Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1890-02-27

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| The Carthage creamery has been
completed and accepted and will
open up March l..
Miss Jennie Miller, of Newtonia,
committed suicide because she was
jealous of her sweetheart.
The ammonia cylinder in st.
Louis ice factory exploded the other
day, seriously hurting several peo-
pie.
A Georgetown negro wanted di-
vorce from his wife because he went
home one day and found her talking
to neighboring man.
Sultan Rogers, 15-year old boy
of Carthage, was playing around the
switch yards Tuesday when he was
run over and his right leg badly
crushed.
Arthur Mead, aged 8 years, was
shot accidentally, near Dawn, by an
other boy named John Jones. They
were out hunting. The wounded
boy died.
The poor farm residence, near
Springfield, was destroyed by fire,
Wednesday night. No'one was in
jured, but the property loss was
about $4,000.
Mrs. Cora George secured a di-
vorce from her husband in the st.
Joseph courts, Wednesday, and an
hour later was welded to Daniel
Mellon by justice.
Mrs. Phoebe Cook Hicks, who at
the age of rode in Robert Fulton's
first steamboat on its trial trip he
tween Albany and New York, died
at Marshall, last week.
Viola Dunham, year-old girl of
Lehigh, was burned to death, last
week. She was popping corn on an
open hearth when her dress caught
fire and she was fatally burned.
Burglars on a tour of robbery en-
tered the house of County Treasurer
Draper, at Lebanon, Monday night.
and relieved him of his watch and
all the money he had in his pockets.
Robert Beckerpite met with a pc
culiar accident near Springfield which
resulted fatally. He was at work
digging we'll when the windlass
handle struck him under the chm,
dislocatiDg his neck.
John Summers, Higginsvilie
farmer, was digging well on his
place and at the depth of thirty feet
discovered gold ore. The well has
been turned into shaft and sam
piles sent to expert assayers.
Five fires in less than a month,
destroying number of stores and a
large Touring mill, aggregating
loss of $50, 900, convinces the citi-
zens of Marceline that fire-bugs are
attempting to burn the town.
Mrs. Collins, widow OF the mur-
dered man, E. A. Collins, cf Mexi-
co, who was killed last No' crnber,
has offered $500 fer the arrest and
conviction of the perpetrators of the
crime. The county has added 800
to this.
Mrs. Edgar Reed, a widow WHO
resided in Morgan county, YVES sit.
ting by the stove, last week, when
her clothes took fire, and before the
flames could be extlnguished she
was so badly burned that she died
that evening.
Prof. Buckner, of the Nevada
college, was experimenting before
his class and some visitors when hr
dropped plate of burning alcohol
scattering the fiery drops in all di-
, reetions, setting some of the guests
, clothes afire.
While the workmen were blasting
at Fulton In a quarry nest of youn.
black snakes was uncovered. Be
tween forty and fifty of the litil'
reptiles were killed. They measured
about fourteen inches in length, an
were lively lot.
D Miss Effie Wilson and Harry Fink
: were married Wednesday evening a
S the BRIDES home, near Ulrich. a
q charivari party attended and ont
: young man shot off a gun loaded
d with hard paper wad, which enter
3 ed the room and hit the bride in th'
back, hurting her quite seriously.
Capt. John B. Wells, pionee
o.,lor - PLAT oountv died at hi