The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-08-08
MISSOURI NEWS.

NtASO|ONl NEWC.
Thousands Of dead fsh are fioatin,
down the Missouri river.
The steamer Benton sank in th,
Missouri river at Arrow Rock.
Missouri draws two million dollar
more pension money than Kansas.
Tho doctors are fighting diphtheri,
with anti-toxine at Jefferson City.
Richard P. Bland will be 90 year,
old on Aug. 10 next. He doesn'
look over so.
Senator Vests health is much i'm
proved, and. he will sail for hom,
September 15.
Wild grapes have grown this yea
In Store county to the. sizo o; tn.
domestic variety.
OF the teachers in Vernon county
the nat yes Of Vernon county and O
Missouri are in q great majority.
DR.. N. M. Basket, of Moberly, al
present state senator, is named BY
the Paris Mercury as good materia
for congress.
Tho city Of Marceline offered $2t
for the conviction Of illegal liquo,
sellers and found q witness who made
nineteen complaints.
Judge Geo. B. Macfarlane, of the
supreme court, is an enthusiastic
hunter, preferring the hounds and q
fox-chase to any other sport.
Gentry county claims to have
taken more premiums on stock at
tho Columbian exposition than any
other county in the United States.
W. D. Wright, of Jefferson City,
has received appointment to q posi- :
tion in the state grain inspection de-
partment at st. Louis. He fled his
bond last week.
Linn county, by authority of the
leading nurseryman in the county,
gives q fattering account Of the fruit
in that section, the apple, peach and
pear crops being good.
e. R. Chenault, Of Bates county,
has sold his s15, 200 farm to Q young
man who stayed with him all night
and in the morning looked over the
place and said he would take 1t.
William Bryan, Of Independence,
has been appointed by Gov. Stone as
An additional member Of the Missouri
commission to attend tho national
exposition at Mexico next year.
Kansas City has lost ono Of its
oldest citizens in the person Of Mrs.
6teen, who has been . resident Of
Missouri for sixty eight years, going
TO Kansas City before the town was
even An infant.
Harvey Wilmington, the Oldest
citizen Of Plattsburg, died there
recently. He was = prominent man
for many years, and was we'll known
by most of tho early pioneers of that
section of Missouri.
Mrs. James M. Carter, of Linn
county, IL eighty six years old, reads
and writes without glasses, and
q needle easily. She does
her own housework, and has resided
In Missouri seventy -four years.
Louis O. Krauthoff, of Kansas City,
who was assistant attorney general
from 1877 to 1881, and is now q
wealthy lawyer, will shortly be mar
Rcd to q New York lady. His first
wife was the beautiful daughter of
ex-stste Treasurer Chappell.
Maud Arrison, q little tot of q girl
loss than 8 years old, z years and 8
toddled into the Kansas City
criminal court room to be sent to the
reform school. She IL . bright,
pretty child, not much moro than q
baby, and neatly, though poorly,
dressed. Her offense was that she
had no homo.
Colonel Bob White, editor of the
Mexico Ledger, offered . handsome
prize for the prettiest baby on the
Mexico fair grounds. The judges
we're DR.. T. J. Turner, state veteri-
marian, w. d. Christian, of Paris,
and Mrs. E. B. Watson. They voted
The little 14-months- -old baby Law
rsnce Pitts, Of Mexico, the prettiest.
The Bank of Salisbury closed its
doors. State Bank Inspector O. o.
Austin examined tho books and found
tho institution In an unsafe condition
and ordered the bank closed until
matters could be make right. e. M.
Williams was made assignee of the
This was the Oldest of
The three banking institutions In
Salisbury.
Colonel Christopher Davis died at
The home Of his SON, Judge OF. Davis,
IN Nevada in his eighty ninth year. He
was . native Of Ponnsylvsnis county,
and lived all of his life till
} little more than two years ago,
within 400 yards Of the spot where
he was born. OF his eight sons, six
we're In the confederate army. His
funeral was conducted by ono of his
IONS, Elder M. M. Davis, pastor Of
The Christian church ct Dallas, Tex.