Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1895-01-17
SOUTHEAST NEWS.

Birch Tree Record: Ex-Treasurer
Jadwin of Shannon county is shor5
in his accounts s7,53O.45.
|. NJ. Davidson, former prosecut-
ing attorney of Butler county and
mayor Of Poplar Bluff, died in thai
place.
Jan. 10, ex-County Judge B. r.
Hunter, one Of the oldest and II Osa
highly esteemed citizens of S, ott
county, died at his home in Skies
ton.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch. While
returning home Jan. 2 Judge W. Y.
Ringer Of Dexter fell upon the ice
and cut cash in his knee c&l.
Blood poison set in, followed b
lockjaw, and he died in great agony
Jan. 8.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: A high
wayman relieved Thomas Thomp-
son, merchant of Puxico, Mo, CT
s40O in cpsh last Friday night. AS
Thompson was counting his days
sales preparatory to closing his
store, a stranger W alked in and d.
manded his money. Thompson
showed fight, but pistol made him
unload his money drawer and sa %.
The robber is supposed to be q
tramp who has been at Puxico f,g
several days, The robber made
good his escape.
At 6 o'clock Saturday morning,
says a Bonne Terre dispatch to the
Republic, John Crippen went into
Henry Howard's saloon at Elvins, 3
mining camp on Flat river, ano,
drawing revolver, opened an H..
discriminate tusillade, driving eH.
erybody, including the. barkeepe,
ont of the place. Then going be
hind the bar he possessed himself
Of the cash drawer and was goin..
to run the place, when the barkeep.
Ell returned and attempted to ejeot
him; thereupon he stabbed the ba:
keeper in the neck, who in turn fred
four pistol shots into Crippen's body
from which he died shortly after
ward.
DeSoto Gazette: One Of the men
Of this city etfectualIy saved from
financial and domestic wreck by
the keely cure is Cigarmaker jim
Black and he isn't ashamed to have
It's publish the fact. Last March
Jim took the cure right after big
spree which he had wound up with
target practice on picture in his
shop, in which he had bored every
head in the chrome full of 22-cali
ber holes and he hasn't touched !,
drop of anything since stronger
than Mautho's double compressed
sarsaparilla. One of the results Is
that he has been making bette
cigars, doing a more thriving busi
ness and steadily increasing tha
size Of his wad Of greenbacks. Hia
pistol too, is getting rusty.
Many Of our readers will remen
Der "Jim" Black Us an old resident
Of Marble Hill.
Deputy United States MarshaI
Wall returned on a morning tra.q q
from Wayne county, whittier hc
went to serve an execution on Dr.
J. l.. Allison in satisfaction OF a iud9
ment obtained against him by tic
United States in 1873, SAYS thu
Post-Dispatch Of Jan. l2. Mr.. Wal}-
collected from DR.. Allison SITS.
which was the amount of the count
costs and interest on S92.4S, thu
shortage in the accounts Of Hug,
?. Allison, brother Of DR. Allison
who was postmaster at Ggeenvil!.
tn the early 70s. DR.. Allison ana
Rush Byrne were the official bonds
men Of Postmaster Allison, long
since dead. Byrne is also dead.
The shortage was not due to any
criminal intent. The amount OF ths
Judgment against DR.. Allison was
sl3S.3S, and the interest on this
was sl03.35. At the time Judgment.
was obtained Dir. Allison bad no
property upon which the govern
mcnt could levy. When railroad
was built near Chaonia, o few yeafs
ago, DR.. Allison went into, the tim
hcr business and has Accumulated
$4,000 or $4,000. The governmeni
learned this and the authorities 81
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