The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-05-25
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

THE total output Of the Joplin min
ing district for the week ended May IL
was valued at seJ. 1885. :"
drunken quarrel at st. Joseph
Jofn Humphrey, a laborer, was shot
faelly by Louis McCrary.
1HARLEs LYMAN, II miner, was re-
ccntly caught between the bumpers OF
twp coal cars at Joplin and crushed to
deAth.
The Hannibal & st. Joseph ticket Of
nee at Chillicothe was broken into the
other night and robbed of s55 IN
money.
JUDGE ]. L. THOMAS. of jefferson
county, has been appointed assistant at
torney-general for the post Office de.
partment.
Jail at Springfield is charged with be-
rig cruel IN United States prisoners
committed to his care.
RECENTLY Cash Crosswhite and his
wife attempted to cross the Missouri
river near Charleston, when the boat
was swamped and the occupants
drowned.
THE Fourth National and the La
clede National banks, of st. Louis,
were recently each swindled out of sl,-
800 by means of raised drafts, which
were originally drawn for sl5.
WHILE DIR. w. j. Snyder of Fairfield,
Benton county, was recently attending
the medical convention at Sedalia he
was called home by n telegram an
nouncing that his son William had been
accidentally shot.
In recent difficulty at Maiden Lem
Albright, vagrant youth of Is years,
years old, with club which resulted
in his death in few hours. Albright
fled but was soon captured.
THOMAS AHERN, 16 years. was shot
and killed at st. Louis the other day
by Robert Fitzwilliams, boy of l3
years. Ahearn and other boys were
throwing sticks and stones at Fitz-
williams when he fired at them with d
pistol, which he had been secretly car
rying for some days.. because, as he
said, at made him feel big to have a
pistol"
AT Chillicothe the other night Alpha
Dean, a student in the normal school,
was stabbed eleven times. and probably
fatally. His assailants escaped in the
darkness, but next morning Charles
Seiser, Dudley B. Ewing and William
Kemp, three young men, were arrested
and held to answer. The trouble is
young woman.
THE governor has appointed the board
of state fish commissioners as follows:
III. NJ. Garlichs. of st. Joseph; COL
John r. Crisp, of Kansas City, and
John l.. Griswold, of st. Louis. Mr..
Garlichs has been member of the
commission for many years and is the
chief officer of the commission. All the
commissions date for four years from
January IA, 1898.
FouBTn-ctAss postmasters appointed
in Missouri May -: Linden, Clay
county, J. o. Smith; Plad, Dallas coun-
ty, p. B. Pulley; Longton, Perry county,
G. ID. Little: Phelps City, Atchison
county; j. NJ. Sligo; Akinsville. Morgan
county, c. VI. Moore; Seeker, Franklin
county. A. J. Cummings: Fordland,
Webster county, A. l.. Williams; Isbell
Station, Usage county, A. r. McAllister;
Holt, Clay county, Benjamin 7. Mitchell.
NEAR keytesville the other day Will
liam Morris shot his wife, fired at his
mother-in-law and then put bullet in
his own head. Both would die Nor
ris had served a term in the peni-
tentiary as an accomplice in the muir
der of George Wright in 1881 and upon
his return from prison married Il di-
vorced woman Their domestic rela-
tions were not happy and she had re-
fused to live with him which caused the
tragedy.
THE attorney-gencral has filed Pc
tition before the supreme court asking
that an order be granted under which
the records in the Joseph A. Howell
murder case from Linn county can be
perfected. Howell killed Mrs. Minnie
Hall and four children and set fire to
the house and when the case came up
on appeal to the supreme court it was
discovered the pages of the transcript
records had been torn ont and Others
substituted
RvsH ELMoRE and John Buchcr, oi
Kansas City, who had the contract for
excavating for Sedalia's kitc-shaped
track last July, have brought suit fol
5000 900 damages each against the
officers of the Missouri State Fair asso
citation. Elmore and Bucher failed tt
complete the work ut the time specified
and when the association attempted t.
put a new force of men to work plain
tiffs objected and used force, it is al
legged, to prevent it. For this they were
arrested but subsequently released
Now they sue for damages.
3, THE State Medical associa tion, latell
In session at Sedalia, elected officers n
follows: President, w. II. Evans, %
Sedalia; first vice president, Dr. ii
C. Dalton, of st. Louis; second vic,
president, DIR. j. II. Duncan, of Kansa
City; third vice president, DIR. r. ].
Brooks, of Carthage; fourth vice presi
dent, DIR. ]. o. Ducker of Louisiana
fifth vice president, Z. f. Yancey, o
Sedalia; recording secretary, elected TO
five years, DIR. Frank X. Fry, of ~
Louie; assistant recording secretary
DIR. j. Z. Day, Of Lebanon; correspond
ing secretary, DIR. c. F, Wainwright, q
Kansas City; treasurer, DR.. c. A
Thompson, of jefferson City.
GEORGE LAsHUII., youth of 10, re
Gently robbed store at Metz, in Ver
non county. The next day some of tn
stolen goods were found in the Sag
river and the day following his dea
body was found. He had attempted t
ford the stream with his plunder an
was drowned. He had on a pair G
shoes, pants and kid gloves stolen fror
the store.
Ok the farm of Henry Hoberer, in s.
Louis county the other day, farl
hand known as "Tony' was gored
death by y vicious bull. The man, wh
was about 30 years of age, attempted
cross pasture where the animal wa
| feeding.
TIRE other night Mrs. Michael Bierg'
wife of wealthy farmer living nea
barnard, Nodaway county, suddenl
became insane, sprang from her be-
seized ii razor and nearly severed tn
head of her five-months-old babe, Kill