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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-06-13
A Missouri Ex-Slave's Estate.

LOUISVILLE, KY. June 8 "A story
with a flavor of romance about 1t is
being discussed by persons who are
acquainted with the facts. Two OF
three weeks ago Lawyer Kyle, of Har.
risonville, Mo-, addressed letters 10
persons in Stanford and Hustonville,
asking the whereabouts, if living, of
Timothy Mastuson, James, Benjamin
and Dudley Alcorn, slaves of the late
DR.. d. j. Alcorn. One the letters was
received by DIR. Ed'w. Alcorn. of Dan
vile, who was in Possession of the
information desired. Yesterday a
second letter was received by the doc
tor from Kyle in which the reason for
the questions asked in the first letter
were given. Joseph Timothy, Jim
Ben" and Dudly were sous of Kitty
Mastuson, colored. slave of William
Mastuson, who died in 1910. A year
or so prior to the death of her father
Mrs. Mary Mastuson McKenny fell
heir to Joseph, then a small boy, and
took him to her home in Harrrsonville
Mo. He was shrewd, shifty and
energetic. He made several overland
trips to California with his master and
aided him in his trading expeditions
In 1854 he told Mrs. McKinny that
if she would sell him his freedom he
would pay her $1,000. To this she
consented, and the money was sent
back to her after Joseph had settled
in California. Joseph had in the
meantime lost track Of his brothers,
Timothy, James and Dudley. and
they had long since given him up for
dead. But he was very much alive.
On the 9Th day of April just passed
Joseph died, without heirs, in Califor-
MIA, one of the wealthiest negroes ON
the Pacific coast, leaving an estate
valued at anywhere from s75, 900 to
$4,000. Lawyer Kyle was put IN
charge of the estate and went to work
to hunt up the legal heirs. Shortly
after Joseph's death will,
to be fraudulent,
was found, which devises
$4,000 of the property to an old
quack doctor and his family. As soon
as Kyle was given the place of resi-
dence of the three surviving brothers
he came to Louisville and was given
to act in the matter. Dud-
ley is lawyer and employed in the
revenue service. "Jim Ben" is a
shoemaker, and Timothy is a con-
tractor and builder. So it turns out
that the ex-slave Joseph, who was
always looked upon as a''pert negger",
had more than ordinary business
and frugality.
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DYING BY THOUSANDS.
People In Asiatic Turkey Fight
ing Cholera.
Great Floods in Austria
Charles De lesseps to
be Released.

CoNsTANTINoPLE, June Ere
ports from several cities in Asiati,
Turkey say that cholera has appeared
in many districts and is spreading
rapidly. Along the lower Tigris and
Spatel Arab river, people are dying
bv thousands.
Whole villages are deserted by PEG.
pie fleeing from the pest.
The panic has become so great that
few families bury their deaf or even
remain to nurse their sick, but flee to
the next town to escape infection.
The influx from the stricken towns
is spreading the epidemic with apal.
ling rapidity. Letters from Bassora
city say that 10000 people have fled
from Bassora province alone.
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NED MCGOWAN DYING.
The One.Time Noted Western
Desperate Deserted in
His Old Age.

SAN Francisco, Cal, June IA,
St. Mary's Hospital, Ned MCGOWAN,
who was condemned to death by the
vigilance committee in 1856, but es
capped after many string adventures,
is dying. The doctors gave him up.
and as he is Sc and has lived hard
life, his death is only qestion of a
few days. The old man,
who once ruled San Francisco and
made thousands in a single night by
his gambling house, is now destitute.
All his old associates neglected him,
and the only man to come forward
with help is VIM. T. Coleman, the
leader of the vigilance committee who
forty years ago strained every nerve
to capture and hang MCGOWAN. Cole
man gave $40 for MCGOWAN, saying
81 fought him in the old days, and
wanted to string him up, but l can't
bear to think of his wanting any com.
forts in his old age" What this ac-
ton means can only be appreciated by
one who knew the virulent hatred
MCGOWAN bore toward Coleman.
MCGOWAN received his training
in New York ward politics, and
served there for a short time as judge.
He was an all-round desperate, and
was the leader of the gang that stuffed
ballot-boxes and defied the courts and
law Offices. When Casey and Corey
were hanged by the vigilance COM
mittee MCGOWAN was condemned and
an order issued for his arrest. He fed
to Southern California, and was hidden
by a half-breed woman whom he had
once aided. Several years after he re-
turned, and was acquitted on trial be-
cause most of the witnesses
against him were dead or
scattered. MCGOWAN had many
fights, and in all he showed re-
markable bravery and skill in the use
of weapons. He was the favorlte
chum of Judge Terry, who was shot
(for insulting Justice Field by Depu-
Marshal Neagle. He remained COM
bative even in old age, and about two
years ago he began suit against
Historian H. H. Brancoft to recover
damages for statements made against
him in Brancoft's history of Califor-
mia.
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Marriages Between Whites and Blacks.
Negroes and whites are allowed 70
intsrmsrry In twenty-three states and
territories They are all Northern
states but one-Louisiana- They are
- follows: Connecticut Illinois, Iowa,
Louisiana, Kansas, Maine, Massa-
chusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York.
North Dakota, Ohio. Oklahoma, Penn
sylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota,
Vermont Washington. Wisconsin and
Wyoming. In all the other states
such marriages are absolutely void.
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Wasn't Brought Up Right

