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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-06-01
NECESSARILY a st. Louis Man.

A st. Louis man went East last
summer aud hunted up the poet Whit
tier. At first he declined to see the
visitor, saying that he was not feeling
strong, but the Missouri man was so
persistent that at last Whittier yielded
and he was admitted. He peunced
upon the poet, and nearly shook his
arm from the socket. He declared
that he adored the poets work-in
fact, read nothing else. He asked
Whittier to write his name few hun
dred times on sheet of note paper,
that he might distribute the auto
graphs among his friends, and it
was all the poet could do to keep the
impetuous visitor from cutting the
buttons from his coat to carry away
as mementos. "And all the time,
said Whittier. pathetically, as he told
his adventure, she called me Whit
taker."-Cleveland Sun and Voice.
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For the Legislature.

In connection with the race tor th
legislature in the Western district {
Pettis county, We see mentioned Il
name of man familiar to MANY o
citizens of Howard. 1t is the nam
of Waddy Thompson, who once s
sided in this county. Mr.. Thomps<
is man of few words, but of gra
energy and enterprise, a life-lol
Democrat, and if sent to the legis
ture We predict would make reed
which his constituents would
proud of; in fact he is just the Nv
that can do more for his county e
people than half dozen ordin
men. If Pettis county wants Il
Ter on the ground he can be found
the person of Mr.. Thompson.-H
ard County Advertiser.
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How He Wrote his story.

Henry Harland, i. G. Stedman's
protege, who writes over the non de
plume "Sidney Luska,' is q literary
enthusiast. At the time he wrote
"As 1t Was Written" he was clerk
in the New York surrogate's office,
with but | tile leisure at his COM
mand. Says a writer in the Boston
Gazette: $50 he used to come home
from his office, go to bed at Z o'clock,
get up at 8 and work, till it was time
to 90 to his duties downtown. His
wife got up with him, made him a
cup of strong coffee and boiled him
an egg, and sat with him while he
wrote. In three weeks he had finish
ed the book, which was written be
tween the unearthly hours of 8 aud
in the morning. Since then he ba
resigned his clerkship, and now de
votes his days to literary work Chi
cago Times.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-06-01
The Gallant knights.

Cleveland, May 26.-At the morning ses-
zion OF the h. of l. convention the report
of the committee on credentials was read
and the new delegates admitted.
Mr.. Powderly In his address discussed
the FIVE subjects of the call, viz: Strikes,
boycotts, southwest trouble, difficulties
with trades unions and tue increasing MEM
bership. lie asked for these careful con
sideratiOn, prudence and discretion with
dispatch. Report Of speech cannot be
made public.
Committees were appointed on the differ
ent subjects to be- considered.
PowpERLY's SENTIMENTS.
In his address Mr.. Powderly said: "The
multiplicity OF strikes that have occurred
in the last six months have greatly lowered
our order 10 the public estimation. Oh
course a great many strikes are attributed
10 us with which we should not De credit
ed, but on the other hand many that are
charged 10 Us We are responsible for"
THE COMMITTEES AT WORK.
After dinner the committees appointed
at the morning session got 10 work IN the
differen hotels and halls, taking care that
the localities should be kept secret
The executive bosrd held session at
the headquarters in the Forest City house
while the boycott committee was at work
in room 9S OF the same hotel.
The committee on strikes found refuge
in the Prospect house, where the case OF
the late lockours were examined into by
the committee.
The committee for distribution OF litera-
ture and documents held its first meeting
in Sloss hall, while the committee on state
of order, the most important OF all, leld III
session in the parlor OF the Weddell house
The delegates to the general assembly
expressed themselves as highly pleased at
the action OF the Cleveland biographies
union in iustructing Its delegates TO the
annual convention 10 vote that the unlor
90 over to the X. OF l.. in a body. Tbs
convention will meet in Pittsburg en Jun,
l, and il is con6dentially asserted that i
will adjourn as a district assembl,
of the Knights of Labor. About
81. 900 members will be added Il
the Knights of Labor BY this action anC
il is claimed that the compOsitors in small
towns where there are no unions vii
swell the number to $4,000. The genera
assembly cannot possibly adjourn befor
Saturday and the business may occupy tn
delegates attention during the first part o
next week.
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THE BODY EXHCNED.
Chronic Catarrh.-I

Chronic CaCdrFHs- HdNt suHeIeu
for wears from chronic catarrh. Six weeks
ago 1 was induced 10 try Ely's Cream Balm.
Relief was in. tantaneous, and continued
use has resulted in an almost complete
Cures. VI. Greene, bookkeeper, Steam
boat Co., Catskill, y. I. :,
Was afflicted with catarrh and cold
in the head. I tried many remedies with
out any beneficial effects, at last l used
Ely's Cream Balm, which efiectually cured
me.-W. II. /. Hillard, Bordentown, y. j.
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Fishers Fast.

