Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1886-04-30
NEWS NOTES.


The Anglo-American cable CO n
pany proposes to reduce rates aftr
May 3 to cents per word.
An Irish harp, several huadrec
years old and valued ut SIC, 900, ar
rived in New York Sunday from
Ireland.
S. j. O'Brien, a prominent capt
talist of San Francisco, created {
marquis by the pope, died suddenly
last week.
Governor Oglesby, of Illinois, ha:
gone to Chicago to personally inform
himself regarding the railroad strike
there.
John NJ. Conner, feather dealer of
New York City, and Schiebel &
Ellerding, supplies, made assign:
ments last week.
The Catholic nuns at st. Paul's
island, opposite Montreal, are i'm
prisoned IN the attic of their con-
vent by the floods.
Captain Thomas Kerr, one of the
most noted of Ohio steamboat bull
ders, died in Freedom, Pa, Monday
aged 78 years.
The news boys of the Detroit Ev-
ening News struck yesterday for
two papers for cent instead of one
as heretofore.
The Burlington, Kansas, Republi-
can office and two frame buildings
adjoining were destroyed by fire
Sunday night week. Loss $5, 900.
The Onion Pacific and Burlington
and Missouri River railroad compa-
nies have raised their trans-conti-
mental passenger rates.
Lung Foo, the new Chinese am
bassador and his suite of thirty peo-
pie, passed through Omaha Monday
en- route to Washington.
William Turner, aged z, died In
Lynchburg, Va, Monday night of
trichinosis. His uncle, who also ate
of the raw pork, is in bad condi-
ton.
The trial of the six men charged
with putting dynamite on the street
car track in st. Louis during the
strike last winter began Monday.
Fire in San Luis Obispo, CAL,
Sunday night destroyed Andrews
hotel, the postoflice and several other
large buildings, causing a loss of
$120,000.
The bodies of Mrs. Flynn and
another old woman who had disap-
peared two weeks ago were found in
a quarry pool near Lemont, Illinois,
Monday.
One hundred men employed in A.
H. Andrews & Co.'s school furniture
factory, Chicago, Ills, struck Sat-
urday for an increase of 10 per cent
in wages.
BY turning cold water into red
hot boiler in a dlstillery at Lebanon,
KY, Monday, James Taylor, a fire.
man, was killed, and John Wheeler
fatally wounded.
Mr.. John Hamblin. an ex-soldier
of the rebellion, local Democratic
leader and a justice of the peace of
Moorseville township, near Chilli
ccthe, NO., died on the 10Th.
Three convicts escaped from their
guards in Little Rock Ark. Monday.
Bloodhounds have been put on their |
track but they have not yet been |
captured.
John Dubois, the heaviest lumber
man in Pennsylvania, has no pagt-
ners. His mills turn out over 80
900, 900 feet annually.
Ex-United States Senator George |
Wallace Jones is still living in health |
and happiness at 81 wears of age.
His home IS in Dubuque, Iowa.
Fred Faul, a California sheep |
ranchman, found a nest of seven |
young coyotes, which his shepherd |
dog Flora has adopted and Is rearing
successfully.
Senator Kenna of West VIrSinia Is
an amateur photographer and amuses
himself in the summer by tramping
over the mountains of his state TAX
ing views.
It is President Arthur of the |
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin-
GERS who has said that "strikes mean
assessments and assessments mean
death to any labor organization.
Chas. w. Shelton holds that there
are now as may Indians in the coun-
try as ever there were. and that the
aEorigines have held their own ever
since Columbus discovered America.
Congressman Willis shows that
most of the men who are indignant |
at the re-appointment of POstmis-
tress Thompson of Louisville did |
actually recommend her to the presi- |
dent.
A Rendout man tells this timely |
yarn. He says that he bought some |
green dye, intending to color some |
eggs for his children for Easter, and |
LAID the package on bench in the |
back yard, and forgot about it.
When he thought to get it he discov-
cred that his hens had eaten most of |
the dye stuff. The next day he |
found three bright green eggs in the |
nest; the next day three more |
shade or two lighter; the third day |
the eggs had just the slightest tinge !
of green; the fourth day they re-
sumed their normal appearance.
The Philadelphia Times makes
discovery: "While certain other |
states have been laughing at Mis-
souri, and her efforts to place herself
upon reliable and improved basis.
property has been increasing in