One of the most prominent and char.
table ladies of the West tells this
good story:
A big hulk of boy. about IS years
old and well dressed, came into her
presence and begged for something
to eat for my mother"
"A boy of your age should be able
to work at something. My husband,
when as old as you, worked at any
thing he could get to do that was hon.
orable," insisted the lady.
"Yas." drawled the boy, ''mebbe
your husband was raised ter work
but I warentw
That settled it. The lady gave him
Q peck of meal and some bacon to con-
tinue the growth and development Of
that ''cheek."
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Could Not Afford IL.

In . North Riding village lived IN
elderly man who had been married
three times, but had been as often BE-
reaved. After the death of his third
wife o rumor was circulated As to q
fourth wedding. On being questioned
he replied in the following decisive
manner: May, nut ali; what wi
maTryin' on err. an what wi buryin'
on 'em. it's over expensive. All can't
affo'd it ma mair."
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to the Sherman silver law, why did moi
Cleveland call congress and repeal il
Three months have gone by and Cleveland
shirks responsibility. What he was doing
none knew. He was not receiving caller.
| from Office-seekers. If he was employing
his time i'm the consideration of cuisines,
depression no one knew it. Ii he was with
holding the call for an extra session in the
belief that still greater financial distress
was required to bring his associates 10 the
adoption of his views, then the dcmocrati,
ascendancy would prove a costly lesson 10
the people and an expensive experiment to
the country.
1t was assumed BY the country, continued
the governor, that the democratic govern :
ment would carry out its pledges ut the
coming session of congress. That would
mean the repeal of the protective tariff laws.
| Thus the wool industry would be stricken
down, tin plate industries would be Grip
pied, millions OF capital invested i'm them
imperiled and thous:pds OF workingmen
driven from employment. Sugar would I've
taxed and again made dead.
Did the people Of the country desire
those results of the democratic vic
DRY? The surest preventative against the
execution of such democratic principles:
against the wholesale destruction of indus
tries and against the degradation of labor
was republican victory from this time on.
PENSIONS
Continuing. Gov. Mckinley attacked the
pension policy of the present administra-
ton and declared himself and the republic
can party to be i'm favorof liberal pensions
and a liberal administration of the pension
system.
REPUBLICAN, PRINCIPLES.
In conclusion, he outlined the principles
of the republican party and declared them
to be: Free ballot. fair count, protective
tariff, reciprocity in nOn-competing foreign
products, sound currency, whether gold or
silver or paper as good as the hest currency
state control.
The republicans wanted no coin dollar
which did not measure up To a full hun
dred cents i'm value and would never return
to paper dollar issued by state authority,
resting upon doubtful and uncertain Sc
curities.
A MEMORABLE SCENE.
Applause repeatedly interrupted
McKinley's speech and the scene dur
ing its delivery is a memorable one.
The Spanish duke gazed curiously at
the noble looking figule on the plat
form, whose burning words aroused
the almost frenzied enthusiasm of the
great audience. The ducal party re-
NAMED throughout the governors adj
dress and witnessed the splendid ova-
ton given him at its conclusion.
The report of the committee on res
Olutions was read by Chairman Per-
kins.
The report was adopted unimously
by rising vote.
All other state officers were renOmina-
ted and convention adjourned sine die.
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Floods in Austria.

