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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-04-27

state capital, and the next minute the
eight prisoners, guards and BAZoo
man were trudging over the hills in
the direction of Warden Marmaduke's
office. Emmett and his partner,
Ford, were in the lead, and the for,
mer's opinion of Jefferson City, as
emphatically expressed, was not at
all complimentary.
"Will you be able to sleep in your
new quarters" was asked of Emmett.
"You bet your life | will, was the
ready response. "This thing is not
bothering me now, that day is past. "
The prison was finally reached, and
the party was shown into the recep-
ton room. After a brief delay the
iron door leading to the corridor
where the receiving cells" are 10
Gated was thrown open and the eight
prisoners entered. Two of the ne
gIoes were quickly recognized by the
officials on duty as old-timers, and enc
of them, Chas. Elder, was pro-
Rounced the
"MEANEsT COON IN AMERICA"
During this trying ordeal young
King never hinched. His every
movement was closely scanned, but
not culver was perceptible. The
negroes were first disposed of, Elder
and Watts being both put in the same
cell. Then came the third coon, who
was given a cell to himself. The four
white prisoners were given two addi-
tional cells, and in the meantime
Emmett was a silent and evidently in
terested spectator. Thinking the entire
party had been disposed OF. the Off
cials were about to withdraw, when
their attention was directed to King,
to the surprise of those in charge.
Emmett was then locked up, but not
until he had taken the hand of each
Sedalian, and requested the BAzoo
man to call upon him in the morning
in company with his brother Willis.
And so it was that Robert Emmett
King entered upon his six years i'm
priSOnment.
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The Prison Description.

On returning To the warden's office
Capt. Gill placed in the keeping OF
Willis the clothes and jewelry which
had previously adorned the person OF
Emmett, which concluded the bust.
ness in hand and the urbane officials
were babe farewell.
The records at the prison show the
following entry of King:
Received April Dist, 1886; mum
Der, 5,657; name, Robert Emmett
King; sentenced from Pettis county
for six years on three indictments of
grand larceny and forgery age, %
years; complexion, fair; occupation,
bank clerk height. ) feet 81 inches !;
weight, 154 pounds: habits, temper
ate; unmarried; relatives address,
Sedalia, Mo-; former imprisonment.
none; marks, scars and general re-
marks, red mole on right breast; toe
nail on Iirst toe of right foot missing
high, prominent forehead.
King has not vet been assigned to
any department of work in the pris-
on, but will doubtless be given some
light employment.
The BAZoo man endeavored to in
terview Warden Marmaduke on the
subject, but he stated that he had not
decided what department he would
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COsgrove Shackelford

