Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1894-12-27
SOUTHEAST NEWS.

think was loaded.
st. Louis Republic: 1t has been
decided at Fredericktown to lay the
cornerstone of the Marvin Collie
giate institute building Jan. l, and
the executive committee is now pre-
pairing a program for that occasion.
F. r. Newberry will be master of
ceremonies and E. r.. Day grand
marshal. DR.. John d, Vincil and
Bishop Hendrix will be present to
assist Prominent citizens from
ey cry part of Missouri are expected
to be present.
The Carthage Press says: "There
is constant string of movers pass
ing through the city now, and an
observing citizen who has inter:
viewed many of them, finds that q
large per cent OF them are from
Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa and are
coming to Missouri to locate. The
land Office at Springfield is report
ed very busy with people taking up
claims, and the employees are badly
rushed and overworked." The
tide of immigration has set in
strongly toward Missouri.
Poplar Bluff Citizen: Between
seventeen and eighteen hundred
feet of trenches tor the water-mains
was opened last Saturday In East
Poplar Bluff. The pipe layers are
getting along finely with their
work and are putting in fire plugs
as they progress with the pipe
laying.
Attorney H. N. Phillips of NAL
den has filed a bill with the, county
court for sl6,359 So for services as
attorney in the case Of Oxley stave
Co. VS.. Butler county. This is the
biggest claim the county ever had
presented for attorneys fees. 1t
has not yet been allowed.
While Sheriff Hogg and Deputy
Bruce Deans were taking Seymour
Randolph to the jail Saturday night
the prisoner broke and ran away
and was fired upon by the officers,
one ball passing through Ran
dolph's vest. George Quinn and
Charles Butt, it is said, came near
being hit by the shots. Randolph
was recaptured and landed safely
in Jail.
Charleston Eht erprise: Bill
O'Bryan die with his boots on! In
little old stable in the town OF
Whiting, this county, used for the
purpose of gambling, the corpse Of
Bill O'Bryan, the accused train
robber, lay stretched cold il, death
A bullet from the pistol Of Jim
Fields, formerly a saloon keeper o1
that place, fired about II o'clock
Tuesday night did the deadly
work. 1t only required me shot
Bill was engaged in the seductive
game Of craps with company Of
congenial spirits when Fields, who
happened to be in the town, walked
in accompanied by his brother
"Germ," and as Jim was surprised
to see Bill he requested him to hole
up his hands. Bill failed to comply
with the request and Jim shot him
He died in about five minutes. The
foregoing is the substance of thu
) testimony given at the coroner''
inquest Wednesday. Jim was ac
quilted by the jury. A deadly en-
t nifty existed between the rlen, oc
t casioned, so it is said, by the testi
.mony given by Fields at the trial o
O'Bryan for alleged train robbery
recently in Kentucky. 1t wa'
shown at the coroner's inquest tina
O'Bryan had threatened the life o
Fields, his slayer. O'Bryan wal
well connected in this county ant
his relatives have the sympathy o
our people.
J 1t will be remembered that jim
Fields was a citizen of Bollingel
, county a few years ago.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: At De
Soto. Dec. %, James Trimmer, fol
many years employed as a freigh
. conductor on the Iron Mountain
! railroad, committed suicide at tn,
} Commercial hotel by shooting him
self through the heart. He wa
undressed and in bed when the deet
} was committed. He leaves three
small children. Mr.. Trimmer car
ried a life insurance Of $4,000. Dc
spondenpy IA supposed 70 be tn
cause Of the deed