The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-12-17
MISSOURI NOTES.

/ Lexington wants new and
larger opera house.
! "A st. Joseph infant has been
feeding on Rough on Rats"
Alfred Lisle, of West Plains,
was kicked to death by team of run
away mules.
Springfield wants a new and more
efficient fire department and a better
water supply.
Mrs. Clara Hoffr an, state presi.
dent of the w. G. I. u, lectured in
st. Joe Monday night.
The A. Furst Distilling company
st Joseph has assigned for $50, 900,
with assets aa $40, 900.
The Southwest Missouri Poultry
association has just held Its fourth
annual meeting at Joplin.
CHARLES P. Granfeld, of Missouri
has been promotud to a 81, 800 clerk.
ship in the postofice department,
Washington.
-Speaking of combinations, Di.
vine q Bible is the style of firm of
whisky distillers doing business at
Jericho Springs.
Prisoners confined in the Jail at
Springfield cut hole through the
wall, but were discovered before they
made their escape.
There will be a military depart
ment connected with the male college
at Mexico. Cadets In town always
freshen up society.
John holland, while trying to
cross the river at St. Joseph. Mo.
yesterday with stolen goods, fell from
his boat and was drowned.
The cats and chickens at Jefferson
City are dying from a fatal epidemic.
The joys and SORROWS of life flow in
pretty even currents after all.
Robert houx, on trial at War
rensburg for outraging 10-year old
girl near Columbus last spring. was
granted a change of venue to Saline
county.
1t is a wonder there are not more
clandestine marriages at jefferson
City, where no one seems 10 be able
to commit matrimony without the
penalty of a serenade.
William Jones. a farmer living
near Arrow Rock, No.. has begun a
prosecution of G. P. Floyd, a school
teacher, for whipping shis Is year old
ch: d.
1t is reported from London that
the English syndicate that purchased
the st. Louis breweries has Issued
capital stock to the amount of So
100000.
Tobias Vinegar, a colored police
man of Higginsville, fatally shot W.
j. Perry, teamster, few nights ago.
The shooting was unprovok ed. A
posse is in pursuit of the negro.
Joplin Herald {: The new dir,c-
tory will show that Joplin has pop
ulation iu excess of $1,000. Before
1892 there will be $4,000 people
within the corporate limits of the city.
Secretary of the Interior n ,ble
was rendered an informal reception a
few days ago by the Merchants
exchange of St. Louis. In the even
ivg he was entertained by Blair posr,
@. A r.
The jefferson City Tribune says
the grave of Judge Scott of Missouri
supreme court is in a barnyard in Cole
county, and suggests that steps be
taken to remove the remains of the
eminent jurist to the state cemetery.
The Henry county Democrat
says that many of the farmers i'll Hen
ry country are complaining of the
scarcity of laborers and are Offering
81 day and board for gathering corn
and other work and are unable to pro-
cure help.
The saloon license in Springfield
is 81, 800 a year Mexico, $4,000;
Joplin, 81. $50; r lila, $3.50 Pacific,
LOO; st. Charles, $3.50; Mary
vile, $3.50; BOonville. 81 400
Poplar Bluff, $1,000; Marshal, ST.
600; Fulton, s2,050; Peirce City,
s1,100; Savannah, s1,250; in
Springfield the eighteen saloons pay
Greene county. which is a dry"
county, s13, 500, and the city 81, 900
each or $4,000 and the state 5000.
In Sedalia the twenty-sevea saloons
are taxed $4,000 by Pettis county,
by the city $4,000 and by the state
1880. The five saloons in Mexico
pay to the city SIS, 900 or 81, 900 each
and to the county $4,000. In Mober-
iy the city receives $4,000 from the
saloons. kansas City Star.