VIENNA, June, 6.-Consecutlve
rains have swollen the rivers of Buko-
wilma. Many streams have overAowed
their banks and flooded the fields.
The Czeremosz broke over its banks
at Wiznitz last night and ran in tor
rents through the streets.
Sixteen houses collapsed. Eleven
persons were killed. The whole town
is in danger of being laid waste and
thousands of the inhabitants have
fled.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-06-13
Head End Collision.

Two heavy freight trains on the Missouri
Pacific railroad, collided near Indepen-
dence early this morning. The engineers
and firemen saved themselves by jumping.
None of the ira inmen were injured.
Great damage was done and the eastbound
passenger trains were late, having to come
over the Lexington branch.
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A Handsome Oajlv.

THE BAzoo is in receipt of the Daily
Bonner Democrat, published at Fayette dur
ing commencement week there by Messrs.
Davis and Hughes. Every page is crowd
ed with news, local and miscellaneous. The
people of Fayette could we'll afford to sup
port such an excellent daily permanently.
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT,

We have made arrangements with Dr.. B.
]. Kendall Co.. publishers Of "A Treatise
on the Horse and his Diseases" which will
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We feel confident that our patrons viii
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themselves Of this opportunity Of Obtaining
Q valuable book.
Il b necessary that you mention this
paper IN sending for the " Treatise" This
offer will remain open for only short time.
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Coming to Sedalia.

The Nevada Pod Of yesterday says that
"Mrs. Frank James left this afternoon for
Sedalia on a house hunting expedition.
Mr.. James has had his run changed, neces-
stating their removal to Sedalia. They
have resided in Nevada for seven years
past, and have a wide circle of friends,
who regret their departure"
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De Lesseps to Be Released.

PARIS, June 6.-The Eclaire states
court session to which Charles De
Lesseps and his associates appealed
from the sentences passed upon them
for corruption in the management OF
the affairs of the Panama Canal COM
pany will mnul the sentences and
order the release of the prisoners. I
This action will be taken because
of the discovery of grave errors in the
prosecution of the cases.
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Al the Chapp,... Club.

Freddy. meditatively-T say, old
chappie. did you ever notice how
much darker it is at night than in
day time?
Willie-Oh. Freddy! don't ask such
tong questions. What did you say?
Ask me again.
Freddy-Oh. er-I-er have forgot
ten it now.-Truth.
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LADIES

Call and examine our line Of
Vapor Stoves, Lawn Mowers
and Refrigerators. Silver-plated
Ware, Shears and Scissors, q
fine assortment, no trouble to
sho W goods at
5-30w3m j. w. HOUX.
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Very Familiar.

Father-Does that young man mean
business?
Daughter-I guess he does, father.
He is getting SO familiar now that he
wears the same 2ecktie twice in sue
ccssion.
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Charlotte NJ. Breame:
A Queen Amongst Women.
In Cupid's Net.
Broken Ties.
Eva Pearl Palmer:
Rival Claimants.
A Lord OF Creation.
True Love Wins.
Clara Lemore:
A Buried Crime.
Walter Besant
4 Glorious Fortune.
Uncle Jack.
Annie Thomas:
La Beau Sabreur.
Florence Warden:
Missing: A Young Girl.
Those Westerton Girls.
Florence Marryat:
Out OF His Reckoning.
J. NJ. Barrie:
Better Dead.
Robert Louis Stevenson:
The Misadventures Of John Nicholson.
Miss E. Burke Collins:
A Gilded God.
Mrs. Oliphant:
The Mystery OF BlenG arrow.
Bertha NJ. Clay:
Welded and Parted.
Between Two Sins.
Bjcrnstjerne Bjornson:
Arne.
John Strange Winter:
Pluck.
A. Benrimo:
Vic.
Victor Power:
The Mystery Of Eagle Glen.
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Abbotts East Indian Corn Paint cures
all Corns, Warts and Buuious.
Sod BY August 7. FLKlsCHnANx,
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Headache

