Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-09-06
WEST AND SOUTHWEST.

By the mistake of using strychnine instead
of soda i'm making batch of biscuits at the
house of j. A. Briggs, a farmer living near
Forest, o., on the 25th, the entire family,
together with 13 threshers who partook of
the meal, were nearly poisoned TO death.
The Senate Committee appointed To inves-
tigate the causes of the Indian outbreak last
season on the Kansas frontier concluded their
labors on the 26th, having spent some days
at the Cheyenne Agency in getting at the bot
tom facts. The Committee adjourned sub
iect to call of the Chairman.
The Chicago Commercial Bulletins esti-
mate of this seasons spring wheat crop of
the Northwest is 131, $50 200 bushels, against
los, ,I45, 900 last year. The average yield per
acre is estimated at 1872 bushels, against
1.42 last year, and the aggregate acreage
at 10,666, 935, against 9,514,739 last year.
The average yield per acre of the different
States is estimated as follows: Illinois,
11.43; Wisconsin, 1874; Minnesota. 1911
Iowa, II 30; Nebraska, II .9S; Kansas, o. 50;
Missouri, 12.J0; Dakota, I5.S0. Quality
generally reputed very good-better than for
some years past.
The Kansas City Commercial Indicator,
from returns received from 1l6 counties i'm
Kansas, Nebraska, Western Missouri and
Southern Iowa, estimates a largely increased
acreage and yield of corn, rs compared with
last year. The late corn has i'm some locali-
ties been somewhat damaged by dry wealth
er. 1t is estimated that fewer hogs will be
marketed this season than last.
Henri Stewart was hanged at Fort Smith,
Ark, on the 10Th. He, together with his
cousin, Wiley Stewart, killed Br. John B.
Jones at Caddo, /. T., i'm August
last. A personal quarrel was the
cause of the killing. Both the muir
derers fled. Henri was subsequently
arrested in Jasper County, Mo-, where his
family resides. Wiley il still at large.
Henri Stewart was not quite 81 years of age.
He was man of liberal education, having
been graduated at Yale Medical School, and
for several years served sur
geon on Pacific coast steamers.
He was a hard drinker at times, and to this
he attributes the elimination of his trou-
bles. He denied having any thing TO do
personally with the killing of DIR. Jones, but
admitted having been i'm his cousins COM
pany at the time of the murder
and accompanying him i'm his flight.
At the same time and at the same place,
William Elliott, otherwise known rs ''Colo-
RADIO Bill ;" but whose real name was Will
liam Elliott Wiley, was hanged for the mur-
der of Ross Cunningham at Muscogee, I. T.,
in January last. The murder followed at
the termination Of nights carouse in dis
reputable house, in which the murderer and
his victim and several Others participated.
Charles Harris was hanged at Montague,
Texas, on the 30th, for the murder of his
brother in 1877. over ., 900 people witnessed
the hanging, and as the trap fell the entire
audience joined in singing The Sweet By
and-By."
The condition Of the Rev. Mr.. KallOch,
shot by De Young in SAN Francisco, was
considered quite favorable on the LIST, al
though the bullet had not been extracted
and there was still danger Of Inflammation
setting i'm.
A recent Washington dispatch says that
the Secretary Of the Emigrant Aid Society of
that city is constantly receiving letters from
colored people in all parts of the South ask
ing information in regard TO Kansas, the