The news boy., 1894-11-03
VOTE ON Tuesday !
SOUTHEAST NOTES.

De Soto sports want to hunt at
arge. kill tame fowls. start fires and
raise Cain generally on farm lands.
The farmers object. The sports say
they will boycott the farmers pro-
1ucc. The farmers threaten to pros
pcute the trespassers. and there $ the
very Old Harry to pay.
H. Armitagc, a former agent of
the .Etna Loan Association. of st.
Louis, is out with pamphlet of SER
ious charges against that institution,
which has many stockholders in
Missouri.
The Southeast Missouri Medical
Association will hold a three days
symposium at Jackson. Nov. 13. IA
and Is.
Considerable fresh enterprise has
been injected into Bloomfield since
she became a railroad town. 1t is
always thus.
1t now transpires that the abscond-
ing PuXico postmaster was short in
his accounts several hundred dollars.
Attorney J. L. Fort, of Dexter, is
in trouble over using Uncle Sam S
mails for the transmission of fobscenc
matter to an enemy. He claims that
he did not mail it and did not mean
to. The ubiquitous somebody is
to blame, doubtless.
Iron county had a very light cir.
cult court docket last month.
Citizens of Ironton propose to es'
tablish q sanatorium at that place
J. W. Emerson, of Iron county
has in due legal form adopted Mrs
Ella Butler Johnson as his sistcr-a
somewhat unusual proceeding as t.
sistcrhood, although common enough
in the case of children. When youl
best girl tells you she will be sister
to you. the statement is not regarded
as consolitary.
Fossil marble which takes a beau
tiful polish has been discovered neal
Pcvely. Jefferson county.
Fredericktown thinks of building
an opera house.
Madison Democrat: Within th'
past five years Southeast Missour
has been receiving the closest atten
tion from the people of the Unitet
States generally. They are begin
ming torealize that Southeast Nilsson
ri is the place to invest capital.
Movers with their belongings fire
quently pass through our Southeas
towns, going west" Quite as fire
quently theypass back, ''going home.
Poplar Bluff now enjoys telephon
privileges, and will shortly have 2
miles of wire in operation.
Mississippi county has sown mucl
less wheat than usual this fall.
A panther was shot in Stoddar
county couple of weeks ago.
Ironton is after canning factory
Come to think of it, there's a good
new plant lying idle in Scott county
which might be had cheap.
A syndicate of Cape county Gel
mans will purchase and improve
tract of land in Stoddard county.
Dunklin county's fourth annua
Fair was success in every partic,
lar--even financially.
Col. Mitchell, ex-editor of the Cap
Era, is now publishing new pape
called the Vanguard, at Muncie, Inc
The stables of St. Vincent Co
lege, Cape Girardeau, were dcstroye
by fire Thursday morning of las
week. The ST. Charles hotel narrow
ly escaped burning next night.
Mrs. Atwell, living near Poir
Pleasant, New Madrid county, wa
by some fiend decoyed from her hous
during her husbands absence at a
Arnold meeting at Portageville @
the night of the 10th ult., and Grim
nally assaulted. She thinks her a.
sailant was negro. He was nc
caught.
The man Roark, jailed at Charlie
ton on suspicion of having murdere
his son, has been released. The la
has been found. He had run ava
from a home where he was i'll used