
or any account of himself. He was
eating leaves and coclsle burs when
found, but positively refused to eat food
when IL was placed before him. The
county court declined to do any thing
for him and he was released.
THE recent wreck of Santa Fe train
near Hanland worked the mischief TO
n large amount of Kansas City mail
matter. The train was thrown into
ditch filled with water, and the letters
and papers were soaked through and
through. There wereJUU letters frr-the
post office at Kansas City so soaked that
they had to be dried out before they
could be handled or delivered.
II. l.. GREENLEAsE, who claims TO
make his living by teaching the art Of
detecting counterfeit money, was ar
rested at Slater the other day on n
eharpa nf ,,aecipor oo,,ptorfa;t ,,,,ra,,
The charge is that he, in January last,
passed a ffty-dollar bill on a woman Of
bad reputation at indianapolis. Green
lease claimed that he passed the bill
through mistake while intoxicated.
ABOUT two o'clock on the morning
| Of the Goth two masked robbers held
| up Conductor Cassie, of Council
Bluffs freight train, when his train
stopped at a signal station in the Clay
county bottoms, two miles from Kan.
sas City, and robbed him of his watch
and a small sum of money. The rob
bers then shot j. L. White, the brake.
man, dead and escaped. White was
thirty-six years old and had wife and
child in St Joseph
A VERY heavy rainfall occurred al
Edna the other night which caused
the washout of several miles Of track
on the Santa Fe road and during which
two wrecks occurrad on that road west
of Hunland. A cattle train was badly
wrecked and two miles distant the YES.
tibuled express, west-b6und, left the
track and toppled over into a ditch
filed with water. The engineer was
killed and the fireman severely hurt
THE time for the trial of road grader.
has been postponed until September IS
IS and II, when 1t will take place al
Mexico under the auspices OF the stat,
board of agriculture. On the second
day of the contest there will be an
evening session at the court house il
Mexico, for the discussion of road i'm
provement problems The entire boarC
of agriculture, including Gov. Francis
will attend, and judges of county
courts, county road commissioners
road overseers and others interested il
the improvement of roads, are especial
ly urged to be present Reduced rail
road and hotel rates will be secured.
AT business meeting of the ex-con
federate association of Missouri, hel,
at Kansas Kansas City at the close o
the late reunion, the report of the treas
iurer showed the amount paid out t,
have been S24, 901- OF, and the amour
on hand SIS, 17O55. James Bannormal
was elected president and Harvey w
Salmon vice-president The amour
contributed to the home at lIigginsvil!,
during the year by the Daughters o
the 'Confederacy, of St. Louis, was 81,
094, and the net amount realized from
the sale of badges at the reunion wa
s1,O3I 65. The executive committe
has on lrand SIS 900 for the home, whiel
Is to cost $4,000
Hon. q. 5. HALL, president Of tn
state alliance and chairman Of the com
mittee appointed at Fort Worth, Tex.
has issued a call for a meeting of ALI
ancemen of the United States, who ar
in sympathy with the Fort Worth reso
lutions, at St Lonis on September 10
the object of the convention beinj
stated 10 be ian effort on the part o
the. conservative members and rea
farmers OF the order TO emancipate tn
Farmers Alliance from the control o
scheming politicians and designing
demagogues-" The basis of represent
alton is fixed at three delegates fron
each and every county in the jurisdic
tion of the national alliance. Reduces
rates will be given on railroads
ONE of the most terrific wind, hal
and rain storms, that ever passed owe
that section occurred at Bowling Gree
onthe lfth Lightning fred the bar
Of w. ]. Sisson, and burned it to tn
ground with its contents, valued a
$1,000. Most destructive work was don