The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-02-23
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

1.-THE Missouri house on the 10th tabled
the Deering high license bill by a vote
on rs to bs.
Hoo cholera is prevailing to an alarm
ing extent In several townships of
Cedar county.
tfTHE ST. Louis hotel at Upton was
burned the other night Loss, S5,OOdi
Insurance, $4,000.
IAN incendiary fire at Columbia the
other night destroyed the residence and
Furniture of James Hall.
III is reported that Congressman
Mansur Is a candidate for commissioner
ot the general land office.
"A. c MINER has been appointed trav-
ding passenger agent Of the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas railway, with head
charters at Sedalia-
IFmE ut Knoblesdorf Bros, stock
am near Oak Grove ths other flight
Iurned three head OF horses and fine
Jack valued at 1000.
A BILL has been introduced into the
legislature by Representative Coots
prohibiting the manufacture, gift and
sale of cigarettes in Missouri.
M. b. VANDEeRIFT, highly respect.
ed citizen, aged 65 years, dropped dead
at the Wabash depot at Chillicothe the
other morning while purchasing a
ticket
THE post Office, jewelry, grocery
| and hardware store at Centralia were
broken into and robbed the other night
| of considerable amounts of money and
| goods.
The Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf
road has purchased the Kansas City,
Fort Smith s. Southern. The former
road will be extended at once to Joplin,
where it will join the latter which is
already constructed from Joplin to
pointY " Fort Smith
TIT zion for new trial in the
Wills /, murder case at Lebanon
was ova d by the court and the
prisoner oentenced to be hanged April
supreme court and Howard taken to
st. Louis for safe keeping
REoENLY Monroe Allen, employed by
Chris Rasmus, eight miles south of
Boonville, met with frightful acci-
dent while hauling fodder His team
ran away, dragging and mangling his
body so horribly that he lived only
few hours after the accident
THE other night one section Of pas
senger train on the Santa Fe road, from
Chicago to Kansas City, went through
a trestle near Barring, Mo. Two coaches
were precipitated to the ground a dis
tance of forty feet. Several passengers
were injured, but none killed. q,
CONSIDERABLE difficulty in getting
cars for shipments south is being ex-
perienced at Kansas City. 1t is impos-
sible to supply the demand and the sit
uation appears to be getting worse in
stead OF better. Both the Memphis and
the Missouri Pacific arc crowded to
their utmost capacity.
ANoTNER passenger wreck was re-
ported on the Santa Fe road the other
afternoon, caused by a derailment at
Hurdland. The forward coaches left
the track just after striking the trestle
but ouiy the last, a sleeper, went over
the embankment The car was
wrecked, but no one was killed and two
passengers were injured.
THE committee on elections of the
Missouri house has reported favorably
on the bill providing that all candi.
dates of both parties shall be nomi-
mated by direct vote Of the people and
that primaries shall be held for state
elections all over the state on Septem-
ber Is. This would do away with state
and all other conventions.
A WARRANT was issued by Justice
Worthen at Kansas City the other day
for the arrest of Elmer Williams, for
merly president of the defunct Com
mercial Continental National bank of
that city. John J. Porter, of Hannibal
charges him with a felony in obtaining
money from him by fraud. Williams,
who is in Kansas, telegraphed that he
would appear
THE jury in the George Lewis murder
case at Mexico returned verdict of
guilty and placed the sentence at ten
years in the pententiary. Lewis was
counting William r. Browns daughter
against the fathers wishes and the lady
left home and went to the home of her
lover. When Mr.. Brown called for his
daughter row eusued and Lewis shot
Brown through the heart
The special committee appointed tc
investigate the office of the state super
intendent of schools reported to the
house that Superintendent Wolfe has
been guilty of unbusiness like conduct,
but exonerated him from the commits.
sion of any criminal act which would
warrant his removal from Office. Wolfe
was accused by Miss Susie O'Banuon
formerly clerk in his office of having
retained portion of her monthly sal
ary. This was admitted by Wolfe, but
he proved that he had paid the money
SO retained and much more, to Other
clerks in the office whose assistance
was required to accomplish necessary
work.
JULIAN HANDHAUsER, OF Hermann
was soldier in the Mexican war. HI
lost a mule during the campaign, ant
in 1850 put in claim against the gov
ernment for the cost Of the animal HI
received no satisfactory reply at thu
time, and as 1t has been over forty-tw'
years since he put in the claim he hae
about concluded that he would Civ,
that old mule to his country. Th'
other day, however, he received $50
which 80 astonished him that he wrot
to the member of congress from hi
> district TO learn what it meant and wa
informed that it was for the old mul
that starved to death nearly half cen
tury ago
A FEW days ago another train on tn
Kansas City cable railway incline, ful
of passengers, got beyond control an
dashed wildly down the incline to tn
: Union depot station, smashing tn
| Office. which had lust been repaire,