The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1892-03-03
MISSOURI STATE NEWS,

""'"ei VI tWo WOHien III lennesSee,
was recently arrested at West Plains.
He denied the charge.
THE thirleen-months-old child of Mr..
Lavender of St Joseph, was cholSed to
death the other day by getting pea
nut hull lodged in its throat
w. C. KERNs, of Fort Scott, Kan,
fell dead in the post office at Calhoun
the other day. He was engaged in
selling maps, and was sixty years of
age.
MRS. l.. DEMPSEY, the wife of a
laborer, died ut Kansas City the other
day from the effects of frightful
burns received by using coal oil in
making fire in the stove. 80
The democratic central committee of
the western appellate district has Sc
lected Kansas City as the place and
June 2S as the time for holding con-
vention to nominate a successor to
Judge Smith of the court of appeals
ROBERT BRITT and Fred Purghan,
quarreed near Louisiana the other
morning when Britt struck Purghan
on the head with stone, innicting
fatal injuries Purghan is an old man
while Britt is only twenty three years
old.
THIEVES at st. Joseph the other
morning cut down and carried away
two miles of the trolley wires of the
Union electric line of street cars,
worth Sl5OO At the time the current
was powerful enough to kill by single
contact
THE Mexican Veterans association
OF Vernon county held their annual
meeting in Nevada recently. But ten
members now survive and their aver
age age is seventv-two years. Col. w.
j. Stone and others addressed them,
and banquet was served.
THE attorney-general has filed before
the supreme court motion for writ
OF quo warranto against the Kansas
City commercial exchange, the applica-
tion icing based upon the allegation
that the exchange has been inspect
ing grain in defiance of the state grain
inspection law"
RICHARD CULLEN and his mother have
been arrested at Marshfield for llidnap.
ing AMI numbering four-year-old
adopted child of Hiram Smith The
body was found in an abandoned well
with n car link around its neck. 1t is
said that Smith intended to make the
child his heir, and thus shut off Cullen,
his step.son.
ADELBERT d. SLYE, the self-confessed
Glendale train robbcr, appeared in
court at Cayton on the Esd to receive
the sentence of Judge Edwards for his
crime. Without ceremony his doom
was pronounced-twcnty years in the
state penitentiary. Slye admits that
Francis, the robbcr killed at Fort
Sc IT. Kan, was one Of the Glendale
gang.
Dr. L. T. BREEDLovE, thrty-five
years old, shot and killed himself in
the presence of his friend, l. n Jud-
son, at st. Louis the other dav, be-
cause, he declared in a letter, that he
was so devoted to his friend that he
could not live without him. His inten.
tion was to kill Judson, but in the
wisdom of his folly he fortunately only
shot himself
PRESIDENT JESSE, of the state uni
versity, delivered an address 10 the
members of the legislature the other
evening. The hall of the house was
crowded. He recommended that the
legislature appropriate $3.50, 900. This,
with like appropriation next winter,
and with the insurance money, would
make a sum ample to replace the
burned structure.
BY the accidental discharge of re-
volver in the hands of Jessie May
sixtecn-year-oli girl, Samuel Hall, a
miner, was seriously and perhaps
fatally wounded at Webb City the
other day. lie was in his boarding
house across the street from the place
where the revolver was discharged, and
the ball passed through the side of the
house before striking him.
NEAR Frazer the other morning Will
liam Anderson and Mortimer Shocl1ley,
step brothers, quarreled over the di-
vision of deceased relatives wealth,
when Shockley seized and AK and
down. A desperate fight ensucd, when
Anderson got hold of a gun and shot
Shockley, infiicting wound which it
was thought would result fatally
THE twenty-third annual report of
the state board of agriculture has been
issued. AS required by law, fifty
copies have been sent to each of the
county clerks OF the state, and fifty ad-
ditional copies will be sent to mem bers
of the general assembly for distribu-
tion to the farmers OF their respective
counties. The remainder of the 30, 600
copies will be distributed among those
who shall request them. The volume
comprises 500 pages and contains
lor - i,f
tion of value to the Missouri farmer
and home seekers of other states.
THE saddle horsemen of Missouri
held meeting at Mexico the other day,
formed an association and elected Off
GERS as follows: T. S. Harrison, of
Auxvasse, president; Henry r. Walker,
Pleasant Green, vice-president; j. A.
Potts, Mexico, secretary; r Il. Free
man, Mexico, treasurer. The follow
ing gentlemen were eecte to act with
the president vice-president and secre-
tary rs executive committees: A, j.
Blake, of ST. Louis, and l., NJ. Mon
secs, of Smithton. The executive COM
mittee was then authorized to offer
sweepstake preumium during the pres
ent year to be showl under the man
agement Of some county fair of the
state.
Gov FRANCIS has offered a reward
of $500 for the apprehension and con-
viction of the perpetrator of the horri-
BILE outrage on Mrs. Taylor of Sedalia-
This is the maximum reward that the
governor can offer for the capture of a
criminal. This in addition to that of
fered by the citizens of Sedalia, makes
n total reward of 81 SoO