The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-11-07

'RSON CITY, COLE COUNTI
MISSOURI NEWS.
The supreme court OF Missouri VIM
be called on to decide whsthef]
drunkenness is q crime.
Chillicothe queensware dealers
have signed and published an iron-i
clad agreement not to loan any NOR
dishes.
Tho state reform school for boys
ct Boonville has 1856 acres OF flne
land attached, and buildings worth
900, 900.
The wife Of Conductor Alonzol
Wilson, Of the "Ksty," died at Soc
dalia, Of Brishts disease, sgsa ~
leHx6d ] ~ 6txl 81 SlllEcII
pFomises many improvements. There
are now 1873 phones and $50 miles
of wire in service there.
r. R. Haynes, bondsman of Frank
Scott, the Moberly notary, who
realized money on forged papers and
fed, has settled with the forger's
victims, paying $2,129.52.
Chicago bond buyers paid a pre-
MUM Of $3.50 and accrued interest
for 80, 500 In Brookfeld water bonds
the other day. The money will be
used in extending the mains.
T. M. Sayman, medicine man,
who goes about selling "root soap"
is making 900 a month, and Rosie
saymsn, who is suing him for a
divorce, wants half of 1t allowed to
her as alimony.
Clayton Jennings was sentenced
to the penitentiary for three years,
at Lebanon for the murder of a man
named Carter. The murder oc-
Cured ct a dance six years ago.
The jury was out forty eight hours.
A Cowgirl man gathered 100 bush
els of corn in four hours and ton
minutes the other day, and incident
ally won $25 in the accomplishment
of the task, the other fellow having
bet that it couldn't be done in six
hours.
]. P. Houston, assignee of the de-
funct Cordell -Dunnica bank at Mar
shall, has made his final report. At
the time Of failure It's liabilities were
$173, ,779.44, and the amount realized
by the assignee was s126, ,81O.s4.
Tho expense Of the assignment was
IS, ASST; total loss to creditors,
$50, ,417.8s; gmount remaining In
hands Of the assignee unapplisd for,
$3.50. 80. e
The draw pier Of the proposed
Missouri river bridge at Jefferson
City has reached proper height and
the two shore piers on the Jefferson
City side are about even with the
ground. The fourth pier will be
sunk liz few days and pier No. 8 is
eight or ten feet above the water
line. Steel for the bridge proper Ia
arriving, and In fact everything is
progressing satisfactorily. The river
now presents q busy scene between
the city and the Galloway shore.
The government is working large
crew on the dykes, strengthening
and extending them, and in fact the
face of the water Ia pretty we'll COW
cred with boats.
As . contribution to the material
progress Of the state the aggressive
Christian work of Missouri is not q
secondary factor. 1t is particularly
true that the organized, interdenom-
national Sunday Sunday School
work has given to the state new
name in recent years. The Missouri
Sunday School Association, by its
conventions and institutes and pub
locations, has placed Missouri among
the very foremost states of this
continent in Sunday School work !;
In fact, a comparison of the work
done in the three years preceding
tho last Worlds Convention placed
Missouri at the very top Of the list
Of states and provinces reporting in
that great convention. An increase
In one year Of 500 Sunday Schools
and over $4,000 teachers and
scholars indicate the growth of this
work among all evangelical demon.
nations in the state. The last report
shows an aggregate Of 6,691 Sunday
Schools with 683,86S members.
Through the Missouri Sunday School
Association, composed of all evan
gelical denominations, is maintained
Missouri's connection with the great
international Sunday School work,
and only through this state assocla-
tion are delegates sent to the Inter
national and Worlds Sunday School
Conventions. The international or
ganisation, Of which the Missouri
Association is = part, inAugnrated
and maintains the international
Uniform Lesson System, now used in
all parts Of the world, and also aids
all the states and provinces In their
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