The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-10-19
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

lv killed by an explosion it, Joplin
mine
THE Tew.Lyle Printing Co, of Kan
sas City, has gone into the hands Of
receiver
}. G. WILLIAMS, of Iowa, was recent
ly killed in attempting to board train
at Springfield.
TuE Drury college football team, of
Springfield, has accepted challenge
from the Missouri state university team.
The game will be played in Springfield
about November H.
Poison was recently put into the
food of family at lcrico Springs and
as result Mrs Manning and Mr. Com
stock are dead and several others were
in precarious condition. The officers
are confident of discovering the guilty
parties.
THE National bank of Kansas City,
that suspended during the financial
| pinch two months ago, has reopencd
for business. The deposits during the
first day of opening amounted to over
s272, 900 and less than $4,000 was
checked out.
ON the floor of the st. Louis Mer-
| tNtlIduRc obntl
there was collected for the Louisiana
storm sufferers in five minutes the sum
of $500. A committee was appointed
to solicit further subscriptions, both of
money and clothing.
| Coz. SwITZLER, who was recently APP
pointed curator of the state univers-
| ity, has resigned. lie is ineligible be-
cause of the fact that he is in the same
congressional district with Judge
Bland, also member of the board,
which is contrary to the law.
FIRE in II house at Hannibal, owned
by the Standard Oil Co., recently de-
stroyed property valued at SO, 900.
| During the progress of the fire five
tanks, four of coal and one of gasoline,
exploded, No one was hurt The fire
originated from spark from passing
engine.
| Ar Dexter the other night Joe Miller
made an assault upon Lee Edwards, at
! his home. with whom he sought diff
Guilty. In an effort to reach Edwards,
who had rctreated from Miller, the lat
ter knocked Mrs. Edwards down. Ed
wards then shot Miller dead. lie sur
rendered
Anton ScHru. formerly pressman
| of the Tew-Lyle Printing Co, was shot
and killed at Kansas City the other
night by Charles d. Etue, printer and
son of T. d. Etue, we'll known citi-
zen, Both Schulz and Etue were only
about II years OF age. The trouble was
over dissolute woman.
The prosecuting attorney at st.
| Louis has filed POS suits in the circuit
court against corporations that have
failed to comply with the antitrust
law passed April2, 1891, which requires
all corporations to file atlidavits once II
year stating that the firm is in no wise
connected with a trust or pool.
RECENTLY a four-foot vein of coal
was opened up on the Chatham Zinc
& Lead Mining Co.'S ground near
Webb City and is being worked. 1t
was found at depth of 100 feet by
drifting on small lead of coal tar.
Several other prospects of coal have
been found lately but not worked.
THE Southern Presbyterian synod
met at Marshall on the l1th with dele
gates present from all parts OF the
state. Rev. c. l., llogue, of Palmyra,
was elected moderator and Rev. A. w.
Gauss clerk. For home missions Sl62. SO
was collected. Directors were elected
for the Louisville theological seminary.
SIX months ago some well diggers
lost a drill twenty-five feet from the
surface on Herman Wilbur's farm,
eight miles east of jefferson City. Re-
Gently they undertook to dig the drill
out and exploded blast of dynamite
at n depth of over twenty feet. Adam
Fritz descended few minutes after
the blast was fired and Immediately
succumbed to the poisonous gas, When
taken out he was dead
THE special grand jury impaneled to
look into the affairs of the suspended
Kansas City Safe Deposit Il Savings
bank returned sixteen indictments
against President James c. Darragh
and Cashier Elmer G. Sattley, charg-
ing them with grand larceny. The in
dictments charge that the defendants
took and received money on deposit
after they had knowledge and we'll
knew that the bank was insolvcnt and
was in a failing condition.
THE executor of the estate of DIR,
Fraker, lately reported drowned at
Excelsior Springs, has gathered his
proofs of the drowning of the doctor
and has made his demand on the
various insurance companies for the
amounts for which they had insured
the missing man. The total amount is
about s5S, 900, and the companies, it is
said, will resist payment, as the body
of the doctor has not been found and
produced in proof of death. An inter
esting legal fight is expected.
The latest report of the Missouri
state board of agriculture says of the
corn crop: THE comparatively high
estimates for September are sustained,
the average for the state being ninety
one for that month and ninety-one for
October. Northeast section has i'm
proved one point and the southest four
while the northwest has declined two
and central three points, and southwest
remaining at September estimate. Thus
making improvement in two sections
equal to decline in others. Irish pota
toes have declined eight points during
the last month, but are better than last
year. Where not injured by bugs early
potatoes are good, and late very light
Sweet potatoes have slightly improved
in condition"
QUITE an excitement was created al
the female college at Fayette the othel
night by one of the girl students taking
morphine. She wanted to board ''ouI
in town" which privilege was denied
her, as it is against the rules of the in
stitution. The young lady became des
perate and took large dose of the
drug, and had a narrow escape from
death. She was sent home.
Gov. STONE has offered a reward o
$500 each for the arrest of the miscre
ants who misplaced switch on the st
Louis & San Francisco railroad, caus
ing the deaths of the engineer an,
fireman, near Springfield. The com
pany has added 1000 to the amount
THE sorghum plant of Duncan