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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-05

A Supposed Sedalian Suicides In
Wichita. Kansas.

The following telegram from Wich-
tia, Kansas, explains itself. Diligent
inquiry by a BAzoo reporter last
night failed to elicit definite informa-
ton as to the identity of the man:
Last evening near 4 o'clock Mr..
A. p. Beach, of Se1alia, Mo-, took
ten grains of morphine. from the ef-
fects of which he died three hours Ia
ter. He arrived in this city night be-
fore last, and told friend yesterday
that domestic troubles had accumula-
tel so fast upon him within the past
few weeks that he believed he would
rather be dead. He put several hun
dred dollars in the bank about an
hour before he took the deadly drug,
with ins ructiOns to allow no one to
draw it but himself. SIT may be some
time before / come for it, but you
hold it all the same" was the remark
he made. A note found on his person
bore the request that his body be bur-
riei here and reads: Never allow it
to be returned to Missouri"
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-05
When Baby wss sick, ~ gave her CsstoriA
When she Wa Child, abe cried for CastosiA
when shs became Hiss. abe eiung 10 Csstesfa.
Wins shs hsd Chndrsa. shs ssTsta CsssaA
Incendiary Fire.

The barn of Mr.. G. McCarty, near
Clifton, was set afre by an incendiary
last Monday night between twelve and
one o'clock.
The midnight barn-burner rode up
on his horse and hitched the horse TO
a fence near by while he did the das-
tardly deed. When the fire got started
it must have frightend the horse, for
tracks show that he jumped the fence
and that his rider must have had con-
siderable trouble catching him Mrs.
McCarty discovered the fire and while
her husband was getting the stock out
of the barn the incendiary made his
escape followed by Mr.. McCarty's
dog.
The fire destroyed harness, saddles,
brides and farming implements, and
about 5000 worth of grain. A fine
stallion, that took the blue ribbon at
the recent fair in this city and q
spring wagon were saved.
The barn and contents was insured
In the Home but it will not cover one
half the loss.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-05
A FLEEING WIFE.
Marital Misery Causes a Wife to
Seek Her Brothers Aid.

Mrs. Lizzie Settles, with a seven
months old child arrived in the city
yesterday morning from Harden.
She was in a bad fix mentally, ply
sicaIly and financially. She had me
black eye and the appearance of hav-
ing cried for straight month. She
told the old old story of drunken
brutal husband and delicate woman
with babe in her arms. She had
been standing it for long miserable
time, but day before yesterday, after
having suffered a beating of more
than ordinary severity, at her husband
hands, she surrendered TO the inevita-
BILE and resolved to leave the brutal
man and seek aid Of. her brother, Riley
Henderson, who lives at Knob Noster
She arrived here destitute of money
and was sent by officer Shobe to the
Pacific House to wait for the train
Her husband is blacksmith, of Ha
din, named VIM. Settles, and if the
woman's story is true, the citizens OF
that hamlet should make it warm fol
him. Mrs Settles went to Knob
Noster on the afternoon train.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-05
The McNally Case.

The sheriff was busy yesterday serv-
ing summons on the witnesses in the
Frank Mentally case which comes up
for final hearing in the circuit court
at Lexington, Mo-, the 18th inst.
Mr.. Mentally while serving as city
fire engineer and ex-Officio policeman,
it will be remembered, shot ar d killed
Wash Hyde, of Benton county, oyer
Dexter's book store on Second street
while Hyde was resisting arrest. The
case was from time to time continued,
and finally taken to Lexing ton, Mo-,
on change of venue. Mentally for
a long time has been residing in Kan
sas City, and the whole affair has
largely passed out of mind, except to
the witnesses and the defendant. The
general impression seems to be that
Mentally will be acquitted.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-05
A Narrow Escape.

Yesterday while Mrs. Henry
Woods was visiting Mrs. CLANCY,
her little four year old son, Hugh,
strolled out into the yard and by some
means fell into the well in the yard,
which is some thirty feet deep, and
contains some ten feet depth of water.
Strange as it may seem the little fell
low escaped injury from the fall and
grasped the chain of the bucket,
which fortunately for him was let
down in the well. He was soon
missed and discovered and after FIVE
minutes immersion jim his cold bath,
was rescued by a workman on an adj
joining building from his perilOus po-
sition. DR.. Woods stated last night
that be was not hurt and was getting
along nicely.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-05
What Baking Powder Shall We
Use.

