The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-08-24
MISSOURI STATE NEWS


AhNhH hre thirteen preachers In Mon
roe City.
T5r yHiyn Pacific road has taken or
It's night traiii fF5hi kdHsss City !,
Denver.
THE Missouri crop bulletin report.
more favorable conditions the pas,
week than for several weeks preced
ing.
JAMES FAIRIES, one Of the best knowr
fariners OF Andrew county, was killed
oy n train the other day. He was Ts
gears oiti
THE Sedalia Bazoo Il reported 10 have
surmounted its financial difficulties and
its blasts will again be heard in the
surrounding country.
INSPECTORS who recently investigated
the Kansas City post office reported the
management 6f the Office very bad, but
business men of the city dec ared that
such report did great injustice to the
postmaster, DIR. Noffsinger
SENATOR HAwLEY has introduced a
bill in the United States senate to
elNnee the E'iiiDct. bridge across the
Missouri river at Kansas CITY into a
railroad bridge, removing the free
driveway provided for in the original
bill.
A YOUNG man named Culbertson
while making an excavation on a farm
ten miles north of Osceola is reported to
have unearthed churn filled with
octagon $50 gold pieces, bearing dates
of early years. He now favors gold
standard.
ELIJAH BRYAN, aged 03, who is said
to have built the first Touring mill in
st. Louis, and James Bryan, SO years
old a fighter in the Cherokee war, were
in attendance at the recent old settlers
reunion in Vernon county. Noah Sum-
mers, who has lived for sixty three
years In Vernon county, was also pres
ent
A r,oltER exploded In the Wellington
Star mill the other morning, killing j.
X. Johnson one of the owners, and
Frank ALBION, boy IL years of age
Only part of the body of the boy could
be found. The boiler was carried up
the hill, about 200 yards. The flilt had
been idle for several months and just
started up on the morning of the ex-
plosion.
IT is stated that Representative Tars-
ney, of the Kansas City district has re-
ceived over 800 letters from constitu-
ents, asking him to send them the Con-
gressional Record. The demand to see
tbs Record, owing te the silver debate,
is unusually large, but as each congress-
man is supplied with only twenty copies
he cannot meet the wishes of his con-
JOHN w. KITTRELL, a young negro
who, with the assistance OF two white
men and the connivance of the express
robbed wagon of the Pa
citic Express Co. of $1,000 in Wichita,
Kan. on the night of July 30, was caught
at Kansas City the other morning. His
part of the money, $4,000, had been
lie alleges that he went
to Chicago with another negro who
robbed him.
GEdHeE BoHAE, wealthy farmer and
stock raiser of Rosendale, committed
suicide at st. Joseph the other day in
peculiar manner. He retired to his
room at a hotel, saturated the pillows
Of his bed with chloroform and then
turned ON the gas He was found dead
family. The cause OF the actwas iha|y
losses in the bucket shops.
Lon DowDY and his sister, Mrs. Mar
garet Walton, were recently arrested
at Poplar Bluff on the charge of muir
der. A few days before the body Of
Gardner was found on the
railroad tracks terribly mutilated and
the coroner decided that he had been
killed by train. Later developments,
however led to the suspicion that he
had been murdered and robbed and
the body placed on the track. The ar
rests followed.
FoURTH-CLAss postmasters appointed
for Missouri on the 14th: At Avalon.
Livingston county, B. Wilson; at Buck
lin, Linn county, +. Claybrook; at
Clark, Randolph county, 7. Morris; at
Garden City, Cass county, w. b. Brass
field; at Hale, Carroll county, L. Odell;
at Jacksonville, Randolph county, f.
Lamb; at Mooresville, Livingstone
county, F. Comstock; at Proctorville,
Caldwell county, T. Bancroft; at White
water, Cape Girardeau county, >
Symms.
THE Atlantic express of the St. Louis
,& San Francisco railroad was held
up at $40 the other morning at st
James, southwest of St Louis, by two
men and the express car robbed. The
two men boarded the train at Rolla,
and at the point of robbery forced
their way into the express car and com
PEELED the messenger TO open the safe,
They then pulled the bell cord and
when the train slowed up escaped.
They did not discover the through safe
which was concealed. Their booty
amounted to only about 5000.
The August report of the state board
of agriculture, in speaking of the wheat
crop, says: AT harvest the weather
conditions were in most counties first
class and the wheat shocked in good
condition. but since heavy rains have
prevented stacking and 'sprouting ir
the shock is reported from the north
west The price is so low that in some
cases the grain was not cut and in 9th
ers it will not be threshed, but fed Il
stock" The corn crop promises well
oats, abundant. Irish potato crop yer.
fine; sweet potatoes promise an aver
age crop; hay, splendid sorghum, av
erage, and fruit no marked change II
condition. Many reports of total failur
Of apples.
In reply to an inquiry, Secretary o
State Lesueur is severe upon the bon'
Investment companies, which he char
acterizes as mere lotteries that neve
should have been chartered. Quo war
ranto proceedings will be instituted
against them.
CARL, the eleven-yesr-old son Of ia
cob Keiser. u merchant of st. Charles
met with instant death the other even
ing while playing with number q
children in front OF wagon shop.
heavy harrow was leaning against
post, around which several children
were playing, when the harrow fel
upon the boy and his skull was fra'
tured.
TaE fourth bank failure at Spring
field within two months was that q
the Bank of Springfield, which close
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