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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-26
A Crazy Engineer.

Decatur, ILL.,, Oct. 21-This morning at
l o'clock, Wesley Sauer, night engineer at
Hatfield & Co.'S Touring mill, went sud-
denly crazy, shut off the steam and with
two revolvers and a Ratchet he drove all
the employees out OF the mill and
barricaded the doors and win
dows. He imagined that somebody
would enter and destroy the property. 1t
took four police officers and dozen men
to outwit him and capture the lunatic who
was handcuffed and borne struggling to
the county Jail. He made desperate at
tempt to shoot II. III. Stafford, the day en-
gineer. Sauer is suffering from nervous
prostratiOn and is violent tonight. He
NAV be sent to jacksonville.
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Georges Cab.

New York, Oct. 21.-At a meeting here
to-day, composed mostly of woTkingmen
and clerks, Henry George on being intro
duced said | am glad to see such large
crowd gathered here and glad to have the
working classes for me, not personally but
as representing principal and against the
politicians that have so long ruled in this
city, Mr.. George went on to say that the
movement would show that the masses
could have political power when they
were with it. find fault with no man be-
cause he is rich, if he can make one mil
lion or five million without iniuring any
one let him go on and make it, bat we
want the natural rights of every man pro-
tected. Speeches were made by David
Healy and others.
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Arizona aud the Apaches.

Washington, Oct. 2l.-Hon. C. Myer
Zulick, governor OF Arizona, in his annual
report to the secretary of the interio
refers briefly to the termination of the
Apache troubles in that territory and saws
with the removal of the renegades, she
welcomes the dawn OF a new day. Her
rapid development will now 60 on without
check or drawback. The governor, refer
ring to the San Carlos Indian reservation.
saws at contains $3.50 square miles or
2,52S, 900 acres of land, well watered and
we'll timbered, the most of which is as
good as any agricultural land IN this terri
tory. Upon this tract are gathered together
OF Yuma, Torlo, and White mountain
Apaches about $500 souls. so that each
Indian, male and female, young and old.
holds over 700 acres of land. these Indians
L am told, are nearly self supporting. 1t
would be well for congress to parcel out
the land, giving TO each head OF a family
$40 acres, or if this is deemed premature,
then congress should take means to reduce
this reservation to at least half of its pres
ent limits.
The Governor requests that congress be
asked to demonstrate by scientific survey
and practical test the feasibility of arte-
sian wells for giving a needed supply of
water and adds:
around Denver a we'll irrigates from
forty 10 fifty acres. If half as good results
could be obtained in Arazona, we could
produce wine, raisins, fruits, nuts and
olives enough to support in affiuence q /
population of 100000 of people"
The Governor in conclusion predicts that
The Apaches removed, the territory will
double ia population and resources within
he next two years.
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LAST RITES.
All That Was Mortal of w. E.
Travis Tenderly Laid to
Rest Yesterday.

The funeral of w. E. Travis, late
conductor on the NJ, K. & T., took
place yesterday afternoon from Cal
vary Episcopal church. The edifce
was filled with friends of the dead
man, and the ceremonies, according
to the ritual of the Knights of Pyth-
las, were exceedingly impressive. The
floral offerings were very beautiful.
particularly the Fleur De Lis, No. /
Uniform rank emblem, which was
formed of white carnations, tube roses
and white roses, bearing across the
face the name as given above. The
choir sang several beautiful selections,
including the hymns "Asleep In
Jesus" and "Nearer, my God, to
Thee" Rev. Wilkins read the
scriptural lesson from the 18th
chapter of First Corinthians,
10Th verse, beginning: "But
now has Christ risen from the dead |
and became the first fruits of them
that Sleep" The lesson and remarks
of the reverend gentleman were list
ened to with the most careful atten.
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ton and many an eve dropped a tear
of regret as the speaker alluded to the
kindly attributes of the sleeper. The
pail bearers included Messrs. James
Doyle, John Mcconnell, Fred
Liphard and Lyman, Hall.
from the order of railway conductors,
John belong, ]. A. Davis and w.
81. Hodgins from No. q subornate
lodge, knights of Pythias. After
church services the procession formed
as follows
Band.
Uniform Rank, Sedalia and Queen
City Lodges, Knights of Pythias.
Hearse.
Minister in carriage-pall bearers
in carriage.
Family relatives and friends.
The cortege was long one and af-
ter reaching the cemetery the beauti-
full services of the Knights of Pythias
were used at the interment and all
that was mortal of w. E. Travis,
kind husband and father, kind and
Loyal friend and good citizen, were
eft until time shall be no more.
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Crushed to Death.

