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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-17
SNEAKING SEMON.
A TonsOrial Artist Who Succeed
ed in Beating His
Benefactors.

About three weeks ago there arrived in
the city barber, who gave his name as
William Semon to several members of the
craft to whom he applied for work. He
was accompanied by woman whom he
represent. to be his wife, and claimed that
he had recently worked in Hannibal and
Moberly. He soon succeeded In finding
EMPLOY ment, being hired temporarily by
Tom Kerhby, an East Sedalia baroer
Semon was utterly penniless when he ar
rived, and was furnished with funds suffi-
cient for his immediate wants by his EN-.
plOyer, who also agreed to board his
new employe and his wife for a nominal
sum until the impecunioss knight Of the
razor could get start. Mrs. Kerhhy,
however. soon sized up the alleged Mrs.
SemOn, and her company not being at all
congenial, and as she failed to carry out
the contract made by her husband that she
should assist in the household work, the
couple were requested to seek other quar-
tiers. They soon succeeded in obtaining
them, renting a room from Mr.. Adam
Wagner, a butcher in the employ of Mr..
j. B. Hickman, and who rents house be-
longing to his employer next door to the
shop. In this room Mr.. and Mrs. Semon
set up housekeeping in small way.
For two or lhree weeks all went we'll,
Semon proving to be good workman. and
had it not been for his evident innate .ras-
cality, he might have done we'll.
Sunday morning, Semon went to work,
abou; 1890 o'clock, but after shaving one
customer seemed 10 grow uneasy, and in a
stealthy manner b gan to pack up his kit
of tools. Succeeding in this, at noon he
applied for his pay, but his employer d.
vining his scheme only paid him por-
ton IF the amount due him for wages. De-
termined to leave. however, SemOn skip.
ped out Sunday afternoon, leaving his
landlord to hold:the bag to the amount of
81 for rent and also to mourn the loss Of
several articleg of wearing apparel be-
longing to himself and wife. Several other
parties in East Sedalia were caught for
small amounts, among wnom are Syray &
Mason, the grocers. Semon failed to leave
his post Office address.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-17
ROUGH ON ROMBAUGH.
The Enterprise Mills and the Res
idence Of Oohn, the Rag
Man, Burned.

Shortly after o'clock last night, the
alarm of Gre was sounded, and the FIRE de-
partment turning out with its usual
promptness, was soon on the
way to the cCnfagration which
proved to be small frame
building on West Main street adjoining
the Enterprise mills. The building being
entirely of frame and the f'e starting on
tie inside, was beyond salvation when the
fire department arrived as was also the
Enterprise mills adjoining, to which the
flames lad quickly communicated.
In q very short time the dwelling house
was q mass of ruins, and although the fire
laddies worked heroically to save the mill,
their efforts were unavailing, as the fire
had gained the ascendency before they
were able to direct q stream upon the
doomed building
Finding that is was impossible to save
the mill quite q number of citiz rs and
several officers began the work of saving
the -four and grain in sacks in the mill.
In lhis effort they we're partially success
full, but the amount of stock saved from
the flames is very slight in comparison to
that destroyed.
The machinery in the mill was mostly
new, and of the very latest pattern.
The mill is valued by B. 3. Rembaugh 4
Co. at $4,000. 1t was insured in the
agency of Carpenter & Rider for $500.
The contents of the dwelling house of
Mr.. Cohn were utterly destroyed, the efforts
OF Mrs. Cohn and the children TO save any
thing proving fruitless. Mr.. Cohn was not
at home when the fire broke out, being out
of the city.
The origin of the Gre is unknown, but
every indication points to it being the work
of IN incendiary.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-17
Killed on the Rail.

The remains of p. s. Holman, accom-
panied by friends. came in on the Lexing-
ton branch train yesterday morning and
were taken to the narrow gauge depot and
shipped to Cole Camp, where the corpse
was met BY relatives and conveyed dis
lance of ten miles for interment in Benton
county.
The deceased resided at Mt. Leonard,
Saline county, and on Friday last started
for Chicago with couple of car loads of
cattle. All progressed well until Rood
house, ILL.,, was reached, when Mr.. Holl-
man, while looking after his stock, was in
some manner thrown under the train and
killed. The body was placed in q hand
some casket and shipped to Benton county,
the old home of the deceased, for burial.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-17
Injured by aPaciflc Train.

