The news boy., 1894-09-22
MISSOURI ouLLlNos.

There is not q vacant house in Bill
lings-
Hopkins, Nodaway county, is without
: saloon. =
The funded debt of Vernon county
Is St5S, 900.
Nevada is to have an anti-cigarette
ordinance.
A new depot is in course Of erection
at Rutledge.
Green county circuit court opened
with 531 cases.
Eidon is to have new private bank;
capital, st5,00o
The vandalia hotel was destroyed by
fire; loss, $4,000.
A fine hotel building win be erected
at Golden next year.
The first railroad built in Missouri
was in Galloway county.
Ray Good, the 1s-year-old preacher,
held forth in Higginsville.
There are sixteen murderers in the
st. Louis jail awaiting trial.
The Wright county circuit court has
btVeuLy~ CTlIniudl CdStS.
The Marshfield city council says boys
must stay in the house at night.
A great celebration is booked in AN
gusta on German day, October 6.
Citizens of Texas county say Their
country beats California for fruit.
"Grandma" Kempton, Of Nodaway
county, is 91 and hale and hearty.
The Norborne canning factory put up
16,5O0 cans of tomatoes in one day. !:
A 13-year-old son of ]. 8. McFadden,
Of Sedalia, was bitten by vicious dog.
John R. Bragg, of Fulton, has sun
flower in his garden with 1so blossoms.
The ex-confederates of Richmond
visited the Higginsville confederate
home.
The criminal docket of the Webster
county circuit court is the smallest for
years.
Cole county takes the lead in select.
ing delegates for the Columbia road
convention.
Evangelist Bowles, of Eureka, ILL.,,
is conducting a revival at Albany, Gen.
try county.
VIM. HUFFMAN, aged 73, who had lived
as miser near Paynesville, died worth
from $40, 900 to $4,000
John Kinney, Springfield darky IL
years old, claims to be heir to the Chap.
man estate. He is crazy.
The railway yards are being ar.
ranged at Rich Hill for the new di'
vision of the Missouri Pacific.
William A. Shanks, % years old, died
in st. Louis from lockjaw, caused by
running a spike into his foot.
Howell county farms out it's paupers.
Capt. VIM. Colbert, aged IS, well
known in Troy, died recently.
Gov. Stone has appointed Daniel Don.
ahoe inspector of oils for the city Of
Rolla, for term ending June 1, 1896.
Thomas Dyson's 4O-acrc apple orchard
in Nodaway county will yield about
5000 barrels. The fruit was sold on
the trees for $500.
Rufus Blackwell, a wealthy colored
farmer of Pike county. lost pocket.
book with S171, and gave the old man
who found it the odd dollar.
Mrs. Henry Loesch, whose husband,
after trying to kill her, inflicted
wounds from which he afterward died,
died at her home in st. Louis.
Ed Murray was found guilty at Her.
mann of murder in the first degree.
He participated in the killing of Con.
ductor Fitzwilliam at St. Louis.
Pierce Anderson, a preacher, late OF
Crawford county, pleaded guilty to
horse stealing, and was sentenced to
a term of four years in the penitentiary.
Rev. Mr.. Snider, well-to-do Advent
ist preacher and farmer, who lived
about miles west of Harrisonville,
committed suicide by jumping into a
pond and drowning. The cause is not
known.
Hattie Shantz was instantly killed by
falling beneath the wheels of her ia.
ther's wagon. They were going to
their home at Longwood from Mar.
shall, and their team ran away, throw
ing her out
Mr.. Cocker, after a seven years alb.
sence, has returned to St. Louis, and in
order to secure an inheritance that had
been left him had to be resurrected by
the probate court, he having been re.
ported dead.
Polly Willis, aged 0, while returning
from the post Office at Panama, Vernon
county, was crushed to death by logs
rolling on her. She had sat down to
rest, when the pile slipped and she was
caught under it.
Dexter has an ordinance requiring
boys to keep off the streets after o p.
m. At o'clock bell is rung, and the
boys found on the streets after that
time without good excuse are landed
in the calaboose.
The annual meeting of the Dexter
district of the Christian church was
held at Poplar Bluff. There are 2,772
members of the Christian church in the
district, and during the past year there
were TIA accessions.
The first weeks enrolment in the
public schools of West Plains was 632.
not including the colored pupils. 1t is
estimated that the enrolment will &c
over 500 before the term closes. The
West Plains college also has good at.
tendance.
Mrs. Seeley, who had been at La
Belle, Lewis county, about year, gave
herself and children poison and then
set fire to the house. All were saved
although the woman expressed desire
to die. Her husband is supposed to be
| in Oklahoma.
The steam valve broke on a traction
engine being moved by Homer Phillips
in Saline county, and before the horses
could be detached they were scalded to