Fulton, No., Oct. pa fatal accident
occurred about four miles northeast of Full
ton to-day, about II o'clock, in which
Oscar Long lost his life. His body was
found by Benjamin Byers about l o'clock,
and from Its condition it is supposed he
had been dead an hour. Mr..
Long was a single man, of about 26
years of age, and had been in the county
but few months. To-day he was engaged
in cutting ties. He had felled tree and
cut off the first tie stock, when the top of
the tree was severed from its body and by
some unknown cause, was suddenly thrown
around several feet, catching Mr.. Long
between the treetop and a large rock.
crushing his head and killing him
instantly.
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BACON MONTGOMERY.
He Is Accidently Shot One Hun.
dred Miles From Ciyili-
cation.
The Accident Occurred i'm Old
Mexico Three Days Ago.
He Was Shot BY His Own Gun
and Dies on Foreign Soil.

st. Joseph, No., Oct. 1S.-[Special. i
This afternoon Capt. Abe Furst received a
private telegram from Maria, Tex, stating
that Gen. Bacon Montgomery was killed al
Lamula, state of chihuahua, old Mexico.
by the accidental discharge of his own
shotgun. No further particulars have
been received.
The General had been operating silver
mine in conjunction with Captain Furst,
Major Jno. n. Edwards and Harvey Plat
tenburg, in Preside county, Texas, for the
past year. Lately he had opened another
mine on the Concho river, in old Mexico
and was on his way thith-
er when The accident occurred.
Lamula is thirty-6ve miles from
the Rio Grande, and forty-fve miles from
his old mine. 1t is watering station
and the last one for fifty miles in the dir
ection Of the Concho mine. The suppos-
ition IS he had stopped there to camp, as
is one hundred miles distant from
Maria, the nearest telegraph station. The
accident must have happened three days
ago. Capt. Furst and Mrs. Jno. Edwards
broke the terrible news to Mrs. General
and the children, who are
overwhelmed with grief Harvey Platten-
burg who was here, arranging for the
purchase af stump mill, started tonight
ior the scene of the disaster.
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His Datlle.
Henry County Democrat.

The death of Bacon Montgomery
recorded elsewhere in our telegrap C
columns sad blow to journalism
in Central Missouri. General Mont.
gOmery begun a newspaper in Georg,
town, Pettis county, Mo-, in 1859,
and after serving through the war, he
begun again on the Sedalia Bszoo,
serving as reporter on that paper and
the Democrat until about three yea 8
ago. The prOprietors of this paper
knew him intimately. He was en-
phaticaily the best news gatherer
Sedalia ever had.
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Advancing the Women.

Louisville, ky., Oct. 2I.-The second
days session of the national association
for the advancement of women, was held
at the Warren Memorial church to-day.
The morning was devoted to the reading
OF reports of the committees. In the after
noon the industrial position of women was
discussed. In the evening the following
papers were read: "What agency should
women employ for the uplifting of So
ciety?', Rev. Mrs. Eliga Sunderland, Ann
Arbor, Mich; Marriage and divorce"
Mrs. j. Ward Howe.
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Taffy to the Soldiers.

Fort Leavenworth, Kan, October 21.-
Especial. THE papers this morning print
General Niles order to the troops, which
is an address, congratulatory to the COM
mands under him, upon the successful
close of the Indian campaign. The Gen.
eral mentions many individual acls of he
roism and commends the general conduct
and bravery of all the troops.
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They Can Sell Beer.

