The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-11-23
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

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The sixteenth annual meeting OF
Mexican war veterans of southwest
Missouri was recently held at Monctte.
VI the eighteen members present,
eleven were over 10 years of age.
A. L. FONDA, u prominent capitalist
and business man of Kansas City, died
suddenly at the Coates house in that
place the other night. lie was one of
the pioneer commission men of the city.
JACOB GREGG died at Grain Valley,
Jackson county, the other day, at the
age of 03 years. He located in Jackson
copnty early in the present century,
when there were only ten white men
nlthe territory now embraced in the
county.
THE executive committee of republic
an clubs met recently at Springfield to.
make arrangements for state conven-
tion to be held in that city February %,
next The league comprises / 100 clubs
and over 1000 delegates are expected
at the convention.
THE Knights and Ladies of Honor, in
session at st. Louis. elected II. L. A.
Spliker, grand protector; Sarah Kunse-
mueller, grand vice protector; Thomas
w. Seymour grand secretary; Annie f.
Graydon, grand treasurer; Sarah N,
lloyden, grand chaplain.
The suit of John NJ Glover, lawyer
and ex;congressman, against the Amer
ican Casualty Insurance & Security Co.,
Of Baltimore, Md, for $50, 900 damages
for publishing him as an embezzler of
sGG, $50 in its circulars, came to trial at
St Louis few days incc and resulted
in verdict for s27, 900.
A. J. WAGNER, one ef the most no.
torious toughs in Kansas City, was re-
Gently convicted in the United States
court of having stolen postage stamps
in his possession. lie has been accused
of several murders but always man
aged to escape the penalty and has
served six years in the penitentiary.
PosrMAsTERs lately appointed in
Missouri: At Arbor, Cape Girardeau
county, b. d. Blair; at Bois Brulc, Per-
ry county, f. Mattingly; at Hart, Nc
Donald county, Albert Rinehart; at
Pilot Knob, Iron county, Charles
Maschmeyer vice =. 'Iaquth, removed
at Sue City, Macon county, s. Sprinkle.
AT St Louis the other day Mike
Donahue, bricl<laycr, shot Leon ITar-
rison, bill poster, through the heart
killing him instantly. 1t appeared to
he a case of cold blooded murder. The
two men had been the best of friends,
but quarreled the n ght before in
saloon. The murdered man leaves
wife and child. The murderer Is n
widower with three children.
GEORGE W. MARROW, wholesale boot
and shoe dealer, who had been in bust
ness in st. Joseph for twenty-five years,
committed suicide in that city few
days ago by shooting himself. He was
just recovering from an attack of
typhoid fever, and after making his
will, paying dues on his life insurance
policies, went to his store and commit
ted the deed. Illness had deranged
him
THE supreme court has affirmed the
sentence in the case Of Dick Robinson,
the negro, who brutally assaulted,
robbed and murdered Anna Scollman,
a German girl, at Sedalia, in October,
1902. The time of his execution was
fixed for December Is. The court also
affirmed the sentence of death awarded
Martin Reed, colored, who murdered
his wife at Kansas City, in September,
1890 Execution to take place Decem.
Der 10.
FEAR Of arrest and exposure caused
Edward Burke, n well known employe
of the MokaslIa Coffee Co., at st. Jo-
seph, to kill himself when he found the
officers were on his trail. He had pre-
sented and cashed several checks when
he had no money in bank. His arrest
was ordered. Burke, who was at the
home of his mother, found out the Of
ficers were after him and swallowed
dose of strychnine, dying a few min
utes later.
JOIN RECTOR, who was convicted in
Perry county for participancy in the
killing OF Charles Cargile in 1892, and
sentenced to the penitentiary for ten
years, has been released from custody
by the supreme court. In delivering
the opinion of the court, Judge Sher-
wood held that Rector was in nowise
responsible for Cargile's death and
should not have been prosecuted. The
lower court was reversed and the de-
fendant discharged.
JAMES SALMoNs, of New York, and
b. p. Collins, of Washington, d. c.,
travelling for cigarette house, were
found dead in bed at the st. James ho-
tel in St Louis the other morning,
having been asphyNiated by gas escap-
ing from the burner. They had been
spreeing around town and retired some
time after midnight, and by some means
left the gas leaking, Collins was only 10
years old. They had been dead more
than day when found.
M. V. RoBERTs, q barber of Rush Hill,
Audrain county, is reported to have
been left an estate of over s60,0 by a
man named Bennett who Roberts saved
from drowning over twenty years ago
Bennett, who recently died in New
Mexico, was wealthy man when res
cued by Roberts, and he offered the
latter half of his wealth at the time of
his rescue, but Roberts refused TO take
a cent Roberts jolSingly told him that
II he had no heir at the time of his
death he could leave him his property.
Bennett replied that he would do so,
and has kept his word.
Gov. STONE has offered reward OF
$500 for Jesse b. Jones, of Miller coun-
ty, who shot and killed his son-in-law,
Isaiah Jackson, October Is, 1893; 5000
for Joseph Cole, colored, charged with
the murder of Daniel Mitchell, in St
Charles county, September 81, 1899, and
$3.50 each for Joseph Corbett and one
Williams, charged with the murder of a
man named Gilbert in St Charles coun-
ty, September 90, 1903.
The president on the 14th appointed
Webster Withers, of Kansas City, in.
ternal revenue collector for the west
ern district, and J. Scott Harrison,
brother of ex-President Harrison, sur.
veyor Of the port of Kansas City,
+. v. GENTRY, real estate man Of
Mexico, was probably fatally shot by
his brother, DIR. C. c. Gentry, while
hunting near Sturgeon the other day, by
the accidental discharge of Dr. Gentry's