Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29
ALL OVER MISSOURI.

The aggregate value Of the lead and zinc
turn-in in the interstate mineral district
last week was $66.65O
Ex-Congressman Charley Morgan reap
peared on earth and talked Popocracy to a
Joplin audience Monday night.
Warrensburg's school enrolment has
reached 11so. considerably higher figure
than ever before attained there
Election returns will be staged as a Der.
formance at the opera house in Chillicothe.
with an admission charge of 25 cents.
Miss Lillian King is to represent Joplin
nigh school In the Southwest Missouri ora
torical contest in Pierce City next month.
A Vernon county man Is suing the Rich
Hill Coal Mining Company for 10000 dam
ages for Injuries received while in its en-
ploy.
Caldwell county's oldest inhabitant finds
it difficult to recall a season when fall past-
urage was as abundant and excellent as at
present.
The unusual size Of the ballots for the
coming election has made necessary the
purchase of a complete new set Of boxes in
Jasper county.
A disposition to vote big. loud, black
letter mo" on the proposition to reduce
the school age to years is manifest in
Warrensburg.
Joplin children who are afflicted with
whoopins cough visit the local gas works.
inhale the fumes and are pronounced cured
shortly afterward.
1t is the belief in Joplin that the Purtell-
Ferns ten-round knockout contest will
take place November O. either in Galena or
across the line from Baxter, in the Terri
tory.
Judge Murphy. OF st. Louis who spoke IN
Carthage Monday night, makes the predic
tion that the big town at the end of the
bridge will roll up a plurality of 81, 600 for
Mckinley and Lewis.
A queer freak in the shape of a bull
snake with two perfectly developed heads
ard necks, was discovered by Farmer Pei
lett while plowing in his field in Vernon
county the other day.
General Osburn and Colonel Thomson
Republican orators sent out by the national
committee at Chicago. are campaigning the
f1fteenth district this week in the interest
OF Judge Burton's return to congress
A Ladies' Mckinley Club organized in
Pleasant Hill few days ago has already
reached a. membership of nearly 100 and
Will probably double the number in time to
take part in the great jolification over the
triumphant election Of the Republican can
didates next week.
Master Egbert Ctarkson Is an enterpris-
ing little Hamilton hoy who, having en-
barked successfully in the chicken raising
business last spring. is now pointing with
has matched and is skillfully caring for a
brood of ten fine young chickens.
Joplin News: II the shade of Thomas n.
Benton could speak now it's first expression
would be: 81 disclaim relationship with NJ.
E. Benton, of Newton county, Popocrat
candidate for congress in the Fifteenth
district No bench-legged, red-whiskered
repudiatiorist Is any kin of mine. The
family 1 established believes in maintain
ing the national honor and paying honest
debts with honest money"
The gallant and appreciative Republicans
Of Nodaway county have nominated Miss
Nellie Yaple, of Maryville. as their candi-
date for county clerk. Judge Yaple. the
young lady's father. an old soldier and one
of the most popular men in that part of
the state. was elected to that position two
years ago but died before the expiration OF
his term. and his daughter, upon whom
for some time the duties of the office have
devolved, is thoroughly competent in every
way for their satisfactory discharge. A
knowledge of these facts and a glance at
Miss Nellie's picture ought to be sufficient
to convince NOdaway county voters that
the young lady is entitled to a unanimous
election.
New York Sun: The Hollander who in
vented the patented corncob pipe has just
died in Missouri. His invention is pretty
we'll known in many parts of the world
and smoke enough to hide the
world forever has been drawn from
that sweet limitations. With no
shade of disrespect to the memo
ries of the Rev. George Trask, the Hon.
Little Robert Reed, King James l., and
other counterblasters Of tobacco, 1t is pos
sible to say that while millions of men
swear or affirm by the meerschaum the
briarwood. the simple '.T D." and other
means of grace or perdition, the corncob.
real or imitation. has its large flock Of vo-
oyfo WI limit "a 1eS
may be inhaled from any bowl and stem
more salutary. more tranqullizing, fuller
of food to the mind and more titillating
to the fancy. The man who invented gum
powder was a pigmy compared with the
inventor Of the corpcob pipe.