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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-02-05

of Hicks. They thought so well of
him that while he was absent, and
could not defend himself they elected
him
PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION,
and then tantalized him by telegraph
ing him how he had been treated. L
| hope he will soon be well,
January pa attended blowout
at General David Atwood's tonight.
Here's man who ought to have a
pension. Fifty-seven years a printer
and fifty years an editor. How that
poor old man has my sympathies.
His road has been tough. He has
been fed on garden sass, and prom
Uses to pay a long time. His head has
grown white in the services, he has a
beautiful home, a charming family Of
children and grand children, boom
ing thriving newspaper,
THE MADISON JOURNAL,
and the confidence and respect of all
in and out of the journalistic pro-
fession in Wisconsin.
| went home tonight and mOurned
because | was not an editor, so that
could write personals of the preacher
and have him say nice things about
me.
January 25.-Went to the histori
cal rooms at the capital to-day ano
saw a petrifed cat. A. p. Colby
editor of the Enterprise at Unior
Grove. a ripe scholar and
discreet newspaper man, wa
along to protect you
deacon. These historical rooms are
wonderful nice place, and are in tn
third story of the capitol buildin:
This building has been pretty wei
filled with newspaper men by Gov
Hoard. The governor has not for
gotten his best friends in his appoint
ments.
| At night Colby, Garrett Veeder
f. d. Coe, of Whitewater Register
and your OWE deacon attended
"Zozo" at he opera house. This is {
show FOR baldheads, and it just suited
Veeder and myself We occupies
front seats Veeder and Colby hat
opera glasses. | had q tough tim'
with them. They wanted to follow
the show of. l attend such show
when away from home. 1t is not be
coming for a deacon to attend bald
headed exhibitions at home. Your
for the people now on earth.
SIMEON DISwIDDIE,
Deacon.
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THE FISCHER TRAGEDY.
The Preliminary Examination
to be Held Next Tues
day,

Milton Fischer and Louise Swear
ingen, the alleged murderers of Mrs.
Maggie Fischer, on the night of Jan.
25th, are still in close confinement in
the county Jail, awaiting trial before
the examining court next Tuesday.
All of their early emotion has dis
appeared, and they have apparently
become acclimated to the atmosphere
of their prison determined to make
themselves as comfortable as possible
under the surrounding circumstances.
Fischer's spirits have revived, some
what, and he is not averse to an &C.
casional chat about matters not re-
lsting to the case in which he is 8
principal. He is silent when the
mystery of his wife's death Is
mentioned. and declines 10 converse
about it.
The BAzoo will have a complete re.
port of the examining trial, which viii
contain all the evidence presented by
both sides.
Miss Louise Swearingen seems tC
have accepted her confinement philo-
sophically, and appears TO be harrsssed
only by the absence Of her child, for
which she is said to entertain an ardent
affection.
A large crowd, as is usually the
case, will probably attend the trial
next Tuesday, as the Fischer mystery
has many sensational features, and
may not be so great a mystery after
all.
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THE DEACON'S DIARY.
He Attends q Convention OF
the Brainy Men of Wis
cOnsin at Madison.
His Experience With Vecder
Colby, Coe and Governor
Hoard.

Madison, Wis, Jan. 25.-Casting
a weather eve toward the )rth pole
I consulted Jones as to the condition
of the church and daughter Sophia as
to the available prospects of my stock
of boiled linen. and started for this
place on the 10Th ins,., to attend a
meeting of the brainy men of Wis
constr the ones who do more to adj
vance its material interests than all
the banks of the commonwealth com.
bined. | knew l was getting where
genuine hospitality and true brother
hood existed, when that good oiC
Methodist, Garrett Veeder. editor O
the GAINESVILLE Signal, boarded the
train. Garrett was reared on goot
Old Democratic soil in Heuvelton, 81
Lawrence county, New York, at :
time when whisky could be bopgh
for
EIGHTEEN CENTS A GALLON,
and il was good red gin too. Carrot
is one of the fathers of Wisconsin
journalism, who has for years ex
changed Methodist doctrine in a non
sectarian paper for cord wood. sheel
peIts, pumpkins and secondhand
hoop skirts.
HIS success has been a marvel. ID
has worked into old age, white hair
and the universal respect of the read
ers of his paper. He loves his neigh
Dor as himself and can open a jack Po
as fearlessly as an army mule cou
make a square meal from the resolu
tions passed by Wisconsin Demo
cratic convention.
Jan. 22-I arrived at Madison Ia
day and stopped at the Park hotel
It is a nice house and nice peop'
keep it. l did not make the acquai
ance of Mr.. Skeels, the proprietor
He is generally the last man about
first-class hotel guest gets acquainte'
with, unless he wants
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UNITED WE STAND.