A special freight train on the Missouri
Pacific, in charge of Conductor John Gaffney,
with Engineer Gafst on engine No. 8O9,
Sunday evening struck a colored woman
named Harriet Gibson, who was sitting on
the ties At the side of the track near the
Big Blue, few miles east of Kansas City,
apparently asleep. The train was stopped
and the injured woman picked up and
placed in the caboose, where she remained
until the train arrived in Kansas City She
was left in the waiting room of the Grand
avenue depot, and an examination showed
her left arm to be dislocated, while
sne had two cuts on the forehead, Just
above the left eye. She WIS about twenty
five years of age. She had nothing to say
about her adventure, but had much to say
about whisky, as she called repeatedly to
have that beverage brought to h.r.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-17

The first issue of the Nevada Daily
Mail, published by Knott 4 Speed, made
its appearance Monday afternoon, and is
certainly q credit to the thriving young
city in which it il published. 1t is seven.
column folio, excellently printed, and we'll
liberal advertising patronage, and .
glance is sufficient to convince the reader
that the mechanical department 10 in
charge of . gentleman who understands
his business. If the initial number is .
sample of those to fellow. there is no ques-
ton but what the Mail will prove . bon
anna for its publishers and do much to
ward building up the Gem City. Success,
gentlemen, is the wish of the BAzoo.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-17
BERNARD rs BACK.
The Personator Of Isadore Fox
Tries His Crookedness in
Sedalia.

WIN. Bernard, whose shortcomings have
been ventilated pretty thoroughly in the
BAzoo. returned to Sedalia yesterday, after
an absence of several months, during which
time he visited Chicago, Louisville and
Cincinnati, in each of which cities he ell
deavored to make a raise by questionable
means. The last heard Of Bernard by his
former friends here was from Louisville,
KY, where he attempted to make raise
by personating Isadore Fox, formerly res
ident of Sedslia, now engaged in business
at Pittsburg, Pa. The telegraph was
brought into requisition, though, and Ber-
nard was exposed as a fraud, when he al
once left the city, and his wanderings since
then are only a matter of conjecture
When Bernard left Sedalia he gave a
chattel mortgage on his household goods
to Mr.. Leopold Lovinger, by whom he was
formerly employed, and the same has
never been lifted.
Yesterday, as above stated, Bernard re-
turned to this city, but kept secluded as
much as possible, for he had a trick or two
to turn and the knowledge of his presence
in the city would have prevented his car
rying it out.
During the day, however, he set about to
dispose of the goods on which Mr.. Lovin-
ger held q mortgage, and was partially sue
cessful. Before he had fully accomplished
his mission, however, Mr.. Lovinger ascer-
tanned what was going on, and at once had
writ of replevin issued, which stopped
Bernards game most effectually.
Tie affair caused no little talk in He
brew circles, and last night it was init
mated to a BAZoO reporter that parties in
the east, who had been defrauded by Ber-
nsrd, have been telegraphed for and a
warrant will be issued for his arrest in case
they signify their willingness to come west
and prosecute him.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-17

s.s"He that is discontinued in one place
will seldom be happy in another" People
are constantly changing their homes from
east to west and from north to south or
vice versa, in search of healthy state.
II they would learn to be contented, and to
use the celebrated Kidney-Wort when sick,
they would be much better of. The whole
system can be kept in . healthy state BY
this simple but effectual remedy.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-17

Charles Hankinson, q tramp, had . mar
row escape from death yesterday morning
at an early hour. He was too drunk to
know what he:was doing, and laid down BY
the side Of the Pacific track, just east of the
site for the new depot. In his restlessness
he rolled over close to the rail, and threw
one leg and arm over it, unconscious, of
course, of his perilous situation.
A short time thereafter switch engine
No. /. with Jim Hogue at the throttle,
came laundering along on the same track
on which the inebriate was sleeping, but he
moved not. Taking in the situstion at .
glance, Mr.. Hogue reversed the lever and
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-17
LOVE IN THE DEPOT.
Two Families United on a Verv
Short Acquaintance.

