The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-04-04

prizes in the winter athletic tOurna-
ment held there.
SO far as heard from there are
twenty-one candidates for the appoint
men for district attorney tor the West
ern district of Missouri, and twenty
seven for the Eastern.
The Third regiment will not be
disbanded. Adjutant General Wick
ham was present at the military recep-
ton given in his honor Monday night
and saws all trouble will he amicably
settled.
The students of Hardin college.
at Mexico, Mo-, will give an elegant
reception and banquet on the evening
OF Thursday, the 30rh, in honor of the
visitors attending the state oratorical
contest.
Colonel II. II. Gregg. of Joplin,
has resigned as one of MissOurii's
Worlds Fair commissioners. Strained
personal relation with Governor Stone
are supposed to be at the bottom of
it.
james Burns. an employee on the
construction of the Kansas City, Pitts
burg and Gulf railroad, near Nevada,
drank nearly half a gallon Of whiskey
last Saturday night, dying soon after
ward.
State Treasurer Lon V. Stephens
is now in Hot Springs, Ark. Next
week he will accompany Governor
Stone to New York, returning from
there to Hot Springs for a months
stay.
Some Drurv college boys went on
lark one night last week and painted
the college doors bright red. The
boys were amateurs at the business
for they used brush and manufac-
tured paint.
The imprisoned st. Clair county
judges were released Saturday. They
pleaded under the pauper act that
they were not worth $40 above legal
exemptions, and under a provision of
the United States were discharged.
The Sullivan county bank at
Milan, Mo-, was robbed Saturday.
Cashier Smith had gone to dinner and
lett the safe unlocked. The entrance
was made BY raising back window.
The amount stolen il something over
1000.
The dead body of a man supposed
to be William Cartwell, was found w.
ing beside the track of the c. r. l. 4
p. road near kenmoor. His back
had been broken by a passing train
striking him. A bottle of whiskey
was found in his pocket.
A stranger, supposed to be Gar
land Moore, was found dead in his
bed yesterday morning by his enter
tainer, James Taggart, Of Randolph.
Polk county. The inquest resulted
in a verdict Of death by apoplexy.
The dead man was about s. wears old.
medium height, dark hair, one ear
missing, and had small stereopticon
outfit. 1t is supposed he had relatives
in Saline county.
-Enos Stoner, alias Jno. Smith, alias
Jay Gould, etc., who broke jail at
Paris, Mo-, on the 2Sth Of February,
was captured near Hunnewell yester-
day and lodged in iail ut Paris. He
attempted last night to assassinate
James Nesbit of his county by shoot
ing him twice. One shot took effect
in the breast, and Mr.. Nesbit. it ia
believed, is fatally wounded. StOner
also attempted to kill his wife.
The suit brought bv the board Of
directors Of st. James Military acad-
envy at Macon, against Revs. Gaiser,
McMurry. Barnes, Brown and En-,
yart. asking $50, 900 damages for the
publication Of an, article censuring the
academy for permitting dancing within
its walls, will come up next month.
All but one of the old board have re-
signed. and new board has been
chosen. The ministers refused to
listen to compromise.
Samuel Earhart, collector of Dry
wood township, Vernon county, has
defaulted in the sum Of ,314. To
his bondsmen' he reports that he was
robbed on the night Of March 4. A
considerable portion of his collections
for the month of February, he says,
was taken from bureau drawer in
his house on tina: night The report
Of the loss was not made until the 18th
of this month. Mr.. Earhart has
evinced his popularity by two terms
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