J. A. Fisher, who is now doing the agree
able in the Office of the Sweet Springs hotel,
writes 10 a friend in this city: Cant YOU
come up Sunday and spend the day? We
will give you spring chicken and straw
berries. We will have twenty university
students from ST. Louis Saturday, who will
be with us for about six weeks. tits lively
here now and fishing good. Caught nice
mess this morning. Had no meat, and II
wss a ground hog case. This is no fish(er)
story. Come up and i will do all | can to
make it pleasant for you"
As the Sweet Springs train is to be put
on the Lexington branch Sunday next, the
gentleman VINO received the letter says he
will accept Mr.. Fishers invitatiOn,if MOI
this Sunday, then some other Sunday.
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The passenger train from Joplin on
the l.. e. s. division of the Missouri Pa
ci6c, met with slight accident this side
of Webb City yesterday. One Of the
coaches jumped the track. The passengers
were considerably shaken up and Peter
Dale, the news agent, received slight In
juries.
w. r. Higgins, a Missouri Pacific
brakeman, was killed at Leroy junction,
Kas., yesterday, being crushed TO death
while attempting to make coupling on a
car with broken dravhesd. Higgins va
about Is years old and resided at Parsons.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-06-01

aBenson's Capcine Plsstes cured my
lame back in twenty-four houn"-J. u.
C. Pure, sure. 25c.
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Attempted Double Murder,

WHEELING, W. Va, Feb. 13.-About ? O'Clock
yesterday afternoon Maurice Cohen made a delib-
crate and, apparently premeditated attempt TO
murder j. n. Wartben, and, failing in this, at
tempted TO commit suicide, The probabilities are
that this last attempt will eventually prove sue
cessful. Cohen is a gambler and warthen is
member of the grocery firm of warthen & Tie
man, that assigned about ten days ago.
About noon Cohen went into Heges' gun store
and purchased thirty eight caliber British bull
dog revolver and had il loaded. He was observed
hanging about the grocery store, and was in such
a Joyial mood that several of his friends
thought he must have been drink
ing. About the hour named Warthen
came down.street. Cohen met him, and after
street and drank beer, chatting pleasantly. Mean
time Cohen suggested that they sit down, which
they did. Werthen was asked 10 smoke but de
cllned- Cohen, reaching in an inner pocket a. if
Tor cigar, drew his revolver and leveling it
across the table ct Warthen's breast fired The
ball fortunately struck large overcOst button
and glanced Off The garment was badly cut, but
Warthen was uninjured. Cohen was about TO FIRE
again, when Warthen dashed mp stairs, followed
by the berkeeper. Cohen then placed the revolver
70 his head and fired, the ball entering just below
the temple He is not expected TO live. Occurring
as il did in public place, and when the street
WIS crowded, the shooting created great excite
ment,
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A DastardlY Deed
Special to the Sentinel.

Special TO the Sentinel.
WINDSOR, III Feb. l3.-Miss Georgia Aldridge,
highly respectable yonng lady OF this village was
assaulted, at home, while she was alone, last
evening, by an unknown scoundrel. His evident
desire was 10 ravish her person In this he was
foiled, but he was bound on fendish work for
having gagged her with a eorn-eOb thrust down
her throat, and binding her hands, he tore he r
apron into strips and using them as a halter,
hung her TO cherry tree in the yard. Her feet
were raised from the ground and she was left
hanging TO the tree, dead as he supposed He
tnen entered the house and wrote a note leaving
II in the room. IL ives addessed TO the girls
father, and said
odd Dr. Aldridge, en- even with YOU now.
have waited a long time, but now guess the ac-
count is square. did not kill your daughter; she
was scared to death When ] lifted her up she
was dead. lou need not look for me; / will be
far away"
Accidentally, the young lady's brother, s H.
Aldridge, who was passing by 70 his own home
few blocks farther on: stopped at his fathers
house on an GRAND. He ran against his sisters
body dangling frcm the cherry tree,
and carried it fnIo the house Aithonsb it was was
cold, the presence OF a feeble pulse assured him
that life was not extinct. Aid was quickly called,
but it was only after two hours active applica-
ton OF restoratiyes that she showed signs of re-
viving. She regained consciousness but for a
few moments, and then she drops OFF into
stupor betwixt life and death This has been her
history all day in that particular. The present
affair reSem bles the famous Emma Bond case. She
has yet been unable to give any connected &C.
count of the assault Could she but identify the
guilty man justice would soon be melted out to him
could he be found. Windsor has been afiame with
Indignation. There is an anti-horse thief organi-
zation, which is kind OF local Vigilance Com.
mittee. 1t has called a meeting tonight to con-
slider the outrage. No arrests have been made
Suspicion points strongly toward a Windsor man,
but the evidence against him is purely of cir
cumstantial nature,
To the Associated Press:
CHICAGO, Feb. 13-The Evening Journals Mat
toon, Ill, special says: Last night at 10 O'Clock,
at Windsor, Ill, Miss Georgia Aldridge narrowly
escaped hanging at the hands of unknown par
ties. She was alone in the house at the time and
stepped out of doors, when she was seized, her
hands and feet weighted down with bricks, and
she was then hung up TO die. She was discovered
a few minutes afterwards by her brother.
who came in the back way by chance. Life was al
most extinct. She can give no account Of the af-
fair, being so overcome by the shock. She can
only say, 'Oh. that man, that mani' note was
found saying that ii was done TO get even with
her father, DR.. Aldridge. Miss Georgia is highly
respected young lady, aged twenty-four. No elew
10 the perpetrators Of the foul deed has yet been
found. Intense excitement prevails at Windsor,
and if the guilty party is found be will be dealt
with in q summary manner.
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COMM ERCIAL,

