The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-04-11
IN OUR OWN STATE.
Joseph Pettus, of Grab Orchard
was killed by lightning.

, lne peacn crop In the vicinity OF
Hannibal is reported to promise well.
DR.. Goodson, of Maryville, feels
that that city is just about through
with its small pox.
The prospect for a good wheat
crop throughout southwest Missouri
is exceedingly good.
L. W. Thomas has been appointed
assessor Of johnson county vice A.
8. Campbell, deceased.
The postoffice safe at Blairstown,
Henry county, was blown open the
other night and rchhss 1 ns.~e71g'.l-- I.
uov. Stone has appointed r. A.
Holt probate judge of Laclede
county, vice VIM. Poyner, deceased.
The North Missouri Conference,
which adjourned at Stanberry, voted
to hold its next annual session at
Trenton.
The packet between st. Louis and
Glasgow is doing a fine business on
account of the good stage of water in
the river.
Ex- Recorder Owsley has been
indicted by the Jackson county grand
jury on the charge of aiding and
abetting election frauds.
John Forney suicided at Webb
City by taking carbolic acid. His
body was found in an empty box car.
He was sick and unable to work.
The Springfield Republican says
the elevation of its city is fourteen
hundred feet, and that it is the
healthiest and thriftiest city in the
state.
The Trenton Republican wants the
grand jury to look after those candi-
dates who have been electioneering
by sending jugs of beer into coal
mines.
Noah Callahan, aged II years, was
killed near Salem. He was riding
on the running gear of a wagon, and
in some way his head became fast in
a wheel.
Colonel Crisp declares that within
two years, every farmer in the state
who has running spring on his land
will have an artificial lake stocked
with fish.
County Clerk Cooper, of Grundy
county, was found in error in the
sum of "a 900, which, on being salts.
fed thereof, he promptly paid over
to the county.
A horse was in the act of eating a
yonng man up at Carl Junction, when
he fastened his teeth in the animals
nose and bit until it let loose of his
left arm. He out bit the horse and
saved his life by it.
Gen. Oliver p. Gooding, formerly
of st. Louis but later of Washington,
was declared insane in Washing
ton court, and ordered sent to an
asylum. His mind has been unbal
anced for several years.
James Ellis, aged 20 years, who
lives near Bosworth, Carroll county,
has reputation for being a home
man. He has not been off his 40-a
farm for 40 years. He has never
seen a railroad and the cars only at
a distance.
Joseph Pettus, Ray county
farmer, was killed by lightning about
eight miles from Richmond. The
horse he was riding was also killed.
Pettus was returning from the home
of his father in law, where his wife
is dying of consumption.
The Baptist council at st. Louis
has expelled Rev. O. @. Marston
from the ministry and the church.
Marston deserted his wife in the
state of Washington and is now
travelling through Iowa, with another
woman, and lecturing on "Temper-
ance and Purity and Chastity of the
Home"
Mr.. and Mrs. George Pealer, of
Oklahoma, visiting Trenton, have a
bright talking boy, sixteen months
old, who weighed at birth one and q
half pounds, and now FIVE and half
pounds, and is seventeen inches
high. A nickle covers his ear, a
quarter fills his hand, and his little
finger is five -eighths OF an inch long.
G. w. Mainess, residing near
Florence, Morgan county, was killed
under peculiar circumstances. He
was leading home a cow and had the
! rope wrapped around his right hand
several times. The COW ran away,
and Mainess was thrown to the
ground and dragged quite distance,
, injuries being inflicted that resulted
in his death few minutes later.
Governor Stone approved house
bill No. 739, providing for sale OF
, the Missouri School for the Blind at
: ST. Louis and the selection of a more
desirable site. The bill provides for
a comm. .ssion Of Eve, two of whom
D are to be members of the present
q state senate, two members of the
house and one at large to effect the
sale and select new site. After
approving the bill the governor