Augusta, Maine, Oct. 2l.-The lower
. )urt has given a unanimous decision that
no state law is violated by the sale of b-er
at the soldiers home and that the state
courts have no jurisdiction over liquors in
tended for sale at the home. This rever-
sed the decision of the municipal court at
POlLand
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Shot Through the Hear

Chattanooga, Tenn, Oct. 21.-A dis
tressing accident occurred this afternoon
at Broken Arrow, Ala, on Eass and West
railroad. Barlow Carter, the train dis
patel ar, was sitting on lounge convers-
ing with Conductor Will Richardson
about pistol Carter drew the weapon
from his pocket, and as he did so it was
the bullet pierced Richard
sons heart, killing him instantly.
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When Baby was sick, vs gave her Cassor,a
when abe WA Child. shs cried for C.stoes.
mssa abe became Miss, abs chung to CsstorsA
Ssss che had Chndrss. she gave tasu C,ua~,s
Injured by a Cannon.

Fredericksburg, Va, Oct 2I.-Presi-
dent Cleveland passed through this city
this Afternoon on his way to Richmond
and was cordially received by large crowd
OF people. While firing a salute in honor
of the president, the cannon was prema.
turely discharged aud James Wheeler. who
was ramming the charge, was terribly
burned and mutilated and is expected to
die of his injuries.
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More Fanatics.

Bombay, Oct. 21.-Intelligence has been
received that the Johar ordeal has again
been put into practice in Abrahmin viii
lage in Bengal. Two human Ives were
sacrificed, the object being to avoid the
TOnk Burbar assessment. The two victims
calmly assembled the fuua al pyre and
bravely met death. There charred heads
were afterwards carried By the vtllsgers to
OndeYnare.
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How He Was Killed.

Kansas City, Oct. 1S.-A Journals St.
Joseph special says: "Gen1 Bacon Mont
gomery, formerly connected with the CO.
zstte and other papers of central and wes-
tern Missouri, was accidentally killed
to-day while hunting near Tamula, New
Mexico, where he had been lately engaged
in mining business. He was drawing
gun from wagon when it was discharged
with fatal effects
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GEN. BACON MONTGOMERY.


Whose death is announced in tn
telegraph columns of the BAzo
this morning, formerly resided in
Pettis county and many years ago TIT
editor Of the first newspaper published
in the county, when he was abOu
IL years old.
Bacon Montgomery was born al
Brandenburg, KY, about 1910, and
learned the printing business in Hi
nois. The exact year his fa.her
moved to Georgetown is not known by
the writer, but it must have been
about 1856. In 1857 he started the
Indepe ndent, a weekly newspaper al
Georgetown, which he continued to
publish until the war, 1861.
Bacon was an outspoken Union man
and at once joined the Union forces
and was made Major of volunteers,
subsequently Brigadier General of
the state militia. He was daring,
brave and vigorous fighter and made
a record during the war that his
children can point to with pride.
After peace had been established
Bacon returned to Sedalia and mar
ried Miss Maria Romans. The fruit
of this union is son and daughter,
Mont and May who now reside with
their mother at St. Joseph, Mo. In
1867 he was elected mayor of Sedalia
and served one year. During that
year he became one of the proprietors
of the Sedalia Times, in connection
with Tom Bassett and Jim Magann. |
The firm did not last long, and Cen
eral Montgomery did no active work
on the paper.
In 1872 Bacon really returned to
the printing business. There was a
walk-out of the BAzoo office of some
drunken printers, which left the Office
short of help. Bacon was hunted up
and asked to help out until compost
tors could be secured. He went to
work as a type setter with his usual
energy and ambition. He continued
IN the employ of the BAzoo, most of
The time as a reporter, for six years,
when he went to work on the Sedalia
Democrat. In October, 1882, in
with Major Edwards and
Harry Plattenburg, they founded the
'edalia Dispatch, a daily journal. {
t lived scarcely a hundred
lays. After the death of the
Dispatch Gen. Montgomery returned I
o the employ of the BAzoo. He re-
NAMED only few months when he
emoved to st. Joe, No., and engag- /
ID on the staff of the St. Joe Gazette.
About enc year ago he went to old
lex leo in a mining enterprise in con-
ection with a St. Joe syndicate,
7here he was at the time he met his Ii
cath. b
Gen. Montgomery was a remarka- d
lie man. He was a man of many P
arts. He was steadfast friend. He
as bitter enemy. His likes and il
lslikes were very strong. He was Il
energetic, tireless and very capable a,
,porter. He never knew when to II
ease to labor if there was anything q
do. Quick at repartee, his equal in
] respects, as one..writing for the
'ess, is without parallel in the field
journalism in central or western re
issouri. &C
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Will Miss Him.

