Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-06-16
MISSOURI NEWS.
The Moberly races begin June 16.


works.
Four residences in st. Joseph were
buglarized Sunday night.
Butler ladies indulge freely in the
sport of horseback riding.
Wheat in Washington and Reynolds
counties looks unusually well.
Walter Montgomery, Of st. Joseph,
was drowned at Council Bluffs.
Cooper's store, at Pageville, was rob
bed of $500 one night last week.
Sedalia is badly scared about mad
dogs-several persons being bitten.
The st. Louis and San Francisco road
has been pushed to Fayetteville, Arkan-
sas.
r.. Davis mill in ST. Joseph was
damaged about ten thousand dollars
by fire.
RObt. Good shot and killed his land
lord, VIM. Nolan, at his farm, near
0rrick.
A man named Wheaton was stabbed
fatally, by Jim Sheffield, at Charleston,
Saturday night.
John Russell, of Upton, pointed an
empty (?) pistol at George Hickox.
Result funeral.
Joseph Decker, aged twenty-five, was
drowned while bathing in the river at
Forest City, Sunday.
Capt. NJ. Donough, of st. Louis has
resigned the position of chief of police,
and is succeeded by Capt. Kennett.
Conductor Garrett of the Missouri
Pacific railroad, blew his brains out in
a fit of emotional insanity, at st. Louis.
A man supposed TO be A. C. ParsOn,
of Oskaloosa, Kan, threw himself un-
der Il train at CarOndelet, and was
killed.
Michael Hayes, a One-legged express.
man, familiar figure on the streets OF
Kansas City, poisoned himself in Cooks
pasture.
Some farmers in the southern part Of
Rails county are plowing up their wheat
fields because of the ravages of the
chinch bug.
A Boonville lady was trying to teach
her little three-year old boy to ride the
horse to the barn, when he fell off and
broke his arm.
The Attorney General has decided
that member of the legislature can.
not he appointed notary public dur
ing his term of office.
Robbie Shiedler fell from a second
story window at Holden, and was bad
ly wounded. John Duke, of the same
place, while asleep, played the same
trick and was killed.
At st. Joseph, Tuesday last, Mr..
Samuel Rockwell, of Rochester, New
York, and Miss Cordelia, eldest daught-
er of Alderman Stephen Geiger, were
married in the Christian church, by
Elder Goode, the pastor.
The Holden school board is in a
deadlock over the election of princi-
pal for the ensuing year. Thirty.seven
hollois have hpen taken and no choice
roachod rho candidates are A. G.
Jonns w u Gathney and prof Rice.
In row among the Theater Comique
peol'o "v Dopr" W aio1 nnd L;IIad hy
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The propoSltlon TO compromise tne
bonded Indebtedness OF buchahan
county at y per cent was oVerwheiin-
lngly defeated ny the people, I'm Inc IN,
debtedness approxlmates Soio'ooo' ana
The county court Will now supihlI 40
per cent proposition
The Bates County Times says: A
cyclone struck the river near the state
line last week, and threw the water out
on the bank, and carrying it some dis
tance away, leaving not a speck OF
water about the spot where it struck.
This is Il new freak in the peculiarly