The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-02-16
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

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The Mengcs sporting goods store at
Hansns City has been closed under
mortgages held by St l,ouis and Chica-
20 firms
Ed w. HOWE. the A,chison tKan.)
philosopher, it Is. said has purchased
the Kansas City Mail Ills "Globelets"
will hereafter be "Mailngs."
A MAcHINIsT named Breitenberg,
bachelor, was found dead in his hovcl
at St Louis the other day. His body
had been shockingly mutilatcd by rats.
THE dwelling of Mrs. Withcrs, a
widow with large family, at Chilli
cothc, caught fire and burned the other
night. The loss was 81 800; insurance,
| $70d
rnF other night fire destroyed atge
barn belonging to 4. NJ. Roberts oil the
Saxton farm, four miles east Of st.
| Joseph. Twcnty-four horses were
| burned to death, including the valuable
| stallion Russell Chief The loss was
s25, 900,
CHARLES II. CARTER, who murdered n
man by the name of Crockett in Law
renee county and escaped from Jail six
years ago while Under sentence of
| death, was recently captured in Oregon
| and has been taken back to meet the
sentence of the law.
TITUs ELsToN committed suicide in
| Monroe county the other day by shoot
ing himself with pistol. When found
he was sitting upright against the barn
dead. lie left note, in which he stat
| ed that he was tired of living. lie was
about 10 years Of age
MEDICAL students at St Joseph have
lately become so obstrepcrous in trying
to be funny" that the people declare
"if the medical college cannot reg
ulatc their students there will be an
Uprising some night which will regu'
tie the medical college,
/ A SMALL shanty occupied by colorcd
man named James, at Kansas City,
burned the other night and two of his
children and one othef colored boy per-
ishcd in the flames. The children were
aged Z, 10 and II years. In attempting
to rescue her children Mrs James was
badly burned.
IN the suit of the state supcrintend-
ent against the Sedalia school board to
enforce compliance with the require
mcnts of the law as to the use of school
text books, Judge Black, of the SUI
preme court, has declared the law of
1891 constitutional. The validity of
the law was called in question.
THE grand jury of Mcdonald county,
in session at Pinevillc, returned an in
iictmcnt for murder in the first degree
against William Simmons. who was ar
rested for the killing of Miss Lulu
Noel in December. The girl was about
20 years of age and her body was found
in the Cowsliin river. Simmons is in
I Jail.
TIE state committee on inventions OF
. the Worlds Fair Ladies' auNiliary met
, recently at Kansas City to arrange fol
space at the worlds fair where Mis-
{ souri, ladies', who have invented any
, articles, may place them on exhibition
Communications from a number of st
Tsuis, Kansas City and other womeI
who want space in which to cXhibi'
their different patents were read.
ST. .IosEPu lately had a gay deceivel
| in the person of George McAdams, who
: married five women in as many weeks
all his marriages were performed un
der different names and he was only
5 found ont when the probate judge re
, reived letter from the sixth wife a
, Kttanning, Pa, asking for informa
tiol concerning him. After getting
/ money from each woman McAdams
fled.
THE other morning George Terrio, |
, young man 20 years old, presented I
. check for 81 900 signed by j. H. Gregg
r a grain dealer, to the Schuster-Ha'
: national bank at St Joseph and re
D ceived the money. Shortly afterwar'
Mr.. Gregg went to the bank and whci
/ shown the check declare it a forgery
a Tcrrio had formerly worked in Gregg
: office, but had been dismissed for rob
= bing the safe.
THE sale of the Winner hSidge ant
railway under decree of foreclosur
of the federal court took place at Kan
sas City the other day. Both railwa.
and bridge were bought in by Samue
, Snow, of Cambridge, Mass, an attor
:, ney representing the interests of Thee
dore C. Bates and other bondholders
The railway was bid in for SIS, 600 an
the bridge for slT5, 900, subject to $50
: 200 incumbrance.
ONE day last summer while farmc
was blowing corn in field seven mile
northeast of Potosi his attention wa
= attracted to piece of galena which b
. had turned over with his plow. Littl
was thought of the matter at the tint
but within the last few months permit
= have been granted to mine upon I'll
To-, al, In "a M
= large leads of lead ore have been struc
: at various depths, ranging from thr'
. to ninety feet
IS WITHIN few days lately three med
Il cal students at the College of Physician
l. and Surgeons in st. Louis died from
IS disease which baffled the skill al
l. knowledge of the medical fraternity
n that city and caused considerable
&c among the students. 1t was feared tn,
the dreaded typhus fever had invade
" the institution, but an autopsy on u
L. body of the last victim showed that
y died of cerebro-spinal meningitis. III
A. disease was thought to have been co
y traeted in the dissecting room.
n WHILE j. Robinson and wife, OF We
" non county, were recently visiting the
n son-in-in law Robinson's four-year-o
o. daughter picked up an old revolver an
lie pointing it at her mother, said: 81 w
shoot, mamma" The weapon was di
le charged and the ball entered the mot
=, er's head at the left ear. She may di
h Miss ANNIE p, TAYLOR, who loa
es small sums of money on large rates
fe interest at Kansas City, was arrest
N the other day and held in 5000 bonds
Of refusing to give up some pension pape
is held by her as security for the payne
ID of few dollars loaned to an inmate
the Soldiers home at Leavenworl
n, Kan.
OF DURING the past Two years there ha
IS, been erected at the Missouri refoi
te school for boys, from the proceeds
s. the brick yard and through the wo
lie OF the boys, buildings worth eco,
'n INa recent personal letter to Sta
Treasurer Stevens, George j. Coz