Marble Hill press., 1896-07-16
IMPERIAL MISSOURI.

The new railroad and wagon bridge
at 0sceola will cost $4,000.
Marceline miners are at work again
after q prolonged spell of idleness.
Lafayette county receives revenue
of IS, 900 from her twenty-five saloons
Miners from the coal mines at Rich
mond are being hired to go to Illinois.
Sedalia's reading public takes an
average of 1O0 books day from the
library.
The creamery at Pennington fur
nishes the town with milk, both skim
and butter.
The Southwest Missouri editors will
visit both jefferson City and Sedalia
in September.
The salary of fifty Missouri post
masters has been advanced under the
annual readjustment.
The Missouri state school for the
deaf and dumb is the seventh in size
in the United States.
1.-The Meels Murder theatrical
company was given the cold stare IN
it's tour over the State.
Walbridge has the solid st. Louis
county delegation for the Repu blican
nomination for governor.
Chinch bugs are thick in Lawrence
county and are being fought by some
farmers with the infection.
Colonel Pat Donan, formerly of Mis-
souri,, is now editing the Utahnian,
razipa OF Gnlt Talra City
Professor Foster Of Missouri chal-
lenges the government weather bu-
reau to a forecasting match.
A. T. Claim, Macon county
weather prophet, joins with Professor
Hicks in shutting the RAIN off in July.
The design of the original seal of
the city of Independence presented
prairie schooner orawn by four mules.
The late George young of Higgins
vile, who served us a Union soldier,
left $500 year to the Confederate
home.
Webster Davis carried the jackson
county Republican delegation solid
for governor. The Warner delegates
| NCIO uhoSdGCNts
A ten-acre fruit orchard, owned by
n. +. Murray in Holt county has
brought him in a revenue of ST, 400 q
year the past two years.
Vol Tapley OF Spencersburg, while
in Bowling Green last week, unrolled
his mammoth beard and it measured
nine feet and two inches.
Editor Mcbride of the Current
Opinion, of Warrensburg, was ap-
pointed an usher of the Chicago con.
vention by Sergeant-at-Arms Martin.
Joseph B. Livingston and wife of
Macon have sued the Wabash road for
$1,000 for killing their child last
March. General negligence is charged.
Sid B. Redding of Little Rock, who
was one of the most prominent figures
in the recent Republican state conven-
tion in Arkansas, is former Carthage
boy.
Mrs, Della Hall of Lafayette county,
now in her goth year, has made and
presented to the Confederate home a
quilt in the form of Confederate
flag.
In Missouri it requires a vote of a
majority to move a schoolhouse nearer
the center of a district and of two
thirds of the voters to move it away
from the center.
Henry D. Newbold, photographer,
was killed last week by suburban
car at St Louis. He was for twenty
five years official photogra pher of the
police department at St Loais, and
had photographed all the noted Grim
inals in st. Louis
The attorney general has given it as
his opinion that the Missouri text
book law is constitutional, and that
the contracts made by the school book
commissioner will hold good until the
law is amended or repealed by the
general assembly.
In the suit of Mrs. Tinsley against
the Central Medical college, at st.
Joseph, the jury found for the defend
ant. Mrs. Tinsley wanted 0,0O0 from
the college, alleging that the students
had disinterred the body of her
deceased father, but this was not
proven.
Osceola Republican: There are many
indications that the Blair line will be
extended south at an early day. Last
Saturday the Frisco system with all
its branches was sold at st. Louis
under an old mortgage for $l,25O, 600,
and syndicate of capitalists, headed
by James A. Blair, became the pur-
chaser. 1t has long been known that
John /. Blair, the owner of the Kan
sas City, Osceola and Southern, was
heavily interested in the Frisco rail
way, and now that the Blairs and
their associates have secured control
of that system, an effort will be made
to close up the gap between Bolivar
and Osceola. The bridging of the
Usage river and the establishment OF
depot aid stock yards south Of the
river ler color to this idea.
A man named Ellis committed sui
eide in uniquely horrible manner or
his form in Polk county few days
, nCo He went to n steep hillside In