The convention was called to order at
/ 80 o'clock p. M, by D. c. Wing, chair
man of the Cooper county executive COM
mittee. The secretary of the county ex-
ecutive committee read the report OF the
meeting of the committee, and the CAD
issued by them for the election of delegates
to a county convention, to select a cam
didate for congressman of the Sixth con-
gressional district OF Missouri.
Mr.. Crimmon was, on motion, elected
chairman by reclamation. 5. W. Ravenel
was nominated and elected permanent secre-
tary by acclaim ton. Mr.. Walter Williams
was elected assistant secretary, and MIR.
johnson, of the Pilot Grove Leader, second
assistant secretary.
The secretary called the Est
of township delegates, and the
delegates named in Sundays BAzoo pre-
scented their credentials and were given
seats in the convention, every township
being fully represented.
Nomination for delegates being declared
in order the following were placed in
nomination and unanimously chosen w.
III. Cooper, of Boonville Geo. s. Cock
rell, OF Kelly ; Marshall Rust, of Pleasant
Grove; James Ragland, of Saline X. A.
McCullOch, of Moniteau Austin P. Speed,
OF Boonville Z. III. Rodgers, of Palestine
Sam W. Rodgers, of Glasscock Pat F.
'egan, of Otterville VIM. g. Pendleton,.
ROonville.
On motion the following resolutions
we're unanimously adopted
"WHEREAs, The democrats OF Cooper
comfy, after complete and thorough can
vass, have again, through their representa-
Ii
the democracy of the Sixth congressional
district the name of Jno. Cosgrove, and
WHEREAS, As 1t is the opinion of this
convention that Mr.. Cosgrove, by his able
and fearless course as a me,c Der of the
Forty eighth congress, has proved himself
worthy OF the confidence and support of
the democracy of said district therefore,
be il
Resolred, That the delegates elected by
this convention TO represent this county in
the convention of said district be
and they are hereby instructed to vote
for and use all honorable
means to secuIe his nomination and be it
further
Resolred, That the delegation Sc
lected by this convention be and
they are hereby authorized to cast the full
vote OF Cooper county in said congressional
and that any vacancy that
may occur in said delegation shall be sup
piled by majority vote of the remaining
delegates.
On motion the list of townships was
called and voted viva voce, all voting for
Cosgrove except Otterville and Lebanon.
At the conclusion of the vote Otterville
moved the vote of Cooper county be made
unanimous for Cosgrove. Lebanon sec
onded the motion and amid wild applause
the motion prevailed.
Hon. John Cosgrove being called for,
came forward and made a speech charac-
teristic of Honest John, which was received
with much applause.
Mr.. Shackeiford was called for and came
forward and announced himself as mani
nous for Hon. John Cosgrove for congress
and that he would go forth to fight for him
to the best of his ability.
On motion the convention adjourned.
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Galveston, Tex, April 22.-The Ners
San Antonio special says:
information reached here to-day of a
tight which occurred few nights ago, at
the Dolores silver mines, in the state OF
NeavOte. The Dolores mining camp lies a
short distance from the town Of Vallejo,
off the line of the Mexican National
railway. a large and desper-
ate band OF mountain bandits
attacked the camp for the purpose of rob-
berry, about | O'clcck in the morning. The
camp is protected by heavy adobe wall,
which the bandits scaled. K. J. Bogusch,
superintendent OF the mines, and W. 5.
Toal, engineer, both Americans, rallied
a hundred or more Mexican
miners and charged the bandits, but were
repeatedly driven back. The battle lasted
an hour. The camp was finally saved by
the arrival of Alcslde Garcia, with a posse
of fifty citizens from vollies,
at whose approach 80 the ban
dts retreated to the mountains,
having failed to secure the expected booty.
Five dead and eleven wounded bandits
were left behind On the side of the
miners none were killed, but a dozen or
more were severely wound; some fatally.
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Johnnie. Wine suppers Why, he
frequently let 90 5000 on one OF
these affairs, and once in Chicago,
when certain whilOn star, and now
sOubrette, and who recently was
divorced from her husband in this
city, was Kings guest, he spent S40O
prolonging the reyel until old Sol
shot his matutinal shafts of light
through the blinds of the room in
which the orgies were held. 1t is said
that that woman not only got away
with much wine on that occasion, but
also large sum of hard cash, so
sweet did she sing the songs the sirens
sang on the treacherOus Lurlev
height, as the author of 'Ostler Joe
puts it.
And yet, strange to say, with all
this evidence of crookedness daily
Haunted in their faces, not one of the
bank officers suspected that their in
stitutiOn was
FOOTING KINGS BILLS.
But it was, and when one day last
summer King passed through this
city bound for Canada he bore with
him package containing $4,000,
which he had coolly taken from the
bank vault, saying when he left Sc
dalla that he was going to St. Louis
to witness a game of base ball. That
act was the first intimatiOn the bank
directors seemed capable of catching
on to in order to tell them that King
was, and had been for a long time, as
cunning a scOundrel as ever robbed
trusting employers. An expert was
put on the books, and soon the start
ling revelation was made that the alb
scondIng clerk had robbed the bank
of s4S, 900, the stealing covering the
period of three years. That burst the
bank, and the directors, after meeting
their losses dollar for dollar, closed
the doors, and the Savings bank
was no more. King reached Canada
safely, and then sat down and wrote
his father, Il citizen of social, moral
and political standing, one of the cool
est letters imaginable. The father
went to Canada after } Oy, and
succeeded in getting J. Urn to
Missouri. He also II $500
OF the money in the pa are
is something of the old II, - -
tus, in the father, and |
wanted his son punished. -
rate, he brought him back to
the crime was committed, and En-
King is now in the penitentiary."
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My daughter was troubled with heart
disease for five years, given up by physi-
clans, had sinking spells, constant pain,
great swelling over her heart extending to
left arm, and severe spells of neuralgia ex-
tending over the entire body, doctors could
not help her. DR.. Graves Heart Regula-
tor cured her within three months.-Jas.
Tilton, Concord, n. III. 81 per bottle at
druggists
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COSGROyE'S CONQUEST.
He Secures "A Solid Delegation to
the Convention From
Cooper County.
Proceedings of the County Con-
yentiOn Held at Boon
vile Yesterday.

