Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-07-07
MISSOURI NEWS.

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Hannibal is sorely afflicted with bur
glars.
4 Exeter has to dig130 feet for its sup
ply of water.
Several cases of sunstroke are report
ed from st. Louis.
King, the st. Louis murderer, is TO
be hanged July Is.
The Washington hospital has been
removed to Sedalia.
Greene county gets S7,036.1i from
tie state school fund.
A young married woman named An
DIRE committed suicide near Maryville.
Nose Myers escaped from the Han.
nibal Jail but was recaptured near West
Quincy.
Oscar Quist was run over and killed
by the cars near Blue Springs, jackson
county.
A horse thief named Osborne was
sentenced to two years in prison at
Carriage.
A brace of sickle grinder sharpers are
swindling farmers in the vicinity of
Hannibal.
The directors of the Joplin fair asso-
citation contemplate holding an exhibi-
tiOn in October
The body of man was found in the
Missouri river at Lexington, bearing
marks of violence.
a company with $4,000 capital has
been organized. to start a paper box
factory at Louisiana.
Governor Crittenden has appointed
Turner A. Gill, of Kansas City, success
or TO Judge WoOdson,
The storage capacity in the st. Louis
elevator will soon be increased to
about 100000 bushels.
Antoine WOlty, of st. Joseph, wear
led by domestic troubles, shot and
mortalIy wounded himself.
Fred Cole is under arrest at Fulton
on a charge of forging the name of I.
b. Nesbit to a check for $3j.
Every gambling-house in st. Louis
has been closed under the state law
making the business felony.
Hon. Samuel II. Woodson, Judge of
the circuit court of Jackson county,
died at Independence, Thursday last.
General ]. w. Davidson, of the
United States army, who died at st.
Paul recently, was buried at st. Louis.
On Monday, of last week, G. A.
Purdy, of the San Francisco line at
Pierce City, sold 10000 acres of land.
The upper house of the st. Louis
municipal assembly has killed all the
elevated railroad bills introduced into
that body.
Dave Browne, alias Tim O'Brien, a
noted cattle thief, was arrested at
Sedalia by the sheriff of Cherokee
county, Kas.
Three glass works and one rolling
mill shut down at st. Louis on account
of heat, and will not resume until
the weather becomes cooler.
A wind storm struck Kansas City
Wednesday night demollshing a livery
stable, breaking windows and blowing
things around promiscuously.
David Evans, who attempted to
commit rape on a nine-year old
daughter Of Casper Jansen, Clay
county farmer, fled to Kansas City,
where he was arrested.
James Shulicld, murderer, who
recently escaped from Charleston, and
for whose capture Il reward of $500
was offered, was nabbed by detective
Ragsdale, near Chester, ILL.,
The fish law authorizes any person
TO destroy any boat, seine, net or other
contrivances that atmay be used in catch
ing fish contrary to law, and one-half
of all fines or penalties is given to the
inlOrmer.
A body found in the river at Kansas
City, last week, has been identified as
That of Rev. s. NJ. Stray, of Warren
county, New York, who had been cited
10 answer charge of debauching ladies
m his congregation.
The Talbot boys, who were to have
been hung on June "A, were removed
from Nodaway county to St. Joseph
for safe keeping, where they will be
Kept most of the time until July q,
he time set for their execution.
Says the Purifier: ave understand Il
company has been organized and have
purchased the Biggerstaff land on which
he Plattsburg Mineral Springs is loca-
ed. The new organization will CO.
operate with the old spring companyin
erecting bath houses, identifying the
grounds and making other desirable
st. Louis has tried her experiment
)f sending four barges of corn to New
Orleans in June, and the inspectors at
.he latter city report it hot and out of
condition. The result is considered
Of such importance that the chief grain
Inspector at st. Louis has been sent
lown to make thorough examination
)f the damaged cargoes.