The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-06-27
MISSOURI NEWS.
Cover expects to have a stirrup
and axe handle factory.

Cover expects to have a stirrup
and axe handle factory.
Eleven new bridges will be built in
Audrain county this summer.
Clinton county farmers are count
ing on two thirds wheat crop.
Mrs. Funk of Gentry county died
last week, aged ninety three years.
Carroll county will have a much
larger apple crop this year than
last.
William Jewell College has made
Judge Waltour M. Robinson an LII.
d.
King City is boring a deep well,
which is now down 300 feet In solid
rock.
Governor Stone has appointed
Jefferson Kelly assessor for Carter
county.
A Lafayette county boy is only
sixteen years Of age, but weighs 1853
pounds.
= Scott city has acquired municipal
government and saloon within the
past week.
Samuel jackson, aged eighty eight
years, was killed by a Memphis train
near West Plains.
Lightning struck and burned about
twenty tons Of hay for j. O. Bohart,
just east of Maitland.
Harrisonville has increased the
salary of the principal of public
schools SIS per month.
Charles Harmon, a 12-year old
boy, is confined in the Ozark Jail on
the charge Of horsestealing.
An addition to the Central Female
College at Lexington will be erected
this summer at cost of $50, 900.
Mrs. Babbitt, who ran away from
Sedalia with a policeman, returned
and abducted her 5-year old daugh-
ter.
The Missouri Bankers Convention
declared against the United States
adopting free coinage of silver at 16
to /.
Having paid of all indebtedness,
Mercer county will burn its railroad
bonds at the Fourth Of July celebra-
tion.
Ex-senator ]. P. Wood, who was
injured in a wreck on the Short Line
recently, died at his home in New
London.
Fourteen acres have been added
to the town of Weatherby, which
will be laid of into lots, supplying
great need.
M. King, near Union Star, has
shot gun used by his grandfather to
kill deer in the Tennessee Mountains
from 1850 to 1870.
The mayor of Bolivar vetoed an
ordinance for an election to extend
water works, and the city council
passed it over his head.
Hopkins claims to have the oldest
man in Nodaway county-"Daddy
Miles," who is ninety five years of
age and as spry as a cat.
Rev. 8. N. Warner, a Methodist
minister, died at Savannah from a
coal contracted at the Lathrop dis
trict conference in May.
Citizens Of Windsor have declared
q boycott against the Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas, because IT'S Kansas
City extension was not run through
that town.
Governor Stone appointed Hon.
George F. Longan circuit Judge of
the Pettis county court. The late
legislature created new circuit out
OF Pettls county.
Frederick Ko!kmeyer, the pioneer
German settler in Jefferson City,
dropped dead while working in his
garden. He was about 80 years old,
and had resided in Jefferson City
more than so years.
Judge O. T. Davis, of Nevada, sent
President Bannerman of the ex- Con-
federate Association his check for
the balance of s715.16, Vernon coun-
ty's contribution to the Home at
Higginsville.
The supreme court prohibits Judge
John G. Wear OF Butler county cir
cult court from interfering further
with the trial of Chas. Wear, his son,
who is under indictment for murder,
first degree, Butler county.
The Missouri Teachers Academy
elected as officers: President An
thony Hayne of Boonville; Vice
President ]. j. Campbell of Warrens-
burg; Treasurer, W. B. Christian of
Paris; Permanent Secretary, T. b.
Smith Of Fayette.
Prof. Toomay, who succeeds Pro-
fessor Cassell In the chair OF moral
philosophy at Avalon College, Tren-
ton, is a Missouri boy "born and
raised" near Braymer He is grad
uate of Avalon and also of Yale,
where he has a 5000 fellowship.
The Clinton county court has ac-
cepted the offer OF the insurance
companies to pay s12, 1855 for the loss