Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-03-10
MISSOURI NEWS.


ton.
Dogs are killing sheep in Galway
county.
Farms for rent are scarce III johnson
county.
The Usage river is to be bridged at
Warsaw.
The copper furnace ut st. Genevieye
is a success.
st. Joseph is to have S3OO,OVo
Union depot.
Greenfield, Dadc county, is to have
an academy.
There are over eighty Polish families
in st. Joseph.
Hogs are dying off with cholera in
Boone county.
Sedalia offers one hundred acres Of
land for the new capital.
Coal at depth of two hundred feet
has been found at Quitman.
The new reservoir of Sedalia has Il
capacity of 100000 gallons.
The taxable wealth Of Bates county
increased $1,0l6,2j0 last year.
Everett James committed suicide
near Arrow Rock, by shooting.
John pcyton, convicted of murder at
st. Louis, las been granted n new trial
Miss Josie Johnson, of st. Louis,
will locate i'm Sedaia for the practice
of law.
Joseph Barclay, the Oldest resident
of jefferson county, died in his nine
tieth year.
Abiel Leonard, of Saline county, re-
Gently bought seven hundred Merino
ewes for 81, 100.
Gould proposes TO have st. Louis IN
railroad connection with the City OF
Mexico this year
A gentleman of Scott county has in
his possession a hogs tusk that meas
ures eleven inches in length.
The court house at Houston, Texas
county, was destroyed by fire last
week. The records were saved.
Clay county will soon be known as
the home of mineral waters. Several
new springs have already been discoy-
cred.
Boone county is asked to subscribe
100000 to the new railroad, the mon-
ev to be paid when the road is COM
pleted.
The governor has appointed Benla-
min III. Stuart collector of Lewis coun-
ty in place of W. ). Richardson, de-
ceased.
Superintendent Shannon has decided
that district school boards cannot
change the text books adopted by the
county.
Work on the Drury college chapel at
Springfield will he begun as soon as the
weather opens Funds to the amount
of $4,000 are now in the bank to meet
the expense of erection.
Weekly land sales for the last six
months in Audrian county have aver
aged from fifteen TO twenty tracts,
Lately eighteen tracts, mostly Wild
unimproved land, sold at from SlO TO
SIC per acre.
A man named Nichols, of Pulaski
county, kept missing corn from his CRIB
lie armed himself and hid himself i'll
his crib one night. Next morning he
was found dead. 1t is supposed the
thief killed him.
The city attorney of Kansas City has
brought suit against lightweight insur-
ance companies for $500 each, for fail
ing to pay their licenses. The total
amount sued for is $4,000, and the
insurance agents think they can beat
the suits.
Henry Brinker of Franklin county
stood up in his wagon to cut OIL one
fork of a tree seven or eight feet from
the ground The cracking of the tree
when it went to fall frightened the
team and Mr.. Brinker was thrown
under the tree and killed.
1t has been rumored that DR.. Laws
will resign the presidency of the state
university on the ground that the legls-
lature has not made sufficiently large
appropriations to the institution. Ihe
students and faculty have passed reso-
lutions asking him not to do so,
Laura Downing, hotel girl at Rich
mond, Ray county, put on mems clothes
the other evening, and went out for a
lark, in the course of which she rudely
iostled a colored man who thercupon
shot her. One shot took effect in lIaura's
shoulder-blade and the other in the
calf of her leg near the knee JOINT.
Five hundred and fifty acres of
"model farm" near Columbia were sol
last week, for $l1,O55, the purchaser
having bought five hundred and sixty
six acres of the same farm a year ago
for $25 per acre, making one thousand
,, two hundred and sixteen acres that he
. now owns at total outlay of S25,2O5.
5 II is one of the most valuable landed
!, estates in the state.
"The State of Missouri was organized
in conformity with the act of congress
passed March 9th, 1920. The consti-
tutional convention met in st. Louis,
! July 10Th, 1920. The state officers as
I sumed their duties September 18th,
/ 1920. March 2, 1921, the admission OF
r the state was further provided for, and
i by proclamation of August 10, 1871,
Missouri was admitted as state. by
act of congress July z, 1886, which
took effect by proclamation, March
q % 1887, the western boundary of the
e state was extended to include the
e "Platte Purchase" area 3,l6S square
|. miles. Present area of the state 65.-
q AGO square miles. The capital of the
e state was at st. Louis until November
o lst 1921, at st. Charles from 1921 to
t October /, 1926, and since the latter
Q date at jefferson City. Its Governors
l. were elected: 1920, Alexander McNair
Q 1924, Frederick Bates-deceased; 1873
d Abraham j. Williams-vice Bates
3 1926. John Miller-vice Bates; 1873,
q John Miller; 1882, Daniel Dunklin-re-
e signed; 1886, Lilburn w. Boggs-vice
$ Dunklin; 1886, Lilburn W. Boggs
9 1910, Thomas Reynolds-died 1914