Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1884-10-03
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AASofy HAinS u&fc IelleESO y long
drought in the Miami valley of Ohio.
The Minister'S Allianceof Sedalia
is trying to close the gambling shops
of that city.
Thieves stole 5000 from the book
store Of Mrs. Haines, at Moherly,
Mo-, last week.
Newcomb, Buchanan & Co., large
liquor dealers, of Louisville, Ky,
made an assignment last week.
Nathan Thayer, very prominent
New York ttock broker, died last
week.
Darwin n. Gardner, of Cleveland,
Ohio, shot his wife and then shot
himself, last week.
During last Saturday there were
AL fresh cases of cholera in Italy,
snd 203 deaths.
The Sedalia Daily Republican is
three weeks old and has 600 subseri-
bers.
overton, Cooper county, No., on
the Missouri river, has shipped over
$4,000 bushels of wheat so far this
season.
The Chinese government has ap-
piled for three thousand square feet
of space at the New Orleans exposi-
tion.
Buffalo dealers have shipped 95,-
600 bushels of wheat to Chicago to
help out shorts on September de-
livery.
The potato crop of New England,
New York and Canada, according to
one thousand reports received, is
considerably below the average.
One Dodson killed ChAs. Tracy, q
farmer, at atSeymour, Webster county,
Mo-, with piece of timber, last
week.
Chas. T. Noland, a lawyer of
Springfield, No., shot Samuel odell,
a hotel-keeper, the latter having
made an attack on the fermer.
In digging we'll at Dennison,
Texas, last week, the workmen struck
gold, and the whole town is excited
over the discovery.
The receipts of wheat at Mime
apolis one day last week was over
10000 bushel, the largest this
season.
Hon. Harry Clay, grandson of
the illustrious Henry Clay, died from
the wounds inflicted by Councilman
Wepler, of Louisville. last week.
At Fordland Station, No., drunk
en- man threw a coal oil lamp at G.
lV. Weston, a saloon keeper. His
clothes caught fire and he was fa-
tally burned.
Owners Of Jersey cattle in Ken
lucky, infected with pleuro-pneumo-
mia, agreed to kill the stock If the
Breeders Association would reim-
hurse them for the loss.
| General Joe Shelby says that farm
ling pays him better than politics, and
that he would not accept the nomIna-
ton for Congress in the Fifth Dis
trict were 1t rendered hlm.
A cow grazing on Lovers Leap,
South Hannibal, Mo-, was hooked by
another COW, and rolled over two
hundred feet into the HI. & st. Joe
shops.
The Missouri and Kansas Drudg-
J. ing Company, with capital stock
of $25, ,ooO-s14, 900 paid up-has
been organized for work on the Mis-
souri, river.
Large shipments are being made
to China from San Francisco in view
of the war clouds that hang over the
Celestial empire. Within one month
2, 200 tons of -four hare gone over.
September corn on the Chicago
market dropped to seyenty-two
cents last week. 1t is currently re-
ported that Jay Gould is behind the
stupendous deal that is squeezing the
shorts so numerically.
} The Greene county (Mo.) court.
/ made an order submitting a PROPOSE
I ton to the voters to compromise the
} outstanding railroad bond debt Of
, the county in new six per cent
bonds. -
The assistant adjutant general Of
the Grand Army of the Republic has
, called the attention of the organlza-
! ton to an article in the rules which
. prevents the organization from being
used for partisan purposes
: Sadie Robinson, 12-year-old girl
: of birmingham, Mass, packed .
7 vaIlse with 100000 worth of dia-
: monds and negotiable bonds belong
i ing TO her mother, and prepared to
il eIope, but was arrested at Boston,