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MISSOURI STATE NEWS. Flacky Women Save a Child. three-year-old son of Zeke Hope fell The who lives in West Fulton, The head kins. foremost into a 40-foot well. mother of the child saw her baby as fell, and screamed for assistance. cries he Mrs. Henry Harris, hearing her ran and grasping the situation, to the scene, first grabbing up a long rope. Tying the rope around down coal-pit waist, Mrs. Harris climbed her of the well, Mrs. Hopkins fast to the other She reached the holding the walls water, end some of from the top, and four feet under the the some feet rope. diving water down the child to the Mrs. Hopkins load to the to safety. precious drowning Slowly top,andafter surface drew boy drew hard and her work they brought the little consciousness. After the danger was was Mrs. Harris fainted, but minutes. past brought around all right in a few Missouri Banks Closed. Sheriff Seroghem of Vernon county, other day, closed Conkling Bros. house in Nevada, the of banking the the and Bank Bank of Sheldon of Richards, all the of Bros., under an Bronaugh, Conkling Bank injunction or- property court. der of the Vernon county circuit of The action was based on a report Examiner Gordon Jones to of State Lesueur, as being an State the Secretary business Bank conducted reporting in and unbusiness-like manner. of the firm, says the L closed unsafe W. Conkling, J. banks will be able to pay every L. dollar of their indebtedness. George and C. M. Shartel were appointed to take charge of the firm's 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 14, to have been 29.57 against 29.53 percent. on May loans and discounts decreased from $7,613,072 7: to $7,347,559; stocks and securities increased from $706,633 to $717,301; coin increased from $314,310 to $333,822; total specie increased from $471,886 to $497,319; lawful money reserve decreased from $777, 457 to $730, 570;individual deposits decreased from $6,642,121 to $6,441,438. A Desperate Man. Marion Bowman, who was being taken to Springfield, Ill., by Sheriff the Baxter, of that city, to answer to charge of abducting a nine-year-old girl named Mattie 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 the trees, free to all. The oldest on the ground was who located in settler mers, under Vernon Moses county Sum- he with his parents 66 years ago, when was three years of age. Prisoner Jumps From a Train. Says a dispatch from Tuscola, Ill.: Hazel jumped from an Illinois train was Central John passenger that hour, running at the rate of 40 miles an and was almost instantly killed. He in of an was was custody officer, and in Miswanted for stealing horses souri. He gave his home as Poplar Bluff, Mo. Wright Must Hang. Gov. Stone has positively refused to interfere with the death penalty imWilliam Wright, non negro who beat to posed county upon his the wife Verdeath with an ax and narrowly in- escaped lynching at the hands of furiated negroes. Wright will be hanged at Nevada, August 10. One Man's Desperate Attempt. C. Peters. 3657 Page avenue, St. made a mixture of orange green, and blue ink, added Louis, Geo. arnica, tur and tincture of lead, and He was taken to the city purple it. pentine hospital drank and pumped out. Peters was despondent over failure to secure work. A Talented Young Man. Dr. Robert M. Boyd died at Springfield of typhoid fever. He was 27, and of the late S. H. Boyd, minisSiam under the Dr. Boyd acted as istration. ter the to son Harrison minister adminto that country for some months prior to his father's death. May Never Come Back. Emmet Lavin, in jail at Clarence a charge of burglary, escaped a few leaving a note that he had gone to hunt George upon days ago, stating would Taylor, and when he found him he return. A Farmer's Narrow Escape. Chamberlain a farmer west John