This plain question comes home to
every hOusekeeper. We all desire
pure and wholesome food, and this
cannot be had with the use of impure
or poisonous baking powder. There
can be no longer question that all
the cheaper, lower grade of baking
powders contain either alum, lime or
phosphate acid. As 10th as we may
be to admit so much against what may
have been some of our household gods,
there can be no gainsaying the unani-
nous testimony of the official chemists.
Indeed, analysis seems to find no bak-
ing powder entirely free from some
Que of these Objectionable ingredients
except the Royal. and that they
report as chemically pure. We find
some of the baking powders advertised
as pure, to contain, under the tests of
Profs. Chandler, Habirshaw and 9TH
as. nearly twelve per cent. of lime,
while others are made from alum with
no cream of tartar. This, we presume
accounts for their lack of leavening
power as sometimes complained of by
the cook, and for the bitter taste found
in the biscuits 80 frequently complain
ed of by ourselves.
But aside from the inferiority of the
work done by these powders, the phys
ielOgists assure us that lime and alum
taken into The system in such quanti-
ties are injuri Jus. They are not de-
composed by heat nor dissolved in
mixing or baking. They go with the
bread, therefore, into the stomach,
where their physiological effects are
Indigestion, dyspepsia, or worse evils.
The question naturally arises, Why
do these cheap baking powder makers
use these things? Alum is three
cents pound, lime still cheaper,
while cream of tartar costs thirty-fve
or forty. The reasons for the CHI mi
cal purity of the Royal Baking Pow
der were recently given in the New
York Times in an interesting descrip-
ton of new method for refining ar
gols, or crude cream of tartar. 1t
seems that it is only under this pro-
cess that cream of tartar can be freed
from the lime natural to it and render
ed chemically pure; that the patents
and plant for this cost the Royal Bak-
ing Powder company about half a
million dollars, and that they main
tain exclusivejcontrol of the rights.
Prof. McMurtrie, late chief chemist
of the Department of Agriculture at
Washington, d. c., in the interests
of commerce made an examination of
this process, and reported upon the
results attained in the refined cream
of tartar. The following extract from
his report would seem to answer
the question repeated at the head of
this article, and which is so frequently
propOunded by the house-keeper:
II have examined the cream of
tartar used by the Royal Baking
Powder company in the manufacture
of their baking powder, and find it to
be perfectly pure, and free from lime
in any form. The chemical tests to
which i have submitted the Royal
Baking Powder prove it perfectly
healthful. and free from every delet-
ferrous substance"
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-05
Died

Morey. Sedalia In this city on the
II inst, at AZ West Genesse
street. Sedalia, youngest child OfHenry
w. and Malina MOrey, age 10
months and II days.
Funeral Sunday at the residence at
S:45 p. m. and from ST. Joseph
French church at 4 p. m. Friends are In
vited. Sedalia Mo-, papers please
copy.-Syracuse New York Herald.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-05
The Nevada ASYLUM.

Governor John S. Marmaduke was
in the city yesterday on his way to
Nevada where he will meet the asylum
committee consisting of William Har
rlsoD, president and DIR. ROdes. super.
intendent of asylum No. |. DIR.
Smith and w. w. Ramsey of asylum
No. 2, and Senator Waller Young.
The object of their visit is to view the
progress of the work and make such
suggestions as they deem necessary.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-05
LINES ON THE DEATH OF JAMES
BOWLER AND JOHN LIGHT.

Take comfort an remember
That life will soon be DER;
Your dear lost ones will meet you
On that celestial shore.
Days will see n long and dreary,
But time on Aeeting wing
Will take you to your loved ones,
Where none but angels sing.
Fair gariands make Of roses
And place them on their graves;
Were the birds sing low and sweetly
And the grass above them waves.
Oh, sad hearts cease your grieving,
Take comfort night and day.
Twas Gods infinite wisdom
That called from earth away.
IDA ID.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-05
Both Legs Crushed.

Ed. Webster, brakeman on the
K. a. A. branch of the Missouri Pa.
cifc was brought to the hospital last
night on stretcher. Both of his legs
had been crushed by several cars pass
ing over them at Jacksonville yester'
day evening. How the accident came
about could not be ascertained last
night.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-05
TWO AND TREE.
Some of The Railroad Boys Learn
the Difference of One
Dearly.
A Mistaken Number Causes
Very Bad Collision.