Business in staple dry goods has improved
somewhat and the volume of sales will compare
favorably with corresponding week OF last year.
0ut-of-tOwn buyers are coming in for fresh sup
plies, but is still rather early 10 look for many
customers and trade is largely confined to film g
orders received by mail. The grocery market is
very quiet and no change in prices noted. The
movement in produce yesterday was about the
usual character, fairly active demand being re-
ported. in the butter market quiet tone pre-
vailed. and the feeling among holders was easier.
Owing to light receipts eggs have advanced to
1sc and the market ruled quiet and steady. A
fair activity prevailed in the drug market Staples
sold quite freely, but no important changes in
prices have occurred.
GRAIN.
Wheat-About the same as close of last week.
Light arrivals of choice stock will find ready pur-
chaseIs at quotations aud supply is not in excess
of demands. Futures steady with very little
desire 10 trade. Markets elsewhere are 14@1ze
lower.
Corn-All grades are firm under very heavy
receipts and demand for cash deliveries continue
active with liberal offerings. Futures quiet.
Markets at other points are 1sa14c lower.
Oats-FiTm. scarce and active Receipts fair.
Flour, Grain and Hay.
Flour-Pstents, 81 S595 90; extra fancy, 81 S09
IS: fancy, 81 1904 2j; choice s. 7O@s ST. family,
So 25@S 30; treble extra, g 00@3 IS double extra
g 75g2 90; extra, 81 5O92 65; superfne, 81 3O9
2-45; fne 81 1912 25.
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CHICAGO MARKETS.
ssRheat Nervous, Corn strong and the Out
look for Pork Encouraging.
special to the sentipeI

special TO the SentineI.
CHICAGO, Feb. I3.-Tbe wheat maTke! on Change
This week has been an exceedingly nervous deal
Outside news has been scarce, and the majority
OF reports have been contTadicted almost as soon
as pat in circulation. Hence the range OF prices
has been narrow, end the close is not materially
different from the figures ruling seven days ago.
Trade throughout has lacked SNAP and vitality,
the,xarm weather apparently enervatlng every
body On the early days the market dropped and
only fair, and the crowd voted that il had been
worse than discounted. The warm, Wet wealth
made the bears think and caused the bulls
TO think OF planting, winch, Win pursuing ware
houses, was not q pleasant prospect. Reem Jones
and George Eldridge sold freely, apparently being
desiroos OF peddling ont ell they could 10 the
son was the principal buyer, and he did not seem
10 want ouch Prices slowly eased of, but there
were many bitches and sudden stops. Thaws at
this season are quite likely to be followed by Il
sudden freeze. and fears OF this made the smaller
shorts cautious Even if no damage resulted,
there twou1d De great deal OF talk, Wnlch
amounts TO the same thing in Oulging the deal.
After decline, too, the big bears Withdrew
and values picked I'D in the same slow sluggish
fashion which characterized the decline. Holders
talked of extensive damage 70 the Australian crop
extensive injury to the Indian crop by flood aud
q decrease OF 0OO, geo bushels IN the amount on
ocean passage. Later dispatches emphatieally de
MED the two former stories. and official figures
amount afoat GOSSIP, however, said that clique
headed by Lester, were working on the ''l0ng"
side, and that exporters we're buying May aud
later months, both here and at New York. This
was Sufficient TO close values fairly steady. All
the prayers of the bulls are for zero
weather and attendant crop seares- The lesiti-
mate situation, however, is by no means q weak
one. Receipts in the Northwest have not in
creased 10 any alarming extent. and dealers IN a
position to know estimate that not over one-sixth
of the crop is now lett in first hands Stocks in
sight are on The decrease, and the indications are
that the United Kingdom will be forced 20 draw
supplies from this country in the near future.
Germ is very strong. influenced largely by the
corner" which David DAVIS u Co are supposed
to be running at New York All the contract
corn is being rushed through to the seaboard 70
hll February sales Sales here for May are largely
against ''cribbed" corn.
Pork is enigmateal but the general feeling ia
vors purchasers. Country holders have been well
shaken out, and with receipts Of hogs moderate,
the outlook is encouraging,
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Elsewhere.

