The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-01-02
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
DR. c. B. CLAPP, of Moberly, has
been appointed . pension examing sur

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DR. C. b CLAPP. of Moberly, has
been appointed q pension examing sur
| gcon.
TIE state university will soon be
| prepared to furnish anti-toxine Mt cost
to all applicants
AFTER az tedious trial the jury at
Bowling Green acquitted DIR. Hearne
of the charge of numbering Amos ].
Stillwell. the rich packer, at Hannibal
about seven years 1go.
The body of an unknown man was
recently found under q railroad bridge
at Gallatin. He had probably been
killed by falling from train. He had
! told the conductor that he lived at
teWyandotte, Kan.
WHILE Reuben Richards and Joseph
Cavanaugh were recently hunting near
Steelville Cavanaugh mistook Richards
for turkey and fred charge of
| squirrel shot into his body. The re-
suit was not fatal.
DURING the late heavy rains tho
Usage river rose 80 feet Tuscumbia
and other towns were flooded and
| much damage done. The Usage was
over one foot higher than during the
celebrated food of 1874
| Gov. STONE recently pardoned
Thomas Mooney. William Shadwick
and Richard and John Callen, who
were sent to the penitentiary for five
years from St Louis in 1893 for rob
bing boarding house. Investigation
showed that they had. been convicted
upon the periured testimony of mo-
torious woman.
THE stockholders Of the Kansas City,
Pittsburg & Gulf railroad held q meet
ing at Kansas City a few days ago and
decided to increase the capital stock
Of the company from So OOo, 900 to &c.
0OO, 900. the proceeds to be used in ex-
tending the road to Port Arthur,
| point within five miles Of Sabine Pass,
the government deep water harbor.
In late decision the supreme court
held that homestead that had been
sold for an amount in excess of the ex-
emption limit, 81, 500. could not be dis
turbed after passing out of the hands
jof the homesteader, but that a home
stead in the hands of the beneficiary,
when it exceeds the value of $1.50O,
may be scaled down for the benefit of
creditors
ARTHUR j.. COULTER and Clarence F.
Hill, high-fying young men employed
respectively rs boolSkeeper and collect
or in the Kansas City Electric Light
Co., were recently sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary for stealing
funds of the company. Coulter was at
one time captain of one of the swell
militia companies of Kansas City. Hill
has young wife and two children.
REpoRTs received at ST. Louis indi-
Gated that tho late rainstorm was the
most severe that has occurred in the
state for years at this season. In the
southwest it was especially severe and
in many localities much damage re-
suited. The total rainfall was 6. 20
inches, or about $50 tons of water to
the acre. The rain was followed by
heavy snowstorm on the 10th and Goth.
A LATE religious census taken by
students in the state university shows
that of 475 students who replied to the
questions asked. 266 are church mem
bers The membership of the various
churches is as follows: Christian. %;
Presbyterian, G7; Methodist, Sc; Bap-
tist, 40: Episcopal, 8; Catholic. s; Con-
gregationalist, 2; Evangelical Protest.
ant. Lutheran, German Reformed and
Unitarian one each.
In the circuit court at ST. Louis a
few days ago Judge Russell gave de-
cision adverse to the fire insurance law
passed by the last general assembly OF
the state. He granted a temporary in
junction to prevent the approval by the
superintendent of the state insurance
department Of the exclusive form OF
policy recently adopted bv the major
ity of the companies doing fire in-
surance business in the state. in. obe-
dience to the provisions of the new
statutes.
RECENTLY the board of fund commits
sioners made a requisition on the state
auditor for a warrant on the state
treasury for 1856. .O95. to pay the inter-
est on the bonded debt, and to take up
&55.o in bonds due January I, 1896
The commissioners also ordered the
auditor and treasurer to transfer 500,
333 from the state interest fund to the
state school moneys and seminary
moneys, on December 81. to pay the
state school and seminary certificates
of Indebtedness, due January /, 1896
After these payments are made, the
states bonds will. only amount to $5.-
434 900. all Of which will bear interest
at the low rate of az per cent per an
mum. except s34s, 600 Of the old six per
cents yet outstanding. -
IN the make mp of the house conn
mittees nv Speaker Reed Messrs. Tars-'
ney. Dockery and Cobb were put re-
spectively on the committees on ways
and means, appropriations-and bank-
ing. Tarsnev is also On the military
COMMITTEE. Dockcry on the civil service
reform committee. and Cobb on the
District of Columbia committee Bar
tholdt is chairman of the immigration
committee. and other places given to
Missourians are:, Hall. naval affairs.
post offices and post roadsand expendf-
tures in the ngricnltural department.;
Tracy. military affairs; Hubbard. Pa
scific railroads; joy, Interstate and for
eign .commerce and expenditures In
the departments of Justice; Burton,
iediciarv and military: De Armond,
Judiciary and educatiou; Clarke. rivers
and harbors: TrelOur patents: MOS1ey