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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-04-14
JAMES w. ORVIS WANTED.
His Attorney, Judge Leyens,
Has Obtained Him a Pen
sion, But the ex-SOldier
Cannot be Found.

Judge II. c. Levens knows how to
get pension for an ex.union soldier
about as we'll as the next man, snd a
great deal better than large number
of men who pretend to be claim sttor.
neys, etc.. etc. A few months ago
the Judge filed declaration for pen
sion, under the new law, in behalf of
James w Orvis, who served with
honor to his country and credit to
himself as 3ri sergeant of company 6,
111th Illinois volunteers. The judge
pushed the case with his customary
vim and ability, and about two weeks
ago the department at Washington
informed him that his clients claim
was granted at the handsome rate of
s12 per month, with back pay at that
rate for some eight or ten months, and
after deducting his legal fee of SO
the claimant has to bis credit the snug
sum of 500 or so. No doubt Orvis
would be glad to know of his good
fortune, but up to this date all Efforts
of his agent to locate him have
proved futile.
The gentleman's postofice address
has been and is at the present time
Sedalia, but he cannot be found In
the city, and nobody appears to know
what has become of him. However,
with Uncle Sam holding the funds,
and Judge II. c. Levens, his attor-
ney, his interests will be well looked
after and all necessary protection
given him.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-04-14
THE PEACE BILL
Strong Opposition to it Being
Mustered By The
Squires.

A strong effort is being made to in
duce Gov. Francis to veto the justice
OF the peace bill, which he has under
consideration. The bill in question
declares all justice Offices in st. Louis
vacant at the next general election,
and says that but nine must be elected
of the seventeen who now hold office.
The salaries of the justices to be
elected are placed at 50, 500 per
annum, making a total of s22,50O ;
the constables are to get a salary of
81, 800 a year, with two deputies at
5000 a year each. making total of
s32, 400; office rent and stationery,
clerks, etc., will cost $40, 600, making
a total expenditure of 1890 a year,
which amount, it is claimed, is not
taken in by the st. Louis justices.
But the gentlemen now holding these
positions are strongly opposed to the
abolishing of the fee system, from
which some of them are
deserving fine revenue. Jus
tice James Spaulding visited Jefer-
SIN City the first of the week and pre-
sented to the governor a long petition
urging him to vote the measure, rep
resenting that the sentiment in St.
Louis was strongly opposed to its 60
ing into force. 1t is claimed that Mr..
Spaulding received assurance that
the bill will not be signed. The
measure hss some very important
features besides those mentioned, one
being the increasing of the jurisdic
ton Of justices to cases involving as
high as $500. This would relieve the
higher cour;s of a great many small
cases which are now to be found on
the docket. Dispatch.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-04-14
MIsSOURPS PEACH CROP.

J. III. Benson of Springfield. Mo-,
was in the city yesterday. Mr.. Benson
lives in Springfield but has large
farming interests in the territory ad-
joining it. He has a peach orchard
of forty acres and has sixty acres more
in other fruits. He said yesterday
regarding the outlook for the fruit
crops in Southern Missouri: 81 see in
the paper dispatches to the effect that
the people to the south of us have
been having pretty severe weather
recently and it is predicted that the
peach orchards will suffer from it. l
hardly believe that the weather was
any more serious than that expert
enced here. / do not believe that
would injure the peach crop just at
this time unless it has been preceded
by several days of decidedly warm
and spring like weather. The weather
is beginning to moderate and an
ticipate no more severe frosis. The
outlook for fruit crops and all other
crops to my mind was never better.
City Times.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-04-14
MISSOURI CROPS.

Weather crop bulletin No. 8 of the
Missouri state board of agriculture,
Columbia, Mo-, in cooperation with
the United States signal service, for
the week ending April 3, 1891, says
The rainfall has been above the
normal except in the southern third
of the state, where it has been about
normal. Hill fell in several counties
on last Sunday and Monday withou,
doing any damage.
The temperature has bsen below
the normal in the southern half of the
state, and about normal iu the north,
ern section. The sunshine has been
below the normal all over the state.
Wheat, except in the southern por-
ton Of the State where the wheat
crop has begun to grow, is in nearly
the same condition that it was at the
beginning of the week. The cold,
cloudy weather that has prevailed
during the week has not been favor.
able to the growth of wheat, still it
has suffered no injury.
Oats-Spring blowing and oat
sowing have been carried on during
the week in counties south of Vernon,
Pulaski, Crawford and Perry. Else
where work has been delayed by
rain and wet soil.
Corn planting has begun in some
of the extreme southern counties.
Fruit-The cold of Thursday night
may have some injurious effect on
some fruits, but up to that time the
prospects we're favorable for an excel.
lent crop.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-04-14
MISS ELLSWORTH A KLEPTO.
MANIAC,

