The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-02-22
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

| LIE president has nominated Mann
Ring to be receiver of public moneys
at lronton and William johnson at
Boonvillc.
n MEETING was recently held at Mo-
berry by representative mon from all
| over the state to effect state swine
breeders association.
FIRE at Sarcoxic the other night de-
stroyed the entire west side of the
| square. Some of the store buildings
were put up before the war.
LotIs 5. SILVA, secretary of the
Rainwater-Bradford Hat Co., OF St
Louis, who led to Canada October 25,
after having ombczzled sl7G, 900, has
Surrendered 10 the criminal court ia
that city and was released on bond of
$1,000,
! AK interesting programme has been
prepared for the farmers institute nt
Kidder on the 22d. Dairying will bc
the leading subject for discussion and
many important tests made. Stock
raising was the subject discussed at the
previous meeting.
lr was no myth to say that Kansas
City was snow bound on the evening of
the l2th' Snow was piled up six feet
deep on the streets: the street cars
were stuck in snowdrifts, and Chance-
lor Snow, of the Kansas university de-
livered a lecture on Evolution.
MRs. PAU. llERRoTT, living near
Bonne Terre, recently locked her two
| little children, aged five and three
| years, in the house while she went to
the spring for water. On her return
the house was in flames and the two
! little ones were burned to death.
MAN LEE and Ying Lee, Cinnamon,
were arrested at Kansas City by
| United States officers the other day for
having in their possession nontraband
| opium. About twenty c+ns Of TN
| stamped opium were found on thhif
premises. They were held to answer
| CONSTABLE ERlTrAIN, of Benton
township, Howell county, killed
/ Charles Anderson the other morning
| by shooting him five times and hitting
him on the head with an AK. The kill
! ing resulted over the settlement of an
/ account. Britain was placed under
arrest
! fW-t' WHITAKER brother OF Isnac
/ Whitaker, the well known Kansas cry
rcstaurateur attempted suicide by
| shooting himself the other morning,
/ He served in the Nineteenth Illinois
regiment during the war The act was
committed in a moment of mental de-
preston.
FRANK PARIIS was recently found
unconscious at his home in Kansas City
with bullet holes in each cheek. lie
was discovered by his daughter. The
family believed it to be an accident but
the police thought it to be attempted
suicide. He is ID years old, has fam
lily and in comfortable circumstances.
Two men, Michael Cummings and
Martin Millerschcntz applied for work
at Forest park in st. Louis the other
day and while warming themselves hy
a fire awaiting an answer to their APP
plication, tree that was Being
grubbed around fell, killing Cum
mings and severely injuring his COM
panion.
Two masked men attacked the stage
between Briccvillc and and Pcirce City
the other day and compelled the driver
to hand over the mail sacks, which they
riflcd Of several registered letters
They also took from the driver a large
sum of money which he was taking
from Rocky Comfort to deposit. The
robbers then escaped
A BAD street car collision occurred at
St Louis the other day. 1t was at the
crossing of tracks at Grand avenue and
Morgan street. A Lindell electric car
containing eighteen passengers struck
| n SIhlirl,n n i.pr u I'M N Or
| passengers. Three women were prob
ably fatally injured and man had his
leg crushed. Both cars were wrecked
completely.
A YOUNG woman who gave her name
as Clara Russell (Which clearly was not
her real namc) attempted suicide in
| the ladies room of the Union depot i'll
Kansas City the other day by taking
chloroform, but timely discovery saved
her life. A young man employed in Il
! clothing house seemed to know more
of her case than any one else and took
| her away in a carriage. The cause was
said to be that she was unable to sup
port her parents and became dis
couraged.
WHILE intoxicated the other day DR..
! ATlUuT lIutSlToW, VI ~ l.OulSi DtCWule
enraged at his wife and shot her twice
! in the head He then shot and killed
| his two-year-old child and attempted
to shoot himself. lie surrendered and
was locked up, lie is son of the late
| Lewis Ducstrow, one of the most prom
inent business men of the city, lie left
| n fortune of over 81, 900, 900, which his
| son (the murderer) inherited Young
| Ducstrow, who was about - years of
age, lived in fine style, but liquor and
women caused his ruin. The unfortu-
nate young wife could not recover,
THOMAS A. HARRIS, bold real estate
speculator, and prominent in many en-
terprises during the boom days in Kan
sas City, but who died recently in New
| York, is said to have led dual life. A
woman recently came from Ireland and
laid claims to n dover interest in the
vast properties he at one time handled.
She said Harris real name was Ballen-
tine and she is his lawful widow, he
having marri d her in Ireland years
ago lie had married again in this
country, but he kept up correspond
ence with wife No /. who did not
know of the double life he was leading
until after his death. Her claim has
put cloud on the title of large
amount of property.
The blizzard came at last. 1t struck
the state bad on the llth. At Kansas
City the snow fell to the depth of six
teen inches and drifted badly. At st,
Joseph the report was twenty inches
on level and twenty-foot drifts All
cars were stopped and the floundering
"foot pad" outstrippcd the street car
WHEN Congressman Wilson, of West
Virginia, recently passed through Kan
sas City on his way to Mexico, great
crowd assembled to hear him speak and
an elaborate banquet was prepared for
him, but Mr., Wilson was too i'll to speak
and the people were disappointed The
banquet was also indefinitely post
poned.
AMONG the appointments recently