I6o8daCho
Indigestion, Billiousness,
Dyspepsia
And all Stomach Troubles are cured BY
p. p. p.
[Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potassium.1
Rheumatism is cured by p. P. P. Pains
and aches in the back, shoulders, knees,
ankles and wrists are all attacted and con-
quered by p. PIP. This great medicine, by
its blood cleansing properties builds up and
strengthens the whole body.
Nothing is so ef6cacious as p. p. p, at
this season, and for toning up, invigorating,
and as ssstrengthener and appitiser take P.
P. P. Il throws of the malaria and puts
you in good condition.
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| Charles Reade:
Jack OF all Trades.
Single Heart and Double Face.
By the author of His Welded Wife:
Phyllis Probation.
Ernest Granville:
The Lost Heiress.
Robert Buchanan:
Matt, Tale of Caravan.
H. Rider Haggard:
Eric Brighteyes.
Mr.. Nelson's Will.
The Duchess:
A Passive Crime.
The Duchess.
Sweet is True Love.
The Haunted Chamber.
Mrs. Alexander:
J What Gold Cannot Buy.
Maid, Wife or Widow?
A False Scent.
Miss NJ. E. Braddon:
Weavers and Welt.
Mary Cecil Hay:
A Dark Inheritance.
A Wicked Girl.
Charles Dickens:
Hard Times.
No ThOrOughfare.
Mrs. Henry Wood:
Lady Grace.
Wilkie Collins:
Miss or Mrs?
Carl CroftOu:
A Strange Household.
Phyllis.
Bettie's Mistake.
Donovan.
Muriel Dowie:
Mrs: Warburton's Companion.
Elinor Wresden:
If She So Abide.
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Cut along this line.
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To the readers of THE SEDAL1A BAzoo, a paper
published for the people earth. Four coupons
and four cents entite the holder to one book from
the following list. The books are paper bound
printed in large type and proving very popular.
CATALOGUE
The herald., 1893-07-02

ments in committee of the whole, when
be will insist on a motion to report the
bill back to the house, when further op-
position will be cut off by the enforce
ment of the cloture rule. The Irish
members are delighted with the action
that Gladstone has taken, and the gov
eminent can again count on its large
majority Of over forty to carry out it's
home rule measure. 1t was about time
that the government had put its foot
down upon the dilatory tactics of the
opposition. The home rule bill waa
carried at the second reading by the
strong majority OF forty, and thesefore,
the principle OF the measure was
affirmed by the house. Its de-
tails have been in discussion OF COM
mittee of the whole for several months,
and procrastination was made to work
by the moving of frivolous amendments
and their discussion ad nauseam.
Clause four of the bill has only just
been reached under this system Of at
tack and delay, and the whole bill
would still be under the same kind OF
consideration till the end of the year,
If Gladstone had not determined upon a
firm and drastic policy in the future.
The stand he has taken now insures the
passage of the measure.
The herald., 1893-07-02
PUBLIC DEBT srArEmnrr.
A Net Decrease During the Month
lima Of n. .216.2n8.

A Net Decrease During the Month Of
June of o1.2t6,25S.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-The public debt
statement issued this afternoon shows
that there was net decrease Of $1,2l6.-
258 during the month Of June. The
interest bearing debt increased $40, 800:
the debt on which interest has ceased
since maturity decreased SOC. 1850; the
debt bearing no interest decreased
1924. 162, and the each in the tseasury
increased $S97,1 1876. The aggregate in
terest and non-interest-bearing debt
June 30th was 1851 ,42l,766; May 3lst il
was $961, ,750, ,8S8. Certificates in treas
ury notes Offset by an equal amount OF
cash in the treasury June 30th amounts
to 1884 ,65S, 1920, decrease Of $9,977 ,097 /;
total cash in treasury, $745.004, ,60l I;
gold reserve. $95, ,4S5. .4l3, and net cash
balance, 1919 877. In the month
there was a decrease of $8,063,177 in
gold coin and bars, the total at the close
being $18S, Ass. .443., OF silver there was
an increase OF $5,369, ,005. OF the sur
plus there was in national bank depos-
itories $l2, ,082,573, against $11 ,649, 142 at
the end of the previous month. The
receipts for the month OF June were
$50, 1883, ,32l, and expenditures 500 1865,
451. In May the receipts were $50, ,97l, :
497, and expenditures $50 1872 .502. The
customs receipts decreased from $15,-
424, ,852 to $l4,964, 800. The revenue re-
ceipts increased from $13,2l2, ,103, to
$l4,003. .127. Payments for pensions de-
creased from $l4,269, ,020 to $11, All ,S0l.
The herald., 1893-07-02
A RED TRAMP.
Sheriff Pascoe of Nevada County FOUL,
Murdered.