Holden Enterprise,
Col. Jaynes was one of the Sim
mortal 3O6" who stood by Gen. Grant
In the Chicago convention. and was
thorough-going Republican. Sedalia
Will miss him in her enterprises.
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this afternoon, but his death was
momentarilJ expected. He is
an emp lying teamster engaged about
the yards and has a wife and family and
took no part in the strike. The Pinkerton
men say the strikers made an assault first
with stones and then with revolyers and
that they had made no attack until they
had been
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-06-30

government at a mint he had fitted
up for the purpose no less than 1000
tons of copper coin, amounting at its
nominal current value to nearly
eS00, GOO. That mint continued in
operation down to half a century ago.
There is mint IA new buildingl at
Birmingham still, and that busy town
claims the honor with London, of MAIL
ufacturing money. These are the only
coinage establishments in England.
The old copper penny was a clum-
sier but more valuable coin than
the modern bronze representative
that is, it was worth more as regards
its metal; but, of course, you could
only get a pennyworth of anything
for a penny then. Some few of the
Old ''cartWheel" pennies still remain,
but only as curiosities.
The bronze coinage we now use
came into existence in 1850, and in six
years, at Messrs. James Watt & Co.'S
mint at Birmingham, bronze and cop.
per coins flor they made them for other
countries beside England), were pro-
duced, weighing 33I7 10 tons and
numbering more than COG, 900, 900
pieces. On some occasions as many as
1000, 600 pieces have been made and
packed in one day. The birmingham
mint now belongs to Messrs. Heaton &
Co. whose initial ''H. :" may be found
on some of the bronze coins. Bronze,
1t may be stated, contains 95 per cent.
of copper; of tin and Of zinc.
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The Egg Dance at Baroda.

A dance infinitely more graceful and
interesting than that executed by the
Nautch girls Is the egg dance. The
dancing girls, dressed in the ordinary
costume OF the women Of the people
a bodice and very short sarri-carries
on her head a wicker wheel, placed per-
fectly horizontal Round this wheel
threads are attached at equal distances.
which are provided at their extremities
with slip knot kept open by peans of
a glass bead. The dancing gid advan-
ces toward the spectators, holding a
basket filled With eggs, and TO the
measure of q monotonous and jerky
strain OF music, begins turning herself
around With great rapidity. Then,
seizing an egg, she inserts it In one OF
the slip-knots.
BY means of centrifugal action, the
thread holding the egg is frightened and
placed in a straight line with the CORE
spending spoke Of the wheel. One af-
ter the other the eggs are thrown into
slip-knots, and form hoHzontal aureola
around the head of the dancing girl.
at this point the dance becomes more
and more rapid, and the least false step,
the slightest stoppage. would smash the
eggs one against another. The eggs
are then withdrawn one by one IN the
same manner in which they have been
fixed, and this second operation Is the
most delicate OF the two.
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History OF the Penny.

