Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-16
ALL OVER MISSOURI.

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weighs 2S pounds.
crusade against wooden AWNINGS has
been begun in Higginsville.
Game is reported scarce in the Grand
river bottom country this year.
Waverly's apple shipments for the sea-
son will aggregate 10000 barrels.
An epidemic of diphtheria has necessitat-
ed the closing of the schools In Polo.
The Nevada Mail had added 5000 libel
suit to its metropolitan requirements.
The fastest stepping roadster in Marshall
was sold tho other day to a st. Louis man
for $3.50.
Howard county is benefited by the annual
division Of the foreign insurance tax fund to
the amount of $665.42.
The membership of the Old Soldiers Nc
Kinley Club in Carthage is being crowded
up toward the 300 mark.
The big pelican captured while enjoying a
bath by a Winston man the other day pre-
sented a bill twelve inches long to its cap
tor.
Gray wolves are so numerous and aggres-
sive in parts Of Jasper county that parties
are being organized for their extermina-
ton.
Joplin Republicans are congratulating
themselves upon what appears to be at
least a strong possibility that Speaker Reed
will talk there.
The daily output Of one Of Clinton's -four
ing mills is 100 barrels. and SO great Is the
demand for 1t that 1t is said that twice the
quantity could be easily placed.
Hog cholera Is raging with great fatality
in portions Of Caldwell county, many Of
the farmers in the vicinity Of Mirabile hav-
Ing lost nearly their entire herds.
G. A. Auerswald Is DeSoto Republican
who announces his willingness to back his
faith with his STUFF to the extent Of $500
on the result Of the coming election
A Huntsville man wasted so bill, that
he might better have saved to light ci-
gar with, few days ago, by betting 1t that
Bryan would carry Missouri by $1,000 plu-
rality.
A letter from a prominent Kentucky man
to a citizen OF Carthage contains the infor-
nation that the Bluegrass state can be
counted on with absolute certainty for a
10000 to $1,000 Mckinley plurality.
Jefferson City may or not make . clean
sweep of it In the capital removal cam
paign, but the establishment there the 9TH
er day of $4,000 broom factory is not
without significance. to say the least.
Chilncothe has ceased to be division
point on the Chicago. Milwaukee & st.
Paul road. and. in consequence OF the nee
essary removal Of employees, will probably
lose some fifty or seventy-five desirable
residents.
Railroad Commissioner Joe Flory, who is
devoting special attention to the railway
employees, among whose number he was for
many years enrolled, is making one Of the
most taking and effective talks of the Mis-
souri, campaign.
Douglas Wight, a prominent attorney of
Nevada who few weeks ago was elected
secretary of the Vernon county Democrat
ic committee, has resigned his position and
will support Mckinley. The Popocrat pla :
yrdif dat Vra fan n ~
for him.
The friends of Clinton's Commercial Club
were entertained by that organization at a
telerhone concert Thursday night, the GnI-
sic being transmitted by wire from Kansas
CITY and Sedala. The clubs headquarters
are probably the most complete and hand
sonely furnished in the state. outside the
large cities.
The pitch reached by the campaign eN-
element in Nevada is indicated by this.
from the Mail: II shall apply to the coun-
ty court" said Chief of Police w. w. Hill.
for stoves, to be placed on the Citizens
bank corner, for the benefit of my silver
and gold disputants. The weather is most
too cool for them to keep warm without
scrapping unless put up stoves for 'em.
"A missing Missouri senator has been
found" says the New York Sun. His name
is Cockrell When found he was observing
in a loud voice to a crowd which had been
attracted by the news or his discovery:
believe that the American people are still
capable of self-government' Thus is a
grieyous burden removed from the hearts
of the American people. They had been
apprehensive that Cockrell did not believe
that they were still capable of self-govern-
ment Fortunately he does. Justice is sat-
istied and Rome Is free. The Hon. Fran
els Marion Cockrell can go lose himself
again or wander into the wilderness and
look for Vest. Vest is gone, too. Does
anybody know what's become Of Vest? Is
he hunting for Bland?'