The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-01-02
MISSOURI NEWS.

O'oh 10 IoihR orBdniheu ~ chrcoa o.
Sh piping fish and game from
Dunklin county to New York has
proved success.
Monett is to have big new -four
ing mill, all the stock in which will
be owned at home.
The Omaha g. st. Louis railroad,
from Council Bluffs to Pattonsburg,
will be sold January q.
DR.. L. L. Sherwood, of Marceline,
Is said to be the first man in Missouri
to make success of alfalfa.
The first annual show of the Hem
Try County Poultry Assoc alton will
tt-'wuif'9 s,anpsr9Ts ~ Y ss .ss
unusually heavy this year, and the
best nuts bring only cents pound.
A respite until January 20 has
been granted to Joe Donelly, who
was to have been hanged at Mexico,
December 81.
Bernie, stoddard county, expended
1000 to build road east across the
swamp, and the investment is prov
ing a paying one.
Blue Mills postoffice has been
abolished. 1t was the second post
Office established in Jackson county
seventy years ago.
After the acquittal OF DR.. j. O.
Hearne for the murder of Amos j.
Stillwell the state dismissed the case
against Mrs. Hearne.
The swego tract of mineral ground
at Joplin, containing some 700 acres,
was sold at special masters sale q
few days ago for 100000.
The demand for store buildings In
Marshall is greater than the supply,
and the papers are urging local cap
italists to show their faith by their
works.
The flag presented to the Waddill
guards of Boonville on the 5th OF
July, 1880, has been presented by
Captain Ravenel to the Kemp per cadet
battalion.
Independence now has five railway
Ines and expects another soon, or
rather expects the Air line to be ex-
tended eastward through Lone Jack
to Holden.
Johh I. Hughes, Of Lexington, in
cluding the 81 $50 which he captured
at the recent st. Louis fair, has in
twenty nine years taken s29, ,75O in
premiums at that fair.
John Z. Gano, one of the old pion-
eers of Henry county, and at one
time n% wsof the land upon which
sent Go fhs i kseadas I dasaHs ssaassal
The estate Of Col. ]. F. Jones, OF
Galloway, who died in 1879, has just
been settled. He left a long will,
providing that the estate should not
be divided until his youngest child
was 26 years old.
Missouri new spapers will be rep
resen ed by twelve delegates at the
meeting Of the National Editorial
Associa on in Jacksonville, Fla +,
next month. They will leave St.
Lon together January 10.
Colonel A. A. Hulett has been
appointed receiver of the Oronogo
bank that was recently broken into
and rubbed. Assurances are given
depositors that they will receive the
full amount of their claims.
After six years. service as railroad
and warehouse commissioner, Tim
othy j. Hennessy is again back to
his old love as a locomotive engi-
neer. He took out his first locomotive
since retiring from oi1iceTuesday over
the Iron Mountain, his run being be-
tween st. Louis and Poplar Bluff.
A new style of tramp has appeared
in Joplin. He goes to the front door
and hands out q circular advertising
q lot of alleged religious books that
nobody ever heard of before, and
which, of course, no one buys. Then
on the strength OF his laudable, but
unsuccessful, effort to "earn an
honest living" he asks for some
thing to eat and generally gets it.
J General W. B. Royal, U. =. A.,
! who died recently in Washington, d,
c., was brother Of Mrs. G.. O.
Broadhead,of Columbia. During the
war he was breveted successively
major, lieutenant colonel and colo
, mel. He received six saber cuts in
the action at Old Orchard, Virginia
June 13, 1862, and was disabled from
, further field service for some years.
Possibly not in the history OF the
. Central and Southwest States have
there been such heavy rains as IL
: the past two weeks, and certainly
. the damage to property and loss o
!. life consequent have never been sc
: great. Near Smithville, Mo-, two
boys heroically rescued thirteen per
sons In danger of drowning an(
0 starvation. An M, K. & E. trail
9 was wrecked near Rocheport and |
Q Frisco train was wrecked at Butler
} Ark. In the Sac river country
a W. liam Jones, wife and four chill
. dren were washed away while asleel
a In their home. Much of the Low
: lands along the Charlton river an,
i It's branches are under water, ant