The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-08-20
MISSOURI NOTES.

Financial troubles caused &. +.
Green of Carthage to hang himself.
Ten thousand people attended the
camp meeting at Piattsburg Sunday.
N. X Beards!ey has been form
erly installed as postmaster at I'll Do
RADIO.
The elevated road carried in the
St. Louis city council by a vote of -
to Z.
A wind mill is about to be util-
lied at Lamar for power at the water
works.
DIR. Van Metre has been appoint
ed medical pension examin at
Maiden.
Col. Bob Ingersoll will be one of
the attractions at the So. Joseph ex-
position.
Ten thousand California trout
have been recently let loose ia the
waters of the state.
Missouri contains 60, $40 square
miles and has a population OF nearly
5, 600, 600 people.
james Sylvia, of kirksville, Will
serve the state two years for attempt
j 9 TO shoot his wife.
Jacob Fall, prominent farmer
near HarrIsonville, dropped dead yes
terday fIom heart disease.
Hon. W.. Coleman will be
a candidate for reelection as state
superintendent Of schools.
Ten dollars will be presented the
oldest settler at the pioneers meeting
at Unionville August ID.
The freight bearing capacity of
the Missouri river is estimated to be
600 times that of single track rail-
road.
The governor has appointed Geo.
B. McFarlan, of Mexico, curator of
the state university, vice G. III. Har-
did, resigned.
Frank Murdoch, a prominent
young farmer, has been mysteriously
missing from LathrOp since the first
of the month.
John Yokley has returned TO
Nevada from a trip to Europe, and
says that England is fifty years, France
seventy-five years and Spain 100 years
behind this country.
Moses Clay who was convicted
of swindling the Indian chief, SpIitlog,
has been released from the penitentiary
on a writ of habeas corpus. His bond
was placed at 81, 500.
Charles Crawford, of Benton
county, is 102 yea old. He attrib-
utes his longevity to drinking plenty
of good whisky and voting the
straight democratic ticket.
BY a runaway Saturday evening
east of Lees Summit, Mo-, a negro
woman was fatally injured and ped
dler's horse ran through the body by
the wagon tongue aud killed.
The old settlers of Henry, Pettis,
Johnson, Benton and adjoining coun-
iiea will hold their third annual reun-
ion in connection with the big barbe-
cue at Windsor, Mo, Thursday,
August 20.
John Smith, a drug clerk at Ash
Grove, this stare, has been indicted
Tor causing the death of Mrs. W. f.
Larlin through Il mistake in a pre-
1t is claimed that Smith
substituted morphine for quipine.
The revision committee has been
in session at Jefferson City since the
26th of May and, it is thought, will
not complete Its work before the FIRST
Of November. The committee con.
sists of eight members. and the work
will cost $4,000.
A 10-vear-old girl named Sarha
Robinson was taken from a band of
rowing gypsies at Brookfeld. The
girl had been kilnaped from some
point in Kansas, but does not know
exactly where, and had been brutality
treated by the vagabond band.
st. Joseph Gazette A young
man in Hannibal gave his best girl a
handful of sugar-coated pills, suppos-
ing them TO be confectionery. The
yirl looked like the last rose of sum-
ner the next day, while the young
man borrowed two dollars and left
town.
Louis De LANCE, an employee of
The Electric Light company of Kan
sas City, received shock and in cou-
his hand slipped, striking
he globe with sufficient force to break
It. His right arm was so badly cut