The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-02-01
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.


to the home of a rival
THE people of shannon county have
defeated the proposition to vote bonds
to build court hotse.
The millers Of Kansas Missouri, Ne. |
braska and Oklahoma were recently in |
session at Kansas City, $50 being in at. |
tendance.
Thirty liquor dealers and druggists |
of Kansas City have been indicted by |
the grand jury for selling liquor with
out license.
ALLEN JOHNSON, 12 years old, was ac-
cidcntally shot and killed at Fayette
the other day while carelessly handling
target rifle.
Two negroes were arrested at Ne.
vada. 1t was believed that they were
the assailants of Katie Jacques at
Veronn some timo previous
WILLIAM HIGGINS, aged SO years and
veteran of the civil war, was found
dead in bed at Kansas City the other
morning Liquor the cause.
THE recent lawless acts committed in
ST. Louis county and the lynching of
one of the criminals has led to the
forming of Il vigilance committee
ACCoRDTNG to the state gcologist the
total production Of lead and zinc ores
of the state up to the close of 1898 has
been l,O43.4iT tons of lead and /, l07, 503
tons of zinc.
ONE of the school teachers in Kansas
City drew her months pay the other
day and while returning home had her
pocketboot stolen, containing the
whole amount, S65
From January 30 the Santa Fe road
has made a Hat rate from Missouri river
points to Chicago of 10 cents hundred
on wheat and 8 cents on corn. The
rates have been "a and 20 cents re-
spectively.
THE cold snap at st. Louis was not
without fatal results, John Freese
was so badly frozen that he could not
recover. An unknown tramp was
found frozen to death in box car on
the Iron Mountain railroad south of
Caroudclet Theo Arcutt, farmer,
was frozen to death near his home on
the Air Line road few miles out from
St Louis.
TiIE secretary of state has granted a
charter to the Williamsville, Green
vile & st. Louis railway representing
a capital stock of 81 0OO,0O The road
is to he 100 miles long. 1t will start
| from Williamsville, in WAYNE county,
and end at the Mississippi river, Ste.
Gcnevievc county, passing through
Madison, Bollinger, St Francois and
Perry counties
THE gold mines on Pond creek, in
| Ozark county, are reported to be at
tracing considcra BILE attention at pres
cnt Large bodies of land supposed to
contain gold have been entered by
company formed for that purpose, and
| it is said to be positively known that
there is something valuable in the ore
| taken out. The ore has been assayed
and runs $50 to the ton.
JUICES Irons and Nevitt, OF the St.
Clair county court, who returned to the
county jail at Kansas Cit" recently
after week spent at their homes, have
been granted an indie finite release from
confinement by Judge Philips. They
convinced him that their presence in
St Clair county was necessary and he
told them to go home and transact such
county business as could no longer be
| deferred
| AT the late annual meeting in Soda
liza of the missionary board of the Ger
man Evangelical church of the western
district of Missouri which embraces
| also the states of California and Ore
gon, reports from the different mis-
sions in the district showed that there
were twenty-seven churches in western
| Missouri, five in California and one in
Oregon, all having flourishing Sabbath
| schools in connection with them.
ABOUT 1000 of the unemployed men
of st. Louis, paraded on Sunday, the
2lst, closing with speeches in English
and German. Resolutions were adopt
ed protesting against the lockout of
the brewery workers and promising
them aid; demanding that work shall
be provided for all, at union wages, by
the state: extending an invitation to
| the workingmen to join the socialist
labor party, and denouncng present
conditions as the ccsspool of dcgrada-
tion and of moral infamy
| SUNDAY, the 2lst Mrs. Jacques, wife
| of German farmer living three miles
west of Verona, Lawrence county, and
her twclve-year-old daughter went TO
Verona to attend church. After the
morning services the child was sent
home on foot, the mother deciding to
stay in town for II funeral. Half II
mile from town two negroes seized the
child, tied her to a tree, fastened her
ori,,inan,. nn p'"uS assanito5 5"1 bar sba was
\ found several hours after in ptiable
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