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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-03-05

AS natural and necessary compile
ment to Professor Gildersleeve's paper
on "The creed Of the Old South" in the
January Atlantic and Professor Shaler's
statement rerarking 1.-THE Border State
Men of the Civil War" in the February
number, General J. D. Cox, of Ohio, an
officer in the Union army, will have a
strong article in the March Atlantic
showing clearly and Enthusiastically "Whv
the Men Of 81 Fought for thu Union"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-03-05
OFFICERS
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

E. G. Alexander Chairman G. NJ. Crisup, Sec y
Us. Madden, Treasurer
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Frank B. Waring II. W. Fairfax
w. r. Cowan &c. Pittman,
Noah Thompson VIM. M. Lee
40 Fduord Smith
Edward Smith

t,as COMMITTEE ON INVITATION
A., $. Gamblee R. N. Hancock James A. Patton
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Senator Sherman has introduced q
bill putting within the jurisdiction Of the
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Bits OF Pleasantly Suggested While The
Dancers Rested,
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PATRONESSES

DR.. d. II. Williams P. r. Miller j. S. Madden
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tinsel overdress, American beauties.
Miss Bell Hooker, albatross, pink
ribbon and chiffon, flowers, diamonds.
Miss Gertrude Thornton, white nuns
yelling, white brocade satin, pearls.
Mrs. Florence Plummer, black silk
trimmed with lace, diamonds.
Mrs. Horace Jackson, crepe du chem
and lace, diamonds, flowers.
Mrs. r. E. Moore, sea foam Henrietta
pink frail sick trimmed in pink chiffon
and diamonds.
Miss Mamie Meredith, pink surah
silk, EN- embroidered lace chiffon.
Miss Henrietta French, white crepe
du chem.
Miss Dolores Lawrence, pink india
silk, la tosca, embroidered lace, chiffon,
diamonds.
Mrs. Maggie French, Miss Sarah
Freeman, Mrs. Mary Hardy, Mrs. Jessie
Brown.
Mrs. Carrie French, lavender silk,
white lace trimmings, diamonds.
Miss Matte Gray. white silk and silk
lace overdress, rubies. H.. ..rs.- Ill.
Miss Fife Jones, old rose silk, cream
trimmings, lace chiffon. c...aeE
Mrs. Horace Jackson, crepe de chine,
flowers, diamonds.
Mrs. Wickliff, black satin. diamonds.
Miss Rosa Jackson. silk crepe de
chine, diamonds and rubies.
Mrs. G. w. Walker, English cloth,
flowers and pearls.
Mrs. NJ. G. Cowan, lavender Henrietta,
steel tinsel, flowers. lace, diamonds.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-10-18
SCHOOL BOOKS.
Important Resolution Adopted
To-Day by the Commission
at Jefferson City.

JEFFERSON CITY, Oct.11. Special. I
The Missouri school text book COM
mission to-day passed resolution re-
que>ting Governor Francis 10 instruct
the Attorney General to proceed, at
once, by mand;mus, against the board
of directors of education, of Sedalia.
to compel them To Use the text books
adopted by the commission.
The commission also empowered
Superintendent l.. +. Wolfe to in
ve>tigate the cause why Butler Il Co,
have not fully complied with their
contract for supplying Biographies,
and To- sue the firm or the bond given
for compliance with contract.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-10-18
SHE SHOT TO KILL.
Notorious Bessie Umbles Tries
to Make a Corpse of Abe
Emerson.