Kansas City, Mo April 9.-The
case of Miss Carrie Ellsworth, the
young woman arrested Monday for
obtaining dry goods by impersonating
a well-known society lady, and who
claimed that she did this while under
8 hypnotic spell, is exciting much
interest locally. 1t was learned yes.
terday that Miss Ellsworth, who is a
woman of fine education and appar-
emit refinement, is the daughter of
Isaac Ellsworth, a wealthy commission
merchant of Milwaukee, Wis, and
that she has been a kleptomaniac for
years, her father having spent thou
sands of dollars to cure her, but with
out result. She spent several years
in the capitals of Europe and two
years ago she took up the study Of
medicine. She claims to have been
hypnotized by lawyer named Web
ster, but, as no such person could be
found, it is believed that the hypno-
tism tale is a myth. As Miss Ellis.
worth returned the goods, there will
be no prosecution.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-04-14
A 500 SCRAP.
The Final Disposition of the
Case of the State VS.. Cross
For Pounding Ferguson.

On the 18th ofFebruary 1890 Har-
rison Cross and Green Ferguson, two
young men bad a fight ct Mount
Hartman church, place near
Georgetown, and Ferguson was ter
ribly beaten with some blunt instru-
ment, inficting serious wounds. Cross
fled and Sheriff Smith traced him east
snd succeeded in locating him at
Terre Hsute, Indiana. Smith Sc
Cured a requisition and went to Terre
Haute and brought him back to
Pettis county and lodged him in jail.
He had a preliminary examination
before Justice Blair, who held him
for the grand jury, He was indicted
for a felonious assault, and yesterda,
the young fellow pleaded guilty,
through his attorney, G. w. Barnett.
Mr.. Barnett made a good talk to
the court in behalf of Cross, told his
youth. previous good character, and
with what ease he secured a bond,
etc., etc. In his most persuasive tones
couched in language that was quite
convincing, did MIR. Barnett plead
for the young scrapper, and it had its
effect.
The court then poured out his dose
of good advice. Mistaken chIivalry
to knock your adversary Ldown when
he calls YOU a liar. If he calls you q
liar you have not lied, he is liar
himself and that don't hurt you" said
Judge Ryland leaning back in bis
chair.
eyes," continued the court, "you
might have killed Ferguson and then
it would have been much worse for
you to-day. You should not fight. 1t
is wrong and brings you into
trouble and disgrace. 1t does
not demonstrate your manhood be-
cause you are strong and can whip
the other fellow. If strength was an
index Of manhood, the OK or the
mule is better than you. / will fine
you the least / can under the law
$780,"
The court then took a long breath,
thought of the war with Italy and
said:
"Mr. Barnett, can Mr.. Cross pay
the fine ?" asked Judge Ryland.
Barnett He expected to but has
failed In his calculations.
Court-The court might remit part
of the fine if the SITS were paid.
They must be paid.
Barnett and his client retired to
one of the consulting rooms end The
court took another long breath.
The court still has the matter under
advisement aud the defendant has
been remanded to custody until he
can raise the fine.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-04-14
CAUGHT ON THE FLY.

If John Hamilton, colored, could
sweep through space on the wings of
the wind he mi ght have gotten away,
but not possessing such magic power,
the festive lad was under the painful
necessity of stopping over a day or
two in Sedalia, to which city he had
fled from Kansas City. 1t appears as
though this gentleman of color made
an illegal appropriation of some
chattles which be obtained possession
of on the installment system, and get
ting the money in his pocket
for the sale thereof be
concluded that a change of
climate would be conducive t. his ply
steal economy, so he set out for fields
more fresh aud pastures new. The
gay bird got out as for as Sedslia and
here he fingered for short time to
rest his weary pinions. In the mean
time Kansas City police authorities
had telegraphed to Sedalia chief of
police, giving a description of the
fellow, and asking for his arrest. Yes.
terday he was run down and arrested.
He now languishes in the hold
over, awaiting the arrival of Kan.
sas City officer who will take him
back TO that place for trial.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-04-14
SAYS HE WAS SOBER.
Ernest Wells, the Man Who Was
Hurt by a Train at
Nevada.

