The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-08-29
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MISSOURI NEWS.
Parties are prospecting for gold
near Wakends, Carroll county.

near Wskends, Carroll county.
The odd Fellows have laid out an
addition to the shelbina cemetery,
Thousands Of bushels Of apples
wlntrots on the ground in Csss
oothty.
Clinton Wilcox was captured in
M5Son, Missouri, charged with coun-
teifeiting. - y 4 Skc3f 6AS 4
Harry Morgan, Jim ;Norvall and
william MaxHeld escaped from the
PHO county Jail. i-a
Only sbout one fourth Of the land
inEl Wright county has yet been
reduced to state Of cultivation.
0rville d. Shelby, SON of General
JS$ Shelby, is organizing an expedi-
tipn to Cuba TO help tho insurgents.
fhe Arkansss & Northwestern
rSprosd n being surveyed between
nsntonsIlis. AsK., ard ,southwest
CITY, MO.
tCarroll county will be out $1,000
on account Of the Tsylors' trial, al
though the crimes were not commit.
tbd In that county.
missouri heads the list with per-
Gsntsge of l15 In the, government
reports as to condition o. corn crop
on the 1st of August.
nMrs. Charles Richmond, aged 70
Years, living three miles from Milan,
while feeding her chickens, was
stricken with apoplexy and died
instantly.
A Linn county former has . ten
acre field of corn which has never
been touched in the way of cultiva-
tion, that will average sixty bushels
to the acre.
Johnson county's fax crop this
year Is one Of the heaviest in her
history. One firm has recently
shipped ont thirty car loads from
Warrensburg.
Columbia's new postoffiee Is to
have tiled floor, oak fitting, COM
bination boxes and everything else
necessary to make 1t the best OF it's
class in the state.
A steamboat has recently been
launched at Warsaw. She will be
used on the Upper Usage river. This
is the first steamboat that has ever
been launched above Usage City.
DR.. Charles Lengle, aged 80 years,
who founded the Kansas City Daily
Herald In 1879, and was its editor for
several years, committed suicide.
He became insane over spirituslism.
Rev. Robert q. Brank, the van-
cradle pastor of the Central Presby-
terian church, st. Louis, died aged
72 years. He was q native Of Ken
tucky but the better part of his life
was spent in st. Louis. The inter-
ment was at Lexington, KY.
Jack Slate, the well known attor.
ney Of Vienna, Maries county, has
wagered $500 that he can row from
the nearest point on the Gasconade
river to Vienna, to Gasconade City,
at the mouth Of the stream, in day,
the time to be computed from day
light to dark. The distance Ii l25
miles. The event Ii to come of next
spring.
Miss Myrtle Bartimus, aged 20
years, living three miles west of
Macon, while stepping over the tum-
bling rod of . threshing machine,
got the dress sleeve OF her right arm
caught, mashing the arm until am
putation at the shoulder was nsces-
sary. She also received internal
injuries from which the doctor says
she cannot recover.
A pretty Warrensburg girl is cred.
tied with having called down the
chief executive Of the Afth state In
tho union who was smoking during
the recent Pertle Springs conven-
tion, thus: "Governor Stone, don't
you think you are setting . bad
ax.u plo Sor tho raak ,f the delay atAs