The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-03-28

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in the Indian Territory, was fined $40
Tuesday in the Kansas City police
court, on the charge of disturbing the
peace.
E. B. Holmes & Co. Of Marshall,
yesterday morning made an assign
ment of their stock of groceries, etc.,
to r. NJ. Reynolds as trustee, for the
benefit of all creditors. The assets
are about 81 200.
John Stein escaped from Jail yes
terday afternoon at Marshfield by pry-
ing some bricks out of the west wall.
He is under three years sentence to
the penitentiary for attempting to
poison man named Anderson.
John Shotw ellis handsome home
in Clinton was burned to the ground
Monday evening. The insurance on
the place had run out and the loss
will foot up about $1,000. The fire
was caused by bad flue.
The annual council of the indie
pendent Order of Red Men of the
state commenced three days session
at st. Joseph yesterday. Visiting
delegates are present from all parts OF
the STATE, who are being royalty enter
tanned by the fraternity there.
An unknown man was found dead
One-half mile west of Little River, near
SikestOn, with his skull crushed in
yesterday. 1t is supposed he was
murdered. A few papers found on
the body showed the name of c. Web
ster, May6eld, Ky.
A sensation was created In finan-
cial circles Saturday at st. Joseph, by
the announcement Of the failure Of
the James Walsh Mercantile company
one of the oldest wholesale liquor
houses in the west.
Joe Thompson, colOred, was ar
rested Saturday, declared to be va
grant by a jury and ordered sold on
the block, March. %, to the highest
bidder, George Harding was convicted
the day before and will be sold Tues
day, March 81.
The postoffice in Mexico, Mo-,
was entered Monday night by bur-
glars. the safe forced open and about
81 900 in stamps and money taken.
A number OF registered letters were
also stolen. The thieves entered the
building by breaking out a glass in
the rear door. There is no clue to
the robbers.
The body of the infant child of
Mr.. and Mrs. X. Eastburn, living
near Rich Hill, was found in the
Marias Des Cygnes last Sunday. The
child was missed from home in the early
part Of January, and the body is sup
posed to have been in the water,
where it bad fallen until found Sun
day by the parents.
George Murray, who has been a
resident of Vernon county for twelve
years, left his family few days and {
departed for new fields. He left a
letter to his wife stating that she
would never zee Or hear from him
again. Murray was considered q
reliable man and was respected by
every body in the neighborhood.
George b. Oldham, cashier of
the Peoples bank at Salisbury, died
yesterday afternoon Of erysipelas, aged
IS years. Mr.. Oldham was one of
Salisbury's most progressive and enter
prising citizens, and was for several
years collector of Charlton county.
He was a member of the Cumberland
Presbyterial church, a prominent
Mason and member of the A. O.
U. w.
Miss Agnes Euphemia Cleland
was naturalized at Kansas CITY yester-
day. She is the first woman natural
lied IN jackson county. Miss Cleland
is a book-keeper. In the course of
business she Termed, by chance, of
some good land investments open in
Arkansas, and she forthwith posted off
70 that state to gobble them up.
There she found that the laws of the
tate prevented an alien, man or
woman, buying property of the state.
She came back post haste to Kansas
City. was naturaiized, anu is now
'hasing the land speculation again.
Mother Of the Bridges Twins Dead.
Mrs. E. N. Bridges, wife of Cap
ain H. q. Bridges. an attornev With