West Main street was the scene OF
Il shooting scrape last night, when the
notorious negro woman, Bessie Um-
bles, who has been in the local courts
more times than she has toes and fing-
ers attempted to pump a dose of lead
into the almost equally notorious Abe
Emerson.
The feud was Of long standing and
involved two other negroes, Bette
Lacey and her husband.
Lacey, himself, is an invalid. Some
time ago Emerson made a
proposition, which was ac-
copied, that if he could make
his home with the Lacey's he would
support the family.
At length, and naturally enough,
Emerson and the Lacey woman be-
came too intimate, as her husband
thought. Somehow, Bessie Umbles
got mixed up in the ugly tangle and
she had it in for Emerson.
Last night they happened to meet
on Main street and renewed the quar-
rel. Bessie was not long in getting
out her revolver. which she began to
Use with all the dexterity of the late
DaltOns.
She fired three shots ut close range
at Emerson. and one of the balls struck
him in the back Of the head, but
glanced of, making, however, a pain
full wound.
Officer Eakle> heard the firing,
fastened to the scene and arrested
Emerson. Bessie had skipped, but
she and the Lacey woman were soon
taken in by Officer Drake.
All three were locked up in the
calaboose, and were arraigned before
Judge Rauck this morning. Lacey,
who had his head handaged, and his
wife, were fined 81 each for disturb
ing the peace. Bessie was charged
with assault with intent to kill and
was turned over to the state authOri-
ties.
Sedalia now has good opportunity
to get rid of one of the most vicious
and dangerous wOmen-Umbles-
that have ever troubled the town.
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TO BEGIN WORK.
Committees Appointed to So
licit Subscriptions for the
S. S. M. & NJ, Will Be
Out Tomorrow.

The committees appointed TO solicit
subscriptions for the proposed :. :.
VI. Il n. railroad will begin their
work in this city and county to-mor-
row.
Let it be plainly understood tia;
this is not donation, but simply a
subscription. Not cent Is 10 be
paid until the road is put in running
order from Springfield to Sedalia,
then only payment of one-third of
what may he individually subscribed.
When the road shall have been
completed from Sedalia to Mar
shall, another third, and one
year later, when it shall have been
completed from Springfield to Mar
shall, another third, when a certificate
of stock will be issued to the subscri-
Der.
The BAzOO would urge it Is an i'm
perative duty upon all citizens who
are interested in the welfare of Soda
lia and Pettis county to subscribe
promptly and literally. Other coun-
ties along the line are vigorously
pushing the enterprise, and this com
munity should keep up with the band
wagon.
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ANOTHER CHAPTER
Concerning the Negro Brute
Who Robbed and At
tempted to Rape Miss
Gruber.

The BAzOo this morning was put in
possession of very interesting episode
in which the wOuld-be negro rapist,
Bill Petty, played the part of the
heavy villain a short time before his
adventure with Miss Fannie Gruber
on North Grand avenue. He meant
devilment that day and was only seek
ing favorable opportunity to carry
out his hellish designs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Prince are boarding
with a German lady near Association
park. Yesterday morning Mr..
Prince, who has become well
known here as champion
bicycle rider, was in training over on
the kite-shaped track.
About 8 o'clock, while in her sit
ting room, Mrs. Prince heard noise
in the adjoining bedroom. She
thought it was made by her husband
who had likely, she supposed, returned
from the track. She stepped into the
bedroom, but saw no one. Suspecting
her husband was playing a prank on
her and that he was hidden behind the
door, she pulled it back, when she was
startled and frightened to find a black,
burly negro man standing there. She
accosted him severely and as the lady
ofthe house appeared on the scene just
then, the negro beat hasty retreat.
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Prince
fully identified Petty as the intruder
into her room.
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Pats Great Wonder.

We are surrounded by dangers all
the way from the cradle to the grave.
1.-The great wonder is" as Pat SAYS,
THAT after getting out of the cradle,
we live long enough to reach the
grave" Thousands are out of health
-morose, morbid and miserable, be-
cause they do not avail themselves of
the remedy within easy reach of them.
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
erv would cure them.
For all chronic or lingering coughs,
weak lungs, splitting of blood, bron-
chitis, shortnes> of breath, asthma and
kindred ailments, it is most potent
remedy. 1t cleanses the blood, invig-
CRATES the liver, improves digestion,
and builds up both flesh and strength.
Dose small and pleasant to taste.
Large bottles, one dollar. OF all
druggists.
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corresponding books adopted by the
ID. c. Heath Il CO., the publishers