Yesterdays Nevada Democrat says
Err est Wells, who came here lately
from Sedalia, to hunt work was struck
by Missouri Pacific passenger train
No. 3O2, yesterday afternoon and sus-
tanned painful injury.
Wells YVES picked up and brought
to the depot. Drs. Wilson and Cal
laway, railway surgeons, were tele-
phoned for and Immediately re-
sponded. Wells injury was properly
dressed and subsequently he was re-
moved TO the Hutchinson hotel on
East Cherry street, anu given atten-
ton. When Wells was picked up he
was unconscious, but subsequently
rallied.
From DIR. Wilson it was learned
that Wells received cut on the back
part of his head, about one and one
half inches long, nearly to the skull,
severiug an artery that bad to be
tied. His injury, it was thought, to
be conclusion of the brain.
Wells is a narrated man, his wife
residing in Sedalia. Mrs. Wells was
promptly notified by telegraph. She
is expected to come here to-day.
Wells brother came in last night
and is at his bedside to-day.
Wells appeared to be much i'm
proved this morning. Being asked
how he was hurt, said he did not re-
member anything about it. He came
here lately hunting work. He was
duly sober, of this he is positive.
1t appears that Wells was struck
while on the track near the trestle at
a curve.a the south end of the railway
yards.
1t does not appear that any men
were standing around in this portion
of the yards at the time.
The train men who had charge Of
the train went on to Kansas City,
and are to return with the evening
train.
Wells will be taken to his home at
Sedalia. Judging from his appear
ance this morning he will recover.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-04-14
Children Cry for
Pitchers CastoFia.
PHINEAS T. BARNUM.
Demise of the Great Snowman at
His Connecticut Home
Last Evening.

Bridgeport, Conn.,, April S.-Phin'
cas- Taylor Barnum died at $50 last
night after an illness of 81 weeks. The
cause was degeneration of the muscles
of the heart superinduced by general
weakness.
Yesterday Rev. l.. B. Fisher, of
the Universaiist church, which Mr..
Barnum attended, spoke words Of
consolation to the dying man. Mr..
Barnum expressed his readiness to 90
when the summons came. Burial will
be at Mountain Grove cemetery in the
west part of the city where hand
some monument was erected several
years ago by Sir. Birnum. Treasurer
Fish said that no performance of the
sh w in New York would be given on
tue day OF the funeral, but otherwise
there could be no interruption in the
programme of arrangements. The
bulk of Mr.. Barnum's property will
go to Barnum Seeley, his only grand
SON, though he has made liberal pro-
visions for his wife, daughters and
other relatives.
! SKETCH OF THE GREAT SNOWMAN.
Phineas Taylor Barnum was born
in Bethel, Conn.,, July D, 1910. His
father was a country innkeeper and
a merchant in small way. Phineas,
from the age of Ii to Is years, was
in many different businesses, part of
the time in Brooklyn and part in
New York City. After he grew
older he went into the circus business
and travelled all over this country and
last year went to England, where he
was very successful.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-04-14
DID NOT SUCCEED.
A Kansas City Mob Endeavors to
Lynch the Murderer of -
MOllie Magruder. ...ss -.