BoonviIle, April 19.-[Special. To-day
was gala day in the Vine Clad, and the
unterrified gathered from every direction
to do it honor and speak the voice of the
great democracy as to who should be their
standard bearer in the coming November
battle, as has heretofore been stated in the
BAzoo. The battle was a very one-sided
affair, as''is shown by the following official
returns of the township primaries to select
delegates:
TOWNSHIP, COsgrOye ShackelfOrd
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A Detailed Account of the Trip.
Together with Numerous
Incidents.
What a Chicago Paper Has to Say
of Emmett's DOings i'm
That City.
He Was a Blood of the First Wa
ter, and No Mistaking
the Fact.

Robert Emmett King, the embez.
zliDg teller of the defunct Sedalia
Savings bank, crossed the Threshold
of the Missouri penitentiary at Jeffer.
son City at ten minutes Of 2 o'clock
yesterday morning, there to remain
for period of six years unless par
doned or released under the three
fourths rule. That King will regain
his liberty at the expiration of four
and one-half years, unless executive
clemency is extended sooner, none
who have conversed with him since
he entered his plea of guilty to three
counts of indictments for larceny and
forgery have the least doubt. He will
be a model prisoner, and hence will
receive the benefit of the three-fourths
rule should fortune not favor him
from another quarter. Many Sc
dalians, however, believe that he will
not be required to serve to exceed one
or two years, and the BAZoo has
heard it intimated that within a few
months a petition will be circulated,
asking Gov. Marmaduke
TO PARDON HIM.
Notwithstanding his great short
coming, which resulted in the wreck
ing of the bank he was connected
with, young King has many warm
friends whe would sign such a petit
ton, and scores of Sedalia's best bust
ness men would attach their sigma.
lures thereto, not because of sympathy
for Emmett, but because of the re-
spect and feeling they have for his
honored father, than whom no gentle
man in Sedalia stands higher In En-
mett's behalf his youth is cited, he
having been scarcely seventeen years
of age when he entered upon his
downward career. This, his friends
say, is mitigating circumstance
that should not be overlooked, and
they believe Gov. Marmaduke will
give it due consideration.
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MANY persons in Pittson

Many persons in Pittson are using
Ely's Cream Balm, catarrh remedy, with
most satisfactory results. A lady is recov-
ering the sense of smell which she had not
enjoyed for fifteen years. She had given
up her case as incurable. Mr.. Barber has
used it in his family AMI recommends it
very highly. A Tunkhannock lawyer,
known to many of our readers, testifes that
he was cured of partial deafness.-P ittson,
Pa, Gazette. Not liquid or snuff. so cents.
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Lost heir Places

Baltimore, Affil 22.-All the ears re-
sumed to-day. \ number of strikers lost
their places.
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THIN PEOPLE

wells Health Reviewer" restores health
and vigor, cures Dyspepsia, Impotence,
Sexual Debility. 81.
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place the young man in, and prOba-
bly, would not assign him for several
DAYS yet.
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Arrival at Jefferson.

1t was little after l o'clock In the
morning when the train arrived at the
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-04-27
En- Route to the "Pen."

In company with seven other
prisoners, King was taken from
the Pett:s county Jail at 1O:45 o'clock
Tuesday night, and the entire
party were marched to the depot in
charge of Deputy Sheriff Bowers and
three other guards. OF the eight
prisoners, three were colored and FIVE
white. King and VIM. Ford, the lat
ter sent up four years for grand lar
ceny, were in the lead, and were the
only ones who were not hand-cufed.
Deputy Bowers led the way to the
smoking car of Conductor Knowlton's
train, when King and Ford were given
the third seat on the right hand side,
looking east. Facing these two, in
the second seat, were Bowers and Will
lis z. King, jr :, younger brother of
the prisoner. The remaining prison
ers were seated further back, with
the exception of Hewett, convicted of
maHslaughter in the third degree, and
McLachlin, the burglar, who were
across the aisle from Emmett. The
latter was the attraction, however,
and when it became known to those
assembled on the platform that he
was soon to bid temporary farewell
to Sedalia, he was called upon by
numerous persons, all of whom had a
kind word and
WISHED HIM WELL. =.
At 11:05 o'clock the last goodbye
was spoken and the train pulled out,
carrying among its passengers BAzoo
reporter, who had received instructions
to accompany the prisoners to the
state capital and jot down whatever
might be of interest in connection
with the trip. Young King was the
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''5657''