d. c. Heath Il CO., the publishers
of Hyde's grammars, have joined the
Sedalia school board against the Use
of Harvey's grammar. The American
Book Co. publish both Whites and
RAYS arithmetics and Barnes and
Eggleston's histories. Although But
ler's biographies, the books displaced
by the Eclectic Biographies, are pub
lished by f. H. Butler Il Co., and
Franklin readers, the books displaced
by McGuffey's readers, are published
by Sheldon Il Co., no suits have been
brought by these companies against
the Sedalia school board. The only
suit instituted is that of ID. c. Heath
Il Co.
| have also sent inquiries to the
fourteen Missouri text book deposito-
ries inquiring what publishers con-
tracted with by the Missouri school
book commission are not filling orders
promptly and the magnitude of such
untitled orders. From replies to these
inquiries. l find that dealers have had
some difficulty in securing the Frank
lin fourth and fifth readers, published
bv Sheldon 4 Co., and that f. H.
Butler & Co.'S. untitled orders for
Butler biographies will reach several
thousand copies.
Butler & Co., charge their delay to
a strike among employees and to the
breaking down of presses. But pupils
and patrons must not be made to
suffer on account of the misfortune of
the publisher. Had Buffers geogra-
pixies been promptly furnished pupils
could have exchanged their old books
before September l, 1S92-the expi-
ration of the time for the exchange
thus securing the adopted Biographies
at half price. All pupils who ten
dered their old Biographies in ex-
change before September 1, 1892, are
entitled to exchange prices, and
should insist on them. 1t may, how
ever, be said on behalf of the pub
fishers and depositors that it was i'm
possible to estimate the number of
books necessary to supply the state,
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q BlOONlNG FlASCO.
= Garg OF Ecodiums Threaten
to Lynch Bill Petty, But
Fail,

Soon after the news spread through
town Yesterday that Il negro man had
robbed AMI attempted To rape Miss
Fannie Gruber. on North Grand
Avenue. AMI after it became known
that he was 4 prisoner. groups of men
and boys. mostly idlers here and
there, expressed Il desire 20 lvnch him.
OF course The OUTRAGE was con-
,,emne,i by al classes of cii,ileus, but
the thought of lynching the negro in
the fair city of Sedalia, and thereby
putting blot upon her good name
never 10 be effaced, was far from the
desire or purpose Of law-abiding peO-
pie.
Talk of mob was continually in
dulged in, however, and it was fully
expected that some sort of attempt to
take him from the jail would be made
after nightfall Sheriff Smith accord
ingly made ample preparation to pre-
vent the accomplishment Of this
scheme.
Along about midnight a consider
able body of men and lads gathered
around the Jail and demanded the
negro. Sheriff Smith and Prosecuting
Attorney LOngan came out and per-
suaded the mob to disperse.
The lvnchers had no leader and
it is a question open to discussion as
to whether the gang had nerve enough
to hang anybody, even if there had
been no officers or guards in the way.
Bill Petty, the prisoner, was badly
frightened when he heard the shout
ing outside, and doubtless thought the
day of doom had come.
Finally, when the would-be lynch
ers found themselves foiled, like the
Arabs, they folded their tents and
silently stole away.
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BAREFACED BOODLlNG.
II is Fastened on Minnesota
Republicans.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, October H.
The democratic state central commit
tee has secured and will to-day print
in the St. Paul Globe indi>putable evi.
dence that the republican state COM
mittee is buying up all the Alliance
papers for the support of the republi,
can state and national tickets. Con-
elusive evidence having been secured
that purchases Of support were being
made right and left, the democratic
committee laid a trap and the republic
can committee fell right into it. The
Globe will print fac smile letters from
a state committeeman, from two edi-
tors, and from one of the republican
land officers at CrookstOn.
William G.. Hunt, editor of the
Weekly News at Mcintosh, Polk county,
was told by the editor of a Norwegian
paper of the same county that he
could secure from 5000 to $500 if he
would change the politics of his paper
for the remainder of the campaign.
The Norwegian editor said he had re-
ceived $500 for deserving the Peoples
party and running up the names of
the republican candidates.
Mr.. Hunt, who is running a peo-
pies party paper. saw an opportunity
to catch the republicans in their mon
strous scheme Of buying up the press,
and took Mr.. \. X. Holston, County
Attorney for Polk county, into his
The two laid a trap and
the republicans were bagged in two
weeks.
Editor Hunt first went to l.. X.
Aakers, receiver of the land office ut
Crookston, and said he would make
his paper republican organ six months
for 500. Mr.. Aakers was willing to
make the purchase, but said he was
not authorized to offer over $500. He
then referred Mr.. Hunt to NJ. S. Con-
vers, State Committeeman for the dis
trict, whose home is at Detroit, Min
nesota. With Mr.. COnvers,
Mr.. Hunt had no trouble in
making a dicker, and 800 of the
money was paid down. This money
was turned over to County Attorney
Holston. Editor Hunt then kept
right on printing an alliance paper
until he had received half a dozen let
tiers from republican committeeman
roasting him for not keeping his end
of the bargain.
All this information was turned
over to the democratic and populist
state committees, and large number
Of fac SMILES of the letters will appear
in the Globe. During his confidential
with the republicans, Ed
itor Hunt learned that the republicans
had already purchased the support of
two papers in Polk county, one in OF
ter Tail, and more than a dozen in
other parts of the state.
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Good-by to the Festive Fly.