| suggested to Jake that he surely
was mistaken about the branding por
ton of the above, and he replied thai
most certainly he was not, that Hanle!y
Pinkington had been in swimming
with different members of the club, and
stated positively that they were al
branded alike.
L asked Jake if the lady members
of the club treated each other in q
like manner. and he said he didn't
know but he suppose not.
JOHN JONES.
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day and told his men to bitch
up "Fritz." Jake said sis
the wild freshman in :" and
the man with a blonde beard re-
piled in a surIy manner, "NO."
While Jake was out watching them
hitch up Fritz, Farnham told me that
Jake was a splendid fellow and sent
him
PILE OF CUSTOMERS,
but he knew nothing whatever about
driving a horse, and that he always
gave him the gentlest thing in the
barn, and one that any lady or child
could drive with safety. | was very
much surprised to hear this, and when
we we're seated behind the big yellow
horse and we'll out on the way to Flat
creek, asked Jake which were his
favorits horses at the other places
He replied II always call for the Oh
GRAY, Camilla or Emma at Deutsch's,
and innocently added, at is seldom |
get them, though, as they are used SC
very much, I generally secure Lin
gard.
Al Offeld's | prefer Chief, Speedy
or Jim Henry, but am usually giver
big bay horse called Jumbo"
IS
Arriving at the waterworks, WI
found mechanics putting the finishing
touches to brick building which Jak'
informed me Mr.. Quig!ey was havinl
erected to protect the new filters.
noticed very fat and jolly-lookiDs
man bossing the job, and asked Jak'
who the party was. Jake told m
that that was Ed. Hurley, prom:
nent contractor and a man tha
figured in politics a great deal.
a.
Jake informs me that it is "th
thing" at present to belong to tn
"Owl Club" He tells me that since
their president was married that TIT
members of the club have been winet
and dined by their friends, and tina
ever so many theatre and card partie
are being given in their honor, and
geerally speaking, they are beini
NEST royalty served.
| asked Jake if he was a member
and he told me that he was not, bu
that he had been solicited to join eve
so many times. Sand | shoul'
have united with them,
continued Jake, If the initiation
rites were not so trying They ar
simply terrible am told, and muc
, more severe than forms INDUCED il
by Masons or Odd Fellows why {
. become an Owl, and here Jake's voic
? dropped to husky whisper, 'to be
come an Owl you are compelled t
drink human blood from a skull, 20,
, are sworn to obey a great numbe
t of rules and finally you ar
: branded in the small of your back wit
a red hot branding iron as follows:
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coed TempIars Election.

Summit Lodge, No. 29S, Independent
Order of Good Telnplars held it annual
election of officers Friday night with the
following result
Mr.. Orrison, chief templar.
Miss Mamie Self vice templa-.
George Berthoux, marshal.
Miss Carrie Holcroft, financial secretary.
/. w. Mercer, chaplain.
Miss Leach, inside guard.
Chas. Chettle, sentinel.
Mrs Eubanks, past chief temp.ar.
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Fire I'm East sedalfa.

A fire wa. discovered about midnight
Friday night in the rear end OF Morris
Sullivsn's saloon, corner of Third and
Montgomery streets. 1t had evidently
broken out on the inside near the corner in
the rear of the building, which was unoc'
cupied at the time Hose Company No. l
made a gallant run, and speedily ex
tiuguished the flames, but not before the
rear wall ard portion of the roof had sue.
cumbed to the blaze. The origin OF the
FIRE is unknown. The damage will not ex.
coed 500
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JOHN JONES.

