The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-04-20
SHOT DEAD.
John Smith Shoots Young
Triplett Four Times.

AAARASOO - SAS oD1SOOs
; The Murderer Escapes. Pursued b.
Large Posse Of People.
Special Correspondence Of the Bazoo.
APPLETON CIrY, Mo-. April ii.
Sunday morning the startling news Of
shooting scrape Was current on our streets
A near a. your reporter could ascertain
the affair was ~ follows:
Two parties ~ the names Of Joh'
Smith aud Bill Triple,t. aged respectively
twenty and twenty two. had difficulty som.
eighteen maniLs ago, At which time moth
ing serious wss the result. but both par,ie.
s~o,e they would in the future be
PREPARED FUR COMBAT,
and have always been armed with revo!v-
err. The affair eliminated on lsst S.tur-
day forenoon by young Triple,t paving the
penalty OF the erufge with hi- lie.
Saturday afternoon the parties met in a
the shooting commenced. Smith opened
up the var BY pouring into the body of his
sntagoni-, four shots. which resulted ia i'm
mediate death. Smith was not hit at all,
but his garments -ho sed shat tall had
cut ci'se To his left thigh, but with no
harm. Neighbors heard the disturbance
and came to the scene. where they found
the
BLEEDING md DYING BODY
Of young Tripi-tt The body was conveyed
81 his home and a Messenger dispatched
for Dr. J. W. Wheeler, of johnson
City, who came and prObed the wounds
and extracted three bullets. DIR. W. gave
rs his opinion that either of the
shot. would have sesulted fatally. Young
Smith left for p,rts unknown TO any one,
and at this writing no captur- has been
made. Ii is the supposilion Of few that
smith wonId come clear we're he 20 give
himself up 10 law and Justice, aud by
,tbers he would
EXPIArE HIS CRIME
~ "neck-,ie." Your reporter will keep
he BAzoo posted as to this sad affair.
Large po-ses are in hot pursuit of the
murderer, but as the place of shooting is in |
he mids, of dense forest. il will Ike rather |
|ifficult 10 lind Smith, were he not TO leave !
he etate.
A merchant down town sells more Of
Dr.. Bulls Cough Syrup than all ether
Medicines together. IL surely must Ike the
est remedy for Cough. !
Another High Compliment.
The one great predowInating feature of
he Sells Brothers il that they do all they
dverti-e," says the Cleveland 90 Sunday
'oics, Of Sells Brotners' Millionaire Con-
liberation Of Supendous Railroad Shows,
Inch IL To exhibit here Ia all it's over
hAdowing vastne-s, on Thur-d,y 22nd inst.
md this high compliment. is paid by
r,i-class ne wspaper, to an exhibition, IN AIDE
r OF sIch priceless, exclusive, rare snd
reat pr-,iuminatIns features. a. a $500 eco
eArd of eie'',,an'-, tx largest ever seen la
arade; tw" 81 900 iui! grown, Iirm. lip
Dpotani the Only pair ever iini.':i ~. : a
$1,000 sGuaIiun. at Lu-e e, ii"n- i::-
MS SIS 900 drove al .. rtoIming Coiurado
,t,Ie /; ti.e only 81. 600 t~o-horned, hairy
,ino,ero-, which tremendous brute, IL
i'll be remembered, n-sriy demolished
al P,ilsburg. Pa; the only 3d.
10 Willis Cobb mini ,iure circus the only
.Luine SD, 600 -ixty horse power electric !
and mud mo,or, exhibited both after r
BON and evening; the only tribe Of Cie
,ief- and braves, who appear NJ each per-
rm ance in wild and thrilling equestrian .
anna, expressly arranged for them, and q
aphicaiiy illustrating the savage out .
aughts and single coEbats Of border war
re and the only complete collection of
lid beasts and birds. and more of the M 4
an there were ever before exhibited. Last
II by no means least. comes The whole
Drid's first bareback rider, the great and
,iy J imes X .hin-or, associated wi h none
III Ale AL itt11te l..
note, and i grand company al the br-t
.rfnrm-rs in every gymns-iic act and art. -
II preceded each morning BY gigantic a
,hIic procession If the elephants. ch.rio,s. il
rec bands, 1. bl'sux ears and hundred >,
perb AMI ~, s,tionai Gestures.
1.-The absence If ali gambling schemes
az a noticeable feature" says the H-s- b
ny. N.b .Imadt which IL due TO the q
ct IN It the M--srs. sells rent no privil
.es, IN anass their y Al -huw az person. an'!
IN sni tina, the authorities shall do their
,ty in protecting the public from swind- |
"a. To cap the sheaf, they permit no
,,idling of any kind within their tents, snd
, not suffer their patrons To b. impor-
ned or annoyed in any way. Such truth
lne-s. honesty and courtesy combined with
'ch trne greatness, of cour-e, wins every
here, aud will DO 40 here, TO the tune OF
ioussnds.