Sheriff Pascoe of Nevada County Foully
Murdered.
GRASS VALLEY, CAL, July Last
night at little past 10 O'Clock, William
Pascoe. sheriff OF Nevada county, was
shot and instantly killed by a tramp.
The sheriff, together with Constable
Richards, was watching the stranger.
who answered the description OF the
tramp who shot Brakeman Bruce at
Gold Run. The sheriff followed the
tramp down NJ ain street. The tramp
darted into an alley and began to run.
He entered boundary yard. Pascos
fired into the air to stop him. The
tramp stood behind n car and as the
sherif approached he fred, killing Pas
coe instantly. The ball, 3S.calibre,
entered his hesrt. So close WAS the
weapon that the shirt and breast Of the
murdered man were powder burned.
After the shooting, the murderer
ran past Richards, who fred a shot at
him. but it is thought missed his mark.
The body of the murdered man lay
fully an hour upon the ground before
the news of the killing became gener-
ally known. Then the town was thrown
into the greatest excitement. Armed
men started out in all directions. The
murderer was tracked to Ophir Hill,
about two miles from town, when he re-
traced his steps and went in the direc-
tion of Marysville. The murderer is
undou btedly the same who shot Brake
man Bruce, ae Sheriff William Conroy
had traced him this far.
The herald., 1893-07-02

The marplots OF Wall street do not en-.
ploy the ordinary energies of war. Their
methods are far more subtle. They
simply aim to suffocate thegreat wealth
producing agencies OF the west. At the
demand Of England they seek to anni-
hiIate the silver mines and cognate indus-
tries by reducing the price of silver to
that of copper. They would destroy.
il their schemes were successful, the
farmer, by reducing the price of his
wheat and corn to figure at which he
could not live. They aim to carry out
the ambition OF England by giving her
the silver with which she pays her
elave ryots in India down to nothing,
and the wheat and food staples which
she must use to live. to next to nothing.
The great snob conspiracy to destroy
the happiness Of msnkind, now has the
boards. 1t will be highly interesting to
watch Its further progress.
The herald., 1893-07-02

We COMMEND to our esteemed conteM-
porary, the Times, the following from q
recent issue of the Memphis CONNER
cial. 1t hits the nail very equsrely on
the head and ia complete answer to
certain diatribes that have lately ap.
peared in that journal:
The desperation of he,apologists of
pension plundering is strikingly shown
in the slander published in the New
York Tribune and other Republican
organs attributing to Hon. Poindexter
Dunn brutal speech expressing regret
that the people killed in the Ford thea
ter building were not pensioners instead
OF government clerks. Any man who
knows Mr.. Dunn need not be told that
he is incapable of uttering such q
sentiment, yet the lie is too good one
for the Republican organs to let it sleep.
Despite Mr.. Dunn's emphatic denial the
story is still repeated by the pension or
gans, gathering some fresh accretion of
falsehood with every repetition. Of
course southern men have long been
accustomed to this species of petty and
malignant persecution so characteristic
of the vitruous Republican editor.
lHef6 WAS never any lle too grosb iOf
northern Republicans to tell about a
southern Democrat. Lying about the
south and the southern people has for 30
many years been part of their busi-
ness that custom hath made it prop
erty OF easiness with them. On this
question the Republican editor is utterly
without conscience. 1t never occurs to
him that there is any question of NOR
ality involved in imputing the blaokest
crimes or the most infamous sentiments
to man of honor and high character if
only he be southerner and Democrat.
The herald., 1893-07-02
A NAVAL SCHOOL.
Uncle Sans Torpedo Fleet to Be Put
Practice Use.

Uncle Sans Torpedo Fleet to Be Put to
Practice Use.
NEWPORT, r. l., July l.-Uncle Sans
miniature torpedo fleet is this season to
be given practical work for the first
time. The two boats comprising the
fleet, the Cushing and the Stiletto, are
now attached to the torpedo station.
They will be used in inBtruc.ing classes
OF naval officers who are to report for
enlightenment upon practical torpedo
work. The boats will fire from their
own tubes torpedoes at various speeds
and condition g, and from the firing and
runs torpedo text book will be COM
piled. Again with the Gushing will be
tests made of various colors of paint
used in making craft Of war as hard as
possible to sight of distances.