The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-08-13
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
rIucky Women Save a Chlla.

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rlucky Women Save q Child.
The three-year-old son of Zeke Hop.
kins. who lives in West Fulton, fell
| head foremost into 4O-foot well. The
mother of the child saw her baby as
| he fell, and screamed for assistance.
| Mrs. Henry Harris, hearing her cries
| and grasping the situation, ran
to the scene, first grabbing up long
| coal-pit rope. Tying the rope around
| her waist, Mrs. Harris climbed down
| the walls OF the well, Mrs. Hopkins
holding fast to the other end of
| the rope. She reached the water, some
80 feet from the top, and diving down
| some four feet under the water drew
| the drowning child to the surface and
| safety. Slowly Mrs. Hopkins drew her
| precious load to tho top and al fter hard
work they brought the little boy to
consciousness. After the danger was
past Mrs. Harris tainted, but was
brought around all right in few min
| utes.
Missouri Banks Closed.
Sheriff Scroghem of Vernon county,
The other day, closed Conkling Bros.
banking house in Nevada, the Bank Of
Bronaugh, Bank of Sheldon and the
Bank of Richards, all the property of
Conkling Bros, under an Injunction orr
| der OF the Vernon county circuit court.
The action was based on report Of
| State Bank Examiner Gordon Jones to
Secretary of State Lesueur, reporting
the business as being conducted in an
| unsafe and unbusiness-like manner.
L w. Conkling, of the firm, says the
closed banks will be able to pay every
| dollar of their Indebtedness. ]. L.
George and c. NJ. Shartel were ap-
pointed to take charge of the firms
business as receivers.
Missouri National Banks
The banks of Missouri, exclusive Of
the cities of ST. Louis, Kansas City
and st. Joseph, show their average
reserve, July IA, to have been 90. 81
per cent. against 90. So per cent. on May
Z; loans and discounts decreased from
$7.613,O72 to 81, 347, $50; stocks and Sc.
curities increased from S7O6,63a to
S717, ,301; gold coin increased from S3l A.
3l0 to $a33, ,s22; total specie increased
from s471, $50 to S497, ,319; lawful money
reserve decreased from S777, I57 to $780,.
57OIindividual deposits decreased fror
s6,649, 121 to s6.441 ,43s.
Desperate Man.
Marion Bowman, who was being
taken to Springfield, ILL.,, by Sheriff
SaXter, of that city, to answer to the
charge of abducting a nine-year-old
girl named Matte Mckinney; jumped
from the window of the Chicago &
Alton train at Curryville, Pike county,
and made his escape, although he was
handcuffed and the sheriff had chained
him to the car seat.
Old Settlers OF Vernon County.
The eighth annual meeting of the
old settlers of Vernon county was
held at White Sulphur Lake park, Ne.
vada. A basket dinner was spread
under the trees, free to all. The oldest
settler on the ground was Moses Sum-
mers, who located in Vernon county
with his parents 66 years ago, when he
was three years of age.
Prisoner Jumps From n Train.
Says dispatch from Tuscola, ILL.,:
John Hazel jumped from an Illinois
Central passenger train that was run.
ming at the rate of 40 miles an hour,
and was almost instantly killed He
was in custody of an officer, and was
wanted for stealing horses in Mis-
souri,. He gave his home as Poplar
Bluff, Mo.
Wright Must Hang.
Gov. Stone has positively refused to
interfere with the death penalty inn
posed upon William Wright, the YER
non county negro who beat his wife to
death with an AK and narrowly es-
capped lynching at the hands of in.
furiated negroes. Wright will be
hanged at Nevada. August 10.
One Mans Desperate Attempt.
Geo. c. Peters. 3657 Page avenue, st.
Louis, made a mixture of orange green.
purple and blue ink, added arnica, tur.
pentine and tincture of lead, and drank
it. He was taken to the city hospital
and pumped out. Peters was despon-
dent over failure to secure work.
A Talented Young Man.
DR.. Robert NJ. Boyd died at Spring.
field of typhoid fever. He was %, and
the son of the late S. H. Boyd, minis
ter to Siam under the Harrison admin
istration. DIR. Boyd acted as minister
to that country for some months prior
to his fathers death.
May Never Come Back.
Emmet LAWN, in Jail at Clarence
upon a charge of burglary, escaped
few days ago, leaving note stating
that he had gone to hunt George Tay.
lor, and when he found him he would
return.
"A Farmers Marrow Escape.