Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1886-04-23
NEWS NOTES.

held in Ray copnty June 5.
Mr.. Morrison thinks the chances
for his tariff bill are improving.
At Clarksville,STex., Henry Rosch
shot ana killed ffed Thomson Sunday
The Texas side of Texarkana has
opened a vigorous war on gamblers.
.Mattoon CHURCH, people are agitat-
ing the Sunday observance question.
John II. Diggs was tried at Dixon,
Mo-, on charge Of murder and ac-
quilted last Saturday.
New York 3 prosecuting officers
say the alderItiahicstFfal will occupy
all summer.
Mayor Hickman, uf Sedalla, who
was charged with oriberys hes been
acquitted. .,...-
Senator I6gafis 4 hies that he ask.
ed a government, position for his
hrother-in-law.
Coal miners of the Mahoning val
ley are going tosmake !, aegeneral de-
rnand for an advance of wages.
Robert Smith, whp. was hanged at
Nicholasville, KY, on Saturday, sold
his body to doctor for S25:
?; At an elections held ut Trenton.
Mo-, the Democrats selected w. o.
Garvin as their choice for post
master.
They say now that. Mrs. Thomp-
son, the. newly appointed postmaster
of Louisville, is q Democrat after all.
According to the crop newsprinted
III the Farmers Review, prospects
are far from brightGin Kansas and
Michigan.
In the Seventeenth Illinois con-
gressional district the fight is grow
ing warm between Eden and Moulton
for the nomination..
At afconference held at Chicago,
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad com.
pany patched up peace with the
complaining switehmen.
Hon. John w. Jones, commls-
sioner of Indian school of Idaho, has
been indicted in Arkansas for larceny
and embezzlcment.
Thomas J. Mullen was arrested in
the Church of the Nativity at New
York for stealing an old Iady's pock.
etbook while prayer. le
"A fancy politician, whose vanity
Is so strong and his principles so
skaky that he cannot act with either
party long and so jumps from one
to the other, /" is the latest description
Of the mugwump, and 1t comes from
Dedharn, Mass.
Some of the, boys in Paris are
talking of organizing brass band.
Uncle Davis Scott. died at his home
in Monroe county on the 4th, aged
81 years and 28 days. A
The engines for the electric light
plant in Hannibal have arrived. The
boilers have not yet arrived, but
will be in place in time for the tow
ers..
In Monroe county NJ. N. James
and ]. d. Hollandsworth ran across
fox's den on Samuel North's farm
last week and caught seven puppies.
they killed three pole-cats the same
day.
Mrs. Louisiana j. Mountjoy.
mother of Elder j. W. Moantjoy,
who, during the past three years re-
sided with her SON, Elder Wiley
Mountioy, at Camden Point; died on
Wednesday. March "a, twelve hours
after her sons death.
Mr.. Reuben Harlow, Of Young's
Creek, Monroe county, is losing
some of his fine cattle. Three Of
his steers, averaging 1,500 pounds,
died q few days ago. The cause is
supposed to be too much dry grass
on the stomach. a
There is another fraud on the road
who processes to cure all eye, ear
and head diseases by means Of spec
tacles with electric attachment for
which he charges $40, the sum OF So
to be paid at the time Of the pur-
chase and the balance when the pa
tient is cured. The spectacles are
worth about 20 cents.
William X. Vanderbilt is building
one of the largest and finest steam
Yachts IN the world-costing.ipto the
hundreds of thousands. VIII Van.
bilt ever astonlsh the world by CIV
ing hundreds of thousands to some
great public charity?
Paris Mercury: John Clark who
lives on North river broughtus fish
curiosity yesterday. While chopping
wood near the river Tuesday he
heard terrible splashing in the va.
ter, when he went to the river bank
and saw large bass floating help.
lessly about. He took g stick and
pulled the fish ashore, and: MAS sur.
prised to find in its mouth good
sized catfish. The. horns Of the lat
ter were protruding through the gills
of the bass. and thus both fish were
curlously fastened togethets in such
a manner that they cannot be separ-