The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-10-26
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

was recently Killed by the cars at Man
chester near Kansas City
W is stated that ]. West Goodwin has
made all the Arrangements 20 resume
publication of the Sedalia Bazoo
THE Huntsville coal mine strikers
have, by force and persuasion com
bined, induced the miners at Ardmore
to quit work.
THE Hannibal e. st. Joseph railroad
depot at Stewartsville burned the other
morning. The residence of c. l.. Bush,
near by, was also burned.
THE steamer State of Missouri, OF the
Kansas City packet line, has been sold
In st. Louis to the Cincinnati, Memphis
& New Orleans Packet Co., for SIS, 900.
WHILE going TO his school near
Breeze, Jasper county, the other day a
school teacher named Leaper found
5000 in $50 and $40 gold pieces in
Small gully washed out by recent
rains.
hMoNd the delegctes appointed by
the governor to the worlds real estate
congress at Chicago is Mrs. Henrietta
G. Cosgrove, of Joplin, who the gov
ernor appoints as a representative of
the mining interests of southwest Mis-
souri,.
QUITE a number of horses have died
in Virgil township, Vernon county, re.
Gently, and many others were sick of
n new disease caused from eating
chinch bugs and worm-eaten corn.
The disease was spreading and gen
orally fatal
REPORTS to the comptroller of the
currency show that the average reserve
held by the national banks of Kansas
City at the close of business October 3
was 3S. IL per cent. Loans and dis
counts, sll,2s5, 77e.0s; individual de-
| posits, s6,359, ,GSi 40.
DICK MALONE and John Miner, who
were confined in the Monroe county
Jail, made their escape by making a
hole through the stone wall with crow
bars furnished them by pals on the
outside. Malone and Miner were
wanted for the holding up and robbery
of Operator Rogers at Fayette.
A FATAL family quarrel occurred at
Bagnell, Miller county, the other even
ing. George Jones and his son-in-law,
William Jackson, occupied the same
house, and it is reported that family
disturbances were of frequent occur
renee between them. In the last quar-
rel Jones terminated the dispute by
| picking up shotgun and firing load
of buckshot into Jackson's body, kill
ing him
INDICTMENTS have been returned by
the federal grand jury at Chicago
against the officers of the Guarantee
Investment Co., of Nevada, Mo. The
I'll. 4.
about two years, is believed by the gov
ernment officials to be in violation of
the lottery laws. 1t was incorporated
under the laws of Missouri about two
lated fnTSe HTo,its. It's ""'" "'~"' ""'"" i" ="
TwO'young desperadoes made dar-
ing attempt to rob Stevens pawn shop
on Main street, within stones throw
of the Junction, the busiest point in
Kansas City, at l o'clock the other
afternoon. They sandbagged Fred
Shukert, clerk, after decoying him to
back room, but he recovered from
the blow and gave the alarm before
they succeeded in stealing anything.
The thieves escaped in the crowd
THE other evening as n train on the
NJ, X. & II. road was pulling into
Pleasant Green the engineer was horri-
fed at seeing little child playing
upon the track just ahead of his en-
gine. He reversed the lever, put on
the air brake and expected to see the
child ground to pieces, but at that mo-
ment the station agent jumped be-
tween the rails and snatched the little
one from the track just as its clothing
was brushed by the pilot
THE case of the State VS.. Harvey w.
Plattenburg, charged with murder in
the first degree, was dismissed in the
criminal court at Lexington by Prose-
cutting Attorney hull. Plattenburg
shot and killed David Gray and James
Mcdowell in that city September 90,
1892. Two indictments were found
against him. He was acquitted for
the killing of Gray at the June term.
| The evidence in the Mcdowell case
was the same as the Gray case.
ABOUT o'clock the other morning
two men surprised c. ID. Thomanson,
night operator of the Hannibal & St
Joseph railway at Lathrop, and robbed
him of his watch and money. In look
ing for hatchet to break open the
money drawer the robber holding the
revolver turned his back upon the op-
orator, who Immediately seized stove
poker and struck him over the head
twice, fracturing his skull in two
places. The robbers fed but were
pursued and captured. The wounded
thief was not expected to live.
A REMARKABLE suit was filed at st.
Louis the other day against Archbish-
op Kenrick and Coadjutor Kane by
Bridget Powers and John Welsh The
prosecutors are heirs of John Welsh,
who in the early part of this century
was partner of John Mullanphy in a
fishing venture off the west coast of
Ireland. Mullanphy never settled with
Welsh, but came to this country. In
1889, repenting, he intrusted the share
of profits due Welsh to the Catholic
bishop at St Louis These funds have
since been held as trust. The plain
tiffs claim that they did not learn until
1890 of the trust and since then they
have sought to get the money AMIGA
bly,. Failing, they now bring suit.
THE four-year-old son of Harry
Workman, st, Joseph business man,
fell down stairway the other after
noon. At the bottom was a scraper, on
which the little fellow landed on his
throat, cutting it, He bled to death
before assistance could be rendered.
THE habeas corpus proceedings insti-
tuted in behalf OF the judges of the st.
Clair county court who are imprisoned
in the Jackson county Jail by order OF
Judge Philips of the United States
court, has been set for hearing by the
supreme court for November Z. The
matter of jurisdiction will then be de
termined and all the judges will sit IL
consultation.
FIRE on the farm of Mathew Scotch
eight miles from Fayette, recently de
stroyed his nno barn containing fou
brood mares, three mule colts and biz
lot of grain and hay. Origin of fr'