The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-01-12

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THE drug store of y Il. Parkef at
Oak Grows was destroyed by fire few
dsys silce! Loss, $1,000; insurance, ST.
200
| By a vote Of 100 to Z, afterwards na65
unanimous, the Missouri house passed
a resolution indorsing Gov. Francis for
n cabinet position.
| 1osEtt CrMtny; Of Canton, prom
inent grain dealer and coniiriisslot ii'et'
chant, committed suicide the other after
noon by shooting himself
| WttItI, out hunting near Moberly the
other day Charles l'erriug'oI was acci-
dentally shot and nortally wotnded ny
his nephew, Walter Pennington.
| TfiE Joint caucus of democrats of the
two houses of tie Missouri legislature
re-nominated Senator Cockrell by ac-
clamation for United States senator.
On a lonely road near Lone Jack the
other morning Walter Jackson, a negro
tiainp, beat lis vile TO death and also
attempted to kill her thirteen yeaf=old
sister. The parties were trdmping from
| Arkansas The murdered wonian was
only IS years old. Jackson escaped aid
the girl revived and told the story.
AT Nevada the other day Walter,
aged IA, son nf Jacob Jordan, picked up
Il revolver which he supposed was
| empty, took deliberate aim at several
| persons in the room, and to show them
1t was not loaded placed it to his own
head and fired The bullet went
through his brain, killing him instantly.
JUijGE BURGESS has been sworn in as
n member of the sttprenie court, Division
No. g. The changes in the divisions
Of the court are as follows: Judge
Black becomes presiding justice of court
in banc and Division no. 2; Judge Sher-
wood goes from Division No. to No 9,
and Judge McFarlane goes from No. .
to No. l. Judge Burgess takes Judge
! Thomas place
BENJAMIN HAMtETT son of William
B. Hamlet, eX-mayor OF Lexington,
committed suicide at the st. James
hotel in Kansas City the other morning
with morphine, because disappointed in
love. 1t was his second attempt at self
| destruction. He arrived at the hotel
the night before, took n room and dur
| ing the night took the fatal drug dy-
Ing in few hours
A FAMILY fcud at st Louis at the be-
| ginning of the y'"r led to the shooting
| of Winston l.. Barrett by Harry II.
| Morgan. Barrett, although deperately
wounded, may recover. Barrett and
Morgan married daughters of Col. d.
M. Edgerton, the protector and builder
of the Kansas City al" road, and the
trouble grew out of the application Of
Mrs. Morgan for a divorce from her
husband.
CHARLES c. FARIs, superintendent Of
the pharmaceutical department of the
Never Brothers Dug Co, of st. Louis,
committed suicide at his home in that
city on the morning of the 4th by shoot
ing himself He leaves wife and four
children. No other cause could be as
signed for the deed than that of tenn
porary insanity, superinduced by his
work in the laboratory of the drug COM
pany where he had been employed for
the past eight years.
| THE State Dairymen's association will
hold its third annual meeting January
l7-1S in Sc laia. There will be exhibits
of dairy products for premiums, also
displays of dairy machinery and sup
plies. Processes of separating and test
ing milk, churning and working butter
and other operations will be shown.
The State Rnads improvement assoca-
tion will hold its first annual meeting
on the two days following the dairy
meeting, Jan. 1920, at Scdalia. County
courts, city councils and all other
bodies that are for the advancement OF
public welfare are invited to appoint
delegates. Reduced rates will be given
by railroads
THE December report of the state
treasurer showed the balance on hand
December 81 to be, in all funds, s417,-
1880; receipts during the month, 1865,
S04.S4 disbursements, s522, i+6 92; bal
ance on hand AT close of business De-
cember 81, S5G2, ,277,4S, which amount
belongs to the following funds: State
revenue fund.- sST, ,620.95; state school
fund, 81 ,53S n; state school moneys,
slS6, 27i. l6; state seminary fund, 81, ,O95.-
OS; executors and administrators fund,
s31, $50. IA; insurance department fund,
SIS, ,03i ~; road and canal fund, $3.50 30;
militia fund, 81, 4S2 Ga; earnings peni'
tentiary fund, S1l, ,9i7 II; state sinking
fund, s52, 172 II; state seminary moneys,
SIT, ,770O0; colored institute fund,
81, 1888 80; university building fund,
| $3.50, 40334
THE other afternoon Larris Cain, OF
Rich Hill, attempted suicide at the
Coates house in Kansas City by taking
morphine. At the time dispatch had
been received to arrest him on the
charge of embezzlement Cain denied
the charge and declared his readiness
to meet his nccuscrs, but gave nS
reasons for his attempt at self-iestruc
ton.
BY Il cave-in In a coal shaft in thu
northern suburbs of Sedalia the othe
afternoon, Stonewnll jackson, aged 2s
single, aud George Brown. aged 40, mar
: cd, were killed, and two Others, Elijal
Finis apd Isaac Hayes, we're badly In
3used