The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-03-28
IN OUR OWN STATE.
Kahoka is afflicted with both diph
liberia and measles.

Kahoka is afflicted with both diph
liberia and measles.
A new Catholic church will be
} built at Chillicothe.
Kansas City ministers have organ
lied a law and order league.
shelbina has 300 cases of measles,
and yet this is not all of its ills.
The new court house at Carthage
will be supplied with telephones.
The Central Missouri horticulture
society has 81, 200 in its treasury.
The new telephone exchange will be
in operation at Louisiana, April /.
The Missouri state cycling meeting
will be held at Shelbina, July 3 and 4
Nevada ladies have Sc, the noble
example of removing their hats al
tShssheassr. -
The grand jury of Lafayette county
was in session eight days anu returned
fifty indictments.
James Crisp who is under sem
tence to hang at Marshall has secured
a respite until April 20.
Plans have been decided on for the
new buildings at the industrial,sc
for girls at Chillcothe.
Merchants of Pleasant Hill are
confident of being able to start the
proposed cheese factory there.
Henry Sherwood has established a
flying jenny at Utica, to assist per-
sons in crossing the Grand river.
Doss Bishop, the first man to be
indicted under the new liquor law in
Harrison county, was fined $500.
Mrs. Mayfield, of Rails county, has
crippled husband and four small
children and so she splits rails for
living.
Sunday closing at Sedalia makes
business for the doctors. One physi-
clan wrote 3S prescriptions for liquor
Sunday.
The Derby Lead company at Farm
ington, has been reorganized. st.
Louis capitalists have taken hold of
the concern.
Charles Keys, who was yardmaster
at Moberly for number of years has
disappeared. His mysterious disap-
pearance cannot be solved.
Amateurs at Warsaw will present
the drama "Among the Breakers"
and donate the proceeds for the
Improvement of the cemetery.
J. W: Hubbard, of Eureka, claims
to be the champion chicken eater in
Missouri and is anxious to match his
gormandizing ability against any hen
eater.
Mrs. Madissa Rhodes died a few
days since an object of charity at St.
Joseph. Ten years ago she was the
wealthiest woman in Buchanan
county.
A hall dozen cases of small pox are
reported between Troy, Lincoln
county, and Ashley, Pike county. 1t
was brought into the community BY
peddler.
The annual report of the Kansas
City police force shows that 3S mem
bers of that body were born in Ire
land, and 4S were born in Missouri.
The ancestry of the members is not
traced.
Three prisoners, VIM. Berkely, Ed
Karsch and Arthur Schneider, in
dicted for burglary, escaped from
their guard at St. Joseph court house.
They opened window and slid down
brain pipe to the ground.
William Webster, proprietor of the
city hotel at Stewartsville, committed
suicide at the Hannibal and ST.
Joseph depot by placing his head
across the rail in front of switch
engine. He was a member of the G..
A. r. and was So years old. He
leaves large family. Financial
troubles prompted the act.
Cornelius Deuchy, St. Louis let
ter carrier, was given judgment for
$50 against s. Krohn, for damages
sustained from the bite of the latter's
dog last April. Krohn claimed that
the dog did not belong to him and
that he was in no way responsible for
it's actions. But the jury thought
differently, and gave plaintiff the
full amount sued for.
Governor Stone has issued the fol-
lowing in regard to the Nebraska
sufferers:
"Io the People Of Missouri 1t is
very generally known that the farm
ing communities in two or three of
the states west of Missouri have been
in great distress during the past
winter, owing to the disastrous and
widespread drought occurring last
summer. The condition of these
unfortunate people is extremely
unhappy. They are not only
measurably destitute, but the pros