There Is much more In a penny than
appears at first sight, says writer in an
English exchange. Its manufacture,
It's history, its adventures might each
form the subject Of an article, or even
a series of articles; so with its purchas-
ing power, which. to famishing per-
son. might be matter Of life and
death, while, under happier circum-
stances, what such a humble coin may
command is we'll illustrated by the
paper which the reader now holds in
his hand.
Then there are the legends and en-
blems which are upon the two sides of
penny, and-well, really one is al
most appalled, at the idea OF dealing
with such vast subject in single ar
ticle, which is all that can be devoted
to it at present.
The penny IS of really respectable
antiquity. "Humble coin" indeedl
Why, if birth and long descent were
things, apart from other circumstances,
to make one feel proud, then might the
penny be the most naughty of coins.
You recollect how, in sacred history,
the laborers in the vineyard each re-
ceived at the end of his days work a
"penny" Tor denarius, representing
nearly seventeen cents, which was
the regular pay).
Coming down to more recent times,
and yet very far remote from our, we
find the penny the only coin gener-
ally current among the Anglo-Saxons
1t was silver coin, the 130th part Of
the libra OF pound.
For long, long years the penny was
indented deeply with cross.mark, so
that it could easily be broken into
two or four parts. hence We get
"half.penny" and ''farthing," or
"four.thing." But In the year 1210
round farthings were coined, and
about seventy years later large num-
bers of circular coins were struck by
Edward l., who introduced many i'm
proyements in connection Herewith,
and made importation Of false money
a heinous crime.
The first legal copper coinage. 1t
seems was established by Charles IL,
and half-pence and farthings were
struck.
between 1737 and 1906 the celebra-
ted Mathew Boulton, Of Soho. near
Birmingham, coined for the British
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Proud of His Sister.

An exchange relates the case Of a
young man who was regarded as phe-
nomenon, because he took his sister to
all the best entertainments, and actually
devoted himself to her during the lee
ture and opera season. Being praised
for his unusual attention to his sister,
the young man promptly and proudly
replied:
''No, there's nothing wonderful or
extraordinary about it. She is the only
woman 1 know in whom 1 have most
thorough confidence. She is always the
same, always very pleasant and affec-
tionate, and to tell you candid truth, L
am afraid she'll go and marry some Of
those imitation men around her, and be
unhappy all her life.
''She has nobody else to look to, and
I'll take care she does not have to look
to anybody else. I suppose some day a
genuine man will come along. If he's a
genuine man, won't object. Until hs
does come. she's good enough for me,
and if Lever find as good a girl, I'll
marry her."
The example is most commendable.
A young man would do well to seek his
sisters society until he finds another
lady as good.
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Coffee.

1T is a nice task to brown coffee Just
right" said New York coffee-rOaster
the other day. ''Nearly everybody
browns coffee too much. 1t comes out
burned instead of Drowned, although
it is greatly to the interest of the whole
salers not to brown it too much on ac-
count of the loss of weight. When the
berry is roasted until it becomes red,
instead of chestnut colored, as is Gus
tomary, it preserves its maximum
weight and aroma. One hundred pounds
of berries roasted properly lose but
fifteen pounds in weight. As usually
roasted they lose twenty pounds. If
roasted long enough the berry glaZes
over and turns dark brown. 1t loses a
fourth of its weight in the process"
''Why does the grocer overcast his
coffee. then?n was asked.
ssThe trade demands it. The coffee
that is made from overturned berries IS
black, and the flavor is rank. The
popular taste is educated to choose black
coffee. and would find the light-colored
LIQUID made from the REDEEMED berr es
rather insipid at first, and would refuse
to buy enough to learn to admire the
rich flavor of the Redeemed berries."
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The Disappointed.

mere we're are songs enough for the hero.
mo aweils on the kczghts Of fame;
sing ior the dissSTessassd,
for those who missed fheir aim.
lng with a fearful cadence
for one who stands in the dark
And knows that his last best arrow
has bounded back from the mark.
sing for the breathleSs runner,
lhe eager, anxious soul.
VINO falls with his strength exhausted
Almost In sight of the goal
Tor the hearts that break in silence
with sorrow all unknown:
for those who need companions.
let walk their ways alone.
ihere are songs enough for the lovers.
VINO share loves tender pain;
sing Tor the one whose passion
lsgiven and in vain
For those whose spirit comrades
nave missed them on the way,
sing with heart o'erfiowing
Ihls minor strain to-day.
Anu know the solar system
Must somewhere keep in space
a prize for that spent runner
Who barely lost the race.
For the plan would be imperfect,
Unless it held some sphere
That paid for the toll and talent,
And love that are wasted here.