BALTIMORE Feb. l5.-Cattle-Market slow;
@ Dsss S ofdnaT ryt s. @S5 s san most 81
the sales were at So 25@5 Receipts, $40 head;
sales, 741 head.
Hogs-Light supply and fair demand Receipts,
1900 head quotations, 50 25@6.
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts, ,727 head sheep,
g 50@5 50: lambs, g. 50@j 75
EAST LIBERTY, Feb. Observation-Disclosures, 1,1l6
head: shipments ,1O2 head. Market very dull at
last weeks prices. Forty-fve cars OF cattle were
shipped to New York.
head. Market active; Philadelphia, "a lO@i 20;
Workers, 81 2O@4 SO: skips, sig4 p. Twenty-Five
cars of hogs were shipped to New York.
Sbeep-Receipts, 1900 head; shipments, $500
head Market active on good, slow on common.
NEW Y0Rk, Feb. Observation-Disclosures includ-
ing Az carloads ior expectation, were 200 head,
equal TO the demand and a clearance was quickly
made; common to good steers sold az 81 50a5 80
do. So 30@6 80; cows, bulls etc, at s. 5Ogi 30.
Sheep-Receipts, $500, making 25.4OO for the
week Firmer and higher and al sold, including
poor to choice sheep Al 81 2O@5 so per 100 lbs:
extra do. at $500 . and common TO best lambs, s.
az So
week steady at 81 1e@4 40 per 100 lbs.
KANSAS CITY, Feb. lj.-The Live Stock Indica-
Cattie-Receipts, SIS head; shipments, none
Light shipping and butchers shade higher
best feeders steady exporters s. 1905 80; good 10
choice shipping, 81 60@5 common to medium,
s4a4 50; stoekers and feeders, s. 49, 20; COWS,
& 25@3 %.
HOgs-Rece1pts, 500 Dead, shipments none.
Market firm: choice &c higher: others steady:
good to choice, si@4 2O common to medium,
g 60@3 90.
gheep-Receipts, 69l head; shipments none.
Market quiet: good TO choice, s. 759S 80; common
to medium, S2@2 90.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. l5.-Nstional stock Yards Cat
tle-Receipts, 1900 head shipments, 900 head
Market firm and higher; choice shipping and ex-
ports, 81 sO@5 80; common 10 medium ship
pers, S. s0@4 90: butchers steers, s. 6594 10;
cows and heiers, 81 25@S 50; stockers and feeders
S3@4 IS.
Hogs-Receipts 5000 head; shipments, 1000
head. Market opened active and l0c higher;
butchers and choice heavy, 81 3O94 60; mixed
and packing. sIg4 p; light, So 65@9 TO- closing
easy.
sheep-Receipts, 4Ss head; shipments, 200
head. Market iirm and unchanged.
CHICAGO. Feb. 13.-The Drovers' Journal re
ports: 49, a-.t
Csttle-Receipts, 5000 head; shipments, 1900
head. Market active, 5fa1ec higher: shipping
steers, $50 500 lbs, 50 60a5 70 stoczers and
feeders, & 75@a %; cows, bulls and mixed,
81 GOAL. 7,3s
Hoes-Receipts. 10000 head; shipments, COCO
head. Market fairly active and unchanged rough
and mixed, 81 S0e44 e 4 pacsing and shipping.
"a zs41 IS; Light " soe4 70 slips Y 2q9S N
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sheep11Eeceipe, 400 aead shipments loo
s265 IS; Western f294 So; Texans & 50es3 50;
lam BIS, So 25a5 20 per ewt
BUFFALO. Feb. l5.-CattIe- Receipts. $50 head.
Market strong with good demand; common TO
fair &4@z TO; fair TO choice, 81 65@5 %; extra
steers, s. 35@5 65: canning and butchering grades
weak at 81 23es3 u.s. oxen dull common to fair,
y 25@4; extra, 81 50; stockers and feeders quiet at
g 75e13 IS; yeals steady at e5a6.
sheep-Receipts, 600 head. Market active,
firm ana higher; common TO fair, 90 75GS4 p; good
to choice, 81 5O95; choice to extra, s. Sab 50;
lambs good 10 choice, s. 5Ota6
Bogs-Receipts GAO head Market strong and
higher; pigs, s. 30es4 light mixed, "a 1904 20;
selected Workers, s. O@4 %; selected medium
weights, 81 1904 IS; choice heavy, 81 J094 65 ex-
ira, - 70; selected heavy ends, S4@f IS.
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Eastern Exchanges.