A rather unfortunate yet fortunate
accident occurred on the Missouri
Pacific railroad yesterday at 11:25 a.
m. two and half miles east of Mont
teau near the public school house.
Unfortunate because of the fact that
it resulted lin the wrecking of two
engines and some seven or
eight cars and the loss to
the railroad of $4,000 in property,
and cost two good men their positions.
Fortunate from the fact that no lives
were lost and no one seriously injured,
Fireman Volkes being the only per-
SON hurt, and he suffering only slight
injuries caused by jumping from his
engine.
THE PARTICULARS
as nearly as they could be learned
from a reliable source, were as follows.
Yesterday west bound freight train
No. % left Chamo;s on time in three
sections, Conductor Lionberger and
Engineer John Hope being
in charge of the third section.
Local freight No. sc also left
Sedalia east bound and reach Moni-
teau where they received orders to
pass train % third section.
The FIRST and second sections of twen-
ty three passed the last train some five
minutes after conductor Vermillion
and Engineer Chas. Meyers had re-
ceived their orders to meet the third
section there. Seven minutes after
receiving the order.
TRkIN SO PULLED OUT
and 8 minutes later came in view of
the west bound %, third section,
brakes were put down and the engines
reversed, but it was too late and the
engines met on the same track with a
terrific crash but not until the crew
had nearly all sprang from the train.
They had, however, slowed up so
much that only partial wreck en-
sued. The engines were only par
tial wrecked and will not be hard to re-
pair. One car of canned goods was
destroyed and some
SIX OR SEVEN CARS
of rails and ties pretty badly used up.
The only excuse given by conductor
VermilliOn and engineer Meyers is
that they misconstrued their orders to
apply to the second section of % and
were unaware that there was a
third section. Mr.. Meyers has been
on the road for twelve years and Mr..
Vermillion for a long time. Both are
sober, careful men, land have always
been looked upon as amongst the most
reliable and pains-taking employees in
the service. This is their first mishap
and is altogether unaccOuntable as it
is unfortunate.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-05
Badly Cut

William Cartwright, resting near
Georgetown was yesterday badly cut
on the calf of the left leg by falling
against a moving blade in a barn.
His injuries are quite serious but his
physician says none of the tendons.of
the limb are cut and he will eventually
come around all right.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-05
BUSY BODIES.
How the Noble Order Manufac,
lures Capital Abroad.

tits an old saying that one should
90 abroad to learn the news at home
and the following dispatch clipped
from the Patterson New Jersey Press
is lair sample of Its truth:
Sedalia, Mo, Sept. 15.-Durih
the last few weeks, several of the en-
ployes of the Missouri Pacific railroad
company have been discharged for
taking active Interest in the le-elec-
ton to congress of Representative
Heard, 10 whom, it is understood, the
company is violently opposed. On
the day of the primaries at which a
majority of Heard delegates were cleo
ted, the heads Of the different depart
ments of the Missouri Pacific shops
handed to the employees Moore tickets
and informed them that the company
desired Moore to be nominated.
The men, not desiring to lose their
positions, voted their tickets and were
retained in the company's employ.
Master Mechanic McCabe, however,
refused to do so and was discharged.
Much indignation over the affair is
felt by the citizens of this city.
This sounds little like story
started here few days
since by the Knights of Labor
with the view to helping the
chances of their candidate for congress,
but unlike the "rclling stone" 1t has
gath cred 80 much moss that even the
original lie assumes such Munchausen
proportions as would make Sedalia
member of the "noble order" laugh In
his sleeve at the gullabiGty Of his
eastern brother who would swallow
it.
The Patterson press and the Patter-
son people are informed that the dis
patch is true except as to the follow
ing particulars: First, there never
was a master mechanic in Sedalia
named McCabe. Second, there never
will be unless he comes from better
stock than Frank McCabe and
is "built" different way. Third there
has never been any man discharged
by the railroad company in Sedalia
or in the sixth district for voting for
Mr.. Heard, or any body else. Fourth
there was no Moore" tickets dis
tributed among railroad men except
some of w. M. Moore's the saloon
keeper, "good for one drink" sent
by him as an advertisement. Fifth
there is no candidate for congress in
the sixth district named encore"
Sixth, Frank McCabe is a chronic
loafer and well known as such, he was
discharged from mental position for
soldering" and he himself denies
the charge that he was discharged for
POLITICAL purposes, and if he did not
there are twenty good witnesses who
would. The Press is informed politics
are not run that way in Missouri
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-05
Hog Cholera.

