Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1895-06-20
SOUTHEAST NEWS.

lied a silver club.
Mississippi county has purchased
several new road graders.
Sikeston is to have a new bank
with capital of $4,000.
Total number of smallpox cases
At Poplin to June u, tifty-three.
Barnum X Bailey's big circus ex-
hibited in Cairo, ILL.,, yesterday.
Southeast watermelons will be on
the market about the 10th of July,
A Mr.. Williams Of jackson has
recently purchased a fine blood
hound.
Mine La Motto boys have organ
lied brass band and will play for
the picnics.
A negro baby was found at the
bottom Of cistern the other day
in Poplar Bluff.
Dudley Kirkpatrick, l2-year,
boy Of Bismarck, has wandered
from his own freside."
Mrs. Paul Kingston was knocked
over a fence by runaway horse at
DeSOto one day last week.
-Four conyicts from st. Francois
county We're sent over the Dad
last week tos two years eache
A small boy at DeSoto was sh It
IN the stomach the other day shia
pounding a cartridge with a stont
Wheat in Mississippi county is
so ripe and falling so fast that farm
ers have been working On Sunday,
Oscar Mckenzie OF Dexter VAS
thrown from wagon at Bloomfield
last week and had hole crushed iii i
his skull
Col, II. N. Phillips and family,
who have been staying in Frederick
town for some time, have returned
to their home in Maiden.
John A. schater, an old and Ell
spected citizen Of Pennington, com
mitfed suicide BY shooting himself
thkaugh the heal - Z sEsE NH
GA A4NAtGSA 0Okk1 II
laundry viii do. pirovidil Iii dis.
|s,onrthonse antfS nStfSrs ! ssaf cooking lhaye es-
The w. %. i. u. frments On ! line or
ashes persons at neg g tneir utmost
reading matter and
other favors upon the
The Sikeston 'sBrowfLong.
Sc the champion base sst apes appearance s.Is
Southeast Missouri, and a norus' lne
to show the people what III Thsr Wv ~
do.
The first carload Of nes, over Won
raised in Missouri this seaso oanounce
shipped from Charleston to ST. Lsublic
one day last week and sold for
per bushel.
Richard Venable shot and almosf
instantly killed Lee Hanson last
Sunday near Doniphan. Both are
young men and grndge had been
between them for long time.
The Iron Mountain railroad has
issued an order prohibiting the sale
or peddling of melons from the cars
along the line of its road and will
see that it Is enforced. Dexter
Messenger.
Some Donlphan ladleshave organ
lied a wading club, aud at some
| given time each week repair tc a
quiet, sandy beach on Current river
and indulge in the pleasant and
agreeable sensation.
| The expenses of the smallpox
quarantine at DeSoto will be con-
siderable. The purchase of . site
and erection OF buildings cost over
$500, medical attendance Sl5 q days
and Incidental expenses have already
amounted 10 81 200.
Friday last was. q very rrlucky
day at DeSoto for The number of
accidents 1t brought. Blitz HalHei
had his hand cutoff, Brooks Collins
} l.son was shot, MAS arm was
: broken by horses kick, q painter
fell off scatfolding, Gabe Byrd'+
, horse and buggy ran over aYouug
0 lady and Charley Rankin was crap-
Piled so bad lywith the rheumatlsin.
y that he could hardly crawl,
: The melon growers Of Scott copn-
o ty held a large mass convention az
t. Morley June lS, and appoiuteda
" committee to wait ON, the railroads
I and secure some concessions to ship
pers They resolved tnas Ia consid.s
Grafton of the hostile altitude "a II Y
fruit dealers combine against /. v
in producers Of Missouri melons, tie
Scott, county melon. growers ship
le their product to other and ners
markess, sunlcss the MA 81
ltude Of said fruit dealers be cha1psa
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