Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1894-12-20
SOUTHEAST NEWS.

Jackson Cash Book: Robert Nc.
Lard and Louis Mansfield, two
young men, got into a row at. a
dance at Mr.. ] ohnson's, east of town,
Tuesday night. McLard, it seems,
was slashed with a knife and struck
with a slungshot and bruised up
considerably, but not dangerously
hurt
st. Louis Post-Dispatch: There
was quite romantic prelude to the
advent of Mrs. Harry B. Strickland
in Webster Groves. Mr.. Strick.
land, who is young travelling man
of 20, left his home last Wednesday
morning without telling anyone
where he was going. Friday even,
ing, he returned and introduced a
beautiful girl of 1S to his mother
as his wife. They were married on
Thursday at Jackson, Mo-, whittier
they had gone in buggy from Cape
Girardeau, where the bride, who
was Miss George Wayne Marie Cor.
ley, was attending the State Normal
school. Her father resides in Den
yer, but her mother was at the Cape
with her. She is a brunei, very
stylish and accomplished.
Pennington News: We under
stand another cut in wages has been
ordered at Doe Run.
The Houck railroad, from Delta
to Cape Girardea; is in better con-
dition than ever before and the
trains now make good time. 1t is
fourteen miles from Delta to the
Cape, eleven miles of which is
straight.
There ought to be several pumps
in Pennington similar to that pur-
chased some months ago by the
people, in the east end of town.
Some of these days these pumps
will be needed badly.
Our roads are beginning to be
muddy and those who are hauling
are occasionally grumbling. There
has been money enough spent on
our roads to put them in good con-
dition, but, our road law is little
better than no law.
The time is not far distant, if we
can judge from indications, when
the people Of Pennington will be
compelled to depend upon using
coal for fuel, from the simple fact
that the timber is becoming scarce,
though for the present there is am
pie to supply the demand. The
land is being rapidly cleared up
for agricultural purposes and the
timber is either rolled into slog-
heaps" and burnt or manufactured
into cordwood and sold.
Poplar Bluff Citizen: March "a,
1894, fire destroyed eleven build
ing on Fourth street, near the rail
road. The smoldering embers were
yet hot when men were put to work
removing the debris. And now
scarcely a vestige of the great fire
can be seen, but instead three COM
modious brick buildings cover the
territory and are occupied by hust-
ling business men.
A terrible accident occurred on
the railroad track at the foot of
Main street Thurs Iay morning. A
young man named William Wall
undertook to cross the track, near
the depot, upon which section of
freight was being handled by the
switch engine. He climbed upon
the drawheads between two freight
cars justas the cars were moved by
the engine, which caused him to
fall in such position that the parts
of both legs below the knees lay
across the rail and the wheels of
the moving car ran over them, sew
ering the foot from the right leg
above the ankle and badly crushing
the left leg between the knee and
the foot. At 8 p. m. both limbs
we're amputated, the right at the
lower third of the thigh, just above
the knee, and the left just below the
knee. The patient passed through
the terrible ordeal with fortitude.,
For a while his case seemed ex-
tremely critical, but later he rallied
and symptoms are favorable Cor his,
recovery.
Caruthersville Democrat: A party,
Of citizens Of the st. Francis levee
basin are in Memphis to meet capi-,
talists Of ArksAsas, Missouri and