Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-02-03
MISSOURI NEWS.

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North Springfield is to have water
works.
AIoberly is agitating the car shop
question
The new waterworks at st. Joseph
are finished.
Lebanon ships about fifty car loads
of hogs per month.
The Springfield Iron Works have
been sold for $4,000.
st. Louis has more than Il hundred
dealers in lottery tickets.
The new railroad at Cape Girardeau
has been been completed.
Daniel Kinney, aged 70, died near
Moberly, on the l4th inst.
The Parnel defense fund has re.
ceiyed 1925 from Kansas City.
John &. Holiday has been appointed
coal oil inspector for st. Louis.
The saloon license Of Hamilton has
been raised from $500 to 800.
The court house at Hermitage, Hick-
ory county, was destroyed by fire re-
Gently.
-Four hundred cattle are being fat
tened in Green township, Nodaway
county.
J. W. Dickerson, an 1872 veteran,
died at Scdalia on the 18th inst aged
90 years
The total taxable valuation of real
and personal property of Ray county is
S5,229,1Ol.
Some scoundrel stole $l.l0 from the
Huntsville Methodist Sunday school
the other night.
Mack Lee, Il Trenton cOlorcd man,
has applied to Judge Burgess TO he adj
mittcd to the bar.
Greenfield is being deserted business
is moving to the new depot mile from
the former iowa.
Frank Warner was fatally shot in
saloon affray byonc Patterson, at Quit
man, Saturday night.
Sidney, Bogue & Co., of Chicago,
bought 100000 acres of land in Barry
county, on the 18th inst.
The Great Western Type Foundryha
filed papers of Incorporation in the Re-
cOrder's office at Kansas City.
Ore for the smelling works at Kan
sils City is now arriving, and active
business will begin in few days.
Glasgow unanimously voted to fund
its city debt bearing 10 per cent into
bonds bearing Z per cent. interest.
Texas county farmers contemplate
putting in whopping crops of corn,
cotton and oats the coming spring.
Mr.. George Hand, who came TO ITar-
rison county before it was organized,
died last week aged seyenty-fOur years.
J.. W. Russcls tobacco factory and
l.. Shenkels barn at Buclllin, were
destroyed by fire on the 18th inst.
Loss, $4,000.
The residence of Mr.. John George,
near Edinburg, Grundy county, was
destroyed by fire together with all its
contents, last week.
A rough estimate of the extent of
the trade in wild game for st. Louis
for the past year places the total
amount of transaction at $l,OOO,OOO.
\ boy whose name is not given, liy-
ing near Orricl, Ray county, while
carrying "back-log' Slipped and fell,
the log falling upon and killing him.
Miss Nellie Ridenbaugh, of st. Joseph,
was landings revolver Sunday, when
ii was accidentally discharged, the ball
a painful wound in her foot
The county collector of jackson
county reports that for the month of
December the follOwingare the receipts:
current taxes $40, 1871; back taxes
$l,2OS. 50.
The increase in Missouri has been
greater in the last ten years than in
any state east OF the Mississippi, except
Michigan. and greater than any in any
west of that river, except Kansas and
Texas.
The st. Louis WOman's Suffrage as
sOciation have appointed committee
to 90 to jefferson City to ask the legis-
lature to strike out the word "male'
from the constitution and insert the
word "citizen."
The entire receipts of the state fund
for last year were $3,li5,664 The eX-
penditmes for education have been
81, l,l4j.3Sl. The taxable wealth of the
state is $j5S,36l ,i43, and the total in
lebtedness is about 9,260,OO0.
The Platt City Advocate states that
land sales have become quite frequent
around Linkyille. Wm. Link sold his
farm of 80 acres for $50 per acre. Mr..
Ed. Spratt 100 acres to Boss Porter for
$4,000, IIarve IIuffOrd the John Drew
farm $4,000; l.. Shepard 40 acres for
Si00. Land steadily advancing.
After noticing sales of several tracts
of unimproved lands in remote parts of
Clay county at $50 per acre, the Liber-
ty Tribune says: G. w, Spencer sold so
acres of land near Faubian school
house, to Mr. w. IL. Holt, for $25 an
acre. The land was unimproved and
purchased Is months ago for SIS an
acre. Drs. Miller and Allen sold 40
acres of bluff land for 5000, which they
bought for $500 less than six months
lgo.