MEMPHIS, Feb. 15.-New York exchange selling
al &c premium.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 15.-Bsnk clearings, s2,l6S,-
64i; balances, So, 95S.
PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 15.-Bank clesrings to-
day, q, 066,647; balances, s97l,3&.
NEW YORK, Feb. 15.-Cleari1g house statement:
Exchanges, Sis, Dos, 29S; balances, si,65O506.
ST. LOUIS. Feb. 15.-Bank clesrings, 81, 7O1, $50
balances, SI96,ls9. Exchange on New York, strong
at 5oCd75c premium.
BOSTON, Feb. 15-CleaTing house statement for
to-day Exchanges $40 ,92 balances, sl,65l $40;
money, Ia per cent; exchange on New YORK,
10 TO 121zc premium.
CHICAGO,'Feb. 15.-Associated bank clearings
to-day were $685., GOO. A moderate inquiry for
New York exchange put quotations up TO par.
Money rates still hold at 5G6 per cent on time
and 6G7 per cent on demand. The supply is re-
DOIted ample
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A Crime Revealed

sYRACUsE. ". Y, Feb. 1G-0n the morning of
January 81 Angelina Converse. wife Of David Con-
verse, farmer who lives about three miles south
west OF Rose, Wayne County, was found dead in
her bed. Heart disease was said 10 be the cause
of her death, and the body was buried. Reports
Of foul play were circulated in the neighborhOOd
until Coroner Livingstone. OF Clyde, was asked TO
maze an investigation. Yesterday he caused the
body 10 be exhumed, and ordered DIR. r. II. Cook
10 make pOst-mortem examination, which
showed that four of the w0man's ribs were broken
oEs Of them piercing the right lung. The neigh
bofs say that Mr.. and Mrs Converse were intoxi-
Gated on the night she died, and, also, that they
had n bitter quarrel after arriving home fro n
Clyde Inc case has caused such excitement that
n thorough investigation is demanded The Cor
Oner enpenelied jury, and after they had
viewed The body, COnTerse was arrested.
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suit for Betrayal.

COLUMBIA, Tenn, Feb. 13.-Suit has been en-
tered by counsel Tor Miss Annie Nicholson
against William Bailey, in the Circuit Court for
Maury County, claiming $4,000 damages for a.
legged betrayal. All the persons interested are
prominently connected and the case is attracting
much attention. The plaintiff is granddaughter
Of The late Chief Justice Nicholson, Of the SUI
preme Court, and beautiful and highly accom-
plisbed girl.
Some years ago her father removed to the West,
and her mother having died, she was left penni-
less and dependent on relatives. In the hope OF
rendering herself independent she secured q
place as teacher and boarded in the family OF
Bailey, who is wealthy married man and has
hitherto borne an excellent character. While at
his house Miss Nicholson alleges she was betrayed
Saturday she gave birth TO child, which was
still born Bailey denies his guilt, but IL is said
that letters will be produced showing his init
macy with the girl. He made offers to com.
promise the case, but they were refused.
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Receipts-Hogs, $1,000 head.
Car Lots-Wheat, 81; corn, 3l2; oats, 159.

kNILIsH GRAIN TRADE REVIEW.
LONDON, Feb. 15.-The Mark Lane Express,
in its weekly review of the British grain trade,
says: at is too early to make forecast of the
crops. In the meantime English .wheats are sell
ing at much cheaper rates than foreign wbeats
can be supplied. The sales OF English wheat dur
ing the past'week were 69,972 quarters, Dos Sd,
against IS S4 quarters at 32s l0d during the same
week last year. Flour is freely supplied, and IN
der bids foreign wbeats are more active, but the
market is firm. The American option is the curse
OF the world and paralyzes the business az London
and LIVERPOOL The trade in cargOes has been
sale. Two cargoes were Withdrawn and two re
main. both American. At to-day's market there
barley were Sd dearer. Beans and peas were Cd
dearer.