The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-05-02
MISSOURI CHANCES.
People and Events as Viewed
Through Our Sanctum
Field Glass.

1t revuireu elSnt men 10 carry
the coffin of the late DIR. Cheuvront,
of Shelby county.
The first female compositor west
of the Mississippi was Mrs. Nathaniel
Patten of Columbia.
The question about the road he
tween Shelbina and Shelbyville is,
which shall it be, gravel or electric: :
Salem and Steelville raised ST.
900 for the sufferers by the storm in
Dent and Crawford counties.
The Democrat Ners says that the
report that Marshall has 246 empty
houses is .'idiotic and malicious"
President Jesse expects to see the
attendance on the state university
reach 1, 200 within the next two years
-Gatewood Lincoln, of Liberty,
stands at the head of his class at the
United States Naval academy at
Annapolis.
The prospect hole at Walker is
400 feet deep and at $50 feet a four
feet eight inch vein of ore was passed
through.
Grim Kellogg, aged II, and three
ii year old boys, Charles Tenny. Will
Hunt and James Nuttleton, have been
arrested for burglary in Kansas City.
They are betting on horse races
in Rich Hill through the newspapers.
Though its hard on the newspapers,
it is a much quieter way to do the
betting than with the mouth.
The Mississippi is within five feet
of being as high as 1t was during the
great floods last year. And it is still
rising. 1t will hardly reach the ex-
traordinary mark of last year, how
ever.
The water consumed by the Rich
Hill denizens will hereafter be filtered,
a filter having been placed IN the
water works plant. The people there
will not have to strain out the aquat-
ic varmints with their teeth.
The Marshall Democrat is respon-
sible fer the statement that last
Monday in the vicinity of Stahhope
the hail in drifts was fully two feet
deep. Hail stones two feet in diane
ter will he next ON programme in
Saline county.
The Marshall Democrat is after a
town COW with the churn dasher. 1t
claims that no other town in the state
the size of Marshall permits bovines
to browse off the flower gardens and
smear up the front pOrches of its citi-
zens.
Harry Horn of st. Louis was
married yesterday TO Miss Flora +.
Burks, daughter of Senatar Jasper n.
Burks at Pennington, Mo. MIR. Horn
is the son of John n. Horn, who is
now serving his third term as collec-
tor of st. Francois county.
The high waters still continue in
Vernon county. The Marmaton and
Maries DIES Cygne rivers have flooded
hundreds of acres now in cultivation.
A levee near AthOl that cost $50, 900,
built by private means to protect the
land has been swept away.
Frank Motif, judge of the county
court of Howell county, No., who
had an apparently majority of five
votes in the last election, but who was
declared defeated by detective ballots,
has resigned. and Mr.. Palmer, re-
publican, has been sworn in.
Hon. A. s. Prather of Tanev
county, is likely to be appointed as
one OF the judges of awards of live
stock at the Columbian exposition.
Southwest Missouri can not be better
represented than by him. He is
admirably fitted for the duties.
A dog died in Springfield the
other day that called for nearly full
column of obituary and "scare"
head in the Daily Democrat. The dog
was twenty wears of age and his his
tory from the cradle to the grave was
furnished by his devoted mistress.
The cyclone near Bolton per-
formed some curious freaks, among
them the following: John Hardesty
tried to make his escape with his babe
wrapped in his coat. He was thrown
down, and, though not otherwise hurt,
the shoes were whipped off his feet.
The circuit court convened at
forsythe, fancy county, Monday, and
Judge Neville instructed the grand
Jury on all points and especially on
the lynching of Bright and Williams. |
The present grand jury will investi- |
gate this double murder with all their
energy.