The Butler weekly times., 1897-09-23
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

The Baptists at Centralia win build |
a handsome and modern brick church. |
The annual license fee on slot ma |
chimes at Macon is $500 for each IS lot"
THERE are IS professional music |
teachers at Sedalia and several anna
teurS-
Gov. STEPHENS has appointed Hugh |
Brady an election commissioner at st.
Louis.
o. G. NEWTON, of Trenton, thinks he
has constructed an airship that will
surely fly.
THE state board of agriculture says
the late corn crop has been destroyed
by drought.
BURGLARS robbed the post office at
Wilton, Boone county, of 81, 900 in cash
and stamps.
NEVADA boasts of a i5-year-old at
torney whose eloquence is said to equal
that of Bryan.
JOHN SCUDDER fell 80 feet down
mine shaft at Webb City and was
instantly killed.
KANSAS CITY has school population
of 5000, with 800 teachers and IS
schooi buildings.
A RACE horse named Mark Hanna is
making a great record at fairs in the
ceutral part of the state.
WHILE playing with vicious dog
Carl Shoemaker, of Carthage, had both
his ears bitten entirely off.
THERE is an epidemic of typhoid
fever at st. Joseph, seven deaths oc-
curing in one day recently.
THE fall term of Drury college, at
Springfield, inaugurates the quarter
centennial year of that institution.
FOREST fires. as result of severe
drought, destroyed valuable timber
and much farm property near Poplar
Bluff.
II Atchison county the county court
offered a premium of 500 for the best
display of home products at the coun-
ty fair.
IT was reported that Gov. Stephens
would appoint Thomas Russell, his
brother-in-law, as coal oil inspector at
Kansas City.
UNCLE JOE" IRWIN, OF Kansas City,
a famous fisherman, has been appoint
ed deputy fish and game warden for
western Missouri.
HORSE racing at night, on a track
lighted by electricity, was one of the
features of the Pettis county fair at
Sedalia last week.
w. j. BRYAN was the attraction at
the Pennington fair on Thursday of
last week, receiving $500 in cash for
two-hours' speech.
A ST. Louis justice decided recently
that a note contract to pay attorney
fee, in case suit is brought for collec-
tion, is not binding.
THE Southern hotel, at Eldorado
Springs, and contents, with the valu-
ables of many guests, were burned the
other day. Loss, SIS, 200.
WHILE digging in well in Mont
gomery county Gus Holstein was over
come with foul air, became choked and
fell into the water and was drowned.
THE Greene county fair at Spring
field was a failure, financially, and
| many of the exhibitors are threaten
ing suits to collect for premium money.
Miss MAUD MASON, of Moberly, who
| was visiting her aunt, Mrs. Senator
Cockrell, was run down by team on
| injured.
THE county Jail at st. Joseph has
been condemned as unsafe for occu-
| pancy. AS the county refused to vote
| bonds to build a new Jail, the county
court is in a dilemma.
| Four young men named Lacey,
brothers, were arrested near Frisco by
| federal officers, charged with counter
feiting. They were betrayed by sis.
| ter whom they had offended.
Gov. STEPHENS has named the fol
| lowing legates-at-large to the ma
tional irrigation congress at Lincoln
Neb., September IS: II. f. Whitemore
St. Louis; G. w. E. Griffith and James
L. LON bard. Kansas City.
| GROUP No. 8, of the Missouri Bank
ers' association, which comprises L
, counties in northwest Missouri, held {
session at St Joseph last week. W. S
Wells. Platte City. was elected presi
dent and f. NJ. Austin. Forest City
secretary.
THE postmaster at Saxton made ;
heroic effort to capture a burglar wht
had robbed his office of 500. HI
chased tne InleI TWO miles, out los
track of him. Several shots were ex
changed and the postmaster wa:
| slightly wounded.
VETERANS of southwest Missouri, il
annual session at Nevada. elected Com
rade Gibson. of Appleton City, presi
dent of the association. The Woman
Relief corps of the Eighth district a
the same time and place, elected Mrs
ellison for president.
ACTIoN that may presage concerted
fight by the banking interests of Mis-
souri, against express companies wa
taken by group 10, of the Missouri
Bankers association at Joplin. The,
voted to hereafter not cash or collec
any express money orders, and to urg
other bankers to take similar action.
\ FEW years ago William Jones,
farmer near st. Joseph, drew 500
from the Louisiana lottery. Part o
the money was claimed by a club o
which he was a member. As u resul
of litigation and consequent yorr,
over the matter Jones became 4 ravin;
I roaniar and was sent tn the aSv lY,ru ra