The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-03
Two More Arrests for OBJ
tanning Money Under
False PretenSeS.
A Sensational Suit Which Has
Caused Much Talk in the
Vine Clad.
Cooper County Crops - The
Waters Work-Personal Points
Local Hits, Etc.
Correspondence of the BAzoo.

Two strange men giving their names as
| A. NJ. Stacey and - Blanchard, were ar
re s,ed by the county authorities in Boon
willie late yesterday afternoon. The charge
against them is that they have been OBJ
tanning money from the farmers of Cooper
county under false pretenses. 1t is said
that they represented themselves to be
agents of the Jacksonville Suky Plow Co.,
and pretended to sell plows to
the farmers, taking in pay promissory notes
for the same, but they had no intention OF
delivering The plOws. They were admitted
70 bail and their preliminary examination
will take place next Monday.
SENSATIONAL SUIT.
Mr.. E. c. Ward, of Parsons, Kas,
prominent LAWYER of that city, was in town
Yesterday. taking dispositions In the case OF
George OsgOod VS.. Luella u. OsgOod, which
| is soon to be tried in a circuit court Of
Kansas. The two parties to the suit were
man and wife, having been united In mar
rage in Kansas some years ago, where MIR.
Osgood is a prominent and highly respected
business man. Domestic trouble followed,
however, and the two were divorced. Mrs.
Osgood, accompanied by her mother, Mrs
NJ. +. Snyder, came TO BODnville and
opened q millinery shop on Morgan street,
bringing with them Charles Edgar Os2ood,
the little son OF Mr.. and. Mrs. O>goOd, she
having ben given the custO iy Of the child
until he reaches the age of twelve years,
when, according to Kansas law, his custO-
DIV resorts to the father. Since her resi-
d.nce in Boonville Mrs. Osgood, who is e
c,mely young woman, and seemingly very
respectable, has, for some unaccountable
reason, passed the child off as her brother,
the SON of her mother, and not hers. Mr..
Osgood came to BOonville some time ago
to see the child and obtained permission
from the mother to take him with him to
Parsons, Kansas, promising to bring him
hack by the Fourth of July. 1t seems that
he learned something of Mrs Snider's de-
/, ception i'm palming of the child as her
own, and thinking everything not exactly
correct, sent his lawyer, Mr. +. Z. Ward, to
Boonville this week to take depositions in
a suit Instituted for the possession of the
child. Mr.. Osgood and Mr. Ward both
spoke very highly Of Mrs. Snider and her
daughter, saying that they are respectable
people and have always borne good reputa-
lions. They think, however, that the
child, whose real name is Charles
, Edgar Osgood, and not Snider.
as he has been known here, should
to be given to the father under the circum-
stances. Hence til. suit was brought The
disposition in the case erstwbile the facts We
, have given above besides others OF an even
more Substantial nature. The two ladies,
Mrs. Osgood and her mother, claim that
there was no ulrerior design in allowing
the child to be deceived as to his relation
ship to them. The case has attracted con-
siderable attention in BOOnville, and des-
pite the fact that both parties declare it is
merely a suit for pos, ession Of the boy,
there is a general opinion that there are
other facts in the case which are not desir-
, ed to be made public.
COOPER COUNTY CROPS.
Our farmers are considerably elsted over
T the change in crop prospects during the past
week or ten days. The fine weather this
week has been splendid for the farmers
, and they have made good use Of the op
portuniiy for harvesting. There is no
doubt but that both wheat, and corn crops
| in this county will be average ones
3 II not better than that.
, More agricultural implements
have been sold in Cooper county this year
than ever were before in the same length OF
better acquainted with the relations and
= merits OF the different varieties of thresh-
ers, mowers, binders, reapers, etc, and will
: buy none but the best. For these, however
they will spend money freely.
THE WATERS WORK
The river is falling slowly. 1t has fallen
about three inches day for the last five
days, except Wednesday, when the rains
raised it about four inches. The fisher.
men and persons living on the river banks
have had q regular picnic catching drift.
> wood, IF which immense quantities have
come down the Missouri this spring. Three
hundred cords of wood, the property oil
Perry Daw, esq.,, was washed of the Wing
, Island above town and lost. The flood at
its highest did not quite reach the highest
point attained by the water
during the big rise OF 81,
. but came very close to it. The damsgs
to crops and property of all kinds in the
four counties Of Moniteau, Boone, Howard
and Cooper is estimated at million dol
: lars, though of course the estimate cannot
be very accurate under the circumstances
The Rochport Commercial estimates thu
damage done in that vicinity as more than
) 1t any rise save that of "a. 1t is though
that the worst is over, and the river vii
continue to fall, though slowly, until il
reaches its accustomed limits. The Rive
mills of w H. Morris, in this city ha
been compelled to suspend business unit
the food subsidies, as the mill is rive
mill indeed, being several feet deep il
water, and the engine almost completed!
, covered.
PERSONAL POINTS.
Miss Kate Petty is visiting friends il
Marshall, Mo, this week.
EN-. Reinhsrt. one of our boss drum
}, mers, spent yesterday in Boonville.
Mrs. Kenner, of Henry county, is Wis
iting the family OF Mr.. II. n. Meyers.
MIR. George r. LinRle, OF the Clinton
Democrat, spent several days IN Boonvill