L had severe attack of catarrh over a
year age and became so desf could moi
hear common conversation. / suffered ter.
ribly from roaring in my head. / procured
a bottle of Ely's Cream Balm and in three
weeks could hear as we'll as ever could
and now l can cheerfglly say to all who
are afflicted with the worst of diseases, ca.
tarrh and deafness, take one bottle OF
Ely's Cream Balm and be cured. 1t il
worth 81, 900 per bottle 10 any man, WON.
an or child suffering from catarrh.-A. E
Newman, Grayling, Campbell Co., Michi'
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The Social and Scientific club, which
was organized and incorporated q few
days since. and which was noticed in ths
BAzoo at the time, has furnished suite Of
rooms in the Ilgenfritz block, on Ohio
street, and is in active op, ration. The
rooms are elegantly furnished and the club
will meet regularly there.
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For Connubfal Bliss.

Miss Bessie Grubbs and Robert Burns, a
couple from the vicinity of Flat Creek,
eloped Yesterday morning and went to
Kansas City. Miss Grubbs is the daugh-
ter of a small farmer, and the young man
has been employed as q farm hand for
some time past. Burns, who dissipates
occ asionally, was not high in favor with
the "old folks" and Miss Grnbbs' parents
forbade him the house. This the young
folks could not stand, so they resolved to
elope. They were to have come to the city
on business this morning, but utilized
their freedom from psternal restraint tc
board q west bound train, and hurried te
Kansas City, where Burns will 60 to work
10 a wholesale grocery store.
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Safe I'm the Arms OF Jesus

James A. Fletcher, jr., the infant SON OF
James A. fletcher, residing at 662 east
Fourteenth street, died yesterday morning,
at o'clock, of pneumonia. The little
boy, barely eleven months old, and q
bright, promising child. The funeral
takes place this morning at 10 o'clock,
from the parents residence. Interment
in Sedalia cemetery.
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Mrs. Annie Alder.

Mrs. Annie Alder, one of the best known
and most highly respected ladies of this
city, died Thursday night at II o'clock OF
pneumonia. She was % years of age, ard
has host of friends whe will sincerely re-
greet her departure from amongst them.
Mrs. Alder will be buried this afternoon at
80 O'Clock from her residence on E st
Third street. The interment i 10 be made
II, Dresden cemetery.
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Run I'm.

Officer Shackles, Kahrs and Barnett ar
rested Will Herman, a white man and
Babe Williams, colored female last night
about midnight on Usage and Maine
streets, for Iewd and lascivious conduct.
The woman was locked up. Herman
gave bond, and was released to appear to-
morrow morning.
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this week. We carry apd are agents
for the celebrated BURLINGTON
FAST BLACK

hose, every pair warranted perfectly
fast color, will not crock and rub Of,
will wear better than the old fashion
way of coloring hosiery. Money free
ly refunded for any pair that do not
give satisfaction. Our prices are pos
itively the lowest. This week we viii
sell the remaiaie- of our winter He-
siery at
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The clerks at this house are nice,
pure minded, urbane young gentle
men. When | arrived the clerks did
not know me, and | am glad they
were strangers to nay habits and ways.
IF they had known me they would
have wanted their bill in advance.
The incest man about that house is
the head waiter. 1t is Col. Bob
Hughes, and he dresses recherche, in
pigeon tail coat and white vest. l
would rather have the colonels place
than to be United States senator. He
bosses twenty-five pretty young ladies
all wearing seersucker dresses and
short white aprons with streaks of lace
around the bottom. to give them
A WARM WEATHER LOOK.
Jan. 23-This morning the clerks
al the hotel, decorated with red neck.
ties and diamonds, were on dress
parade early. They were endeavor-
lug to look as sweet as Colonel
Hughes, but they could not do it.
Direcly after breakfast F. w. Coon,
editor of the Wisconsin Tobacco Re
porter at Edgerton, one the most en-
terprising, entertaining and bright
journalists among the badgers" come
to the Park House and took your cor.
respondent by the arm and led MIN to
the capitol and presented your own
deacon to Governor Hoard.
The first thing the governor said
was
"Mr. Coon. does there any chrome
90 with that ?" pointing to me.
Hoard does not handsome very
loud but he has an admirable history
which dates back to New York state.
He first appeared On this mundane
sphere about 1885. He was born
with a little hair on his head, two
teeth and
FULL CROP OF TOE NAILS.
The old ladies with a supply of catnip
and red flannel came to the house and
when they gszed en- that kid they pro
nounced him a marvel. They con-
suited some fairgrounds and said he
was born to rule.
Soon in life he come to the west
with a wheezy fiddle and taught sing
ing school. He sung himself into a
printing office at Fort Atkinson,
Wisconsin and then fddled himself
into the office of governor Of
Wisconsin. He is the right man
in the right place. Bright, honest
urbane and truly one of the people.
Hicks, of Oshkosh, was at home
sick. All the press gang think much
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DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup never tails to
cure a cough or cold in a short time. Give
ii fair trial.
Mr.. A. Thomas (of Thomas d Co., Real
Estate Brokers 81 Saratoga Street, Balti-
more, Nd, indorses emphatically saliva
ton Oil for neuralgia.
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Another Cargo Of Bargains
UNLOADED AT
MssseIly&Meuschke's

