The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-11-12
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.


ment OF the St Louis Stamping Co..
mills has been officially declared off
and all the men ret ,rned to work, in
cluding the skilled laborers from
abroad.
ANDREW WooDs was shot by Joseph
O'Neill Mt Bunker Hill, near Fayette,
the other day and died day or two
later. The killing was the result of an
alleged intimacy of Woods with
O'Neill's wife.
JONATHAN CUNNINGHAM, Of dniiatin,
only recently released from the state
penitentiary for post off ce embezsle-
ment has been fined 800 and givenssix,e
months more on another count In the
old Indictment
THE monthly report OF the state
treasurer showed d balance in the
treasury October 81 of si69, GAG. 60; re.
ceipts for October, s17e, 31e 80; disburse-
ments, 1906, o67. 61; earnings of the PEN
itentiary, SIS, ,746.7l, and az per cent
state bonds redeemed, $3.50, ,0O0-malsing
a total reduction of the state bonded
debt since January last of 81, 45O, 900.
Il. G. SUTToN committed suicide at
Kansas City on the 9th by shooting
himself. He was thirty-three years
old and had wife and small daughter
He left note saying he was tired OF
this life and was willing to try another.
The note closed with the grim joke:
Some people may think l am full.
AMI have just eaten hearty supper"
INFATUATED with a ST. Louis dry
goods clerk, who did not return her af,
fection, Miss Maggie Matthews, former,
ly well known in St Louis society,
ended her life with dose of morphine
at St Charles the other day.. She left
letters telling why she committed the
deed. She was visiting friends at St
Charles and her widowed mother re.
sides at Albany, n. Y.
The secretary of state gives out the
following statement of the fees re
ceived by the department of state dur
ing October: Notaries' commissions
1895; miscellaneous 1924. so; tax on do
mestic corporations, 81, 1856; tax on for
eign corporations, 81, AS; total, &C. 800
so; total fees received in ten months oil
1891, Sl19,971G9. Total received in ten
months of 1890. S97. 1856
FRANK II. VESSEL, a German aged
his room in Kansas City the other day
by shooting himself. Vessel was Q
carpenter and had lived in Kansas City
for ten years. His wife died several
years ago and he had since been board
ing He brooded over his wife's death
and every Sunday visited her grave. He
had been drinking of late and was
somewhat in debt, but still up to the
time of committing the act appeared
quite cheerful.
PROF. JESSE, president of the State
university, says: Education is progress
ing well in the state and everything is
:. in good condition at the university.
There are $50 students now and 80 al
the school of mining and metallurgy at
Rolla. This is so more than at tire uni.
versity at this time last year and the
largest number ever in the school at
one time. improvements in every di.
rection are being made at the univer.
sity. The agricultural college feature
has just been opened and is working
finely"
BIsuop KEssLER OF Salt Lake City,
was in st. Joseph the other day search.
ing for the remains of his wife's broth.
err, Orson Pratt, who died in that city
in 1919 of the cholera, while en- route
to Utah. Pratt was a prime mover in
Mormon affairs, and although he was
buried with hundreds OF others who
died at St Joseph, his grave was
marked with headstone. Bishop Kess-
Ter succeeded in finding the headstone,
but the bones OF Pratt were gone. The
lo, tod
lately by medical students, aud it is
supposed the remains were carried off
by them.
PATENTS lately issued to Missouri in
ventors: f cctric car brake, L. c. Att
wood, st, Louis; railway haud-car, j.
II. Baker, st. Joseph; driving gear for
velocpedes, j. II. Baker, ST. Joseph;
sand pump or other pipes, c. G. Chocn,
St Louis; misunderstanding device, A..
Billion, Canton; fare receiver and
register L. Ehrlicb, St Louis; bal
anced slide valve, c. Eversol, Spring
field; wire stret,her, w. r. Hayden,
New Hartford; covering for steam
pipes, b. Il. Hurst, St Louis; fru /
evaporator, S. A. Latimer, Long Lane
feed trough, w. A. Leech, Lamar,
pulverzing attachment for plows, j.
NJ. Pirtle, Arbela; attachment fo
straw staclSers, $. G. Scholtz, Billings;
vapor stove, l.. Stockstrom, st Louis
steam engine, A. j. Vandegrift, st
Louis; automatic sash lock, c. Il. Var
ney, ST. Louis; hay rake, M. Whiles,
Woodville.
JUDGE THAYER gave an opinion ii
the United States circuit court at st
Louis the other day in the case pre-
sented before him of violations of tn
alien contract labor law. His decision
was against the government The cas-
was that of the United States agains
William Pohlman and John II. Pohl
man, jr. Last year young Pohlma,
went to Europe for some stock an
brought three young men from Scot
land to assist him in caring for tn
stock on the steamer while crossing tn
ocean. and, it is alleged, agreed Il
furnish them with employment afte
they had arrived in this country. Th
young men testified to this, but it wa
denied by young Pohlman. The cour
held that as the penalties attached
the offense of violation of the contrac
labor law are severe, being fine
s5, 600 for each offense, that the test
mony should be of the most convincing
nature before Judgment is rendered.
The commercial club OF Kansas Citl
has called convention 10 meet in tina
place to urge upon congress the syste
matte improvement of the Missouri an
lower Mississippi rivers The conven
ton will be held December IS and II
and will be composed of delegates fror