A woman arrived here yesterday FORE
noon from the east with seven children in
tow; and at aimOs: the same hour a man
reached the same depot from the north with
five offspring Of various ages and sizes.
She was a widow and he a widower, and
the children had not been spanked more
than once around before there was q sort
of mutual sympathy that begot admira-
ton, and then friendship. One of the
widows boys offered one of the widower's
girls bite OF his fried cake, which was &C.
cepted In the spirit rendered, and a ten
year old boy belonging to the man made
up to the two year old belonging to the
woman, and soon secured the privilege of
wiping its nose and combing its hair.
Presently the widower made bold to iu-
quire:
Madam, am wrong in believing that
you are widow"
81 have been q widow fourteen months
to-day" she ant wered.
"Great Scots! but its just fourteen
months to-day since my Hammer died!
Which way be you goins%
"To Illanoy."
THAT'S just where / am going, too. Did
you promise your husband never to marry
again."
"No."
"And didn't promise my wife, either.
Fact is, believe shall unite as soon as /
find some good woman"
And my children need fathers care"
she sighed, as she pulled little John Henry
off the window sill and bumped him into
seat
The man got up and walked around the
M nd oil IOn& at L.
children. Then he returned and said:
81 suppose you've got few hundred
dollars, belong to some church, can wash
and bake and mend, are of . mild and
forgiving dispositlon?"
''Yes, that's me-"
"Well, I'm kinder religious, even-tem-
pered and am worth about $1,000. Pm
sort O. struck ON you. There's something
about your eyes that reminds me of Ham
ner"
"And yos look like Alonzo around the
mouth, she sighed.
Then he benttOver and whispered some
thing about Chicago and getting married,
and she nodded her head. He gathered his
children under his wing, took them into
corner, and solemnly and impressively OBJ
served:
children, Pm going to get married to
that woman over there and give you q new
mother. Ii any of you is going to kick and
bOohoo about it, begin now, SO that can
tune you down befor the train goes. Henry,
you are the Oldest. Are you going to de-
clare you'll run away, or commit suicide?
Let me know right now, for this is a good
cool place to prance you around with
single"
Henry said he guessed it would be all
right, and the rest of the crowd seemed to
agree, and ten minutes later the widower
and widow sat holding hands and trying to
Eat peanuts, and twelve children were Bit
ing pulling hair and kicking to see who
should have a seat on the steam-heater.
This is kinder the work of heaven!"
the widower as he hitched little
nearer.
"You bet, love!" she replied, as she
'hucked another peanut with her teeth.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-17

One voice all over the land goes up
from mothers, that says, MY daughters
are so feeble and sad, 9Th no strength, all
out of breath and life at the least exertion.
What can we do for them?" The answer
is simple and full of hope. One to four
weeks use of Hop Bitters will make tn m
healthy, rosy, sprighlly aud cheerful.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-17
EDALIA WEEKLY BAZOO TUESDAY, JULY II, 1888

an instant later the engine was standing
still, but only few feet from where Hail.
kin son was reposing. He was dragged of
the rail and aroused from his stupor, but
vas too drunk to navigate. and minute
later WIS again asleep, with the sun shin
ing squarely in his face. Should Hsnkin-
son read this item, he will probably leave
red liquor alone for few days to come.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-17

"Five Dr.s; no end of medidine no
relief. DR.. Benson's Skin Cure has driven
away all eruptions and Pm nearly well"
Ida C. Young, Hamilton, III. Druggists
keep it at 81 per package.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-17

WHY WILL YOU cough when Shi-
loh's Cure will give immediate relief.
Price 10 cents, 40 cents and 81. For sale
by Bard & Miller.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-17

"HACKMETACK," lasting and fra
grant perfume. Price Is and 80 cents.
For sale By Bard B Miller.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-17

"Wells' Health Remover" restores health
and vigor, cures dyspepsia, Impotence,
Sexual Debility. 81.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-17

-Florida has 500 miles of railways in
operation.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-17
From Eminent Wilmer Brinton,
N. D.. Baltimore.

