The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-05-18
MISSOURI. STATE NEWS
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|tssVuk. Sf6SE s&ax rcccntiy b~anddctt@
by the Commercial club at Kansas City.
PAHK cofp EeE has a new town clo&e
which the people of Parkvills find vck
useful ~. O.,
W. O. THATCHER has been appoint&
postmaster at Gregg, Newton county,
sice'J. RD-spencer, resigned
THE long fkht ovet the customs col
lcctorship Of 81. Louis ended by the mp
pointncnt Of Richard Dalton.
JOSEPH HARMON, ten years old, was
drowned the other day while bathing
N Brush creek, near Kansas City.
WAN Hor, eCbinesc l%aundryman, was
recently granted q license at Marshall
tomary Laura Lytchlider, An American
womah.s . =
JenS sTEELk, ~ years old, while re-
gently visiting friends at Dresden,
dropped dead just as he arosc from the
breakfast table.
The ST. Clair county Judges have
again been jailed mt Kansas City for re-
fusing to make a levy to pay disputed
| railroad bonds.
THE mayor of Kansas City is moving
for rctrcnchment. He believes hat n
number Of ornamental clcrkships might
be abolished with profit to the taxpay-
ers.
The rolling mill at Stcwartsville was
burdcd the other morning and II. c.
Rodcll, one Of the owners, persisted in
the flames. He was about GO years of
age.
TON SMITH, colored, who was to have
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was saved by a two weeks respite from
the governor only a few hours before
the time set for the execution.
AT st. Louis the other day Dora
Hocncckcr, 81 years old, poisoned her
self because she had become afflicted
with a spinal trouble that compelled
her to give up a situation she held.
BY a large majority Jasper county re.
Gently voted $4,000 in bonds to build
two court houses, n at Carthage and
the other Mt Joplin, $40, 900 to be OK
pended at Carthage, 70 which the city
adds $50, 900, and $50, 900 at Joplin, that
town donating a site.
H. n. MCGIIL was lately arrested at
Rich Hill for forging the names of in
dorscrs to notes. Although for small
amounts, thoy aggregated nearly
10000. Two notes were discounted in
the Butler bank, two in the Rich Hill
hank, three in the Farmers and Marr-
facturers' bank and two in the Hume
bank.
THE body of j. w. Knott, an old citi-
son OF Nevada, was found on North
Main street in hat town the other
morning. The coroner's inquest de-
vcloped. the fact that his death was
caused by an electric shock received
while shaking a wire hoistinq-rope at
tachcd to the electric light in order to
make 1t burn about midnight.
JOHN DALEY, a machinist, went to
his home in st. Louis intoxicated the
other night and found his wife and
seven children asleep. without awake
cning any one he drew a knife and cut
his wife's throat and then crushed her
skull with an AK. He her cut his own
throat. but not fatally, When muir
dcred the woman had a ten-months-old
babe asleep in her arms.
NAT DAWSON (eoloredl, aged IL, was
instantly killed by lightning at Mexico
the other night. His body was not
l'ult VII HEM 1lOTlllIp. Inc llpnt-
ming struck him on the head, and run
ming down the leg to the foot tore off
the shoe. The lightning plowcd its
way through the body from head to
foot, leaving a white mark. The cloth.
ing on the left side was also torn to
shrcds.
THE supreme court has decided the
judicial contest in the Twcnty-nintf
judicial circuit, composed of the coun
ties of Henry, Bates, st. Clair and Ben
ton, in favor of Judge lay. lay Wa.
elected by Dos majority on the face o,
the returns but w. 0. Atkinson, his op
poneht, contested on the ground
that his (Atkinson's) name had moi
been properly placed on the tickets in
Henry county.
, LENA NEITzERT. o sixtren-vehr-dld
girl. residing near Scdalia. while re.
Gently hurryihg for a doctor, found
Flat creek greatly swollen. Her mis-.
sion being one of life or death, she
forced her horse into the stream with a
view to fording it. Midway the ANNA
began %plunging and Lena was unseated
and left foundcring in the water The
horse turned back, but the pluclky CIR
swan thirty yards to the opposite shore
and then walked to the doctors resi-
dence, nearly a mile distant.
MISSOURI fourth-class postmasters APP
pointed May . and 10: At Adrian. Bates
C county, j. W. Duncan; at Edwards,
Dent county, I. B. Barnett: at Noun,
Leonard, Saline county, Philip Jellet
at Newmarket, Platte county, Joseph
Hatfield; ut North Fork, Monroe coun,
ty, Samuel Mcdowell; at st, Catherine
Linn county, j. Scott; at Shamrock,
Galloway county, +. II. Page; Darkes
vile, Randolph county, Don Barnhart
Platte City. Platte county, 7. j. Cole
Tilden, Dallas comfy, II. Clayton.
THE law requiring bond investment
companies doing business in Missouri t.
deposit 800, 900 with the state treas
urcr goes into effect June 81, but Their,
lisa clause giving the companies thirty
days time after the law goes into eff
feet 70 male their deposits. Treasure
Stephens has issued a circular giving
notice that such companies will be re
quired to deposit cash or the followin,
securities: United states bonds, regis
tered Missouri state bonds, st. Louis
city bonds, county bonds of Missouri o
any other gilt edge registered city o
school bonds of the state worth on mar
ket 100 cents on the dollar.
Gov. STONE has finally disposed of tn
case of Amos Avery, of Barton county
whp.has had three or four dates fixe,
for his execution, by granting a sta,
until the Gath inst, and indicating yer,
plainly that he will not further inter
fere with the course of the law. Aver
was convicted of Wandering a com
panion named Miles in Barton count
nearly two years ago.
JonN HUTCHINSON, SO years of age
attempted suicide at KANSAS City tn
other day BY jumping into the river
but after getting into the water h
changed his mind and when the cur
rent took him ashore he willingl,
scra mbfed out, tS,|
D. A. APrEasos, of Mopiteau county