The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-09-28
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

| l.. HE bonlDafu investment 20, Of
Ratsa1 city. has beeu placed in the
hands of a receiver.
AT Kansas city on the 2lst the mnf4
cury ran up to o5, but a soaking rain in
tho afternoon caused a stringency in
the atmosphere tina, dersssed it about
90 degrees.
THE president on the Goth nominal ted
the following Missouri postmasters:
Beauregard Ross, at Cameron: samuel
Lowry, at Plattsburg, and Kate +.
Kidd ht Excelsior Springs.
ExpEitf tfaeksmsr, rnhied the safe
In the dwelling of Nv, E.--Goetz, fnrp4
ager Of the st. Joseph Drug Co... the
other night and carried off about 5000
worth Bf silvsrwgrc. together with
some money and other Va,,ahlas.
:, Tnf latest REPORT OF the secretary Of
the state department 81 agriculture
says 90 per cent of the corn crop is
safe from frost, but as much of il has
been matured too rapidly by drought
and hcat, " will he light in weight.
MILTON BOSWELL, i ~. Louis, re-
Gently lost lot Of money belonging to
his wife and also some that he had bor-
rowcd, on the races, then wrote a fare
well letter to his wife and disappeared.
1t was thought he had drowned him
self
PETRR HEfss prominent citizen Of
Centralia, committed suicide the other
morning by hanging himself in his
barn. The coroner's jury's verdict was
temporary insanity lie was quite
wealthy, and widely 1iio'vr ~ Il miller
and grain dealer.
THE Missouri board of underwriters,
recently in session at Excelsior Springs
elected the following officers: d. r.
Davenport, Macon City. president; A.
II. Eullard, Kansas City, vice presi-
dent; W. F. Mariner, Kansas City, sec
retary and treasurer
THE letter carriers of the United
States met in convention at Kansas
City on the 18th. Mayor Cowherd well
coined them to the city and President
smith responded. Representatives.,
either IN peraon or hv proxy, were pres.
ent from $50 free delivery offices.
THE grand Jury at Moberly returned
a true bill against james Muller and
wife, Miss Alice Lawton, J. +. Lloyd,
Mrs. w. G. Lloyd and Mrs. John Lloyd,
charging them with assault with in.
tent t" kill James Collins, at lIigbee,
on August I, by horae-whipping him.
A MAN named Mlt Harris was in
stantly killed the other morning near
Nelson while working with dynamite,
which was being used in clearing Il
field of stumps. There was premature
explosion and a part of the stump
struck him on the head, mashing in the
skull.
LEWIS Blum, wealthy farmer of
Morgan county, committed suicide by
hanging in his barn the other evening.
He had trouble with two neighbors,
growing out of stock transactions, and
left a note addressed to his wife In
which he stated that these two men
had driven him to death.
THE fellows who recently made such
disastrous attempt to hold up Cen
tral Illinois train at Centralia and
were badly whipped by the conductor
and express messenger had resided in
st. Louis for the past two years. All
three Jones, " Dwycr and Ilarten had
formerly been railroad employees.
ATTORNEYS for the creditors OF the
wholesale notions firm OF Simon, ELL
man & Co., at st Louis, which failed
recently, claim to have uuearthed evil
dente of fraud, and that the company
by the aid of straw men shipped newly
purchased goods to various cities, in
tending to later realize. The attor-
neys say the transactions thus far dis
covered amount to 800, 600.
A PARTY of about thirty tramps took
possession of the Kansas City, st Jo-
seph & Council Bluffs freight train No.
20 at Pacific Junction the other morn
ing. With revolvcrs they forced Con-
ductor Parrish and the trainmen to
pull them to the outskirts of st. Jo-
seph, when they abandoned the train
and took to the hills. A posse went in
pursuit and three of the fellows were
captured.
MANAGERS of the various packing
houses in Kansas City are of the opin-
ion that within the next six months
the business of the packers will far ex-
coed that of previous years for the same
period of time. Conditions are regard
ed as favorable to an increase in the
output of their products, All the
houses are daily increasing their forces
and very soon will be running to the
limit of their capacity.
w. +. IlENDMAN, of Halls Station,
drove to Lake Contrary (near st. .Io-
seph) the other day and about mid
night his father heard the team come
home and going ont found his son with
one of his feet caught in the buggy and
his body dragging on the ground nm
derneath, The unfortunate young man
had fallen as he started to step into
the buggy and the team had dragged
him for ten miles. lie died in two
hours.
Gov. STONE recently granted the fol-
lowing combinations: c. w. Il. Heat
on, convicted in jackson county in 1890
of forgery and sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for ten years, sentence COM
muted to five years and four months
with benefit of three-fourths rule; John
l.. Ferguson, convicted In jackson
county in 1892 of obtaining money un-
der false pretenses and sentenced for
four years, sentence reduced to thirty
two months with the benefit Of three
fourths rule.
A CONSTABLE and detective (sup-
posed to be peace oflicers) fought with
pistols in Christie's saloon at Kansas
City the other night. Six shots were
fired, none taking effect, Both were
intoxicated. 1t was suggested that
their places be filed by men who are
better shots.
THE other morning while running
full speed down Mount Pleasant hill,
in the southern part of St Louis,
motor car ran into a wagon containing
four persons, wrecking the car and
wagon and killing William Essemuller.
Jack Geist received fatal injuries, and
Joseph Weiss and William Kelhofsr
were badly bruised.
In fracas at St Charles the other
day George Lucas, colored, shot Ed
ward Buschman fatally Buschman
returned the fire, after being wounded,
md lillad Iucas