A mob stormed the county Jail in
Kansas City at o'clock this morn
ing. 1t was mob of infatuated col
ored men about thirty-fve in number,
masked with handkerchiefs, fully
armed and bearing a rope, already
knotted, and which was intended to
choke out tina life of William Mccoy
(celored), who last Sunday night bat
tered out the brains of his mistress,
Molly Msgruder, near the Priests of
Pallas in that city.
The mob was driven away after
shots were fired and blOodshed
seemed imminent.
Everything was quiet about the
county Jail when the mob entered the
front hallway. Deputy Marshal
Malloy, who has charge of the Jail at
night, was making the rounds of the
cells. In the marshaPs office in the
west wing of the court house was Dep
uty Marshal Emnons. Upstairs
Deputy Keshlear was sleeping, for he
was not on duty at the time.
BROKE DOWN THE DOOR.
The mob entered the front hall
quietly, lowered the gas and began
pouring down the stairway to the
basement where the Jail proper ID
located. They were checked by the
wooden door which shuts of the up
stairs part of the building from the
visitors lobby in the Jail. This door
the ringleaders of the mob burst open
and had just started through when
Capt. Malloy came running up from
the womans' part of the Jail with .
revolver in his hand.
AFTER THE KEYS.
"Give US those keys" yelled some
one down through the big light shaft
and the men in the staircase echoed
the cry.
Captain ..Malloy began firing and
the men began retreating upon the
stairway, Had not the door resisted
them so long they would have been at
the entrance of the cells, and then a
fight would have been necessary, for
hurried fight would have been cut
of. As the negroes began to come
up the stairway Deputy Marshall
Keshlear came down stairs from the
second floor, having been aroused by
the shots, and Deputy Emmons ran
into the front hallway from the mar
shaps office. Emmons was seized by
the throat by three of the men who
demanded the keys. Another with
revolver araiust Deputy Kcsh'oar's
breast cried
Give us the man who killed that
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-04-14

Mrs. George Anderson died at her
home about eighteen miles from Sc
dalia, with an acute attack of la
grippe, last evening.
Deceased was sc years of age, and
lost her husband by death about three
years ago. He was an old resident of
Pettis county aud well known, being
for many years one of the most SUBJ
stantial and reliable offarmers.
She will be LAID to rest tomorrow,
the funeral taking place at the late
residence.
"All, all must sleep in grim repose,
Collected in the silent tomb,
The old. the youag, with friends and foes;
Fest'ring alike in shroudsconsume.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-04-14
A PRINTING OFFICE WRECKED.

The Advocate office was wrecked
for the fourth time Tuesday morning,
while Frank Griffin, the editor and
proprietor, was away from Maryville,
the location of The paper. The van
dals who did the work entered the of,
flee during the night and smashed
the presses and destroyed the type and
other material generally. The AID
vocate is in bitter faetional fight and
has incurred the enmity of a certain
class.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-04-14
LIED FOR SOMETHING TO EAT.

Last Saturday morning a young
man giving the name of Charles Ed.
wards, claiming to be barber by
trade and coming from Cincinnati,
pulled into Sedalia A La side door
sleeper route, and began to make a
tour of the city In search of a SUBJ
stantial breakfast. He said he had a
sister residing in Kansas City. and if
he could get there he would be all o.
K. A kind hearted gentleman, list.
ening to his tale of woe, took com
passion upon him and got him 25
cent breakfast, at the same time ad-
monishing him to get out of the city
as quickly as possible. And if he re-
NAMED in town the police VOL Id soon
get on to him and give him cuance
to test the hospitality of Hotel de
Smith, with sufficient amount of ex-
ercise on the rock pile to develop
his muscle and be generally condu-
Give to his health. The young man
promised that he would heed the gen.
erous warning and get out of the
city Immediately.
The man who had assisted him told
the circumstances to q policeman,
giving him description of the young
man; and asked him to keep an eye
on him. The policeman did 30, and
says that instead of leaving the city
as he agreed to do, he joined two more
tramps who had in their possession a
bottle of tangle-foot, and helped him.
self to liberal quantity of its con-
tents thus washing down the break
fast which the honest mad had been
deceived into giving him. Thinking
Sedalia to be very good place to
spend Sunday, he remained over and
was seen on the streets Monday morn
ing.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-04-14
Merit Wins.

We desire to say to our citizens, that
for years we have been selling DIR. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption, DIR.
Kings New Life Pills, Bucklen's Arnlca
Salve and Electric Bitters, and have
never handled remedies that sell as well,
or that have given such universal salts.
faction. We do not hesitate to guarantee
them every time, and we stand ready to
refund the purchase price, if satisfactory
results do not follow their use. These
remedies have WOE their popularity
purely on their merits. Mertz & Hale,
Druggists.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-04-14
REITERATED UNDER FIRE.

