The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-08-13
MISSOURI NOTES.

Lewis Fravel was killed by q
runaway team near Richmond.
1t takes Clinton girl only three
minutes to get ready for a picnic.
August is the popular month for
getting married 10 Sedaiia.
1t costs S7.15 to treat the dog
catcher disrespectfuliy at Joplin.
The confederate home of Missouri
has finally been incorporated, but MT
located.
The Norborne canning factory
expects to put up sixty car loads of
"truck" this fall.
The Mexico Ledger wants a fence
built around Hardin college to keep
the pigs out.
The new fellows who are going TO
make paper out Of the st. Joseph
News have taken holt.
"A strange disease, produciu;
blindness, is affecting all the cattle
near Mirabile, Caldwell county.
Missouri takes first rank of any
state in the Union OH mules, but she is
not taking any pains TO blow it around.
The Liberty cornet banG will
put up $50 and expenses that it can
beat any other brass band in the state
at a game of base bail.
The government has ordered a
general survey of the lead and zinc
district of Missouri The work will
be begun the coming fall.
Ben c. Todd. ticket agent at the
Union depot, st. Louis, died of Nor
phine poisoning in sporting house.
No cause is assigned for the deed.
There is only one state in the
Union that raises more hogs than
Missouri. Hogs make the best corn
cribs which were ever invented.
The County institutions of Jasper
county flourish In spite of the warm
weather. The Jail has thirty-one occu-
pants and the poor farm thirty-fve.
ST. Louis Chronicle: A Hanni.
bal man got drunk and whipped his
mother in-law. Liquor has a won
derful effect on a mans courage some
times.
The altitude of the weeds at ST.
Joseph imparts particularly humor-
Gus character to the filings which the
papers of that city make at other
PAGES.
Newton Byers, aged 20, commit
ted suicide by shooting himself at his
home near Jasper because his father
refused to let him have a team to go
to town.
The police of St. Louis again
wear the belt and baton which was
discarded some Ten years ago. The
belt gives rough an excellent hold
in scrimmsge.
Mike Mccoy, a river man of ST.
Josep, was assaulted in his house at
midnight by three strange men and
beaten into insensibility. No cause
is assigned for the act.
Howard Gohn, dry goods clerk
of ST. Joseph, has left the city desert
ing a bride of six weeks. The wife
was thoroughly devoted to her hus.
band, and is almost hearibroken.
There is a movement to introdu ,e
water into the Cole county court
house. 1t may be little embarrass.
ing at first. but the people soon get
used to things in this world.
Columbia Isito have electric lights
some time during the present year.
Now if they get the right kind of a
man for chancellor of the Missouri
university there is bright future for
Columbia.
Moses w. Clay, who was sent to
Int penitentiary from Newton county
in 1887 for swindliDg the Indian Split
Iog, has been released by Judge Black
in obedience TO a writ of habeas corpus.
Thirty nine marriage licenses
were issued in Green COUNTY during
the month of July. The Bible tells
us that people were doing good deal
Of marrying at the time of the flood,
and this has been a wet season, d.
The fat men of the big suburb
have been .wrasling" with a bail bat.
There were not enough fat men IN
st. Louis to make out the teams, so
some had to be loaded like Mark
Twain's frog.
William McMillen and James
McKeown, the Cedar county counter
feiters. have been remanded to to the
Springfield Jail, in default of bail, to
await trial at the October term of the
United States district court.
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