The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-05-30
MISSOURI CHANCES.
People and Events as Viewed
Through Our Sanctum
Field Glass.

H. j. Latshaw, of Kansas City,
wants to be governor CT Alaska.
A young lady in Fulton gave a
BOX of Monkeys" entertainment.
Elder Stockale has become pastor
of the Baptist church at Shelbina.
Eight converts of a recent revival
in Moniteau county were baptized in
a creek.
There are $50 cases on the docket
for the June term of circuit court in
Joplin.
The high school at Marshall had
ii graduates, four of which were
young men.
Page Leland, of Carroilton, has
entered the theatrical profession and is
succeeding nicely.
The supreme court will not get
through with its April term until the
latter part of June.
The new hell for the Baptist
church at Schell City weighs 900
pounds and cost s65.
William Whitney, a travelling
photographer from st. Joe, suicided
in Sherman Texas.
DIR. Barnes and Maud Plated. of
Joplin, have been arrested on the
charge of living in adultery.
"A new paper, advocating peO-
Piles party principles, to he called the
Wash, is to be started at Webb City.
A colt foaled on the farm of
Isaac Langley in Henry county, came
docked. First instance of this kind
on record.
Miss Maude johnson, of Joplin,
is suffering from having a pin in her
ear. Her fellow shonld be more care
full.
A negro farm hand near Slater,
planted II acres of corn with a check
rover. in two days. This breaks the
record.
Jacob Brown, a negro convict
who killed Foreman Macklin in the
Missouri penitentiary year ago, is to
be hanged July IA.
A man in Paris, Monroe county,
went crazy from reading Talmages
sermons and had TO be placed in
charge of the sheriff.
H. NJ. Lightfoot has been APP
pointed TO succeed Nancy 7. Redeye,
resigned. as po>tm: =te- at Sentinel
Prairie, Polk cory.
w. &. Overstreet, vino killed w.
F. Covington at Plato, Texas county,
last February, has been sent to the
peniientiary for three years.
Prof. Curtin, after eight years
service. has resigned the presidency of
the Otterville college on account of i'll
health. He lost an arm in the con-
tederate army.
Two neighboring blacksmiths in
Morgan county have cut prices until
they shoe a horse all round for thirty
five cents. Newspapers do nearly as
bad sometimes.
The ninth biennial meeting Ofthe
grand legion OF the select knights. A.
o. L. W., of the jurisdiction of Mis-
souri,. will be held at Boonville Octo-
Der "a and %.
Prof. Frank p. St. Clair, of
Montrose, Colorado, has been elected
president of the Christian college at
Columbia. He graduated from Beth
any college in 1876.
The editor of the Osceola SIN has
hit upon new plan to induce CORES
pondents from the different places to
write for that paper. He gives to the
most popular one, a gold pen and
holder, which is to he determined by
ballots.
Richmond was strictly in it last
week. 1t had Is attractions on Tues
day evening the Wild West show, the
merry-go-round, the Temperance mass
meeting at the opera house. the Saliva
ton Army on the streets, lecture on
Mormonism at the Christian church,
an interesting session of the circuit
court, to say nothing of a number of
private parties in different parts of
the town.
A gentleman living in the suburbs
Of Montrose, has been troubled with
rabbits. He procured a shot gun and
began to thin out the pesky ''crittars."
Of course every shot killed a hare, |
and every time he killed one he gave
it to his pig. The pig became so ac-
,ustomed to getting meat after hear
ing the report of the gun that now he
begins to squeal as soon as he hears