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MISSOURI STATE NEWS. Awarded Damages. In the circuit court at Mexico Mrs. Mary F. Eagleton, of St. Louis, was awarded damages in the sum of $1,450 against George Kabrich, of Mexico, and C. C. Longley, of St. Louis. Mrs. Eagleton brought suit for $5,000 for alleged false imprisonment and malicious prosecution. In January. 1894. she lived in Audrain county and ran a dry goods bill with Kabrich & Longley of $35, and later attempted to leave without settling the account. Mrs. Eagleton was pursued and arrested by an officer, returned to Mexico, and confined in jail on the charge of obtaining goods under false pretenses. Being in & delicate condition she was afterward. under guard, moved to a hotel, where she became a mother. and the charge was withdrawn. The trial lasted two days. The verdict. jury was four hours deliberating upon the How Farmer Barnard was Robbed. David A. Barnard, who lives near Macon, was robbed of $85 and a certified check for $500 the other day. Barnard was on a train, and was approaching Kearney. He had been talking to Pearl Rodgers, aged 19, of Kansas City. As Rodgers got up to leave the train. he put his arm around the old farmer's neck and told him to try and get him a job, as he was an orphan. The pecketbook was slipped from Barnard's inside vest pocket. Rodgers was seen to run rapidly away. and. being suspected by officers of doing something wrong, was pursued and captured after a long chase. The check and money were recovered. Too Bad. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Horn, of Steelville, went outing a few days ago, and it proved a very sad affair. Mr. Horn placed a loaded-shotgun against a ledge, and Mrs. Horn knocked it down. the charge entering her side. Mr. Horn ran for assistance. and on his return found his wife stil alive. In the presence of those who returned with him she kissed him good-by, sent messages to friends, narrated how the accident occurred and said her husband was not to blame. She died in two hours. In a few weeks she would have become a mother. Mrs. Horn was Miss Minnie Davis. a teacher in the public schools. and she and her husband, both young, were popular. Bank Directors Exempt. Judge Broaddus, in the circuit court at Liberty, decided in the case of C. A. Stevenau against the directors of the Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings bank, which failed in 1893, that the attachments run by depositors on the property of the bank directors are invalid. Eight thousand depositors, holding claims against the bank, are thus without recourse at law. Killed His Son-in-Law. An old feud which had been kept alive several years between Joe Peters and his son-in-law, John Dudley, two farmers near Seymour, terminated the other day in a row over a load of hay. Peters drew his knife and stabbed Dudley four times. Dudley died the next morning. Peters is under arrest. Gov. Stone's Appointments. Gov. Stone has appointed R. C. Culver to be judge of the criminal court of St. Joseph; Thomas H. Ryan. police commissioner of the city of St. Joseph, to succeed himself, and Dr. E. A. Donelan, a member of the Missouri fish commission, in place of H. M. Garlichs, removed. A Human Torch. Henry Schwartz was fatally burned in Kansas City by gasoline exploding. He ran several squares with his clothes aflame, jumping from a second-story window. Only three weeks before Schwartz married his sweetheart, who came from the old country. His Identity Revealed. Ben Myers, arrested for participation in Chicago & Alton hold-up in which Engineer Frank Holmes was killed, near Carlinville, Ill., proves, it is said, to be Bernard Reinagel, of Manchester, St. Louis county, and well connected. Elocutionary Contest. The Epworth league of Centenary Methodist church, south, of Nevada, will give an elocutionary contest August 28, for a $125 gold and diamondset medal. The contest is open to all
