Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-23

| pointed Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, i'm
4 place of Judge Tabor resigned. Mr..
Beardsley Is the chief editor of the Buling-
4 ton Hdlrkeye.
Cob j. &c Brownlow special Revenue
Agent in Tenfessee, has been removed.
t~sr- WEST AND SOUTHWEST. -
The Iowa Greenback State Convention was
held at Marshalltown on the 12th. No, nom
nations were made, but-a brief platform
was adopted and a resolution passed to levy
I an assessment OF 60 cents annually on each
member, to form campaign fund of Si2,
I 600, the statement being made that there are
| 10, 200 members in the State.
The other day E. +. Lasuer, his wife and
two children, at Candy, Marshall County,
Minn., We're struck by lightning. The
woman and children We're killed outright,
and Mr.. Lesuer was fatally injured.
There was n meeting at indianapolis, on
the 18th, of delegates representing the va
rious Temperance organizations throughout
the State. A State Association was organ
ized, and another meeting will be held i'm
November. 0
Captain John Secrest, contractor on the
mail route from Vinita TO Las Animas, New
Mexico, was returning from the latter point.
accompanied by Mr.. j. G.. Wilson and an
other man named Young. On Sunday, July
%, they took dinner at Bruner's, some 50
miles west of Vinita. This was the last time
they were seen. Some eight or ten days af-
terward the blackboard and harness used by
them were found several miles from the
road, east of Bruner's, but all efforts TO get
any further clew to the missing men have
proved futile. There is but little doubt
they We're murdered, and gang of desper-
ADDE'S who have made their headquarters i'm
that section are supposed TO have committed
the deed.
Official returns from 105 out of III coun-
ties in Kentucky give Blackburn, Democrat,
for Governor, los, $50; Evans, Republican,
II, ,651; Cook, Greenbacker, 16, 800. Black
burns majority over Evans, 6,9s7, which
it is estimated will be brought up to 1000
when returns are all in, or an increase of
5000 over McCreary's majority. The prop
osition for calling Constitutional Conven-
tion has been defeated by large majority.
The official census of Kansas, just COM
pleted, shows that the State had a popula-
tion approximately of s49,91S on the first
day of March last. The Federal census Of
1870 showed population of 1854, 800.
At st. Louis, on the 18th, Thaddeus Ba-
ber, dissipated plumber, at the termina-
tiOn of an extended spree shot his paramour,
young woman named Lizzie Schendel, in.
fiicting mortal wound, and also her moth
er, Mme. Schende, Killing the latter in
stanfly. Baber and Lizzie Schendel had
lived together for six years, and the cause of
the tragedy was herleaying him recently, on
account of continued i'll treatment, and go--
ing back TO her mothers, where the double
crime was committed.
4 large grain elevator in st. Louis, known
as '.Elevatbr b ,, Belonging to the Central
Elevator Company, and located at the foot of
ChoteaiI Avenue, was destroyed by fire, with
its contents Of 80 200 bushels of wheat, on the
night of the 18th. Total lossabout 5 I5O, 200;
insurance about So, 200. -..
Wiffendot, Choctaw Indian, convicted OF
the murder of young lad about four months
ago, WAS executed by shooting at Atoka, H.
T., on the 18th.
a detachment of the Fifth Infantry, under
Lieutenant Whistler, recently captured 81
Indians and 100 ponies, from Rosebud
Agency, who were ON their way to Join Sit
ting Bull.
At Goshen, Ind, on the night of the 12th
Capt. III. W. Smith and Edwin Hubbel
purchased vial of morphine and retired to
the Courthouse Square, where each drank
one-half of the contents, and in few min
utes passed into the sleep that knows no
awakening. The self-murderers had been
on a drunken spree for several days, and
wound up their carousal by committing the
suicidal act. Both of the men were respect
ably connected and very well known. Hub
bell was widower. Smith left a wife and
four children, who We're dependent on his
support.
Alnrge delegation Of colored men, prin-
cipally from Mississippi, have arrived i'm
Kansas, their object being TO investigate the
present condition and prospects of the col
ored emigrants now there, with view to
advising their brethren at home to their
future movements. number of white
planters accompany the excursion party and
contribute towards'the-expenses of the trip,
they believing that it will result in checking
the exodus, Of colored laborers from the
South. - a- 1+fr--
At Deadwood, ID. T., on the night of the
18th, l.. F. Whitbeek, local editor of the
Pioneer, shot at a negro, who he claims
had assaulted him. The ball missed the ne
gro, and struck T. II. Martin, formerly
wholesale grocer, i'm the forehead, inficting
a dangerous and probably fatal wound.
Some tramps made an attempt to break
into the residence of Mr.. Allen Baldwin, at
River Forest, a suburb of Chicago, on the
night of the 18th. Mr.. Baldwin was awaken
ed and fired at them, killing one of their
number. The dead man proved to be one j.
ID. Traynor, formerly respectable newspa-
per reporter of Chicago, but of late fallen
into evil courses and become the associate of
tramps and vagabonds. Traynor was an
Irishman, 35 years of age. He leaves wife
and five children
Two young men named Connor and Weav-
er, farm-hands ON the place of Israel Derol,
in the Muskingum Valley, near Marietta, o.,
were instantly killed by lightning on the
18th. They had taken shelter in n barn,