Is the Number by Which Emmett
King Will be Known
Hereafter.
He Loses His Identity Within
the Walls of the Missouri
Penitentiary.
He Was Turned Over to the Pris.
on Officials at lao a. I'M.
Yesterday.
A "BazOO" Reporter Interviews
Him While En- Route to
the State Capital,
And Calls Upon Him After He
Has DOnned His IH-Fit-
ting Striped Suit.
He Was Merry to the Last, and
Bore the Trying Ordeal
Like a True Man.
A Detailed Account of the Trip.
Together with Numerous
Incidents.
What a Chicago Paper Has to Say
of Emmett's DOings i'm
That City.
He Was a Blood of the First Wa
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venture was with his landlady. to whom
he owed board bill, which he settled
with marriage certificate, and after a
honeymoon of three weeks vanished
with the lady's finger rings and fine
gold watch. A year or two after he met
a young dressmaker, who by rigid econ
only for years had saved the comfortable
sum OF $3.50. with which she intended
to start business; she went into rart-
nership with this gay LolhariO; he got
possession Of her funds and she saw him
no more. lie then found widow, and
tried his dtltisive arts on her: he forgot
the advice Of the elder Weller-"Sam-
uel, beware ov the widders." This was
the rock on which he split. She had
been there before. Her forty-two sum
mers had not been wasted. If She hat
house and To-, and an account at the
Savings Bank, she was eminently quail
fed to take care of them. Under pre-
tence of buying some furniture. however,
he got possession of $3.50, and he sud-
denly disappeared; but Nemesis was on
his track in the shape of a widow, and
she went for him. She hunted up the
other three wives-gOt all the proofs to-
gether, and finally landed the gentleman
in limbo on Saturday last. Moral: Don't
fool with a widow.
1t is well known that there are mum
ber of fraudulent concerns in New York,
which under the name of religious in
sttutions draw money from the State of
New York. \ shocking case came out
this week where the child of the ianitor
of Zion's Home for aged men, absolute
lY starved to death, because the Home
did not pay him his miserable wages.
two dollars and fifty cents a week. This
institution will claim its share of the
public monies when the annual report is
made; it will present n tluurishing re-
cord of charitable works performed and
poverty relieved; meanwhile the unfor-
ulnate denzens of these so called Homes
in rags and filth starve to death. There
are Homes for orphans, and for aged
men and women, and for friendless boys
and hOotblacks and newsboys. that are
an honor to humanity. The Catholic
charitable institutions draw large sums
from The public treasury, but they give
the public back all they get with interest
at hundred per cent. Their children
are well cared fUr.wCll clad, well taught
All of the Catholic Institutions arc a.
near perfection as such institutions can
possibly be. The same Commendation
may be applied to the regular Protestant
and Hebrew Institutions, which last. by
the way are, almost unequalled among
our public charities. But the great
body of small Homes. under whatever
name, are dclusion, snare and a
cheat, and ought to be suppressed by
law.
St. Patricll's Day is past and the
country still lives. One party Of thr
Ancient Order of Hibernians raraded
in the morning in one part of the city.
and the other party in the afternoon in
another part of the city, and thus all
danger to our liberties was avcrted
BROADBRIM
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-03-27

ANOTHER bond call for ten millions
OF the outstanding three per cents. pay
able on the first OF May was issued Mon
day by the Secretary OF the Treasury.
This in licatcs that, for the present at
least, the government income is exceed
ing the payments sufficiently to render
such call safe. It is problelnatical
whether many more such calls will be
made. If any large proportion of tie
many Congressional schemes TO deplete
the Treasury get enacted into laws the
business of debt-paying will have to be
suspended or more taxes levied. For
tunately brisk use of the Presidential
veto may save some more OF the govern
ment millions to be applied TO the bust
ness Of paying bonds. Unless this
remedy is applied pretty heroically il is
70 be feared that somebody will spend
the surplus millions that should 20 to
the reduction of the bonded debt.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-03-27