The deputy answered in vigorous
words that they could not get Mccoy.
Captain Malloy fired again and the
mob then began retreating slowly.
When it had reached Independence
and Walnut it was moving rapidly.
1t scattered into groups Of eight or
ten and excited knots of men were
still lingering sbout the street in the
north end at 2 o'clock this morning.
Deputy Marshal Keshlear tele-
phoned to the police station before
the last of the mob had left the build
ing and squad was sent down on the
run. The last of the rioters had dis
appeared before the police arrived.
No arrests were made, though q few
colored men still fingered around ask.
ing simple questions and pretending
to know nothing about the attempted
lynching.
All through the disturbance VIII
liam Mccoy slept unmindful of the
shadow of death which hung over
him.
A SECOND ATTACK. NOT LOOKED FOB.
AT 2:3O o'clock this morning not a
colored man was to be seen around
the Jail building. The would-be
lynchers had gone over to Fifth and
Giilis streets, and it was expected that
they were endeavoring to inclte other
negroes to Join the mob and renew the
attack before daylight. After the
repulse, Captain Malloy and Deputy
Emmons were reinforced by other
deputies and by the police, and no
further disturbance is looked for. The
negroes are very angry over the muir.
der, however, and declare the MUIR
derer must be punished.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-04-14
ALI lawyers, doctors, bankers,

All lawyers, doctors, bankers, mer-
chants, clerks, school teachers, stu
dents, seamstresses and others who
lead a closely confined life, should al
ways keep on hand a bottle of Bsiley's
SALINE APER1ENT. 1t is a never
failing remedy for sick headache,
babitual constipation, torpid liver,
sour stomach, &c. For cooling the
stomach in fevers, and as purgative
in kidney and skin diseases it acts
like a charm.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-04-14

A convict who is serving ten
years sentence, made very ingenious
attempt to escape last week. He works
in the Standard shoe shop and was
permitted to leave the shop on the
pretense that his nose was bleeding.
He Immediately slipped in line with
a gang of convicts who were marching
single file into tho stookade Ho
managed to slip out of the line unob-
served as the convic's entered enc of
the new buildings and worked his way
up stairs and secreted himself in a
pile of paper boxes which he stacked
up around himself.
The convict was not missed until
night. The officers were certain that
he was hid somewhere about the insti-
tuition, and vigilsnt search was made
without any result. Night guards
were placed around the stockade as a
precaution, and kept on the night fol.
lowing. In the meantime the officers
kept up a constant hunt for the mics
ing man.
The third day the convict WIS acct
dentslly discovered by one of the
engineers whose dinner he had been
stealing, and he was soon routed out
of bis hiding place and sent back to
work. He hsd planne1 his escape
very carefully and would have been
outside long before had no the engi.
neer returned unexpectedly.-Jefer-
son City Tribune.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-04-14
FOR SALE.

The counter and bank fixtures
lately used by the First National
Bank, Sedalia. The counters and
desks are of beautiful black wal
nut and as good as when new, ex-
cept a coat of yarniSh. They will
be sold cheap and are very suit
able for a country banking house.
Address j. c. THOMPSON,
4-9d &w-tf Cashier.
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Representations intense itching
md singing; most at night; ~one BY
scratching. III allowed to continue humors
orm, which often bleed and ulcsRats, be
coming very sore. swsyne's Ointment
stops the itching and bleeding, heals the
liberation and in most cases removes the
burners. Al druggists or By mail, for 80
c,nts, Dr.. 6wsyns q Bon, Philsdelphis.
~ .--l- Igfi .0d.6m
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-04-14
FINE BUGGIES.

D. NJ. Williams, No. 206 West Main
street, Sedalia, No., is the agent fer Petiis
county, for the most popular and largest
Buggy aud Carriage mandatory in the
world, Haydock Bros. of 81. Louis. Jobben
werk cannot complete with our goods,
either in quality or price. Call and Ak
anime them before purchasing.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-04-14
Children Cry for
Pitchers Castoria.
WHITE'S VIBRATING GATE.

Whites gate is creating widespread in
terest. 1t surpasses anything of its kind
ever placed before the public. All are
cordially invited to inspect for themselves.
Sample gate at corner of Main and Ohio
streets. For all information, address
Quinn & Seitz, 21l Ohio street, Sedalia,
Mo. d1w3t
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-04-14
For Over Fifty Years

Mrs. WINsLow's SOOTHING, SYRUP as
been used for children teething. Itsooths
the child, sof:ens the gums, sllays paine
cures wind collie, and is the best remedy
for Diarrhea. Twenty-Five cents bottle
Sold by all druggists throughout the world
s1-1yr
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FLAX SEED

to loan. Enquire of J. II. Plsnck, agent
Walter A. Wood Machine Co., 6edalia,
Ne. 80 4w4t