The hog cholera is reported to be
assuming epidemic proportions along
the Usage Valley, one gentleman re-
ports the loss of 81 head in three days
and he says quite number of his
neighbors have lost severely by the
disease.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-05
Died.

The three months old child of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Kruger, Sunday at
II o'clock. The funeral services were
held yesterday at 10 o'clock.
Mr.. Kruger has charge Os NJ. Wolf
STEMS store on Main street, and the
BAzoo joins with his many friends in
expressions of sympathy for his be-
reaVement.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-05
Circuit Cont.

ClrCulL COuTI was III eCSSiOh JCoICi-
day. Hon. B. G. WilkersOn was
Judge part of the day and Hon. John
Montgomery, jr. the other part. The
following was the business transacted:
Sarah E. Bradley ct al, VS.. Julius
Blandon ell. al; motion to set aside
judgment filed.
Same VS.. Rich Gelken; same entry.
Same VS.. Margaret Ray ct. al. j;
same entry.
Same VS.. Melissa Hale ct. al;
same entry.
Same VS.. John Lauster; dismissed
as to lot 10, and same entry.
Same VS.. j. M. Overstreet ct. al;
dismissed at plaintiffs cost.
Same VS.. William Barnheart mo-
ton to set aside judgment filed.
Same VS.. Richard Smith ct. al;
dismis ed as to lot 5, block Is, and
motion to set aside judgment.
Same vs. David Smith; motion to
set aside judgment.
Same VS.. G. Spigle; same entry.
Same VS.. A. B. Cook ct. al J.; same
entry.
Same VS.. Gerhart Gilken ct. al /;
same entry.
Same VS.. Robert Overstreet, dis.
missed as to lots 4 and D block 3
judgement on others.
Same VS. III. G.. Sinnett and James
Cook motion to set aside judg ment.
Same VS.. f. Chambers same entry.
Same vs. w. E. Swearingen same
entry.
Same VS.. Gerhand Rugen ct. al !;
same entry.
Same VS.. Mrs. S. A. Smith; same
entry.
Same VS.. -. Fay same entry.
Same VS.. Jessie Fowler ct al same
entry.
Same VS.. William Dorsey ct. al +;
same entry.
Same VS.. II. l.. Cook; motion for
new trial overruled, bond 800.
Some We. James Cook same entry,
bond $500.
Same VS.. Fred Gallop; same entry,
bond $50.
Same vs.. John Washburn /; same
entry, bond 81 $50.
Same VS.. A. j. Allen, same entry,
bond So.
Same VS.. John V. Harris; same
entry, bond s75.
Same VS.. G.. III. Evans, ct al; same
entry, bond SIS.
Same VS.. Newton II. Haire; same
entry, bond $500.
The above cases are known as the
Smithton ejectment cases.
Charles G.. Stifel VS.. Johanna
Berger, on note, w. S. Shirk enters
appearance for defendant.
HOffheimer & Co., VS.. John NJ.
Robbt, ct al; on note. judgment for
S559.75.
Alice G. Tyler VS.. Charles w. Hall,
partition. Amended petition filed by
plaintiff by agreement. Answer of
defendant, Charles w. Hall, by his
guardian ad Item, taken up and con-
sidered as his answer to amended pc
tition. Petition heard and partition
made among the plaintiffs and defend
ants, each to have One-fourth. The
Advancement of 258 acres made to
the plaintiff, Alice G. Tyler to
be taken into consideration as to the
value at the time it was decided to her
by her father, August II, 1874. Com
missioners John Seniors, Thomas
johnson and William Winston, to re-
port at January term, 1887.
Cordelia Sheridan VS. Philip Sheri-
dan, divorce, interlOcutOry judgment
hxy dafo-,If
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-05
For the Pen.

Sheriff 81. III. Sailing, of Scotland
county, passed through the city yes
terday morning taking a prisoner
named Chas. E. Atroms to the peni-
tertiary. His crime was horse steal
ing, and sentence two years.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-05
Dangerously I'LL.

The twelve year old daughter of
John Pregge, the Main street grocer,
is reported very dangerously i'll with
typhoid fever. She has been in a
comotose and speeches. condition for
three days past and the greatest ap-
prehensions are felt for her recovery.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-05
Perfect Sight.