us tne last ny OF summer
Len ouzzing alone,
Have hacked mn and o,ne
The most of them soupb,
S,icLv n,nerto FRY
I'm, some Of them hid
In the blueberrv pie.
lhI> sad fly l. thinking
Oh days that have sped,
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SCHOOL BOOKS.
A Letter From Superintendent
Wolfe to Gov. D. r.
Francis.
The Injunction of Heath & Co.,
Against the Board Of Edu-
cation of SedaIia.

State Superintendent of Schools l..
f. Wolfe Saturday transmitted To
the governor the following self ex-
planatory communication:
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, JEFF
FERsoN CITY. No., Oct. 8, 1892
HoN. DAvIDR. FRANCIs.-DEAR SIR:
In accordance with the following
from section of the textbook law,
"After the commission shall have
entered into such contract or contracts
and shall have discharged all the
duties as are herein provided for,
then it shall be the special duties of
the president of said commission 10
see that all the provisions OF said con-
tract or contracts are faithfully carried
out" I have visited Sedalia and have
carefully conferred with the superin-
tendent of schools and the book deal
erS. find the following books, pub
li<hed by the American Book Co., and
not adopted by the Missouri School
Book commission, have been purchas-
ed for Use in the Sedalia public schools
during the present school year. All
of these books are now actually in Use
with the exception of Harvey's
grammar, the Use of
which has been discontinued
since the injunction suit against the
Sedalia school board by ID. c. Heath
Il Co., Harvey's grammar, used in
grades seven and eight; Whites ele-
mentary and complete arithmetics,
used exclusively; Eclectic elementary
geography, usedin grade five; Eclectic
Complete Geography, used in grade
seven; Barnes Primary United States
History, used in grade six; Eggle-
ston's United States History, used in
grade eight McGufeys Fourth Read
err, used in grade five; McGuffey's
Fifth Reader, used in grade seven.
The following tabulation shows the
prices at which the above books and
corresponding books adopted by the
Missouri School-BoOk commission are
being sold to pupils by Sedalia book
dealers:
Books not adopted by thecommission:
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This from the Lexington News con-
corning an ex-Sedalian:
Prof. c. c. Parker is the pOssessor
of curious phenomena in nature. 1t
is three Mexican jumping beans which
he purchased in Southern California.
They resemble light brown coffee
bean, and when placed upon a smooth
surface skip and jump about as
though something animate. The pro-
fessor has christened the frisky little
fellows as Tom, Dick and Harry, and
has bestowed them upon a certain
little boy in this city.
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"Fill 'em up Again"