~ HAVE used Oolden'e Lilo.
uid Beef Tonic in my practice, and have
been much gratifed with the result As .
tonic in al cases Of debility, weakness; anemia,
chlorosis, etc, it cannot be surpassed"
(Iake 10 otker.) Of druggists.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-17

-Iowas Girls Reform school has 100
inmates.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-17

To DANISH contagion from garments and
linen, disinfect with 0lenn's Sulphur
Soap"
Pixies Toothache Drops cure in
one minute.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-17

Don't Die in the 1ouse.
Rough on Rats" Clears out rats, mice.
reaches, bed-bugs, flies, ants, moles, chip
hunks, gophers. l5c.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-17

Streams in Colorado are swollen to .
great extent.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-17

happened to discover it while I was alb
seut"
Mr.. Smith was thus enabled to take the
contemplated trip and returned with some-
thing less than fifty pounds of fish.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-17

Spring chickens are only twelve cents
each at Hartwell, Ga.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-10

ed six or seven hundredD it was easy
to reckon population of trentg million
bats for even those portions of the cave
which we viewed that forenoon. Tru-
", the great cities of men are villages,
in population, compared with this bat
town of Texas. And this is but one.
There are scores like it, my friend
thinks; he knows of five other similar
caves, himself. The bats looked to
be exactly like those common in the
Middle States and New England.
Ny friend further informed me that
for several weeks during the winter
season, the bats appear to hibernate,
and do not 90 forth at all. In severe
storms, too, which last number OF
days, very few bats venture out. The
caves, indeed, seem natural resorts Tor
them. No doubt all the caverns here
abouts have been thus occupied for
ages.
Between five and six o'clock that
evening and thenceforward till nearly
ten, my friends mine was "blowlng
off," as he termed it, that is to say,
the enormous colony of bats were is
suing forth on their nightly hunt for
insects. The living black stream be.
gan to pour out of the cave few
minutes after sunset. Sitting on the
bank above, watched it till long after
dark with never ceasing wonder. Ris-
ing in a steady, but swift torrent, from
out the canon, they dashed off across
the prairie in a long, black line, till
they were lost to sight in the dim dis
lance and the twilight.
Coombs assured me that he had Of
ten seen this dense black column ca
reering onward, but still keeping in
close order, when riding across the
country at a distance of twelve or
fourteen miles from the cave. On
setting out at nightfall, the bats move
close to the earth; but on their return
at dawn, they appear to have mounted
to an immense height in the upper
air, whence they dart down vertically
to the mouth of their cave. How
many billions of insects and worms
lose their lives to furnish sustenance
for these bat-cities from evening till
dawn each day, who shall estimate!
Youths Companion.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-10
The Three Great Railroads of Mexico.

Mexico has three great railroads,
the Mexican railway, Mexican Cen
trail and Mexican National. The
Mexican railway, which is called the
English road, is owned in London.
1t was started twenty-five years ago,
and has been running over its entire
line from Vera Cruz to the capitol,
263 miles, since 1878. Including the
branch lines, the total mileage of the
road is 354 miles. In the last fiscal
year a dividend of 81 per cent. was
paid on the common stock. The
president of the road is an American.
The road is standard gauge. The
Mexican Central is controlled by one
of the greatest railroad syndicates of
this country. Trains are running
regularly between Ell Paso and Chi
huahua, distance of 225 miles.
Work is rapidly progressing on the
remaining 400 or 500 miles. Its
American connections are with the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe sys-
tenn. The gauge is standard. The
Mexican Nationalh has about 600 miles
to be completed. It's connections are
with the Denver and Rio Grande
system. The Mexican government
has granted the road a subvention of
$11,270 per mile, which is the same
ratio as the subsidy of the Central,
but as the former is narrow gauge
the concession gives it an important
advantage. The Mexican Southern
railroad has been incorporated i'll New
York by Messrs. Grant, Sage, Gould,
Dillon, Romero and Diaz, but no
rails have been laid. The total
amount of railroad subsidies granted
by the Mexican government is given
in round numbers, at $9O,OOO,OOO.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-10
No North. No South.
Spain.