DRY GOODS PALACE. These
goods will be slaughtered this week.
We have the trade and will continue
to make it interesting to keep up the
rush. Every article we offer is prime
and first class, all bought during the
1889 season. No relics of ancient
times and no side show auction trash
at our house. See our line of
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DIR. J. III. McLesns Strengthening
Cordial and Blood Purifier, by its yitaliz-
ing properties, will brighten pale cheeks,
aud transforn pale, haggari, dispirited
woman into one of sparkling health and
beauty.
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15 Cents Per Pair.

for Ladies, Misses and Children in
plain and mixed goods, which We for
merly sold at % 70 90 cents. This
week they go at Is cents all arsand
to close.
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For Sale.

A valuable Brown Stallion, years old,
must be sold before spring. Call at
100 East Main st.
Pats Grocery store.
1-25, & W m.
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City Collector Pilkington filed his month
ly statement OF taxes collected with City
Collector Cousley yesterday moraipg.
The amount of City taxes collected during
the month of January.
Real and personal tax for 1888
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MY ROOM-AATE

Shows Me Fine Horses, Takes
Me Out for q Drive, Says
He lis Not an "OWl"
and Tells He
Why He is
Not.
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1l,4S4.SS

Capt Balls Davis, aged s., was killed
yesterday at Gallatin by falling intoI a
we'll
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After leaving the high steppers,
| asked Jake what Fuller meant by
"thirty clip" Jake said he didn'f
know, but stated that it was poor
policy to display ignorance before
horsemen.
For some time Jake seemed to besi.
tate which stable to- patronize, but
finally decided to 60 to Farnham's.
He called for "Knoxie," but Farm.
ham, tipping me wink and knock
ing the ashes out of his pipe, told
Jake that Knoxie lad been out all
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Later we were shown q couple of
horses owned by George Arnold, that
were perfect beauties, and would. Mr..
Fuller asserted, "make their mark this
season." He also showed us a very
fast trotter sent from Lexington,
Mo-, by Mr.. Wsddell, and several
promising colts, owned by Sedalians.
The Wahpeton times., 1889-08-01
The Devil Cast Out by Science,

Conscientious men still linger on
who find comfort in holding fast to
some shred of the old belief in dia-
bolical possession. The sturdy de-
claration in thelast century by John
Wesley, that "giving up witchcraft
is giving up the Bible," is echoed
feebly in the latter half of this CEN
tury by the eminent Catholic ecclesi-
astic in France who declares that
"to deny possession by devils is to
charge Jesus and his apostles with
imposture," and asks. GLOW can
the testimony of apostles, fathers of
the church, and saints who saw the
possessed and so declared, be
denied?" And still fainter echo
fingers in Protestant England. But,
despite this conscientious opposition,
science has in these latter days
steadily wrought hand in hand with
Christian charity in this field, to
evolve better future for humanity.
The thoughtful physician and the
devoted clergyman are now con-
stantly seen working together; and
it is not too much to expect that
Satan, having been cast out of the
asylums, will ere long disappear from
monasteries and camp meeting, even
in the most unenlightened region of
Christendom.-Dr. Andrew D. White
in Popular Science Monthly.
The Wahpeton times., 1889-08-01
An Amateur Astronomer.

