Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-05
ALL OVER MISSOURI.

An ice famine adds to the tcrrors of the
prevalent heated term In Nevada.
Clinton physicians report an unusual
number of cases of illness In that town and
vicinity, principally of fever.
A niGht-blooming cereus in blossom In
Mexico last week attracted more than 200
admirers. One of its flowers was fifteen
inches in diameter,
Rolla and other points in Phelps county
are attracting numerous homcseekers
this season, newcomers arriving almost
daily with the purpose Of settling there.
The track layers on the Miami extension
of the Memphis road We're within three
miles of Baxter the first of the week. The
graders will have their part of the work
completed within a few days.
The value of the turn-in of lead and zinc
In the interstate mineral district last week
amounted to s60,9S. Joplin furnished ST.
5i5 worth of this; Webb City and Carter
VILE, 1896. and Galena, 1919.
There seems to be a general disposition
to accord to NJ. Il, Benton practically with
out opposition the privilege of being beaten
for ongress by Judge @. q. Burton. the
present able and popular Republican in
cumbent. down in the Joplin district.
Springfield has raised the salary of Its
city treasurer from $500 to 500 and will
hereafter place its money with the bank
Offering the highest rate OF interest. Here
tofore the treasurer has had personal con-
troll of the municipal funds.
The Mexico Ledger advises its Demo-
cratic friends in Audrain county that they
need not waste their time In talking about
the possibility of Massachusetts, going for
Bryan, but must get together and do what
they can to keep Missouri from going the
other way.
W. n. Roberts, an Audrain county man.
returned recently from Liberia, on tho
West coast of Africa, whittier he went
about a year ago with "a colony of American
negroes. shipping from Savannah. Ga. lie
will go South again In September with the
purpose of organizing another colony.
The Clinton Democrat quotes a banker
from Urich, who has recently Returned from
Ohio. to the remarkable effect that In his
opinion the Buckeye state Is likely to give
a larger majority than Missouri for Bryan.
The Urich man is said to be regarded by
his neighbors as sane in other respects.
A sunken place where the earth had re-
Gently cavcd In, not far from Joplin. was
being examined the other day when the
discovery was made that It was the en-
trance to n large cavern, which the explor-
ers found to be some twenty-five feet wide
and ten feet In height. The walls are of
limestone rocks and cut therein are names
and dates indicating that the cavern was
probably a hiding place for guerrillas or
others during the war. The place that sunk
Is supposed to have been the entrance.
which had been noticed by no one of the
present day until the ground caved.
St. Joseph Daughters Of the Confedcracy
are up In arms In opposition to the pro-
posed plan to turn the control of the Hig-
g~insville home for ex-Confederate veter-
ans over to the state. They argue that
while. with the control Of the state wholly
In the hands of their friends, the ex-Con-
federates might. and doubtless would, fare
well at the home. an administration less
favorable to them could not be depended
upon to furnish the needed support. They
claim Confederate societies can and should
maintain the institution. and that N o,har
societies hesitate to do their part ihe
Daughters OF the confederacy will assume
the responsibilities themselves