The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-06-20
IN OUR OWN STATE.

John echafer, Of Pennington, sged
eighty six, has committed suicide.
The people Of wsrrensburg voted
$40 to 864 in favor Of local option.
L. W. James, OF Nodaway county,
grows alfalfa successfully on his
farm.
sedslis negroes will hold q meet-
ing to protest against the lynching
practice.
Jamesport would like to have
some enterprising person erect q
mill there.
J. M. Mum, Of Lewis county, fell
dead while singing In church at
Louisville, KY.
Nearly every Trenton man has q
buggy or some vehicle IN which he
can take ride.
Debating societies in Grundy
county are discussing the capital
removal question.
Mrs. Mary r. Hatch, the mother
Of Ex- Congressman Hatch, died in
Hannibal, aged ninety two years.
Mrs. John Dyer, who lived three
miles south Of osceola, was struck
and killed by lightning during a
storm.
Warrensburg offers thirty acres OF
land for the A. o. U. w. home, pro-
vidod $4,000 In buildings are
expended.
The Chillicothe Chautauquan Cir
ole 10 inclined to geology, and is
studying tho rocks along the roman
tic banks Of Grand river.
The Nodaway county court thinks
Of erecting an insane asylum, as 1t
costs the county SO, 900 to support its
insane at the state institutions.
Claude Lawson, q Trenton boy,
some time ago received a shock
from lightning, which resulted in
paralysis that caused his death few
days ago.
William Tuck, OF Greene county,
has Just celebrated his ninety first
birthday. He frequently walks two
miles day for recreation, is a DEM
ocrat and religious.
The two-year- old daughter of
Thomas Murphy, of St. Louis, was
sitting in q chair last Friday with a
button hook IN her hand. She fell
OF the chair and in coming in contact
with the floor the button hook was
driven into the child's head, thence
into the brain. The little one can
not live.
Railroad contractors from Missouri
and Kansas are meeting with officials
Of the NJ, K. g. T. railroad to submit
bids for the building of the road
from Windsor to Holden. The COM
pletion Of this gap will give the M.
X. & r. short line from st. Louis
to Kansas City, and will make it an
active competitor for St. Louis
Kansas City business. From Holden
an entrance will be effected into
Kansas City by way Of Paola, Kan,
over the Kansas City, Sf ringfeld &
Memphis.
In his annual address President A.
Brandenbergor Of the State Pharma-
ceutical Association said that he
would depart from the usual custom
of his predecessors, who always had
. number of recommendations to
submit. He would only offer one,
and that would 60 to the cure OF
great evil. He would recommend
that every druggist contribute = GER
tain sum to the state board OF
pharmacy to be used In closing the
whisky drug stores Of the state.
His theory was that II . man wanteo
to sell whisky for any purpose other
than for medical use he should be In
. saloon and not in drug store.
Gov. Stone announced the follow
ing appointments: Lee Meriwether,
Of St. Louis, to be commissioner OF
labor statistics for the term Of two
years from the first Wednesday In
February, 1895, vice Henry Black
more, term expired; DR.. A. e. Dom
elan, Of st. Joseph, member Of the
fish commission, vice H. M. Garlich,
resigned; Thomas F. Ryan, to sue
coed himself as police commissioner
Of st. Joseph for . term of three
years from April 28, 1895; R. e.
Culver, Of st. Joseph, to be special
Judge Of the criminal court OF Buch-
snan county, vice Silas Woodson,
who IL sick and unable to perform
buO uubion VI uAb oulces
At the request OF vicomte R. de
Cornely, director Of tho foreign de-
partment Of the national exposition
Of Moxico, Gov. Stone has named
the following gentlemen as q COM
mission for this state and forwarded
their names; L. M. Rumsey, P. J.
Pauley, J. o. Roberts, W. J. Lemp,
VIM. MCMILLAN, 3. o. Simmons, N.
o. Nelson, Jerome Hill and Jno. O.
wilkinson, Of st. Louisi Charles A.
Young, Peter n. Herman and q. O.
Robson, Of Kansas City; Joseph W.
Mercer, Independence; W. A. p.
Mcdonald and r. 3. Turner, of 81.