The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-12-14
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

MINISTER'S of the Christian church in st.
Louis looking to the taxation of church
property.
THE chief Of police of Kansas City
believes that safe blowers and burglars
are modelling their forces for raid
upon that town.
THE Missouri State Dairy association,
which will hold it's annual session at
Carrolton January IL and IL, will give
premiums to Missouri exhibitors of
dairy products and readers of papers on
dairy subjects, aggregating in value
e20O.
THE adjutant-gcneral of the state
has issued an order discharging about
forty privatcs from the First, Second
and Fourth infantry at St Louis, Car
-thage and Brookfield, the discharged
men having served their full term of
| enlistment
| MARION llovEY was recently sem
fenced to the penitentiary for life on
plea Of guilty at Dexter, for the mur-
der of Matthew Vanduson, with whose
wife Harvey was intimate. Mrs Van
duson is already serving a life sentence
as accessory.
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upon the people of Jefferson City, and
even attacked the state administration.
Gov Stone, Secretary of State Lcsueur,
Auditor Seibert, Treasurer Stephens
and nearly half of the clerks about the
departments were sufferers from its in
sidious attacks.
| GEORGE p. SCoTT, secretary of the
Grocers' union and principal figure in
the recent Sunday closing agitation at
Kansas City, has skippad-with about
| 5000 of the funds of the organization.
He deserted his wife and appearances
were that young typewriter had gone
with him to Greaserland.
JUICE REQuA died in the Indian ter
ritory the other day and the body was
taken to Nevada for interment, lie
helped organize Vernon county, was
III mbcr of the first county court and
represented the county in the state
Legislature two terms. lie was the
father of Hon j. j. Requa, the present
representative from Vernon, and was
81 years of age.
THE residence of V. ]. Reid on JEFF
ferson street, in Kansas City, was
destroyed by fire the other night and
the family barely had time to escape
from the building in their night
clothes. To save herself one of the
servants Anna Nelson, Jumped from n
third-story window. The loss on the
dwelling and furniture was about Sl3,-
OO0. Fairly insured.
Is a mandamus proceeding recently
instituted before the supreme court, in
which st. Louis dentist sought to be
exempt from jury service under the
law exemptinF physicians, the court
held that dentists were not exempt.
The court was closely divided, how
ever, Justices Sherwood, Barclay, CAN'T
and burgess joining in the opinion,
and Chief Justice Black and justices
brace and Macfarlane dissenting.
Is the supreme court Judge Burgess
filed an opinion the other day in a case
involving construction of the law in
regard to dealing in grain. The judge
held that deal involving the delivery
of no property was gambling and a
misdemcanor under the statutes.
Judges CAN'T and Sherwood concurred
in the views expressed by Judge Bur
CESS. The decision is more far reach
ing than any former ruling of the
court, and. in fact, is the first ruling
wherein the anti-option dealing law,
as amended, has teen invoked
FRED LAMAR, II years old, deaf
mute student in the deaf and dumb
asylum at Fulton, was frozen to death
in the asylum pasture, near the inSti-
tuition, the other night. lie and some
other students were out gathering
haalenuts About the time the boys
started home Lamar fell in fit, and a
smaller boy went to him. The boy
says he could not wake Lamar, and left
him lying on the ground. The officials
missed him at supper and searching
party wenI to look for him, but did not
find him till early next morning. lie
was from Jasper county and an orphan.
THE secretary of state has granted n
charter to the Missouri River & Chicago
Railway Co. The capital stock is ST..
200, 900. According to the articles OF
association a railroad will be con
structcd from point on the Missouri,
Kansas & Eastern railroad, in Gala
way county, near St Auhert, and
thence in northwesterly direction to
Fulton and Columbia, and from the lat
ter point in northern and eastcrly di-
rection to the Wabash, near Centralia,
and thence through the counties o!
Audrian, Monroe, Rails and Marion to
Hannibal, distance of about 12C
miles.
Ir is proba Die that the affairs of an
other suspended Kansas City bank will
receive the attention of the grand jury
at an early day. During the trial of q
case the other day in which Il note fol
sl96 had been sued on as n result of the
failure in 1892 OF the Continental TruS
Co. the assignee testified that dcpositor'
had only been paid three per cent. aut
that it is doubtful il they would receive
three per cent more He testified tina
he held the notes of officers and di
rectors of the bank for nearly the en-
tire amount OF its deposits. The depos
it's subject to check shortly before tn
failure of the bank were about S97, ,0oO
and the time deposits about sl0 OOC
The witness said that $50 900 in cas-
was borrowed from the bank by one O
the directors only a few days prior t
the assignment Upon the assigne
giving this testimony the court directe
9 the clerk to lay the matter before tn
prosecuting attorney for his action.
WILLIAM AsHCRAFT, man about
, years old, was run over by the Chicago
Rock Island & Pacific railway at Edg
, erton Junction, the other night, an
both legs cut off lie was intoxicated
and in trying to board the train Will
in motion lost his footing and fell bt
, tween the ears.
n ,IoHN JENNINGS, convicted of sellin
liquor in the Indian territory an
sentenced to one year and one day
4 Imprisonment in the penitentinry a
y Columbus, o., escaped from Unite
, States Marshal Adams at RoclSvill,
:. Mo, the other morning by jumpin
:. through the window on Missouri
! Kansas & Texas car.
II AN exploding lantern fred the liver
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