The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-27
MISSOURI STATE NEWS:

the other day.
ThE Missouri rational bank at Kan
shs city clostd It's docrs on The nth.
Also the Grand Avenue bank.
The shoemaicrs of several large fac
tories of st. iIouis have refused to acI
ccpt lower wages. Six hundred will
strike.
CHIEF HALE and his prize team Of
firemcn were given royal reception
upon their return to Kansas City from
London.
The police judge at Kansas City has
declared the city ordinance prohibiting
policy playing to he in conflict with
the state law and therefore invalid
An old man named l!arnum was re-
Gently found bound and gagged in his
house twelve miles cast of St Joseph.
He was known AS IA miscr. and stated
that the men who did the work had
also robbed him
A. H. GLAzlER, the Santa Fe conduc-
tor who captured train robbcr few
weeks ago, has been paid $500 by the
Wells Fargo Express Co. at Kansas
City, the standing reward offered by
the company for the capture Of rob
bcls.
\ GENERAL fight took place AZ d ne
gro picnic near Rockport the other
afternoon. One negro was fatally
stabbed in the neck and breast. An
other negro was fatally shot iri the
head. while another received wound
in the thigh.
t,a1 60 Lao, b,,, -; 10.
who compelled an old man near Pitts
field, H., by most inhuman treatment.
to reveal the wherca bouts of his money
and then robbed him of 5000, were ap-
pretended at Mobcrly the other day
after desperate fight.
MARY toRBY, a widow, was fright
fully burned at st. Louis the other
night by having n bottle of vitrol
thrown over her by Peter Shctterbacll
Mrs. rorby is landlady Of rooming
house and Shcttcrbaclt frequently
hcsnught her to wed him. After an
other refusal he threw the vitriol
and escaped.
TliE white people in tho vicinity OF
Ncrlcyvillc, near the Arkansas line,
few days ago served notices on the ne
grocS employed on the farms to leave
the country. The negroes purchased
guns, pistols and ammunition in large
quantities and informed the white men
that they had made mp their minds to
stay and fight.
THERE is an impression throughout
the state that there is to be an cncamp-
mcnt of the National guard of Missouri
at the worlds fair during the latter
part of August, but Adit. Ten. Wick
ham states that If there is to be an en-
campment at Chicago he is not cogni-
zant of it,and that the soldier boys will
have to foot the expense accounts them
selves as the legislature failed to make
any appropriation for such encamp-
mcnt.
REV, LEIGH VERNON, who created
quite stir as an evangelist in portions
of the state some time since. and who
created greater sensation by clipping
with Il married woman from Pittsburg,
Kan, while being taken back jumped
from II Maple Leaf train running at
high rate of speed before it reached
Kansas City. The officer who had him
in charge jumped also. Vernon was
promptly captured, and strange to say,
neither WAS seriously hurt.
Ar noon on the 10Th, 200 boilcr-mak-
cra and sheet-iron workers quit work
in the boiler Yards of Roham Bros. and
Wanglcr. GarStang ~ o. Brien, at st.
Louis The proprictorS of the above
named establishments had been noti
fled shortly before noon that unless
they agreed to give the boilcr-makcrS
and shcct-iron workers ten hours pay
for nine hours work that these trades
men would go on a strike. The request
was refused and the mechanics made
good their threat, left the shops and
did not return.
AHuCr half past . o'clock the other
evening Il bomb exploded with great
force in the front yard of Rev. j. u.
Armstrong pastor of the Independence
Avenue VI. T.. church, at Kansas City.
The noise of the explosion was tremcn-
ious and was heard for blocks around
A great cloud of smoke followed the
explosion, completely filling the house
and almost suffocating the inmates.
The family were all in the house at the
time of the explosion. but no one was
hurt and no damage was done. Why
the bomb was thrown was a mystery.
Mr.. Armstrong thinks he has some en-
cmy as il is not the first time he has
bccn treated that way.
THE attendance at the state confer
encc of farmers in Sedalia was smaller
than anticipated. vet the delegates
present We're prominent members of
the alliance. The meetings were hcld
with closed doors. The conference was
organized by the election of II. ",
Hickman, chairman, and y. !. Wollard,
secretary The call for the meeting
stated that the object was to devise
plans to eliminate politics from the
Farmers and LaborcrS' union. \. j.
Wollard, A. p. lIickerson and W. 5.
McClinticl were appointed II committee
to prepare an address to the Farmers
and Laborers' union. which meets at
Broukield on August 20. j. ". Nc
Curdy. T.. j. Dunevcnt and d. j. Sweeney
were appointed committee on resolu-
tions The report of both committees
will not he made public until the state
meeting. The conference passed II
resolution favoring the free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver.
MAJ. JEFFERSON MORROW, first sheriff
of Macon county, and his aged wife,
while on their way home from Bcvicr
the other day were driving down a hill
when the neck yoke of the wagon
broke, the team ran away and both
were thrown out. Mrs. Morrow fell ON
II barb wire fence and was terribly cut.
She was found hanging on the wire
fence, her feet not touching the ground
and her clothes almost all torn off.
The four-year-old daughter of VIII
liam 7. Barton. an engineer on the
burlington road was burned In hor-
rible manner while playing with
matches at st. Joseph the other night,
and died next morning.
REpuErrERs hardware store On Main
street, Kansas City, was recently closed
under foreclosure Of mortgage. Mr..
Redheffer had been in business in Kan.
sas City thirty-tivc years,