The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-08-24
OF GENERAL INTEREST


recently settled at Los Angeles, Cal.
Cincinnati policemen who served
in the war will wear on their sleeve .
red tape, to distinguish the soldier ele-
ment of the force.
1t is said that boots for dogs with
sore feet are sold in New York. That
il nothing. We have seen booted dogs
by the hundreds. as far back as we can
remember.-Boston Transcript.
The heirs of an estate 1.-TWO hun.
dred thousand dollars) in Mount Hol-
ly. n. j.. have recently been paid on
settlement that has been reached after
chsncery suit of thirty years.-E Y.
Sam
AT one point on the Cascade branch
of the Northern Pacific the railroad de-
scribes horseshoe which is two and a
quarter miles, and only fifteen hun
dred fee. across the hill at the open
end of it.
The newspapers have so materially
differed in the naming of PATHS castle
residence in Wales that the diva has
now changed the name to Lianfairpwll-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES yrnbyllgoge-
acknowledgement.
The Pittsburgh Chronicle tells how
an engineer of q steam fire-engine de-
clined to allow the machine to 90 to .
fire because, As he explained. 81 spent
three hours Yesterday cleaning il up
and shining the brass-work."
An Indian chief who is visiting in
Washington at Government expense
was introduced to Senator recently
who has a very bald head. The chief
looked at him for some moments with
interest. UGH Where You fight
Injun some time?"-N. Y. sun.
A boy who ran away from his
adopted mother in st. Thomas, eight
cen wears ago. was unheard of by her.
the Toronto Globe says, until he
walked into her house the other day "a
a guest. He was an ordained minister.
attending a conference held in that
city.
As an instance of honesty the man.
ager of the street railway company
shows a letter received with five cents
inclosed Ito take the place of one put
into q box on 1T. Catherine street west.
on "Wednesday last. the piece having
two holes in il and believed to be bad. "
Montreal Witness.
A Kingston (N. j. lawyer ap-
peared before the board of education
| of that city few DAYS ago. and asked
that q one thousand dollars as
sessment be- taken from the prop
erty of neighbor and put upon
his own lot. This was such an
extraordinary request that the members
Of the board were nearly struck speech
less. Brooklyn Union.
Farmer Daniel WsdswOrth. OF
Wolcott. n. Y, has established new
branch of musical education. Instead
of making the hills resound with the
musical echoes of "P-o-o-e-e. when be
wishes to call his hogs. he merely
whistles Yankee Doodle" and the
| herd comes in on the run. The in
tense Americanism of the porkers is
shswn by the fact that they pay no At
tentiOn 10 any other tune.
William l.. Noyes and James B.
| Mudgett, farmers of Richfield, VT,
quarreled over the ownership of par
eel of grain, and NOyes punched Mud
gett with pitchfork, making a slight
wound. A doctor was called. and when
Noyes saw him 90 TO Mudgett's house
he became very much excited, and say
ing to his wife, II will kill myself,
went TO the barn and shot himself three
times. dying almost instantly.
The Victoria (B. CO. Col0nist, in
its report of the fire which des-
troyed the city of Vancouver. says:
desperate whites and thieving Indians
| looted the goods that had escaped the
flames. In the evening barrels of
liquor were opened, and the crowd of
hOodlums enacted q scene that would
do credit to the damned. They fought,
they blasphemed. and carried on their
unholy revels far into the night"
Herman Reedle was digging q well
at McAlister. /. t. He arranged q
charge for blasting, lighted the fuse,
and was hoisted towards the surface
forty feet above. When half way up
the rope broke, and he fell to the bot
tom. He tried to grasp and extinguish
the fuse, but was too late. The charge
| exploded, Herman was b.own nearly TO
the top of the well. and fell back dead
with every bone in his body broken.
In the Court of Common Pleas.
New York City, Chief Justice Lsrre-
more dismissed the complaint Of
Patrick Clark against Ransom Parker,
Jr., brought to recover fifty thousand
dollars for injuries received while as
sisting in unloading an ice barge. The
plaintiffs neck was broken. and he lay
in Bellevue Hospital two years. The
peculiarly of the case made him the
theme of lectures at the time by several
Of the doctors in attendance.-N Y
Sun.
"A baseball club of Manchester, N.
H., returned home recently after hsv-
ing won a victory, and q local paper
reports that the members "were re-
ceived with q demonstration that sur.
passed any thing of the kind ever wit
n "a