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# MISSOURI STATE NEWS. ## A Noted Fire-Bug Under Arrest. Francis M. Loggan, an incendiary with a remarkable record, is under arrest at Kansas City. He set fire to lumber yards in Kansas City, and was arrested. The story told by Loggan has no parallel in the history of criminals. He left home when a boy of 10, and early in his wanderings was arrested and imprisoned on the charge of vagrancy. When he regained his liberty he began, for revenge, a career of crime, vowing to destroy as much property as possible. That was over thirty years ago, and since that time he has burned buildings in many states, and has served seventeen years in penitentiaries. A few days ago he went to Odessa, Mo., and met his father, whom he had not seen since he quit his home in 1864. From Odessa he went to Kansas City to kindle a blaze and pave the way for another term in the penitentiary, outside of which he feels lost, and is unable to make a living. He says of himself: "I served four years and four months in the penitentiary at Michigan City, Ind., for setting fire to a train of cars at Indianapolis. On the 7th of June, 1892, I went to the Provincial prison at Kingston, Ont., on a seven-year sentence for firing a canal-boat lock at St. Catherine, Can. I set fire to the lock at night, and when it was blazing good I ran down the wharf a short distance and fired a big lumber yard. They caught me for this, and I served a full sentence of seven years. During the big strike in Pennsylvania in 1877 I set fire to a train of cars on the Pennsylvania Central. That's one of the biggest jobs I ever did. I fired a big barn in Manchester, N. H., and another in Rhode Island. They were both full of horses. I set a pile of cotton bales on fire in New Orleans and got four years in Baton Rouge for the job." ## The State University. There has recently been organized in Columbia a new school, known as the university academy. The academy is the connecting link between the public schools and the state university. In accordance with the action of the legislature, the preparatory department of the university was abolished a year ago, and as there was no articulated high school in Columbia at that time many students found it impossible to enter the university, and were compeled to go elsewhere to make up their preparatory work. This year the university academy will be ready to take charge of all students who can not enter the university, and will fit them for the freshman classes of that institution. The members of the faculty of the new school are graduates of the Missouri university, and all are teachers of experience. The college building is located in the university addition, just west of the university campus, and is the site of the old Columbia college. The new school will open September 10 this year, simultaneously with the Missouri university. The outlook for the academy seems bright, and a large attendance is expected. Members of the Christian church of this state have in view the establishment of a Bible college in connection with the state university. A financial committee has been appointed, and before many days the funds will be raised. None but the best talent will be employed in the intended college. Rev. T. P. Halley, of Kansas City, who is now in Europe, will devote his time to enlisting the help of moneyed men in the enterprise when he returns to this country. The church has one Bible college at Canton, Mo., but the Columbia movement is intended to give young men studying for the ministry the advantage of the higher education to be acquired in the ministry. ## Nominated For Congress. The democrats of the Eighth district have nominated Hon. R. P. Bland for congress. Mr. Bland is now serving his eleventh term. The republicans have nominated Joel D. Hubbard. [The Eighth district is composed of the counties of Callaway, Camden, Cole, Cooper, Dallas, Laclede, Maries, Miller, Moniteau, Morgan, Osage, Phelps and Pulaski, and was carried at the last congressional election by Mr. Bland over W. H. Murphy by a vote of 18,927 to 16,453.] The republicans of the Third district have nominated Judge G. H. Orton, of Princeton, to oppose Mr. Dockery. [The Third district consists of the counties of Caldwell, Clay, Clinton, DeKalb, Davies, Gentry, Harrison, Mercer, Ray and Worth. Last congressional election the vote was: Dockery, dem., 18,749; Birch, rep., 15,288; Reece, peo., 4,369.] ## Swamp Land Sale Held to Be Legal. Judge Wear, of the Butler county circuit court, has denied a suit in equity for injuntion to restrain the county judges from making a patent to over 10,000 acres of swamp land to Geo. B. Wheeler, at the price of $1.65 per acre, filed in behalf of Butler county by the prosecuting attorney. The petition alleged that the transaction was fraudulent, the sale being made in the absence of, and without the knowledge of, higher and better bidders. The court held that the sale was to all intents and purposes a private one, and was bona-fide. A number of St. Louis and other capitalists have been negotiating for its purchase. ## Veterans Get Together. The grand army veterans of Bates, Cedar, St. Clair and Vernon counties held a reunion at Fair Haven Springs, Vernon County. The supper was a repast of beans, hard tach and black coffee. Ten bushels of beans were cooked. Fully 4,000 people were present. ## Arthur-Malone. Rev. S. T. Arthur, rector of St. John's Episcopal church of Cape Girardeau, and Miss Daisy Malone, of the same city, were married at Eureka Springs, Ark. ## Death of a Soulard. Mrs. James G. Soulard, member of a well-known St. Louis family, and for many years a resident of St. Louis, died at Galena, at the age of 90 years. ## Lost an Arm. Jack Campbell, a section hand, went to sleep on the track of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas near Clayton, Vernon county, and his arm was cut off. ## Identified. The remains of the suicide found in the Meramec river near Pacific, August 4, were identified as those of Edward Hird, of Jefferson county. ## Paid in Full. A run was made on the Farmers' and Merchants' bank of Piedmont by its depositors living at Greenville. All accounts were paid in full. ## Mules and Horses Cremated. A. B. Hensley, residing about 7 miles northeast of Montgomery, lost his fine barn by fire. Five mules and three horses were burned.
