The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-01-05
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
KAHosA had q &C, 900 fire the other

is still hale and hearty.
JOE and Fred Reynolds, brothcrs,were
recently arrested at Webb City on the
charge Of countcrfeiting.
GEORGE CoNANT, an employe Of the
Hannibal & St Joseph railroad, was re-
Gently killed by the cars at Macon.
TESTS recently made are said to have
established the fact that gold has been
discovered in the Sni hills near Oak
Grove.
CLARA, the four-year-oid dHhsbter OF
Lawrence Nichols, was burned to death
NJ Trenton the other day. She was play
Ing atptit The fars when her dress
/ Caught. .-f
DR.. RALPH BUrTERrIELD, who recent
iy died at Kansas City, wllcd ali his
property, amoiHting TO slsO,0oO, TO
Dartmouth college. his alma mater
BGtterfield lived the life of rcclusc in
u large fraiiie Building.
MRs holland, wiic Of the eS-state
treasurer, has presented petition TO
Gov. Francis asking for the pardon OF
her husband. The petition contained
the names of several thousand of the
best citiaeIs of The state.
a LATE fire at sedelid destroyed the
residence OF c. Halle, general freight
agsnt Of the Missouri, Kansas & Texus
at St. Louis, .-hich was occupied by
Rev. Alexander Allen, reftor of Calvary
church. Loss, $1,000; insurance, $1,000,
THE other day c. II. Hayes arrived at
the National stock yards in St Louis
with nine cars Of Texas cattle, which
| lie turned aver TO Il commission com
pauy for disposal. Later he was arrest
ed on the charge of stealing the ''att'e'
On Christmas day Fred Is. Schnebly,
real estate broker, fell under n cable
car at the junction of Main and Della
ware streets in Kansas City and had
his leg cut off. A short time after Mrs.
Samuel Gray had foot crushed In at
| tempting to board d car Mt the same
| place.
EDWARD, alias "Speedy," Murphy,
Edward O'Connell and JAMES Morrisey,
alias Candy Alley" three notorious
and dangerous crooks, broke Jail at St
Louis the other day. In jumping from
a window Murphy fell and broke his
leg He was rearrested, but the other
two got away.
A MAN named Delaney, Of Kentucky,
Was recently found near Mexico, bad
ly bruised and frozen He was vo-
lcntly insane, caused probably from en-
pcst,rc and his wounds. He was on his
way to Plattsbttrg, taking the midnight
train. 1t thought he grew i'll on the
train and walked off the platform
JAMES WYLDE an Englishman, aged
50 years, while on his way to Mexico
fs,s". D.,.te-. CITY, t-o otho- dov, was
struck by the west bound Wabash ras-
senger train and instantly killed He
was deaf. The old man prided himself
on his powers of endurance and never
rode when he could walk. He has
walked from Indiana TO Nebraska and
back twice
AFTER years Of anxious toll and wait
| ing the miners of the Webb City camp
have realized their ideal in a rich find
of fiat sheet zinc ore at the depth of 235
to $50 feet beneath the surface. While
old miners have Insisted this ore would
be found should sufficient depth be
reached, it was not until recently that
operators had sufficient confidence to go
10 the necessary depth.
ELIZA BooKoUT, 70 years old, was
recently found dead in bed at Kansas
City. She was spinster and had sup
ported herself by washing for thirty
years, eating, sleeping and working in
the same room. She was once mem
Der of prominent North Carolina fam
lily whose earthly possessions were
swallowed UP by the civil war. She
died in poverty and unknown, except by
papers found after her death.
OK Christmas the governor presented
two long-term convicts with their par
dons. One Of them was Fritz lioose
who was sent to the prison from Frank
lin county in December. 1881, for TWEEN
ty years, for murder in the second de-
gree, and the other was Grant Brown,
sent up from Buchanan county in July,
1878, for life for murder in the first de-
gree. Brown was at one time con-
demued to death, but his sentence was
committed.
THE Missouri valley teachers nsso-
citation met in annual session at Mary
vile on December IS The attendance
was the largest in the history of the as
sociation. Outside Of the state Iowa
and Nebraska were we'll represented.
Prof. w. T. Longshore, president OF
the association, presided. The address
of welcome was delivered by Judge
Lafe Dawson, of Maryville, and was re-
sponded to by Prof. f. d. Thorpe, of
Kansas City. The address of the day
was delivered by President Richard II.
Jesse, of the state university.
The injunction recently granted by
Judge Stratton at the request of the
Kansas City, Nevada & Fort Smith Rail
road Co. against the Missouri, Kansas
& Texas railway was dismissed in the
circuit court at Nevada on the ground
that the injunction prohibited int,rfer'
cnce only SO long "a the Fort Smith
road confined work to its own right ol
way The matter now rests upoa the
d ,cision of the federal circuit court al
Kansas City, an injunction having beer
s scured in that court by the Missouri,
Kansas g. Texas against the For
Smith. The trouble grows out of tbs
attempt OF the Fort Smith people t.
build crossing at Clayton
JUDGE BARTON BATES, an cx-justic'
of the supreme court of Missouri. die'
recently at his home in St Charlie
county Of IL comp. ication of diseases
aged SO years. lie had been i'll severa
months Judge Bates was the e'des
son of Gen Howard Bates, of st. Louis
who was attorney-general in Presided
Lincoln's cabinet
Gov. FRANCIS has issued n prociamn
ton ordering n special election To b
held on Saturday, January 2s, To fill IT,
vacancy caused by the death Of Senator
| aio.t Samuel Moshv OF OSuPe co int\
| Tho district is composed If the conntie
1 Of Cole, Usage, Miller Maries, Phelg
spd Pulaski
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