The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-04-06
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.


part of the state on the 27th.
FIRE at Marion the other day de-
rtroyed property TO the value OF $50, 900.
RoBERr BURNn, n farmer from Kan
sas, committed suicide at Hotel IN
jasper county the other morning. No
cause known.
JohS DoUGHERTY, a section laborer,
was run over and fatally injured in the
Missouri Pacific railroad yards at Kan
sos, City the other day.
WnfLE tliS cnshcr nt Che Sullivan
County bank at Milan was iet6htly Mt
dinner a thief entered through back
window and stole 1000.
THE state supreme court has declared
the state law prohibiting the payment
of emp Dyes through the mediums of
truck stores" unconstitutional
FouR men and woman were recently
arrested at ST. Louis for being engaged
in q plot to rob Missouri Pacific train
The evidence was strong against them.
The hardware store OF Claus Junge,
at Cole Camp, was broken into the 9th
er pight and robbed of between So, 900
and 81, 900 WORTH Of r,otcs and papers
The thieves also robbed drug store
A MAN named Joseph Dunnigan
whose home is in Cassville, was taken
before United States Commissioner j.
ID. Perkins, of Carthage, the other day
charged with being couuterfeiter lie
was committed to prison in default of
bail
THE Missouri Pacific officials at
Scdalia claim to have unearthed a con-
Al ,,I e.. s,,,;, a
the company by manipulating time
checks. Five engineers and six fire.
men were discharged and others were
to follow.
TTE charter for new railroad was
lately filed with the secretary of state.
The road is to run from Pattonsburg,
In Davies county, to St Joseph Hnd
thence to Sibleys bridge on the Mis-
souri, river, in Ray county, distance
of l20 miles,
THE four-story brick building at l3Os-
10 West Eighth street, Kansas City, oc-
cupicd by the Bowen spring factory
and the V. X. Sammons mattress fact
ory, was gutted by fire the other night.
The total loss on the building and con-
tents was about $40, 900.
A GANG Of countcrfeiters was recent
ly captured In the west end of Christian
county at Wilson's store. They claimed
to be from Arkansas. Two were lodged
in the Ozark Jail and some more are
still in the woods. Quite lot of the
new coin was found in their possession.
Two chain gang prisoners, while re-
Gently at work on the road near
Carthage, got into quarrel, when one
of them, Tom Brown, crushed the head
of the other, Charles Greathouse, with
stone and followed it up by cutting
his head with a spade, inflicting fatal
injuries
GEORGE RITTENuousE, n highly re.
spcctcd young man of Webster Groves,
was shot and probably fatally wounded
the other morning by Charles Merrill,
son Of c. l.. Merrill, assistant cashies of
the st Louis Bank OF Commerce, who
is one OF the most highly respected resi-.
dents of Webster Groves The shooting
was the result of spree by party of
young men.
THE dead body of Frank ]. Adams,
proprietor of the Fulton fish market, at
Kansas City, was found in a room back
of his store the other afternoon, with
bullet wound near the heart 1t was
plain case of suicide, brought on by
drink, financial losses and domestic
trouble, his wife having secured di-
vorce over year ago and their three
grown children going with her.
THE supposed shortage of County
Treasurer Matlock, Of Randolph coun.
ty, turns out to be bad system OF
bookkeeping. The expert employed by
the county court to examine the books
discovered where the treasurer charged
himself with the sum of $4,000 twice.
This, with some other smaller mistakes,
also discovered, makes up the full
amount he was supposed to be short
81, 600
THE St Clair county judges, Ben
jamin +. Copenhaver and Thomas ID.
hewitt, who were in Jail at Kansas
City by order of Judge Philips, Of the
United States court, for contempt in re-
fusing to make levy to pay railroad
bonds, have been discharged by United
States commissioner Nuckols, They
pleaded under the paupcr act that they
were not worth $50 above legal exclnp-
tions, and under provision of the
United States statutes We're set free
THE State Dairy association is trying
to secure an exhibit of dairy products
for the worlds fair, as n means of
demonstrating to the world that Mis-
souri, is good dairy state. With this
in view the secretary appeals to the
private dairymen and women and man
ayers of butter and cheese factories of
the state toshelp make such an exhibit
as will show what Missouri can do in
this line. Exhibitors will be at no ex.
pense and can obtain full particulars
by addressing Levi Chabbuck, secre-
tary, Columbia, Mo
THE decision of the state supreme
court holding the weekly pay" act OF
the general assembly to be unconstitu
tional, has caused no little interest and
the effects of the decision will be felt
| in all the mining districts of the state,
| The opinion was written by Judge f.
| NJ. Black, who declared the act uncon
| stitutional on the ground that it is elias:
legislation which arbitrarily deprives
| mine owners and mine operatives of the
| right to make plain, everyday con
tracts--a right that is inherent to al
men. All the justices concurred in the
opinion, except Justice Barclay, who
| dissentcd
| THE other morning Mrs. j. T. Albert
son, wife of Houstonia merchant
prepared toddy for the family, plac
ing in the glass about two ounces Of
whisky. While absent from the room
Edgar, seven-year-old son, drank tn,
entire contents of the glass He wa.
taken suddenly i'll and died next day.
THE women's board of home and for
eign missions of the Kansas City pres
bytery held three days session a
Clinton the last week in March. Dur
ing the session some of the most noted
women of the country delivered ad
dresses. The reports were most favor
able. The next annual meeting will b
held in Butler,
The governor has signed the bill ap
propriating $3.50, 900 for the construc