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

vice John Hopkins, who died soon
after he was confirmed.
jeremiah O'Connor, leading
young man of Plattsburg, was ar
rested yesterday on the charge of
circulating counterfeit coin.
S. T. Lyme, who was cashier of the
savings bank at Slater, was indicted
on a charge of receiving deposits
when he knew that the bank was
insolyent.
The court house at Knoxville was
vacated by county officials on ac-
count of widening cracks in the
walls. There is danger when rats
begin to leave a sinking ship.
The president of the Missouri Press
Association has arranged visit by
the members to the Cotton State Ex-
position at Atlanta, Ga, at tie close
of their annual meeting in October.
Peddlers have been fleeing farm
ers in Saline and Pettis counties,
selling them shoddy goods at extrav-
agant prices and taking their notes
payable in six months. Buy of horle
dealers.
Capt. J. R. Hollibaugh, of Joplin,
has gone to Stotts City, Lawrence
county, to survey and plat a town
site. There are several good mines
there and a $4,000 concentrating
mill is being built.
Rich Hill has just organized its
thirteenth church, this being the
dissenting wing of the Baptist church
which has formed itself into sepa-
rate organization. Eleven of them
have church buildings.
The Warsaw Times intimates that
it is rather inconsistent to talk about
sending missionaries to convert the
heather in Africa when the only
church in that place having regular
services is a coiored one.
Hickory county is about to plunge
into a county seat warfare. Hermi-
tage wants a new court house and
the proposition will be voted on, but
Wheatland kicks vigorously and
wants the court house herself,
AS yet the fruit is not killed in
southeast and south Missouri coun-
ties. There will be plenty OF peaches,
apples, cherries, plums and berries
of all kinds if the supply is not cut
off by later frosts and freezing.
| ,Jo"P rs'--.v-" ,'"'o- ""NI' rlseA'''.n-
ing the people Of Schuyler county by
selling small boxes of soap for 81
each, and the promise Of n set of fine
china dishes with each box. 1t is
needless to say that the dishes never
came.
State Auditor Seibert's report
shows that Missouri has 5,257 dram
shops, from which is collected So
449, ,0l0, of which lum the state
receives 1912, 74S, the counties $l,-
72S, ,57G and the cities and towns
$457, ,GS4.
Jesse G.. B. Jones has been senten-
ced to the penitentiary from Miller
county for 20 years for the murder
of his SON in law, Geo, Jackson, on
December Is, 1893. 1t was the first
murder conviction in the county
since the war.
Richard Woodruff, aged %, who
claimed to be from McGonigle, Ohio,
died my steriously at Laddonia.
He claimed to be on is way to
Chicago. Papers on his person
showed that he had been stu
dent at a FL. Scott school.
DR.. d. T. Bell and John b. Martin,
deputy county clerks of Saline
county, have been arrested charged
with pension frauds. 1t is charged
they made affidavit that Mrs. Anna
Thompson was single when in fact
she was married. She in now in Jail
at Oregon. Bell and Martin gave
bond in the sum of $500 each for
their appearance at Kansas City in
April.
A vigorous writer in the Sparta
Herald calls loudly for all sorts of
reform at Stringtown. In society
reform he says: "To improve and
advance society, we need at once
one dozen lively girls about the age
of IS to 20, one half blonde and the
other half brunette.n
> The State Industrial Home for
Girls will begin the erection at Chill
, licothe, of a new cottage and school
. house costing $4,000. Work on a
$4,000 opera house, $4,000 ma
sonic temple, a $4,000 Catholic
,, church and four new brick business
blocks, is also progressing.
Mrs. VIM. P. Jackson has brought
suit for dover interest in hall
block of ground at sedalia upon
which the First National bank is 10
/ Gated. One party to the suit has
compromised. 1t is said Mrs. Jack
son holds dover interest in Other
valuable grounds about that city.
=. Mrs. Kennedy, wife of Col. ID. O
. Kennedy, United State Consul tC
Malta has presente d st. Johns Com
mandery, Knights Templar, a
Springfield, with interesting relic