The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-08-10
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

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THE Missouri national bank ut Kan
sas city teopehhd for business on the
3lst.
The rate from Kansas City to Chi.
cago, round trip is sl+ 80, instead OF
sl3, as enormously stated.
Two little sons of j. Kinsley, aged
and o years, were drowned in the Gran 4
tivet tieafL linton the Hthsr day. They
had gone in to swim.
A LARGE force of miners went tc
work the other morning at the various
coal mines of Vernon county. TIL.
mines are running with reduced forces
It.is lDeiieveti titut- the strike Is nearly
ovet
WHlLE lately cutting g,as, with u
moving machine near jefferson City
John Ncihmeyer, a prosperous Ger
man farmer, was fatally hurt by being
thrown under the knives Both legs
were cut off.
The Kansas City brokers were re-
Gently worked by sharpers with lot
of bogus railroad tickets Most of the
brokers secured lot of "chcap rates"
but were out of pocket the amount pa id
for them,
THIEVES recently stole Herd OF
three -ytat.dld slecrs from, 7. e. Kin.
kcad. "A Vernon county farne.'. it is
thought the cattle were driven to some
point on the railroad ut night and
| shipped ottt of the county. Tile bunch
was worth bout sl000
! CHARLES MILLER. 30 years old u
teacher in the Georgetown colored
school, was run over and killed the
| other night by u train on the LcNin%-
ton branch of the Missouri Pacific near
Sedalia. lie left that town while un-
der the influence of liquor to walk
| home and it was thought went to sleep
on the track.
The wife of Henry Mayback, of Doug.
I las county. committed suicide by cut
ting her throat with razor. Before
, killing herself she cut her ba by's throat.
She was - years old. A note left by
hGt stated that She killed her baby he.
cause she Thought it Was g6ng to die,
and She could not bear the thought of
living without it.
AN officer was recently taking Will
liam johnson. a colored boy. to Me yicD.
on Il {. a \ train, when the boy at
tempted to escape through window
while the train was running at y high
rate of spec but fell under the wheel.
and was ground to pieces. The boy
was only III year, old and had been ar
rested for larceny.
| joSErm \. IlowELLs WIS hanged at
Trenton on the 18th, He was school
teacher and in January, lSSo, murdered
! his cousin. Mrs. Hall. and her four chill
drrn near Brookiield, and burned the
house over their bodies to hide the
! crime. The ease was stubhornly fought
/ In the courts; bit he failed to escape the
! penalty of his crime.
TuE agricultural implement house OF
the Whitman & Barnes Manufactur
zig Co., NJ t:,.4 and .i;i26 ~ est Z weiiil
street. KANSAS city, Was burficd III,
other evening The building was I;
solidly built fve-story brick with &
frontage of forty-cight feet on Twelfth
street and running back no feet Loss
| sl?o,000; insurance, S9'.00o,
! SAN TURNER. Il well-to-do farmer,
| won't to Mexico the other day. and he
| coming intoxicated was deGuyed to a
lonely spit in the outskirts of the city
and murdered, presumably for mone".
Joe Donnelly and William Mckinney
were arrested. Donnclly confessed
that hc held the victims head while
| Mckinney beat his brains oft.
SISTER FRANCIS ANToINFTTE. of the
order OF st Joseph, has found the du-
! ties prescribed by the Catholic church
too cXacting for her strength and has
laid aside the nuns habit. She will
retire to private life. She is the daugh.
| ter Of the late Patrick Bremen, a Kan
| sas City capitalist who died last May,
| leaving to his family an estate of about
$4,000. The pope granted her spe-
cial dispensatiun, which authorized her
to put aside her habit.
| GOV. STONE has appointed the follow
ing delegates to the Pan American
medical congress which meets at WASH
| ington September ! to $; DIR. A. w.
/ McAllistcr, OF Columbia; Dr. Walton o.
Bannon, of New Madrid; Drs. J. K.
Smell and W. =. King. Of Kansas City;
Drs. 7. +. Prcwitt and +. J. Lulz, of
| st. Louis: DR.. j. W. Trader of Sedalia:
DIR. J. y. Basket, of lIannibal; DIR. c,
| A. lockwood, of Nevada: DIR. w. l..
! MllltI. VI anu lT. I
IL. Doyle, of ST, Joseph,
SOME time since the governor par
| doneh DR.. a. Il. Gonce, who ten wears
ago killed man named Kaiser in
| Taney county and was sent to the peni-
tentiary for thirty years. The par
don was granted upon the repre- |enta-
tion that Gonce was fatally i'll and
could survive bu; a few days. soon after
returning to his home Gonce married
the stepmother of Mrs. Kaiser, widow
OF the murdered man. This is his third
wife, and he had once before served in
the penitentiary for bigamy.
CHARLES +. Vail died at ST. Louis
the other day from the effects of iniu
ries received a few days previous by fall
ing down an elevator. His life, al
though brief, has been eventful. lie
is the young man whose wife was killed
at st. Charles in 1890 by the discharge
of Il pistol in his pocket while he was
helping her into buggy. lie had been
married but few months and had her
life heavily insured, which looked sus'
piciouS and he was arrested and tried
for murder, but acquitted. Now he
has died n violent death.
LIGHTNING cut up good many antics
in the vicinity of Chillicothe the other
day. Several persons were killed in
pastures and hay ricks burned A,
Dawn. on the Milwaukee & st. Paul
the depot was struck and the agent had
his clothes torn off and was made deaf
for twenty-four, but otherwise unin
jurcd.
Gov. SToNE has granted pardon to
Charles W. Moore, convicted in Shelby
county in October, 1880, of larceny from
dwelling and sentenced to the peni
tentiary for six years. The pardon was
granted on condition that Moore imme
diately leave the state and remain
away.
FIVE members of the family of New,
ton Plunkctt, OF Nevada, were recently
made very sick by poison in their food
administered by an unknown person
All recovered.