Life is too short and the resources
and opportunities of this country are
too great for the American people 10 DC
divided among themselves. All north
ern men should be proud OF every
thing southern that reflects credit up
on the country; and southern men
should entertain a similar feeling 10,
ward the north. 1t lisa crying shame
to this country and this people taa'
the southern states of this uniO1
should ever be so misrepresen!eu
through the northern press as to IL,
duce fair-minded men, not only IN ln0
north but in foreign lands, to LOOK up
on the people of the south almost as y
race of barbarians; and it should Ut
equally a shame to the civilization u
the age if there should ever be , lOuna
any Southern man of intelligence
ready to revile northern people as a.
unworthy race. The truth 49, tna'
people and this people are the sam SAM
people with equal virtues anu on 10
vices between them in proporuCn y
their numbers. 1t is all province
bigotry and narrow mindedness lol - !.
American citizen of either section ~ =
assume that personal attributes o. s,' ~
man characterize him as a nOi. .'tb
man because he was bomin the nOl- -,
or as a southern man because DC ~ N
born in the south. And, to say nOr
ing of high patriotic consiaelsst5;s
the great business interests 81. q 4.
country, both north and soa-D' ~.
maud an elevation of AmeHeAn -; -
timent to the unqualified res son s.
of one people, everywhere WILL
boundaries.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-10
Love.

When the French sought to es.
tablish a monarchy in Mexico, a
Mazatlan youth raised a regiment of
boys and waged against such Of the
invaders as appeared in Sinaloa
warfare that told. The young mans
father was of Castilian blood, and
his mother was Mexican. His
name, Corona, soon became famous,
and at the age of twenty five he was
regarded as the Mosby of Mexico.
At the end of the war he was ma.
ior general, the hero of the soldiers
and the idol of Mazatlan society. He
was six feet tall, broard shouldered
handsome and daring. At a ball at
the American Hotel at Mazatlan, he
stumbled over q domestic, knocked
a tray from her hand. STOPPING to
pick up the crockery, General Corona
noticed that the girl was very pretty
and very saucy. She told him her
name was Bette Bowman; that her
mother was San Francisco washer
woman, and that he ought to know
better than to rush headlong down
dark stairway. Gen. Corona made
love to the American girl, and before
leaving for the capital he had learn
ed of her irreproachable though
humble life. Once away, Bettie's
face and pert ways haunted him so
much that he wrote to her, arranging
for marriage by proxy. He remain
ed in Mazatlan, the bride went to a
convent. They were a Thousand
miles apart, and wrote to each other
daily, the husband constatly instruct,
ed the wife in polite ways. President
Juarez, fearing Corona's popularity
would lead the people to give their
vote to the young soldier at an elec'
ton then approaching. concluded to
send him as minister to Madrid, the
most enviable diplomatic post IN the
eyes of all Mexicans. Gen. Corona
took the washerwoman's daughter to
his palace in Madrid, and she is now
regarded as the most brilliant ana
accomplished lady at the court Oh
Spain.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-10

still the women had about one.fou,a,
the best of the race. The twenty.fva
year-post once past, however, man
proud man, began letting out his Links
and woman, lovely women, had ~
draw on the young and Eighty ranks
of those who started early to kesn
up her end of the game. Aftar
this the drafts on the twenty.yearlinrs
grow relatively greater as each ye .,
goes by, until between 70 and go ff.
teen men cannot find a mate of tbei,
own age.
The table is very defective in No.
telling the age of the fair creature who
nursed the declining years of the oc.
togenarian. Was she under twenty
or was she fat, fair and forty? With
this problem unsolved how vain is the
pleasure afforded by all the other. Il
any one thinks these show that men
are more willing to marry as thew
grow older than women, the Herald
would suggest that willingness to
marry and marrying are two different
things. It rather proves that old
men are better able to find younger
women willing to marry them, Young
men very seldom care to venture on
matrimony with women old enough to
be their grandmothers, while young
women, experience shows, seem to
think a great-grandfather's age is no
objection in husband.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-10
Never Too Old to Marry.
From the Chicago Herald.

"In the spring." says the poet, "a
young mans fancy lightly turns to
thoughts of love-" If these thoughts
become more serious as the year grows
older, the license clerk and clergymen
are kept busy in the early summer.
And it is of the marriages, without
which elimination love is In vain,
that the Herald could speak. Rather
it is of the comparative ages at which
the two sexes separately arrive at the
conclusion that it is not well for men
to be alone. The bureau of vital sta
tistics of New York furnishes the fig
ures which afford food or facts for re-
Election. With IL, 065 couples pass
ing under the bureaus eye, the follow
ing curious facts were revealed: