The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1892-03-24
VI scellnnrous.

The Sergeant mills at Joplin burned
the other dav. The plant cost $3.50, OOo.
Insurance, $4,000.
a NEW highway bridge is to be built
across the Missouri river at st. Charles.
1t is thought it can be constructed for
$3.50, 900.
w. r. FRIHNp, foreman of n switch
ing crew, was killed at Kansas City the
other day while coupling cars. lie was
twenty eight years old and leaves a
wife and three Chi dren.
Tom and Jesse G. 'addv and Hayw wood
lleathma1 were drowned three miles
above Lexington in tho Missouri river
the other night. They were shooting
geese on Il sandbar in the middle Of
the river, ard their boat .strnck Il snag
and went to pieces. IIeathman was
deputy circuit clerk.
GEORGE $. M~cLArGuL1N, once n
Methodist preacher, but later a real es-
tate broker, was arrested At Kansas
City the other night and committed to
Jail on the charge of criminal intimacy
with Mabel Morrow, n young girl less
than fourteen years Cd employed in
his office. The girl being so young
makes the charge a serious one.
JOHN BmGuT. living in fancy county,
shot and Iii led his wife a few days ago.
The murder was committed in cold
blood. Bright sent his wife to the
spring to get water. After she left the
house he foil wed and shot her, and
then fed. The children heard the shots
AMI when they got to the spring found
their mother dead. Sixty armed men
went in puls... with Iiie".s OF lynch
ing.
DAVID MORAN, an old citizen of Bu-
chanan county, was called up the
other night by n stranger, who asked
Moran to lend him n singletree, rs his
team, which was stuck in the mud n
short distance from the house, had
brokcn one. Mr.. Moran lin bed up in
to the barn loft and making n misstcp,
fell twelve feet to the tloor and was
killed. lie was one of the wealthiest
farmers in the county.
The Democratic state. central COM
mittee held n b 'sinesS meeting at st.
Louis on the 1Tth and decided upon the
tine AMI place of holding state conven-
tioIs as follows: Convention to elect
delegates to the Chicago convention
will be held at Scdclia May II. C,n.
vention to nominate regular state
ticket will be held at jefferson City
July 10 Invention to select in liciary
ticket will meet at st. Louis Ju yG
JETiRo MARTIN, wEo b~rutally muir
dered his aged father, Rev, Thomas
Martin, at Martilaburg, January 20, is
Mt last in the clutches of the law, Mar
tin escape and succeeded in completely
evading the Missouri authorities lie
went over into Indiana and his money
giving out he was locked up mt Indian
apolis for va9rancy. lie wrote to a
relative in PENNSYLVANIA to send him
money to pay his fine and in the cor
respondcnce the fellows real name was
ascertainea.
THREE men were killed and two
boys severely injured by an elevator
in the boiler making establishment of
Rohan Bros, at st. Louis the other
day. The boys had started down from
the second story with the large freight
elevator, on which was half a ton of
iron plates, AMI just as the elevator
moved the rope broke and the plat
form, iron ani boys all fell to the floor
beneath with Il horrible crash, AS
it fell three workmel were standing
under it and they were crushed be-
meath the weight and instantly killed.
Their names wee Henry Kciser, fore
man of the sheet iron department.;
Frank Conn, boilcrmakcr, and Hugh
Duffy, a rigger. The boys were badly
hurt
THE other afternoon William Hughes,
while intoxicated, drove a horse at
breakncck speed through one of the
principal streets of st. Joseph and over
the son OF Robert Toney. The lite
fellow had his skull crushed in two
places, his scalp lifted and one OF his
LIMBS broken. Hughes was arrested.
The governor has tclcgraphed Sheriff
Cook, of Taney county, to arrest all
persons concerned in the killing of
Deputy Sheriff Williams at Forsyth.
when the mob lynche1 John Bright
and killed the deputy sheriff. The gov
ern notified the sheriff to umnon a
posse for the purpose and If unable &c
enforce the law aid would be sent him.
Two farmers, Thomas Dawson snd
William Thomas, got into n fight with
spades near Warrensburg the other day
and Thomas was dangerously wound
ed.
JOE EMMERY and his brother G B
Emmery got into a quarrel Ia the
southwest part of Johnson county the
other day when Joe was shot by his
brother and died in a short time.
THE tobacco factory Of Liggett 6
Myers at st. Louis was destroyed by
fire the other day, The total loss VIA
about $3.50, 900. The stock was valued
at Sale, 900, on which there was an in
surance Of 1887, ooo.