The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1892-03-10

tors fund ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 323l5. 80
Balance insurance department fund. 47,576.s2
Balance road and canal fund ......... 6S1. %
Balance military fund. ... ........... 1,4S2 81
Balance earnings Missouri peniten-
tiary Observation-Disclosures. 1871
Balance state sinking fund .......... 100000
Balance colored institute fund .... 4so 90
Balance in treasury February q. al 642, 10 OF
Miscellaneous.
THE legislature is having big tim me
over the state university.
THE state board of equalization will
be in session daily at jefferson City
until March 10 for the purpose of
equalizing the assessment of the state.
CULLEN, the young man who muir
dered his stepfather's four-ycar-old
adopted child at Marshfield by throw
ing it into well, was taken from Jail
by mob and hanged
ADELBERT d. SLYE, the Glendale
train robber, has been taken to the
pententiary to serve the sentence of
twenty years given him by Judge Ed
wards, of St Louis county.
FIRE at Kansas City the other night
destroyed the Marsh lead and oil works
near the union depot. The total loss
was about $50, 600, including 40, 600
bushels of flax seed and 100, 900 gallons
of oil.
AMOS MILLER, the man who was the
cause of the death of tour men at Dex-
ter, one being City Marshal Sprinkle,
who had him under arrest, was lately
taken from the Jail at Bloomfield and
hanged by a mob
FIRE at Renick lately destroyed
Williams wagon factory. 1t spread
rapidly through the storage room,
burning sixty wagons, entailing n loss
of $4,000. Mr.. Williams was absent
from home at the time. Insurance,
IS, 900.
THE three-year-old child of Frank
Pearman, Livingston county farmer
was burned to death the other day
during the temporary absence of the
mother. The child was playing at the
stove, lighting paper, which communi-
Gated to its clothing.
EDGAR FLEMMING, n prominent st.
Louis lawyer aged 40. while lately at
Texarkana, Ark, perfecting a deal for
a plantation, stopped at hotel. Dur
ing the night he walked out of door,
as he supposed opening into the yard,
but really on the second story, and re-
ceived fatal injuries
THE secretary of state reports re-
ceipts of the department of state
for the month of February as fol-
lows: Notaries, $50; miscellaneous
fees, 1870 IS; corporation tax, foreign,
Si95; corporation tax, domestic, Ss, 355;
total, 50, 746. 20; total receipts for Feb
ruary, 1890, SO, $40 80; total receipts for
February, 1891, s3s1.a4; excess of
1891 over 1890, S1,55l7+; excess of 1892
over 1891, 81, 365.5l.
JOSIAH BAKER, JR, one of the
wealthiest stockmen of central Mis-
souri,, and his wife were nearly smoth-
cred to death at their home in Slater
the other night by the closing up of a
large folding bed weighing about 500
pounds. The groans of Mrs. Baker
brought the children to the rescue.
Mrs. Baker was in a precarious condi-
ton. Mr.. Baker will bring suit against
the manufacturers of the bed
w. II. HACKETT, a Kansas City gro
SCl iibh, W 10 uttdShCd oy IuIoC
roughs while counting the days re-
ceipts in his store the other night, and
ordered to hand over the cash. Not
complying with the demand he was
shot three times and probably fatally
wounded. The police subsequently ar
rested three youths, Abe Lowe, Hank
Jones and Lee Mcdonald, who were
positively identified by Haclsett as the
guilty parties
THE state board of agriculture held a
meeting at Jefferson City the other day
and adopted quarantine regulations for
the protection of the cattle of the state.
The regulations are the same as those
in force last year. Immediately after the
board adjourned Gov. Francis issued a
proclamation promulgating the regula-
tions adopted by theboard. The board
by unanimous vote indefinitely
postponed a motion to remove the head
quarters of the board from Columbia
THE people of Pulaski county were
lately considerably worked up over
the reported discovery of large vein
of silver in the bluffs on farm near
Dixon. The quartz was assayed and
found to be OF the very best quality.
The vein was about 300 yards along
the bluff, and is from eighteen inches
to two feet in depth. One piece was
sent to the United States government
mint at San Francisco, and another to
the school of mines at Rolla, and it has
been pronounced silver of the finest
quality.
WHILE City Marshal Sprinkle, of Dex.
ter, was recently taking n prisoner
named Amos Miller to Jail an unknown
pal attempted his rescue. A. j. Cooper
and Thomas Toole went to the officers
when a general fight ensued
with pistols. Cooper was killed, Toole
had finger shot off and Sprinkle was
shot three times dying day or two
after. The unknown rescuer was
wounded and then shot himself to pre-
vent arrest Miller, the prisoner, was
wounded but escaped. He was subse-
quently captured.
SOME time since Frank Breeze, a
young man of St Joseph, punished
William Dettmer, barber, for abus-
ing an old man. Dettmer swore to be
revenged and later meeting Breeze he
shot him dead. Breeze leaves n wife
and three children. Dettmer fed.
On the night of May 10, 1891, the busi-
ness house OF Parish & Evans, OF Neva-
da, was entered by burglars, and among
other things taken was about $500
worth of jewelry. No trace of it was
ever found until the other day, when
several small boys were playing in the
timber south of town, and one of them
came onto the entire lot lying in the
leaves