The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-01-06
BRE AXIS.
Missing Links Along the Wires
Picked Up aud Adjusted.

Picked Up and Adjusted.
james A. Hurry has assumed his duties
as sheriff OF Cass county.
-Neyada is going wild over The success
of her home dramatic club, "rhe Thslians."
The Wabash road has ordered the uui-
forming OF all its employees after May lst,
1885.
Lowry City, No., now gets its mail on a
raft, aud claims it beats stage coaches all
hollow.
Passenger business on the mAin line
has picked up considerably during the past
three days.
Mrs. F r Lucas, OF st. Joe, fell on
the icy sidewalk "Wednesday and fractured
her arm at tbe.wrist.
Cliff Kerby recently shot at Hunts
vile, Mo-, by the Richmond Brothers, is
reported TO be dying.
Joe Dixon while coastipg in S; Joseph,
with some ladies fell from a sled and re-
ceived probably fatal injuries.
Mary A. Reed, the ST. Louis baby
farmer, has been committed TO jail to await
trial in default of 81 900 bail.
The Weaubleau and Usage rivers sre
reported 10 be flooding the country much To
the detriment Of stock and crops.
Miss Sadie Garrison. of HumaDsville,
eloped Friday with fruit tree peddler.
She stands good chance to be a sadder
Garrison.
Thomas Forleu, of Chicots, suffering
from trachoma, and A. J. Clark, OF Avok :,
sick with fever, were admitted TO the hos
pital Friday.
The wife of Conductor Hank Mason
hall on New Years evening presented him
with a bouncing girl. The father was able
to be out yesterday.
Tomorrow twenty-three loyal citizens
of Galloway county will visit Jefferson
city. They all want clsrkships in the
coming legislature.
Mrs. A. NJ. Green fell on the icy side
walk at Pleasant Hill yesterday and suf-
fered a dislocation OF her spine. She In a
precsrious condition.
Patrick O'Rourke. Kansas City den.
izen, went violently insane yesterday and
drove his brothers family, with whom he
lived, into the streets. He was jailed.
Charles Northcrobt, aged % years,
brakeman on the Central branch, was adj
mit,ed to the hospital yesterday. He is
suffering from frscsure of the riehtarm.
Capt. G. w. Deal, of Mt. Leouasd, Was
found dead in his bed last Tuesday. He
was so years of age and one OF the Oldest
and most prominent cit zens of Central Mis-
souri,.
Conductor Woodwork, of the Gulf
road, residing at Pleasant Hill, had his face
badly frozen Friday while walking three
miles against the wind to report an acct
dent to his train.
Louis Perrin, sged Is years, while
gathering coal under cars In the Cairo
Short Line yards in East st. Louis, yester-
day, was run over and his head severed
from bis body.
"A four-weeks-old babe died at Bolivar
Wednesday night while lying between its
parents. Its death was not discovered I'M
Ill they awoke in the morning. The moth
er has gone insane.
st Louis is blessed bith patriots. She
has five republican and six democratic
candidates for mayor already in the field,
with number oil wards yet to hear from,
before the "blue birds come again"
Frances Dougherty, fair but frail
tempted to commit suicide In a cell in the
cslaboose Friday night, by hanging hersei
with the bed clothes. She WAS discovered
in time to save her life.
Ernest White, of the White Hardware
company, Of ST. Louis, died last Tuesday,
aged AZ years. He was q resident OF that
city for 81 years. and among its most lead
ing and eaierprising citizens. His remains
will be buried this afternoon In Bell
fontaine cemetery.
The capital city is the present Mecca
Of the chronic ofice-seeker. Already there
are registered among its arrivals Req. Geo.
w. Plsttenburg, II. Martin Williams,
Hon. Joseph Wood, Hon. Henry Smith,
Fred Osborne, Ed S. Vance and about one
hundred lesser lights.
--Jno. G.. Priest, of St. Louis, is evident
ly sound sleeper, judging from the fol-
lowing from the St. Louis Republican
aMr. Jno. G.. Priest returned home from
the East last night, During his trip he
met Gov. Cleveland and renewed an &C
auaintance made during the early part OF
the campaign. Mr.. Priest came directly from
Washington on the Baltimore & Ohio r. IL
ROAD, and had narrow escape from death
Thursday morning. He was on board the
train which was wrecked near Grafton, w.
Va, in which the engineer, one of the
oldest on the road, and the fireman were
killed. A wedge Of wood driven in the frog
of switch, threw the engine of the track.
Beside, the killing Of the fireman and en-
Rineer, g mail agent was badly hurt, and
injuries less serious were sustained by q
score of Others. Mr. Priest was in rear
sleeper, and slept until awakened by the
trainmen. The wreck was evidently the
~ark Of fran,ns and the lives of the passen-