The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-04-19
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

TnE Kansas City post office fight has
been settled by the appointment OF
| Homer Reed.
KANSAS CIrY's police have been
ordered t. suppress the "nickcl-in-
thc-slot' gambling devices in the city.
FIRE in Glovcr's book store at Joplin
the other day caused n loss of Ss, 900 to
that and adjoining property Fully
| insured
q. c. CRowTnER announces that he
will he n candidate before the demo.
cratic convention for congress from the
st. Joseph dis rict
CHARLES WISDOM, colorcd, was hanged
at 81 Louis on the 18th for the murder
April -, 1892, of Edward A. Drcxler,
whose cigar store Wisdom entered to
rob.
KANSAS CITY Odd Fellows will cclc.
bratc the seventy-tfth anniversary o
the founding of the order in America
with much pomp and ceremony on tn,
10Th.
WILLIAM HARDIN, n wcll-known char
actcr about st Joseph, was shot ant
probably mortally wounded in tina
city the other day by a gambler know
as "Dutch Henry"
TnE total vote for mayor of Kansas
City at the late election was: Davis
republican, f. PSI, johnson. democrat
and labor, 5,127; Cooper, democrat and
independent i,Is2; Davenport, indie.
pendent republican, 3lj Davis had Il
clear majority Of .,35o
PATRICK HOGAN, miscr and hermit,
was found dead on the floor of his one
roomcd hovcl at Kansas City the other
night. 1t is supposed that death re-
suited from the hard life he has led
for many years. 1t is estimated by
liogan's friends that his wealth will
reach S?O 600
VI. ). BURR county clerk of jackson
county, who was ordered by the county
court to pay over SlG,14l, which an cx.
| pert declared he owed the county, gave
notice that he would not regard the
order and would contest the matter in
the courts. Mr. Burr claims that the
county is indebted to him.
HENRY q. FOOTE, auditor of the Meyer
Bros. Drug Co., Shot himself at st.
Louis the other morning with fatal
effect. lie was young man who stood
high with his employers and associates
and had no vices The only reason
that could bc assigned for the decd was
the opposition by his family to mar
riagc he had contracted
An organized gang of thieves has
been uncarthcd by the sheriff of Cooper
county, and several arrests made. 1t
l ! tad &C al, t,rh fnn -
young farmers who had landed them
selves together for the purpose of loot
ing stores in Ray, Cooper benton, Pet
It's, johnson and Morgan counties. The
arrest of several Of the parties created
quite II sensation.
y MASS meeting was held at Kansas
city the other day to protest against
the treatment of county INDECENT in.
sane patients ut the poor farm, and To
demand that the county government
return them all to the state asylums,
where they can he properly cared for
The meeting was called hy the Fedora
tion of Womnns philanthropic socic
ties, and was largely attended.
IroN his refusal to plead not guilty
when arraigncd for trial at St Joseph
the other day George W Taylor was
sentenced to two years in the pcnitcn-
tiary upon the charge of attempting tc
kill James Hughes lie stabbed Hughes
clearly in selfdcfcnsc, but when asked
to plead, said: "Ill not lie. don't
want to go to the pen, but stabbed
him" The court tried to get him to
change his plea, but he was obluratc.
y e 4, Il
leo, died at the Union Depot hotel,
Kansas City, the other morning from
stomach disorder. lie arrived at the
depot at $ o'clock on the Santa Fe rail
way from Mexico, was taken to the
hotel, sick, and died within an hour.
Dr. McNcan was b years of age and
was once post trader at Jefferson bar
racks, near st Louis. His wife, tC
whom he had been married but eight
months, was with him
The other night Hon. Samucl c. Ma
jor, eX-State senator, retired after
quietly passing the evening nj
Faycttc, in excellent spirits and in
the very best of health. Next
morning Mrs. Major awolic, Mortified
to find her husband dead, with his arm
around her neck, apparently having
been dead six or seven hours, lie had
undoubtedly expired without strug-
gle. Heart disease the cause. Mr..
Major was born in Howard county 81
years ago.
\ CRor bulletin lately issued states
that the larger portion OF the oat crop
in the state was sown in March, and
much of it was killed by the sever,
freezing weather the last week of that
month, nccessitating resolving. That
which was Sown late is not thought t,
be seriously injured, but has been KEEP
back by the cool, dry weather Ii
some sections there is n lack of seet
for resolving. and some of the grounC
previously sown in oats is now be
ing prepared for corn. Wheat wa
damaged to considerable extent 10y
the freezing weather, and has als'
suffered from the dry winds, foun!
clover and timothy were seriously in
iurcd, and in many counties clover wa
entirely killed. In the northern por
tion of the state it is believed tha
fruit is not as badly damaged by tn
recent cold weather as was at frs
supposed, and the prospects are favor
able for Il fair crop of all kinds, eXcep
peaches In the central and southern
counties the damage was much greater
all early varieties being killed or scri
ously injured
George T. ltoor, n high officer of tn
Knights of l'ythias, was shot and MOI
tally wounded by Henry w. Keeling a
Kansas City the other night, who
also member of the order. Tn
trouble was jealously over the after
tions of Root to Kceling's wife. Root
IA railroad engineer and Keeling tclC
graph lineman,
DIR. JomN HOWE JENKs, professor c
physiology and modern languages i
Washington university, died at 81
Louis the other morning from bloc
poisoning, While dissecting a corpse
few days before he cut himself on tn
hand, His arm swelled rapidly an
death resulted in a short time.