The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-04-25

recently
A littb boy is very i'll in Hanniba
from tn Zee vaccinations, all of which
took effect.
Vaccination only took effect OF
three o| four persons out of 200 il
Charle4on.
And4w county 10 developing one
of the hrgest fruit raising sections oi
the co}ntry.
Two hundred families left Walker
ton, In}., on the 10th inst, to seek
homes In Missouri.
The ltst forty acres of government
land Was homesteaded in Greene
county last Friday.
Smallpox is raging to an alarming
extent in Usage and some other
counties in that section.
HarriA Aon county has raised SIC, 200
with VIII hlch it will bid far the location
of the Spiders Home.
Some of the streets get so dark
after night in Springfield that people
are afraid to go to church.
Businesa men of Trenton are now
refusing 70 employ young men
addicted to the gambling habit.
Canton has organized an anti
swearing society of large proper
tions. They all now simply affirm.
The average OF potatos planted in
the western part of Ray county this
season will double that of last year.
Two white girls were convicted OF
vagrancy in .Sedalia, and sent to Jail
for forty five and ninety days, re-
spectively.
Will Henry, a young man of twenty
two, suddenly disappeared from his
home in Trenton. 1t is feared his
mind rs wrong.
A Trenton church member objected
to hanging a chandelier in the church
because nobody in the congregation
could play on it.
George Perry, the Rock Island
porter shot by negro tramp, while
on duty last Thursday, died at his
home in Trenton.
The assets of the defunct Johnson
county savings bank will only reach
$4,000 as appraised, while the de-
posits We're Sl5, 900.
Miss Annie Owens travels over the
state selling chewing gum by whole :
sale for st. Louis firm. She is
popular with the girls.
Mr.. Brown, of Marion county, has
sold 333 dozen of eggs so far this
season. He feeds wheat to his hens,
and they just lay on.
Springheld's new normal school
has been plastered over with $24,
900 mechanic lien and the matter
will be fought in the courts.
Nevada recently borrowed $40, ,OOC
on bonds and it was swiped out OF
the city treasury to pay out standing
Indebtedness in short order.
The Touring mill in Bolivar, said
to be one of the best in the state,
was purchased few days ago by
Weaver * Beagle, for So, 300.
Robert McAllister, ten years old,
got tired of school life at Sedalia and
walked home to Benton county, one
day, a distance of forty miles.
Mound City proposes to surround
its basin of water, called spool Of
Siloam," with fine park which will
be thing of beauty and pleasure.
Every time the Iron Mountain
train passes Grants Mill a pigeor
scars about seventy Ave feet above
it and keeps there for several miles
Springfield aspires to be truly
metropolitan. A "Lexow commit
tee" by the city council is investigat
ing the ways of local Jurisprudence
Hannibal people are all disposed
to talk at the same time. To accom-
modate the disposition another tele
phone company has come into thu
field.
jefferson City expects to remove
most OF the objection of the peopl
of the state to the capital remaining
there by building the bridge acros
the river.
A. J. Higgins, an aged nativ
Missourian, died in Platte count,
recently. He was born in a blocl
house in Cooper's fort, Howar'
county, In 1915.
The Methodiststs propose to begi
great revival at Richmond on tn
28th Of this month. Rev. J. B. Cul
pepper, a noted evangelist, will con
duct the meetings.
The Missouri State Fish and Gam
Protective Association will hold il
annual convention and tournamer
at Washington Park, Kansas City, o
August 23, ~, rs and 26.
Maj. J. r. Randle, Mexican wa
veteran and wealthy and infiuenti'