The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-02-15
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

recently. His name wao IIubbcl Wicd'
man and his age % years.
lhE annu1l eneampment of the Mis-
ehnri division Sons of Veterans will he
held at Scdalia July $500
TnE wholesale boot and shoe store of
thnrlts H. Smith ~ 81. Louis las r.liltt.
Assets, Sil,j50; liabilities not stated.
oWlNG 70 the ''stringcncy of the
times the Missouri, Kansas 6 Texas
railroad shops at Scdalia will tempo
rarily he closed on Saturdays.
IlIE burning of II bakery stable at
Kansas City the other morning re-
Isu!ted in the destruction Of six horses.
The hostlcr's lantern caused the blaze.
! TIE residence of A, j, Carson at
Pleasant llill burned the other night
and his cight-year-old son that was
asleep in an upper room, perished in
the flames.
THERE is Il movement among the
farmers in Buchanan county for spcnl-
ing $4,000 for the immediate improve
ment OF roads and highways. This sum
is only starter
THF president du The 9Th dominated
Gen. j. o. shelby to be United States
marshal, and John r. Walker to be
United States attorney for the western
district df Missouri
FRANK LEWIS, alias /, 1! Scott, was
recently captured at St Loui, and will
be sent to Texas for trial upon the
charge of using the mails in further
ance of Il scheme 10 dcfraud.
THE manglcd remains of man were
recently found ON the railroad track
near Nnndalia licttcr- found on the
body Indicated that MS urInr WINS Jacob
Lanfred, of Ccdarhurg. Wis.
PRENTICE TuLEH, with half dozen
aliases, an escaped convict and wanted
for the part he took in the recent train
robbery near st. Joseph, wa, recently
captured near Detroit. Mich
Az cight.ycar-old boy named Harry
Taddirln was recently drowned by
hrenliing through the ic" El'atirr 1T
st. ,Josefh. In trying t. save him an
older brother came near losing his life
IioN. a. II. BrcKNEH died at Mexico
recently at the age of u years lie
represented the Seventh district three
terms in congress and held many other
important public positions during his
life.
AS Insane woman entered the Office
of the st. Louis Post Dispatch the other
day and attempted to shoot two clerks.
The clerks dcftly dodgcl her and the
woman was taken charge of by the pc.
lice.
W. r. CASH. stocliman, was run
over by Hannibal switch engine, near
the union depot at Kansas City the
other night, and both of his feet wen
/ horribly crushed. lie is about 81 years
of age.
DR.. l;oNEsTEEI, whose daughter 50
mystcriously disappeared from Kansas
/ City some weeks since, ha offered re
v'ard Of >lOa for any information that
will lead to her discovery, either dead
or alive.
Prof. II. C. llINDE, of the university
OF North Carolina, died al Columbia re-
Gently. lie had been i'll for some time
AMI for the past three months had been
in Columbia for treatment, staying
with his father, Dr. llinde.
THr executive committee of the Ma.
tional Educational association met at
St Louis the other day and decided to
call the annual meeting of the asSucin-
tiou for Asbury Park, y. J. The first
week in July was IiXed as the time.
FuRrY-slX horses and Il large quantity
Of gram and implements belonging to
Hon. II. G. ireland were burned the
other night by two incendiary fires at
| Chillicothc. Mr.. Ireland's stables in
town and on his farm, two miles dis
taut. were fired simultaneously.
EURGLARS entered the room of Miss
Christine Dahrcr and her room mate,
Miss Sundford, at st. Louis the other
night and made murdcrous attack on
them with hatchcts Miss Dahrer Sc
cured n revolver and shot one of the
men. when the other fci followed by
a ballet frGm the revolver.
Mus. LUcY EVANS, the oldest resi-
dent of jackson county and probably
the oldest person in the state, died al
the home of her daughter near kansa'
City the other night, Mrs. Evans wa,
born in l,N3, and was III years old on
January u, lN9i She was horn in Ten
nesscc aad removed to Missouri in lS42
is the suits instituted by the state
superintendent of insurance against
Charles T.. Barney and Anthony T.
| Faust, of st. Louis, to compel them Il
pay assessments due the dcfunct United
I Masonic Benefit association of Missouri
the supreme cDurt has decided against
the defendants. The association hat
allowed number of death claims I,
accumulate, and undertook to pay
them oil by making sweeping assess
ments, amounting in all to something
like Sli0. January -, l>l2, twenty as
sessmcnts were issued, and within
few days the organization became in
solvent, and the superintendent of in
suranee took charge of its affairs. Tn
defendants were members of the oI
ganization, but refused to pay thei
assessments, and suit was instituted t
compel them to do SO. The holding q
the court is to the effect that, as tn
members of the organization woul
not, under its by-lC.ws, lose their beI
efits for thirty days after non-paymen
of assessments, they must be consij
cred as parties to binding contract
Justices Black, brace and burgess di'
sented.
FIRE at Montgomery City the othe
day destroyed RoscnbcrG's dry good
store and eight other business house
including the Coyington hotel Tll
total loss was about 500, 900; abor
one-third insured, R0senberg's loss O
dry goods and clothing was S2i, 90
with 1900 insurance, james w. Lew
had taken taken possession of the Co
ington hotel only the day before it va
burned.
THE report of the state treasurer fC
January showed that the receipts wei
1924, $50 S3. The balance in the trea
ury February l was Sl,lla, 18Th. III
earnings of the penitentiary were slS
973
THE coal miners at Bevier have fina
ly agreed TO accept the operators NO
ruling in regard to extracting coal l
cutting instead of shooting solid. III
cutting method requires expert miner
and the shooters will have to go Thi
II - said will insure n battpr Quality ,