The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-01-23
MISSOURI NEWS.


700 church.
Stewartsville has q sure enough
Lime Kiln club.
Mound City will soon be in the
throes OF a baby show.
1t has been decided to build a
S75, 900 courthouse in Carroll county.
A negro woman recently died in
warrensburg said to be 1877 years
old.
Lawrence Daley, a Kansas City
embezzler, has been arrested in Sc
dalia.
The democratic state central com
mittee will meet on January 23d at
Excelsior Springs.
The enrolment of Moberly's pub
lie school, ia LOO, with 1914 of these
in the high school.
Mrs. Joseph Hildebraudt poisoned
her eight children and committed
suicide al Hannibal.
Lancaster has been reducing SAL
aries; the city attorney will here
after receive $40 per year.
The death sentence of Joe Dom
nelly has been commuted to fifty
years in the penitentiary.
Two boys at Smithville saved thir-
teen people from drowning during
the recent flood at that place.
It is estimated that $685., leo worth
of poultry was shipped from Mis-
souri, to eastern markets last year.
Before the close of the present
year Barnard expects to be the scene
of extensive coal mining operations.
By the explosion of fifty sticks of
dynamite at the West Virginia mine
in Carterville, John Stafford lost his
life.
Judge Ryland, of Lexington, Is
again suffering with the cancer on
his lip and may have to retire from
the bench.
A large Touring mill will soon be
In operation at Burlington junction,
much to the delight of the farmers
Of that vicinity.
Hon. Charles D. Eitzen, of Her
mann, who died recently ,bequeathed
$50, 900 to Gasconade county for q
new courthouse.
Bunceton has about completed the
organization of a Farmers Mutual
Insurance Company under the pro-
visions of the new law.
The elegant residence of L. M
Edwards, cashier of one of the banks
of Bowling Green, has been destroy
ed by fire. Insurance $4,000.
Capt. Isaac Berry, well known fol
his service in the late war and as
follower OF Gen. Shelby, in Mexico
died at Huntsville, at the age of 81
years.
A Missouri Pacific freight traii
was stopped by robbers, one hal
mile south of Nevada, and the crew
we're relieved of s165 and thei
watches.
w. L. Rhodes, a Chicago real es
tate dealer, was arrested at MacoI
for swindling Sam Reed, of Kinks
vile, out of $1,000 by a fraudulen
deed five years ago.
A Tanning man has established
matrimonial bureau, and offers TO
$50 to guarantee a husband for an.
old maid or widow, or a wife TO
either bachelor ar widower.
, Hogs are hogs when they are
year old in st. Clair county. At an
rate those brought in by Farme
Yoder the other day averaging A
: pounds each, are entitled to be coun
ted as such.
Vanderver Banks, who has bee
at the Carroll county poor farm, ha
, received 5000 back pay and $12
: month pension. He will remain 6
a the poor farm at his own expense.
= At StewartsvilIe, DeKalb county,
portable boiler belonging to job
Dabner exploded on the 18th ms
and killed two children of the pro
prietor. Mr.. Dabner was himse
dangerously injured.
The barn of Thomas Tilden, ,
. Upton, was destroyed by fire.
cost $12, 900, and was said to be th
largest barn in Missouri, the thir
largest in the United States, and tt
. sixth largest in the world.
@. II. STREET., the ex-convict VII
/ doifed his prison stripes only tw
weeks ago for the clerica garb of
Christian evangelist, preached be
fore a revival meeting at the THU
Presbyterian church, Kansas City.
The city council of Moberly hi
a passed an ordinance making it
misdemeanor punishable by fine I
r from five dollars to $3.50 for IN
person or corporation to sell cigal
A cites or cigarette wrappers
: minors.
;. The steamer Congo was recent
n sunk in the Mississippi, near Carutl
Q sssville and four persons were sui