The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-03-15

Inc counties ahlcted during lS9j were
ten less In number than in 1892. O
the contagious diseases one has de
creased about 40 per cent, another ha!
not made its appearance a. all, and tn,
other two have caused extremely littl,
alarm and loss. From these facts it il
very apparent that the live stock inter
est so far as health is concerned, was
never better.
Miscellaneous.
f. II. MooRE, n brakeman, was in
stantly killed by freight train on the
Alton road near Marshall.
A. r. FRENCH, II prominent grain
commission merchant of Kansas City,
died the Hther day of paralysis.
TIE stable 3Wntd by ths Fulton
Transfer Co. at Kansas City was burned
the other night and twelve horses
persisted. The fire was supposed to
hnrc originated from tramps smoking
in the hay NOW.
THE two divisions of the Methodists
(north and south) of st. Louis recently
Joined ands in Il love feast and com
munion. Forty or fifty ministers were
present, and all united in attcsting
their JOY at the burial of strife and dis
scnsiol.
TUE other night James Owens went
to the home of his fathcr-in-law, in
htcl'iSon rounty,. to kill his wife who
had left him. There lie ILGrrcl"d with
his wife's father, Seneca Noblett, a
prominent citizen, and shot him dead.
The murderer fled.
CnILf HAZE, vbo is president of the
Missouri State Firemcn's association
has decided TO hold the next annual
meeting at Kansas City, May I, having
received the sanction of the executive
committee to the call About 100 dele
gates will be present,
a POST M0RTEM examination of the
remains of Joseph Funk, an old soldier
who died in the police ambulance
while being conveyed to the police
station at Kansas City the other day,
revealed the fact that the man had
been kicked to death by tough named
Lee Roy.
Tony Parsons. at one time d mefn.
bcr Of Gilmorcs band and later a prom
inent orchestra leader and composer,
committed suicide in St Louis the
other day by shooting himself lie
first attempted to kill his wife. The
morphine habit and liquor had wrecked
him mentally and physically.
THE state trcasurcr's monthly state.
ment for February, recently Med with
the governor, shows balance in the
treasury February 1 of Sl,ll2, 1871 H..
Receipts during February, s4ii, 730 SO;
disbursements, si75, ,O51 90; balance in
all funds at the close of business Feb
ruary IS, sl,JSl, S7T. 3S; earnings of the
penitentiary for January, slG, 4O9 IS.
THE police surgeon of Kansas City re-
Gently experimental successfully with
the newly-discovcrcd antidotc for NOR
phine poisoning -pernianganate of po-
tassium. A young man took morphine
with suicidal intent, and when cmetics
failed to restore him the physician adj
ministercd a small dose of the new drug
hypodcrmically and the patient soon
recovered.
THE state board of equalization will
be in session at jefferson City until the
last of the month, and county officials
and other persons Interested are re-
quested to appear before the board and
give such information in regard to the
assessments in their respective coun-
ties as will enable the board to proper
ly cqualize the value of real and per-
sohal property,
OFFICERS in searching the house of
Herman and Otto Sass in st. Louis,
who had been arrested for the DeSoto
post office robbery, discovered new
internal machine in the form of two
fire bricks strongly cemented together.
They broke them apart with hatchet,
only to find that had a spark been ere
ated by the blow those in the vicinity
would have been blown off the earth.
THE post office at Syracuse was
robbed at an early hour the other
morning and $50 worth of stamps were
stolen. The thieves next visited NJ.
Keevirs general merchandise store,
where they blew open safe with
dynamite. They secured upwards OF
500 in cash and checks for small
amounts The thieves were supposed
to be crooks whose headquarters were
in Sedalia.
FRANK LAsTER and John }. Schap
pert were arrested at Kansas City the
other day on warrants sworn out by
w. w. Town, of Chicago, charging
them with embczzlement Laster was
general agent and Schappert book
keeper for the Kansas City branch Of
the Mccormick harvesting machine
company and were charged with con
spring to defraud the company The
amount of the alleged embezzlement is
sl,s74, and sl,526 respectively. They
were released on bond.
ALATE storm did considerable dam
age in the vicinity of Butler and Rich
Hill. The house of Jasper Smith was
totally demolished and he and his wife
and two daughters injured. One littl'
girl was not expected to live. Smith
has his jaw fractured. A house belong
ing to George Norris was also destoycd
A number of other houses were badly
damaged.
AN insane patient at the St Josepl
asylum became quite violent the othc
day and in attempting to subdue hin
the attendant had scuffle with anC
finally thew him violently, Later tn,
patient died and the matter was beinl
Investigated.
w. A. LONG, a constable, was shot a
his home near Butler the other nigh
and thought to be fatally wounded
The shot was fired through window
His son George, 10 wears old, was ar