The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-06-21
BAZOO GOSSIP.

knitting wO:S, The late Mildly Morgan
the famous cattle reporter If the New
York Times, Herald and Tribune,
was doing newspaper work that would
have repealed msny young man in
his early twenties She was nearly
sixty-four at the time OF her death and
lived at Metuchen, n. j., more than
tn hours ride from New York city
vet in all the weaihers-wiuter and
summer every cattle m ,rket day sh /,
was at the jersey city stock yards by
O'Clock in the morning. getting the
notes for the day. Her knoSiedge
of horses aud ca, tie and OF live stock
in general would have been remarka-
bic even in a man. In woman il
was phenomenal. A natural love cf
horses aud cattle led her to learn
their management. In her youth in
the old country it was said there was
no colt in Ireland $, wild that she
could not break and rite it, She Sc
lected and baught horse. for the sta
b.es of King Victor Emanuel. in Italy
before she came to America. When
she first entered upon her duties ss
live stock market reporter both the
cattlemen and the her reporters
tried to put her down and throw her
out, jeering her to her fee. She lived
to prove to them that sh, knew more
about her business ihan all of them
put toge her and before long gain the
thor ugh respect ard good will OF
every ore of them. II was said th-t
she was the best judge o. the weigh,
Of a beef ON the moot of snyb Idy at
the stock yards. In spte OF her rough
work she wss lady Of the utmost re-
fineueat and culture, with voice
somewhat deep in tone, which fell like
music on the ear.
David S Fotheringham is we'll
known in this city, but of late years
he has almos, been lost sight of. The
Posr-Oi'p,'ch of Yesterday says:
"David 5. Fotheringham. the famous
Adams Express messenger who was
robbed by Jim Cummings five years
ago on the Frisco road, is
now a deputy United States marshal
in Anaconda, Mont. He has just
written the st. Louis officers for in
formation of man named H. w.
Burkhart, who has just sued Ancon-
d. for dam ,ges, claiming to have
broken his leg by falling down ON a
defective Sidewalk. Chief Desmond
has written back that he Can learn
nothing of Burkhart. He adds, in a
suggestive wsy, however, that the de-
partment knows good deal about a
one-legged ex convict who trie.i to
work the same game on St. Louis
sometime ago for $4,000. The one
legged man heard tn t the st. Louis
people were con to him and skipped
"Amsric,us are the vaudals that
are now devastating Europe," was the
remarkable assertion made by DIR.
Thomis Bax er at the Southern St.
Louis yesterday. "Tbey are the
most interchangeable relic-hunters to be
fonnd in the world, and every historic
spot between the pyramid OF Cheops
and the Tower of London has suffered |
more or less at their hands. l verify
believe that my fellow countrvmen
would chip the nose from the Venus
de Medici and carry it they were not
watched. And the women are even
more aggressive than the men. Relic.
hunting has become a craze with
Americans. and manif-sts itself both |
at home and abroad. The old clair in |
which Lincoln put q splint bottom has
to BE- kept in a wire cage TO prevent
carrying il away piece
meal. When Jesse James was killed
The floor of the room where be died
was ruined By crazy relic-hunters cut
ting splinters from it. When q noted
desperate is hanged the rope is cut
into fragments. aud the man who can
secure few inches of the hemp is en-
Vied BY bis ie lows"
That Bob Ford was killed to ave nge !
'ome wrong deed here scenes to be
no doubt. Edward A. Kelley his
slayer, came from Harrisonviile, Cass
county Mo-. A couple of years b.
fore his de ,th, when Jesse james sni
Bob Ford were Ear'n ers in GRIM hey
vent together t. kelley's homestead
o rob the family. They killed the
I'D man and one of his sons. They
pulled out Mrs Kelley's toe nails in
IN effort to make her tell where her
money Was hid but near as can be
earned, we're not successful. 1t is
aid that Edward Kelley swore to I
veDge the death of his father and +;
'rother. and the outrageous treat .
nent Of his mother. This is believed
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