AS thousands can testify, there is nothing
so much to be desired as perfect sight and
perfect sight can only be obtained by using
perfect spectscles. C. G. Taylor, our home
optician, exercises great skill and patience
in fitting those needing spectacles with care.
and comfort to the wearer. l2-lIdtf.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-05

-Horrid, yes, it is, that we must suffer
from disease, but from heart disease, ner
vousness and sleeplessness, DIR. Graves
heart regulator will give you immediate
relief; thousands say so. 81, per bottle Of
druggists.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-05
along nicely

IN NERVOUS DISEASES.
DIR. Henry, New York, says: "In ner-
vous diseases, know of no preparation to
equal il"
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-05
Because they deserve it.

"My Patrons speak of Benson's capcine
plasters In the highest terms. IN. w. At
wood, New York.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-03-25
The Mass TsectiEer.

We published last wccl, the call
for the State Convention, made bv
the farmers of the State. The Coun.
ty Convention for this County had
already been called to meet in the
Court House on Mont,ay, the 5th of
April. We again give this public no
hce to every farmer in the County
who desires to be represented in the
convention at Columbia, to come to
lickens next sale day, and take part
III the proceedings then to be hnd.
The Government of the State and
County is for the people, and by the
people, and it is the prcrogativc OF
tho 'vox ropuli,' to say what the gov
crnmcnt shall be and what it shall
cost
AS the gathering at Columbia on
the 10Th of April will be significant
OF the popular sentiment in the
State, SO the gathering at pickcns
on the 5th, will show the extent
to which the need Of rctrenchmcnt
and reform is felt in the County.
Five delegates are to be chosen to
represent this county in the convcn-
tlon at Columbia. They should be
fearless, independent, ont spoken
men, who have the experience and
common sense, to appreciate the
depth of the milk in the pan, and
the meal in the barrel. Men with
Judgement that politicians cannot
obscure by ilattcry, nor parties mis-
lead by promises. Pickens County
has plenty of just such material. II
she ever did need them, she needs
them Just now, to get the milk out
OF this cocoa nut, or show to the sat
lSfaction of her people that there is
nothing in it. so come one and all
merchants and farmers old men,
that We may have the benefit of Your
experience; middle aged men, That
we may have the benefit of YOUR
Judgment, and young men, that we
may have tho benefit Of your zeal.
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The RsOycOtt.

The strikers seem to have the up
pr hand in Fort Worth, Texas
They are boycottins to fearful OK,
tent. The boarding houses which
accommodate the men who arc talk
in the strikers places are threaten
ed with Violence Butchers are afraid
to furnish them meat, md water men
refuse to furnish water, for fear of
incurring the displcasurc of the stri-
kers. The water Mt one house was
poisoned, and II woman and two lit
tie children have been made very i'll
by drinking it, One landlord order
cd his tenant to quit, when he found
1t that he was boarding mon who
were filling places made vacant by
the strike.
The strikers have declared war to
the knife and the knife to the hilt.
Reform must como.
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TIE Farmers Movement

This movement has been subjected
to every kind Of criticism, by the diff
ferent journals Of the State. Some
regard IL as tho outcome of supreme
necessity, and predict that it's results
will be most beneficial, Others seem
to think that it has it's foundation in
tho political aspirations of dema-
gogues, andthcmost that will come of
it, will be to array one class of citi-
zens against another, and thus be
productive of harm.
To our mind it seems that there
is no possible danger, not even to Of
flee holders; for this public duty is
not attended with sufficient profit
o be cIassol am >a5 the ocol2esions.
There IS too much uncertainty about
the tenure of Office in this State to
consider it's holders as class. Then
if the expenses of the government
can be reduced without interfering
with its efficiency, there is no doubt
that all classes ure anxious for the
reduction, not only the farmers, but
doctors, lawyers, merchants s-all tax
payers will welcome the movement.
1t would take more than a "NT0ses, "
to devise any scheme which would
benefit the farmers rs q class, with
out all the other occupations rccciv-
ing their share of the good
If there is a full representation of
the farmers Mt Columbia on the Doth
of April, then the movement will
have the full measure of its impor-
tnnce Then it will be known whcth.
er it is the voice of the people on the
murmurings Of few that has cals-
cd the stir. If it is the voice of the
people it will be needed. The con
vcntion will De apt to adopt plat,
form, and put it before the people,
to be aG!ecd to, or rejected in the
persons of different candidates in the
primary elections. 1t is agitation
and the chanchcs are decidedly in
favor OF bringing something good &c
pass. We sec nothing to fear.