Sedalians will remember Col. j. T.
Child, ex-minister to Siam, who spoke
on the court house square on the
night of the Stevenson rally. The
Colonel tells this good story:
Il was over in Canada several wears
ago" he said, land for good whisky
and brandy want to say that the
dominion takes the prize. | was in
Windsor with a party of Missourians
one day, land with one of them ! strolled
about looking at the town. Becoming
somewhat worn, we began to cast
about for a place whereat we could
buy some brandy. We came upon
one very soon. told the man in
charge to fix up two good pale Hen
Messy punches. In my travels have
tasted the decOctions of all lands.
but | am sure better mixture never
tickled the palate of man than that
pale Hennessey punch of Windsor
make. tossed half dollar out in
payment and with last smack of nv
lips started TO go, when tine bar man
called me back.
Don't forget your change he
said, and with that he handed ~ cents
to me.
whats this?' / asked. What is
the price of those punches?"
"'Five cents each, responded the
man behind the bar.
81 turned squarely around again,
and bringing my two fists down hard
ON the counter, | called in stentOrian
tones:
"'Fill 'em up again."
when we got on the street again
we met eighteen of our Missouri
friends. / stopped them.
Come in here and do Is do !
said.
.'The party followed me into the
place from which had just emerged
with my friends.
:. Give me brandy punch l
said.
each of the nineteen men who
were with me made the same request.
In five minutes the seductive mixtures
were tossed off and my guestes were
wondering at my extravaganza. l
threw a dollar on the bar, at which
the man behind nodded his thanks.
NV friends stared at me and one of
them asked what it all meant.
'Hennessy brandy punches sell at
5 cents a piece in Windsor said
with an air of triumph. For an in
slant there was not a sound. Then
my nineteen friends hit the bar with
their fists and in tones that could be
heard across the Detroit river they
shouted:
" Fill 'em up again -
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local dealers placed

and that many local dealers placed
their orders late.
1t having been charged in at least
one of the Sedalia papers that the
Springfield and St. Joseph public
schools were using books in the COM
mon branches not adopted by the
school-bOok commission, | wrote the
superintendent Of these schools and
received an emphatic denial of the
charge.
In view of the use in the Sedalia
public schools of books not contracted
for by the Missouri school-book COM
mission. and the failure of f. ii. But
Ter d Co. TO fill their orders, in nv
opinion, creates an emergency within
the meaning OF section 8 of the text
book law, making an early session of
the school book commission necessary.
trust, therefore, that You will ex-
ercise the authority veSted,in YOU by
the above section. and convene the
school book commission ut Jefferson
City at an early date.
Very truly YOURS,
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When Baby xas SICK, We gave her Castoria-
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria-
When she became Miss, she chung TO Caseoria.
When she had Children, she gave them castoriA
DESTROYED bv Fire.

Editor Lon Luther, of the Record,
who was in the city this morning,
says that the dwelling house of James
Ramey, a farmer who resides two
miles south of LamOnte, was totally
destroyed by fire last Saturday night.
Nothing was saved. The family were
in LamOnte at the time. A defective
hue caused the disaster.
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The Dead Bandits.

E. c. OFT, young messenger on
the NJ, X. Il T., showed a BAzOO
representative to-day a photograph of
four of the Cofeyville bandits as they
lay in the court house. Bob and
Grant Dalton were lying side by side
in the middle Bob's mouth was wide
open. They were all in their sock
feet.
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6ucklen Arnica Salve.

:. THE BFsT SALvE in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, letter. Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and posi-
lively cures Piles, or no pay required. II
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price % cents per
box. For sale by Mertz & Hale.
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Very truIy YOURS,
l.. T.. WOLFE,
President School-Book Commission.

To verify Mr.. Wolfe'S repor, we
examined the proceedings of the board
of June % lat, and find that Mr..
Wolfe i correctexceptthat he omitted
from the list adopted by the school
board. Barnes Brief History of the
United States, price sS cents, making
three separate books on history, and
making the total cost of the Sedalia
books adoption sS.53 against s4.41 +,
the cost Of the state commission
adoption.
From the letter above il will be
seen that Governor Francis is doing
nothing but his duty in the matter
and should he upheld.