Kansas City journal., 1898-04-18
MISSOURI POINTS.


les which will include an Grafton by DIR
Quayle. Of Kansas City. the cornerstone
of Camerons new $500 Methodist church
will be laid tomorrow.
|
The Canton Press graphically sets forth
the availability of Missouri's Coburn Col
onel Rippey. of the board of agriculture, as
Democratic gubernatorial candidate. and
strongly urges his nomination.
The Republic lists Lloyd Cooney
| Robb Cochran, Bland. DeArmond, Clark
| Benton and Cowherd as the Democratic
| congressman in Missouri who are likely 10
have no opposition for denomination.
General Horne's paper. the Marshall
| Demccrat-News, very naturally gives Wig
orous support to the candidacy of Judge
| Valiant for the place on the supreme
| bench now occupied by Appointee Mar
| shall. the governors candidate.
|
| Practically all of the abie-bodied Demo-
Gratis in jefferson City who have not de-
| c!ded to seek the bubble reputation at the
| cannons mouth or who are not otherwise
provided for. are said to be chasing the
nomination for Sheriff of Cole county.
|
Champ Clark unfortunately finds himself
| with nothing but the seeds of discomfort
| left for his clamorous Pike county con-
stituents. his allotment Of congressional
garden sass having been entirely ex-
hausted in supplying other portions Of the
| district.
| fossiliZed rattlesnake. of unusual size
| and said TO he more than 800 years old
has been placed on exhibition in the win
| dow of the Herald office. in Columbia. but
| the saloonkeepers in the neighborhood are
l mr. tyao~
it will have to be removed from view
| Talk Of resources! Why the little town
| Of Maryville. UP in Nodaway county, it is
| claimed, can contribute the full member
! ship of Il complete company of militia from
| among the applicants for the street COM
| sionership there, and still have enough
material from which to select the required
| official.
| The annual address before the university
| will be delivered by DIR. William 3. Smith,
| formerly of the Columbia faculty. but now
| professor of mathematics in Tulane uni
| versity, at New Orleans. on May 81. The
commencement day address will be by Edi-
| tor William V. Byars. of the Mississippi
Valley Democrat.
i. Secretary Lesueur and Treasurer Pitts
! watched the gathering of the war cloud
! at Washington last week. Both of these
| state officials were gallant wearers of the
gray in the civil war, Treasurer Pitts hav-
ing lest an arm. while Secretary Lesueur
| saw hard service in charge of a battery
\ under Pap Price.
DIR. Tyler, the eX-mayor of Joplin
| charged with performing criminal opera
| ton upon Clara Patterson. of Neosho,
| which ultimately resulted in her death
was discharged Saturday at the conclusion
| of the preliminary examination at Joplin.
The case occupied four days and was very
| sensational, but the prosecution failed to
| make case against the physician.
What do the Democratic voters Of Gen.
try county know about this scheme? What
| do the friends Of grand old Cockrell think
| of doing to prevent such diabolical out
| rage. shrieks the Albany Ledger by way
| of comment on the Republicans story of
the diabolical plot through which little
Lonnie is said to be scheming to steal his
seat in the senate from the venerable pro-
moter of vegetation.
Skidmore came near having a disastrous
| coniiasration recently as result of a
| fire that was started In a singular man.
| her Some boys were playing with a sun
| glass. through which a lot of rubbish was
ran away without eAtinguishing the flames,
and ii was only through chance that the
| fire was discovered and put out in time to
prevent serious damage
|
| George w. Burroughs is Columbia man
| VINO mas made a success of raising the
| finest of English mushrooms in a modest
| way in his kitchen garden. He purposes
| going into it extensively if the market
| promises well. The method recommended
| by the horticultural department at the
| university was the one pursued with such
| favorable results by Mr.. Burroughs in his
| culture of the mushrooms.
| The announcement is made of the an
preaching marriage of DR.. J. S. Blackwell,
of Columbia. to Miss Edith Katherine Har-
| din. formerly of Kentucky, but now of
| Philadelphia. Miss Hardin has spent the
| last ten years in Europe studying music
| art and the languages, and is now at Nice.
| The marriage is to take place at the Amer
lean legation in Paris. or perhaps in Cam
den. \. j.. some time this summer
The Tri-State Press Association gather
| ing at Eureka Springs. Ark. May %, &c
| and q, promises to be an interesting and
we'll attended affair. The Texas and Ar
| kansas editors will meet their Missouri
| brethren there. and il is said to be pur-
| posed that 4 bond of fraternal union shall
then tie perfected among them, even
| though it may exhaust the entire available
supply Of liquid cement in that region for
the accomplishment of SO felicitous a re-
| suit
Chicago Chronicle: Senator Money, who
| halls from the state of Mississippi, is a
| nghter. He regrets the affair in the SEN
| ate very much. not because he called Well
| ington a liar, but because of the place in
| which it occurred. Some years ago when
Money was member of the lower house,
| he had scrap with a fellow member
| from Missouri named Hall. 1t occurred in
| Il certain committee room. Money called
Hall a liar and Hall responded by throwing
an inkwell at Money.
| In declaring without foundation the story
| published a few days ago as to the pur-
pose suddenly abandoned. however. of
| som" of the Albany jingoes to burn Presi-
| dent Mckinley in effigy. the Ledger of that
| city stalwart Democratic though 1t is
| takes occasion to say: The fact is, near
+, ly every business man is better satisfied
| with McKinley's so-caled slow action in
| dealing with the war question than with
| the denaso.ic congressman who have been
l doing their best TO get the country into q