The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-03-23
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

July 10 VIII be missouri day" at th,
Columbinne Exposition.
THE public schools of Kansas City
are uncomfcrtably crowded.
GEoReEW WARpER wants to be sur
veyor OF the port of Kansas City.
| APRIL Z y the regulation time fol
planting trdes in Missouri-Arbor day.
| FRANZ Potrcn, heir to a large fortune
In Austria. has been found ~ Kansa.
City.
| Hon. JOINT G. TAnsNrY, who was re-
Gently Ill in Washington has about re.
covered ~
THAcolorsd conference of the Mctho.
dist Episcopal church at Mexico was
attended byfnany white people.
T., TttE ltrftefhiil Ut &ldtich was i,tirned
the other night, together with con-
tcnts Loss 10000; insurance, SO, 500.
A coLoRrp insane prisoner in the
Fayette JAZZ performed the feat OF
drinking Thirteen pints Of water at one
time.
ST. JOSEPH woman who has been
waiting eleven years for the return of
her absent husband, has become dis.
couraged and is asking for divorce.
II. REID, Of St Louis, who Is travel.
ing through the state in the interest OF
the ex-confederate home at Higgins
vile, had raised s23, 0Ob in twelve weeks
| Ar Walker the other day DR.. j. I, y.
Dodson, a wealthy physician and prom
inent in politics, committed suicide by
shooting himself with revolver. lie
was register Of lands In 1S5d.
TIiH mice made nests of 81, 900 in cur
fenty belonging to Fl NJ Dean, of Ma
con county; last surpnier, and Senator
Cockrell has introduced a bill for his
| felief in the United States senate.
WAsItINGToN DArlE, coIored general
| ~ acknowledged to have been the old
est man in Missouri, died at his home
in Kansas City the other night lie
was 100 years old On February last.
FRED NoRRIs LOCAL manager at st
Joseph. of the Kansas City Swift Pacls-
ing Co., is missing and an agent of the
company was engaged checking up his
books. Local creditors are aso inter
ested in his whereabouts,
The body of James r. Hambln, who
was buried in q cavern at Troup mines
at Webb City, May II last, with Harry
D. Roache and Charles Enlctt, was re-
covered the other day at n depth of
eighty.five feet He was identified by
his watch and ring.
THE winter session of the Missouri
Press association held an interesting
three days meeting at Columbia on
March ID, lO and II. These meetings
are devoted tn practical discussions of
various subjects connected with the
management of n country newspaper.
JOHN and George Yandel have been
arrested at Seymour on an old murder
charge, it being alleged that four years
ago they killed an old man named
Coots They were not convicted at the
first trial and now the prosecuting at
torney thinks he can do what he failed
to do then, having secured new evil
dence.
A. A. CoRNEAu, residing southwest
chn" Soto, shot and Instantly killed
s'"aries Rowden, one of his farm hands
in bed wnen npwurn, WIZ nu,s-
discharged, approached and demanded
his pay A few words ensucd and Row.
den left, returning with knife in his
hand in threatening way when Cor
neau shot him dead.
Dtptov,s of the Kansas CITY homeo-
natbic medical college were riycn the
other evening at" the Coates opera
house to Rolla NJ, Clark, Arthur
L. Edgington, Peter Richert, Edith
A. Emmett, James Ball, John Il.
Roland. Robert A. billings, Harry II.
Uonpb. Ralph Greene and j. w. McIn-
tosh. They made up the graduating
cl,ss of ,so3 An interesting entertain.
ment attended the ceremonies
THE other morning about o'clock
the Farmers aud Traders bank at
MONTGOMERY CITY was entered by burg
lars the safe blown omen and So 600
taken. The thieves drilled a hole in
the vault door lorre ENOUGH to insert a
puncb. with which the combination
was broken and the safe in the vault
was b,o,vn IN pieccS The bank officials
estimated their loss at 5000. Had the
robbers waited til the following night
thew would have secured $50 900 in
stead of what they did, as the bank re-
cc;ved that omount bv express,
Tur exccutive committee of the Mid
continental Poultry association met Mt
K,psas C;tv the other dav and adoptcd
a constitution which set forth that
"tbe object of the association shal! be
N nromote the rearing of thoroughbred
poultry and pet stock, aiming to attain
the highest degree of excellence to dis
seminate useful and practical informa-
tion in relation thereto, to stimulate
healthy competition in the show room,
to awalsen an interest among the breed
ers and fanciers of the United States
and Canada in Kansas City as the place
par excellence for national show"
SOME time since j. L. Morrison and
M. G. Edwards, prisoners who were
confined in the Jail at Princeton,
charged with burglary, escaped by cut
ting off the bars of their cells They
were traced to Davis county, Ia, by
| Sheriff Lowrey and located at a farm
house near Paris station, and early the
other morning the sheriff, with posse,
surrounded the house and demanded