From an illustrated paper in the
June Century we quote the following:
1.-The amateur astronomer became the
happy possessor of the new instru-
mcnt, which proved to be one of the
finest the Clarks had ever made. But
the problem still remained of having
his telescope permanently mounted.
In this-for he liked TO do things as
simply and chcaply as possible-he
had recourse to mother wit. Procur-
ing large piece of timber he sunk it
deep in the ground in the back yard of
his little house on Vincennes Avenue,
near Ellis Park. and about two blocks
from the Dearborn Observatory.
Around this timber he built what his
friends used laughingly to call
'cheese-box,' on the top of which he
placed a dome that could be turned
around easily at will. Most of the
work he did with his own hands; and
it was with this little telescope. thus
rudely mounted, that the modest quiet
shorthand reporter made his first i'm
portant discoveries of double stairs
discoveries which a few years later at
tracted the attention and commanded
the admiration of the leading scienti-
iic. men in Europe.
"All this time he went on with his
regular work, was at his place in court
every day. working the usual business
hours. In the evening he went into
his 'cheese-box' and studied the heav-
ems till daylight drove him to his bed.
No wonder that when visitor, per-
haps from Europe. went in search OF
this sleepless. sharp.sighted astrono-
mer to pay his respects and make
visit to his observatory he was told by
the street children that Mr.. Burnham
was "queer man, who lived nights
in that cheese-box." His neighbors
generally knew but little about him,
and did not know what to make of the
odd-looking structure in his back yard;
and younger people associated the
star.gazer with vague ideas of necro-
NANCY. fortune-telling. and magical in.
carnations"
The Wahpeton times., 1889-08-01
The Seven Wise. Men.

Most people have heard of the
seven wise men OF Greece" but very
few know who they were or how they
came to be called SO.
Here is the story of them and the
moral of it is worth remembering if
their names are not:
The seven wise men of Greece are
supposed to have lived in the. fifth
century before Christ. Their names
are Pittacus, Bias, Solon, Thales,
Chilon, Cleobuslus and Periander.
The reason of their being called
"wise" is given differently by
authors, dut the most approved ac-
counts state that as some Coans
were fishing, certain strangers from
Miletus brought whatever should be
in the nets without seeing it.
When the nets were drawn in they
were found to contain a golden tripod
which Helen, as she sailed from TROY,
is supposed to have thrown there.
A dispute arose between the fisher
men and the strangers as to whom
it belonged, and as they could not
agree, they took it to the Temple OF
Apollo, and consulted the priestess
as to what should be done with it.
She said it must be given to the
wisest man in Greece, and it was ac-
cordingly sent to Thales, who de-
clared that Bias was wiser, and sent
it to him.
Bias sent it to another one and so
on, until it had passed through the
hands of all the men, afterwards dis.
tinguished by the title of the 'Seven
Wise Men," and as each one claimed
that some one was wiser than he, it
finally was sent to the Temple of
Apollo, where itstill remains to teach
the lesson that the wisest are the
most distrustful of their wisdom.
The Wahpeton times., 1889-08-01

to keep her on board the steamer.
but that we would see her safely hid
denim Hong-Kong for the presnt, and
then manage for her future safety
afterward.
CAS- saw the rich color come and
go in her cheeks, and the bright eyes
fill with such a strange fear, 1 made
a vow that if human aid could save
this poor victim of barbarism it
should.
"I.ieut. Swing now called us, say
ing the boat was alongside, and we
must needs move quickly before the
harbor was astir.
"Hastening to the gangway, we
descended, and soon were headed for
the distant shore.
Gas we proceeded, the runaway
wife related her story.
ut seemed she was the daughter of
an official under the governor, and
was in love with q youth of her own
city. They were to have been mar
ried, when the old governor saw and
coveted her, and compelled the father
to deliver her to him.
"Only three days before she had
been married by force to her gray
headed husband, who already pos
sessed seven wives, and had been
taken by him to his yacht for q brid-
al trip, where he might watch over
her with less chance of escape. While
he slept she had crept from her cabin
and dropped into the sea.
"The story was but just told, when,
as we passed beneath the bows of q
great Indian steamer which lay at
anchor, we suddenly almost ran up
on the barge of the governor, return
ing from an unsuccessful search.
"There was a growl from the sea-
man as they backed water, q shrek
OF rage and satisfaction from the old
tyrant himself, who half rose from
his seat in the stern, and the next in
stant, without q word, but with eyes
filled with horror, the fleeing wife
sprung over the rail of our boat and
into the deep waters ofthe bay, sink
ing instantly.
with shouts and curses-English,
American, and Chinese-the men in
the two boats watched for the fair
body to rise, but watched in vain.
No human eyes ever saw the woman
again.
We didnot wait forexplanations,
and that night our steamer sailed.
ut was my last trip, and l have
not visited Hong-Kong bay since"
Saturday Night.