Mr. LEFEvRE, of Ohio, has in ro-
dnced bill in the House providing that
West Point cadets shall hereafter be ap-
pointed from the sons or descendants of
soldiers in the late war, and from the
younger enlisted men in the army. 1t
Is further provided that when a cadet
graduates be shall be assigned to regi-
ment as an enlisted man, and shall
serve as such for one year with the
usual pay and allowances. The second
years service shall be as corporal and
the third as sergeant, after which the
soldier shall be eligible to promotion as
second lieutenant. West Pointers will
no doubt vote Mr.. LefeVIe leather
medal for his bill.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-03-27

TIE Knights Of Labor hesitate to ac-
cept the terms presented by Vice-Presi-
dent HoXle for a settlement of the pend
ing strike on the Missouri Pacific and
other railroads Of the Gould system.
The latest ultimatum of The roads. which
is strongly urged also by Governors
Martin and Marmaduke, provides that
none of the men who participated in the
destruction of the company's property
shall be reinstated, and that those
hands who have been taken on since
March ., 1856, shall be retained. This,
if accepted, will shut out hundreds of
the men on strike. The principal con-
s!deraiion that prevents an agreement is
the absolute refusal of the roads to take
back any Of the men who injured its
property. and in this position they are
supported by the Brotherhood Of Loco.
motive Engineers.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-03-27

N. Y. SUN: The anti-tobacco regimen
began in the Massachusetts Reforma-
tory Monday, and the divine Raleighan
weed solaces the wicked eNiles at Con-
cord no longer. If a big wall could be
built around Massachusetts, and all the
inhabitants be enjoined from liquor and
tobacco, made to wear uniform dress,
and 90 to bed-retire they would say in
Concord town-at uniform hour, the
heart Of the true Massachusetts re-
former would jump for JOY. To make
the Commonwealth bigger sort of
prison, where nobody can do anything
he wants to is the Utopia of Puritan
ism,
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a SANITARY Convention, the object
of which will be to afford an opportuni-
ty for an expression of opinion on mat
ters relating to the public health and
the discussion Of methods looking to-
wards an advancement in the sanitary
condition of the Commonwealth, the
prevention of sickness and avoidable
death, and the improvement Of the con-
ditions Of living, will be held in Phila-
delphia, under the auspices of the State
Board of Health, on Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday, May u, l3 and II.
1885. The address CT welcome will be
delivered by His EXcellency, Hon. Rob
ert, Z. Pa.tison, Governor of Pennsyl-
vania,
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BrOadbPil'S New York Letter

Special TO the CARBON ADVOCATE.
Free gospel services here and no col
lection"-such is the sign that floats in
fIOnt of the Academy Of Music, as an
inIucement for sinners 10 enter and par
take OF the bread and water OF lft Two
or three hundred years ago oUr fathers
considered no sacrifice too great for the
same privilege, which to-day goes beg
gins only few worthless sinners NJ
that. They would take the chance of
being scalped BY an Indian. Ii they
had meetiRg-houSe, it was cold as 4
city relations welcOme-the seats were
as hard As their own doctrines-and the
sermons a trial of faith. alongside of
which, m2rtyriom itself vas paradise.
Yet they coull stand long tramp
through the mud or sEow-a cold meet
ing-house, long sermon, and certain
collection Tor the sake Of going to
church. la the gllY of Brooklyn, whore
this gosgel baDner Lsngs, the crop Of
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-03-27

T. V. PowDERLT, the able general
master workman Of the Knights of
Labor. is a native of Carbondale, Pa, ,
where he was born Jan. 2S. 1880. By
trade a machinist, he has made himself
n competent civil engineer. He was
Mayor of Scranton for two years. and
has served six years at the head of the
great labor organization.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-03-27

THE Wilkesbarre Record of Saturday
says there is quite movement going
among Luzerne county Democrats to
nominate Ex-senator Eckley Il. Coke as
the next Democratic candidate for Gov.
ernor Of Pennsylvania. The Record
says Coke wouli be acceptable to Ran
dali, Wallace and Scott,